Egg Quotes

I bet you think an egg is something you casually order for breakfast when you can't think of anything else. Well, so did I once, but that was before the egg and I.

Probably one of the most private things in the world is an egg until it is broken.

When I got to France I realized I didn't know very much about food at all. I'd never had a real cake. I'd had those cakes from cake mixes or the ones that have a lot of baking powder in them. A really good French cake doesn't have anything like that in it - it's all egg power.

Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.

A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.

Younger workers should have more freedom to build their retirement nest egg.

When you start with a portrait and search for a pure form, a clear volume, through successive eliminations, you arrive inevitably at the egg. Likewise, starting with the egg and following the same process in reverse, one finishes with the portrait.

The sky broke like an egg into full sunset and the water caught fire.

His life was one long extravaganza, like living inside a Faberge egg.

I walked out of the Chinese restaurant with a fat check, a record deal, and a box of shrimp egg foo yung!

A day without an argument is like an egg without salt.

Football is a fertility festival. Eleven sperm trying to get into the egg. I feel sorry for the goalkeeper.

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.

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

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

It's like the brooding hen sitting over a china egg.

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.

Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.

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.

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.

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.

The goose lays the golden egg. Payrolls make consumers.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.