Egg Quotes

I used to work a lot on food issues and every time somebody predicted that production would be inadequate they got egg on their face a year or two later.

If I have to lay an egg for my country, I'll do it.

The goose lays the golden egg. Payrolls make consumers.

What is my loftiest ambition? I've always wanted to throw an egg at an electric fan.

The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it.

I like egg white omelets with veggies, or oatmeal with almonds and fruit.

It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

There is a real opportunity right now as parents and grandparents to come up with a plan that leaves our kids with something better than we have; that is, an opportunity to own, build, and grow a nest egg of their own.

That's the thing with sci-fi and action roles. You have to play the danger as real. If you don't, you end up with egg on your face. You have to commit. You can't think about how stupid it might look without the special effects.

When sperm and egg unite, something goes from inanimate to animate. It is life.

Early on, they were timing my contract with an egg timer.

It is a well-documented fact that guys will not ask for directions. This is a biological thing. This is why it takes several million sperm cells... to locate a female egg, despite the fact that the egg is, relative to them, the size of Wisconsin.

She looks like she combs her hair with an egg beater.

There are two kinds of cloning right now. One is therapeutic cloning which is for coming up with cures for life threatening, really, really awful diseases. Then there is reproductive cloning, which is to make a human being out of your DNA and a donor egg.

Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid.

I'm actually no longer a strict vegan. I don't hang out in the cheese section - I don't even eat cheese. I don't drink milk. But every once in a while I'll have an egg. I'm going to eat eggs that come out of my next-door neighbor's farm, that's just the way it is.

For each chromosome contributed by the sperm there is a corresponding chromosome contributed by the egg, there are two chromosomes of each kind, which together constitute a pair.

I was in Yorkshire. We were a family of five and I used to be sent sometimes to get the rations for the week and I was easily able to carry them back. It was like one egg and a tiny bit of tea.

A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.

I have a nest egg, and I don't buy above my means.

Every director bites the hand that lays the golden egg.

You know how fighting fish do it? They blow bubbles and in each one of those bubbles is an egg and they float the egg up to the surface. They keep this whole heavy nest of eggs floating, and they're constantly repairing it. It's as if they live in both elements.

Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's egg.

I only eat fish - no chicken, no turkey, just fish. I get all my protein from fish and egg whites.

I usually eat six times a day, small meals. For breakfast, an egg and a corn tortilla, salsa and cilantro, and some ham. For snacks, I'll have an apple, some string cheese, a yogurt. For lunch I'll have salad with protein in it and for dinner usually steamed vegetables and chicken or fish.

I don't have any blindness when it comes to my money. As an actor, you can get distracted by your work. I do keep an eye on my nest egg, if you will.

The vulgar boil, the learned roast, an egg.

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

The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn, the bird waits in the egg, and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities.

Let me tell you, sisters, seeing dried egg on a plate in the morning is a lot dirtier than anything I've had to deal with in politics.