The Golden Egg Quotes

#1. In short, killing the goose that lays the golden egg is a viable political strategy, so long as the goose does not die before the next election and no one traces the politicians' fingerprints on the murder weapon.

Thomas Sowell

#2. That's the trouble with directors. Always biting the hand that lays the golden egg.

Samuel Goldwyn

#3. When you're the cash cow that lays the golden goose egg, people are always going to cheer you on, whatever.

Noel Gallagher

#4. Fate is a fickle bitch. Just when you believe you've secured the goose that lays the golden egg, she back heels you in the bollocks.

Ken Scott

#5. Medicine is a golden goose that has to be killed because every time the goose lays a golden egg, someone gets sick or dead.

Richard Diaz

#6. Lay a golden egg.
After you built a nest,
You wait for a leg.

And you land next.
Now you hope and pray.

Expect for the best.
Go on with no delay.
Get it right at last.

Ana Claudia Antunes

#7. Because the golden egg gleamed
in my basket once, though my childhood
became an immense sheet of darkening water
I was Noah, and I was his ark,
and there were two of every animal inside me

Mark Doty

#8. Every director bites the hand that lays the golden egg.

Samuel Goldwyn

#9. It was not curiosity that killed the goose who laid the golden egg, but an insatiable greed that devoured common sense.

E.A. Bucchianeri

#10. Really, the golden egg of doing a series is that you cross that very stupid bridge that says 'Name Actors Only' in casting sessions. All of a sudden, you become a name actor; it gives you marquee value. That's all that a series does.

Jason Alexander

#11. We call 'Ain't No Mountain' the golden egg that landed us at Motown.

Nickolas Ashford

#12. Body cameras help to record what happens. It may not be the golden ticket, the golden egg, the end-all-fix-all, but it helps to paint a picture of what happens during a police stop.

Clementa C. Pinckney

#13. John Kerry went hunting today. He said he killed a goose. He didn't bring Teresa along because he was a little rusty and he was afraid he might kill the goose that laid the golden egg.

Jay Leno

#14. A box without hinges, key, or lid,
Yet golden treasure inside is hid.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#15. I think 3D is a great innovation for the film business. But I hope it's not the thing that kills the golden egg because what's happening now is every movie there's pressure from the studio to turn it into a 3D movie.

Neal H. Moritz

#16. Socialism lays an bad egg by killing the capitalism that lays the golden eggs

Margaret Thatcher

#17. The goose lays the golden egg. Payrolls make consumers.

George M. Humphrey

#18. Oh, God above, if heaven has a taste it must be an egg with butter and salt, and after the egg is there anything in the world lovelier than fresh warm bread and a mug of sweet golden tea?

Frank McCourt

#19. When people asked hilbert why he didn't prove Fermat's Last Theorem and win the Wolfskehl Prize, he said, "Why should I kill the goose that lays the golden egg?

Constance Bowman Reid

#20. To maintain the P/PC Balance, the balance between the golden egg (production) and the health and welfare of the goose (production capability) is often a difficult judgment call. But I suggest it is the very essence of effectiveness.

Stephen R. Covey