Top 100 Quotes About Eggs
#2. His eyes were eggs of unstable crystal, vibrating with a frequency whose name was rain and the sound of trains, suddenly sprouting a humming forest of hair-fine glass spines.
William Gibson
#3. My mother made the best scrambled eggs, super-loose and soft.
Wylie Dufresne
#4. My culinary skills are terrible. I can't even make toast taste good. I do make scrambled eggs for myself sometimes but I wouldn't even inflict that on anyone else.
Drew Barrymore
#5. I awaken. I consume oxygen, then bacon, eggs and black coffee, then my wife, then bacon.
Nick Offerman
#6. With an air of confession, Jin lowered his voice. Eggs come out of chickens' butts, you know.
Lois McMaster Bujold
#7. Purposes, like eggs, unless they be hatched into action, will run into rottenness.
Samuel Smiles
#9. What did Saturday's used to taste like? Like eggs and fried ham and the bitter smell of hair in heavy rollers. Like long quiet hours and making up after a fight. Like ointment and bruising. Like waiting, especially, for something - anything - to happen.
Lauren Oliver
#10. My brain was about two eggs past fried.
Mindy Ruiz
#11. Well, then, Otter, of course I don't like Bundt cake. It has eggs in it. Baby chicken eggs. You don't see chickens standing outside of maternity wards waiting to get our babies to make their Bundt cake, do you?
T.J. Klune
#12. My favorite Catholic holiday is Easter. For those of you that don't know, Easter is the day we celebrate Jesus rising from the grave and coming back to Earth as a rabbit that hides colored eggs.
Adam Ferrara
#13. To me, my idea of what's good is to drive here and go to Waffle House, get a couple of eggs and a waffle. When I see the first Waffle House, I know I'm in the South. That's good.
Neil Gaiman
#14. I've met a lot of hardboiled eggs in my time, but you're twenty minutes.
Billy Wilder
#15. But in the future there will be no wives and no friends. Children will be taken from their mothers at birth, as one takes eggs from a hen.
George Orwell
#16. When I grew up, we always had our chickens, and we ate our eggs, and we ate our chickens. The family always had a pig, and we would kill it at Christmas and eat it for three or four months afterwards.
Isabella Rossellini
#17. We leave tonight," he continued, very cold and calm, "and we take the eggs with us.
Naomi Novik
#18. Kids in Washington every year have the big Easter egg roll on the White House lawn. The kids found 300 Easter eggs. They also found about 10,000 missing Hillary emails.
David Letterman
#19. I didn't know that my son had allergies until he spit up eggs one day, and one day he had a little peanut butter and his face swelled up. I took him to get tested and found out that he is allergic to everything.
Kym Whitley
#20. I guess I am going to think about freezing my eggs.
Sofia Vergara
#21. I do think everyone would be a lot happier if we laid eggs on our own and could just have friendship and didn't need to mount and penetrate one another.
Jonathan Ames
#22. Happy Easter everyone! Jesus dies, comes back from the dead - and we get chocolate eggs. It's like turn-down service from God.
Denis Leary
#23. Ideas are like frog eggs: you've got to lay a thousand to hatch one.
Peter Drucker
#24. At first we tried to keep up, but soon we were tired of boiling and pickling and deviling, and my mother started complaining that all these free eggs were costing her way too much.
Wendelin Van Draanen
#25. I have less friends, but I have more Cadbury Eggs.
Greg Behrendt
#26. The wood was silent, still and secret in the evening drizzle of rain, full of the mystery of eggs and half-open buds, half unsheathed flowers. In the dimness of it all trees glistened naked and dark as if they had unclothed themselves, and the green things on earth seemed to hum with greenness.
D.H. Lawrence
#27. Figs are delicious with soft cheese and ham,
Toast is quite scrumptious with butter and jam,
Eggs are improved by parsley and salt,
But milkshakes are best with strawberries and malt.
Angelica Banks
#28. I sincerely congratulate you on the arrival of the mockingbird. Learn all the children to venerate it as a superior being in the form of a bird, or as a being which will haunt them if any harm is done to itself or its eggs.
Thomas Jefferson
#29. By the immediate preservation of eggs for home consumption through the use of water glass or lime water, larger supplies of fresh eggs may be made available for marketing later in the season, when production is less and prices higher.
David F. Houston
#30. There are no insect eggs in my food." Mrs. White reiterated.
You should use that in your advertising," Nate suggested.
Brandon Mull
#31. You have to be very careful how you insert new stuff, 'cause people want to hear the old stuff. It's like cooking, you know? You can't put too many peppers into the eggs ... otherwise it's going to be distasteful.
Eric Burdon
#32. Look. Survey. Inspect. My hair is ruined! I look like a pan of bacon and eggs!
Diana Wynne Jones
#33. There is no such thing as too many deviled eggs.
Jan Karon
#34. A cookie has no soul, it's just a cookie. But before it was milk and eggs. And in eggs there's the potential for life.
Jean-Claude Van Damme
#35. Aw, kiss him, Gwen, clamored a hundred perky eggs. Shut up, she rebuked. We don't even know him, and until moments ago we thought he was dead. That's no way to start a relationship.
Karen Marie Moning
#36. Leaders are deep thinkers. They don't relax for problem to lay eggs before they attempt dealing with them.
Israelmore Ayivor
#37. You always had an eye for the fellow with a decent helping of sausage and hard-boiled eggs.
Gregory Maguire
#38. Books aren't eggs, you know. Simply because a book has aged a bit doesn't mean it's gone bad.
Nina George
#39. Our curses on them that boil the eggs too hard! What use is an egg that is hard to any person on earth?
Lady Gregory
#40. It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard.
Dorothy Parker
#41. Throughout high school, I peddled my eggs, had a vendor stand at the local curb market - precursor to today's farmers' markets - and competed in 4-H contests and interscholastic debate.
Joel Salatin
#42. Biathletes need to eat 6.000 calories a day: six thousand! That's the equivalent of 2 pounds of butter, 70 slices of bread, 112 eggs, 86 tabs of yogurts, 28 potatoes, 117 biscuits and 21 TWIX bars. On that basis, I could be an Olympic biathlete!
Jeremy Clarkson
#43. I eat only white foods: eggs, sugar, grated bones, the fat of dead animals; veal, salt, coconut, chicken cooked in white water; fruit mold, rice, turnips; camphorated sausage, dough, cheese (white), cotton salad, and certain fish (skinless).
Erik Satie
#45. As my grandmother said, 'Sorry won't unbreak the eggs'. Just clean the mess and move on.
Raymond E. Feist
#46. The list of appetizers included stuffed eagles' eggs.
Erik Larson
#47. My Mexican specialty is chilaquiles. I make tortillas from scratch, then add garlic, onions, eggs, chopped-up carrots and peppers, Jack cheese, and salsa.
Sara Ramirez
#48. This is the way it was in Yates County. Bald Girls. Wild boys formed from math. Geniuses all around, just waiting to be discovered, or waiting to rot in trailers behind their parents' barns, die penniless, mourned only by the Amish from whom they bought all those eggs.
Lydia Netzer
#49. Ice cream isn't junk food, Kyle. It's a staple like milk or eggs.
M.K. Schiller
#50. after just having finished a breakfast of soft-boiled eggs, toast, and coffee. Her room was huge, more like a
Eric Van Lustbader
#51. Is everything okay with you and Jackass over there?" "I can hear you," Seth replied, dumping the eggs in a heated skillet.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#52. I have no skills. I mean, I can make jokes, I'm pretty good at talking to people on the Judge John Hodgman podcast. I can figure out what makes a pretty good story, and I can make eggs really well.
John Hodgman
#53. Keep all your eggs in one basket, but watch that basket closely.
Warren Buffett
#54. Why are breakfast foods breakfast foods?" I asked them. "Like, why don't we have curry for breakfast?" "Hazel, eat." "But why?" I asked. "I mean, seriously: How did scrambled eggs get stuck with breakfast exclusivity?
John Green
#55. Jace karate chopped his wrist, and Eric's fingers went numb. Step away from the eggs, Sticks.
Olivia Cunning
#56. The yellowy things on the tray were probably eggs, but they looked like they came pre-scrambled from alien chickens.
Roberta Pearce
#57. You know the type - will give herself to the first nobleman in a uniform who comes calling with a couple of eggs and a piece of rat meat."
"You're selling yourself short."
"I've just sold myself for rat meat," she said, and she turned from him and lit the stove.
Chris Bohjalian
#58. I don't think of eggs as being fundamental to the flavor of mayonnaise, but they are to Hollandaise.
Wylie Dufresne
#59. Has developed an issue with the ghettoization of scrambled eggs, Mom said.
John Green
#60. Whenever I read stories of people doing huge pranks on set, all I think is, 'These people have too much time on their hands.' Besides, I don't want to make some poor assistant clean up someone's trailer after I've filled it with, say, Cadbury eggs. See? I can't even think of a good prank.
Amy Poehler
#61. If you count your eggs now, you'll be disappointed by the dragons that come out!
Christian Clason
#62. Hard-boiled eggs are wonderful when they're really done right. I bring the water to a boil, and then I put in the eggs. And then I boil them for - well, it depends on the size of the egg - maybe eight minutes.
Alice Waters
#63. Because obviously the Tooth Fairy doesn't exist. If only life were that great
instead of burnt flesh and turning into ash we had money-giving fairies, bunnies laying pink eggs, and fat men coming down my chimney bearing presents ...
Christina Channelle
#64. Take me ham away, take away my eggs, even my Chili, but leave me my newspaper.
Will Rogers
#66. Most people put money in their piggy bank. I buy a goose that lays golden eggs over and over again. That's what an asset is.
Robert Kiyosaki
#69. Most humans think the appearance of quiet is quiet. They do not see that sometimes the enemy is as quiet as the serpent. Only when it has stolen all of their eggs will they know bad walks in the quiet as well as the noisy.
Tamora Pierce
#70. Magnus placed an order with the room service, who had by now stopped questioning Mr. Bane's unusual needs for things like twenty-four plates of scrambled eggs and "enough coffee to fill one of your larger bathtubs".
Cassandra Clare
#71. A houri stroked the top of Isaac's head. "Are you truly pure?" he asked.
"We are as chaste as the sheltered eggs of ostriches."
"How dull," Isaac replied.
Rabih Alameddine
#72. I find a package of spaghetti, and I remember seeing bacon and eggs and a block of Parmesan cheese in the refrigerator. I'll make spaghetti carbonara, the perfect
Tess Gerritsen
#74. There are very few men of genius in advertising agencies. But we need all we can find. Almost without exception they are disagreeable. Don't destroy them. They lay golden eggs.
David Ogilvy
#75. I always wanted to do a B&E. Not bacon and eggs. Although I could always go for bacon and eggs. I'm talking about breaking in and entering.
Dane Cook
#76. I was very, very little - it was the first time I ever cooked on my own, with my mother's supervision - and I made scrambled eggs. I felt so accomplished, like magic!
Gail Simmons
#77. It was a human storm, composed of a thunder of cries, and a hail of sweetmeats, flowers, eggs, oranges, and nosegays.
Alexander Dumas
#78. My father asserted that there was no better place to bring up a family than in a rural environment ... There's something about getting up at 5 a.m., feeding the stock and chickens, and milking a couple of cows before breakfast that gives you a lifelong respect for the price of butter and eggs.
Bill Vaughan
#79. You do not create ex nihilo. You rearrange and recombine. You are the same old flour and eggs in search of a new recipe.
Douglas Wilson
#80. Gentleness doesn't get work done unless you happen to be a hen laying eggs.
Coco Chanel
#82. To make extra money, my parents would sell eggs and chickens. I was very little. I remember a chicken's head being chopped off with the chicken running around. I wasn't sure if my imagination was running away with me or if it really happened. It really happened.
Michael Keaton
#83. Lost dog. Looks like a chicken. If found, do not attempt to feed it scrambled eggs for breakfast. You'll offend it just like I did, and it will run away.
Jarod Kintz
#84. I didn't actually think you were hanging out at Hex Hall because of your burning love for me. But that's what I'm telling all the girls back at school," I said, stabbing a forkful of eggs. "I'm thinking 'heartbreaker' might be a nice addition to my 'avenging witch' reputation.
Rachel Hawkins
#85. I gave the dog a last scratch and he smiled and wagged his heavy tail. He didn't look like a dog that stole and ate children. He looked like a dog that might steal chocolate-covered Easter eggs.
Richard Bradford
#86. A guy comes down to earth, takes your sins, dies, and comes back three days later. You believe in him and go to heaven forever. How do you get from that to Hide-The-Eggs? Did Jesus have a problem with eggs? Did he go, "When I come back, if I see any eggs, the whole salvation thing is off."
Jon Stewart
#87. Under the guidance of our Leader, Comrade Napoleon, I have laid five eggs in six days';
George Orwell
#88. I'm coming inside you in three seconds. Pull off if you don't want a bunch of my swimmers attacking your eggs.
Jessica Clare
#89. My first business deal was with my mother. I invested in chickens. I sold the eggs to my mother.
Joel McCrea
#90. A million million worlds that move in peace;A million mighty laws that never cease;And one small ant-heap, hidden by small weeds,Rich with eggs, slaves and store of millet-seeds.They sleep beneath the sodAnd trust in God.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
#91. In the right circumstances, I'm a big fan of eating alone. Often, on a Sunday evening, I go to a yoga class whose charm is largely that it gives me an alibi to avoid cooking family supper for once. I return to have boiled eggs and soldiers in silence with a book. Bliss.
Bee Wilson
#92. So familiar are eggs to us, however, that in the eighteenth century they were referred to as cackling farts, on the basis that chickens cackled all the time and eggs came out of the back of them.
Mark Forsyth
#93. Which does a man prefer? Bacon and eggs, or worship? Sometimes one, sometimes the other, depending how hungry he is.
Margaret Atwood
#94. Hundreds of barefoot Filipinos marched on the roads through the Philippines carrying heavy wooden crosses and whipping their backs until they bled to prepare for Easter. Call me old-fashioned but I just like coloring the eggs.
Jay Leno
#95. I wish I was a guy who could have pancakes and bacon and cheesy eggs, but I'd curl up and pass out. I gotta start healthy or I'll be off the rails all day.
Donnie Wahlberg
#96. Everyone who's born has come from the sea. Your mother's womb is just a sea in small. And birds come of seas on eggs. Horses lie in the sea before they're born. The placenta is the sea. Your blood is the sea continued in your veins. We are the ocean - walking on the land.
Timothy Findley
#97. I forget how many thousand eggs go wrong for one codfish that gets hatched. But as Berkeley said long ago, it is idle to censure the creation as wasteful if you believe in a creator who has unlimited stuff to play with.
Frederick Pollock
#98. I like a new clean book, freshly bound, particularly when I am the first to read it. I like dirty books - where other people have been before me, slipping fried eggs between the pages as markers - rather less.
Nancy Spain
#99. Break eggs to make omlettes, never be complacent or think 'I've got a career here, I've got to keep it going'.
Erol Alkan
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