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.

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

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

A Royal Commission is a broody hen sitting on a china egg.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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