Eggs famous quotes

Just as Americans have discovered the hidden energy costs in a multitude of products-in refrigerating a steak, for example, on its way to the butcher-they are about to discover the hidden water costs. Beginning with the water that irrigated the corn that was fed to the steer, the steak may have accounted for 3,500 gallons. The water that goes into a 1,000-pound steer would float a destroyer. It takes 14,935 gallons of water to grow a bushel of wheat, 60,000 gallons to produce a ton of steel, 120 gallons to put a single egg on the breakfast table.
-- Jerry Adler

#Science #Eggs #Water

We juggle priceless eggs in variable gravity. I am afraid. I will taste fear until I die.
-- Jerry Pournelle

#Fear #Eggs #Variables

It turns out that Molly wasn't her mother's daughter in that respect. Charity was like the MacGuyver of the kitchen. She could whip up a five-course meal for twelve from an egg, two spaghetti noodles, some household chemicals, and a stick of chewing gum. Molly ... Molly once burned my egg. My boiled egg. I don't know how.
-- Jim Butcher

#Mother #Daughter #Eggs

The strongest thing I put into my body is steak and eggs. I just eat. I'm not a supplement guy. Steroids are not even a thought.
-- Jim Thome

#Motivational #Sports #Eggs

Words had become overnight just little coins, insignificant and unfreighted, to be exchanged for ribbons, buttons, for an apple or an egg.
-- Jo Baker

#Eggs #Apples #Buttons

Doing 20 minutes of stretching, light weights and floor exercises three times a week takes the same amount of time as a long coffee break - and eating a tuna fish salad, sardines on toast or scrambled eggs is surely preferable to a Big Mac or KFC.
-- Joan Collins

#Coffee #Exercise #Eggs

Words are like eggs dropped from great heights; you can no more call them back than ignore the mess they leave when they fall.
-- Jodi Picoult

#Fall #Eggs #Height

Is an egg a vegetable?
-- Jodie Marsh

#Funny #Vegetables #Eggs

My first business deal was with my mother. I invested in chickens. I sold the eggs to my mother.
-- Joel McCrea

#Mother #Eggs #Firsts

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

#Eggs #Long

Pumpkin spice lattes are egg nog for morning people.
-- John Oliver

#Morning #Eggs #People

Let's say that when I was a little baby, and all my bones soft and malleable, I was put in a small Episcopal cruciform box and so took my shape. Then, when I broke out of the box, the way a baby chick escapes an egg, is it strange that I had the shape of a cross? Have you ever noticed that chickens are roughly egg-shaped?
-- John Steinbeck

#Baby #Eggs #Shapes

I believe there are monsters born in the world to human parents.... The face and body may be perfect, but if a twisted gene or a malformed egg can produce physical monsters, may not the same process produce a malformed soul?
-- John Steinbeck

#Believe #Eggs #Evil

People may have too much of a good thing:Full as an egg of wisdom thus I sing.
-- John Wolcot

#Eggs #People #May

I've got little ankles and a bit of a belly, so it makes me look rather an egg on legs.
-- Johnny Vegas

#Eggs #Looks #Ankles

Ninety-nine percent of all land animals eaten or used to produce milk and eggs in the United States are factory farmed. So although there are important exceptions, to speak about eating animals today is to speak about factory farming.
-- Jonathan Safran Foer

#Animal #Land #Eggs

For me, I just never put all my eggs in one basket, so to speak. I know that music and acting now are things that I want to do for the rest of my life. But, if suddenly that was to stop, I'd actually be okay. It's not the be all, end all of my life. I know who I am, outside of this, and I think that's a really big thing to have.
-- Jordin Sparks

#Thinking #Who I Am #Eggs

The wonder is that the characteristic efficacy to touch and inspire deep creative centers dwells in the smallest nursery fairy tale-as the flavor of the ocean is contained in a droplet or the whole mystery of life within the egg of a flea. For the symbols of mythology are not manufactured; they cannot be ordered, invented, or permanently suppressed. They are spontaneous productions of the psyche, and each bears within it, undamaged, the germ power of its source.
-- Joseph Campbell

#Ocean #Eggs #Creative

You can't make an omelette without breaking eggs.
-- Joseph Stalin

#Eggs

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.
-- Judd Nelson

#Eye #Eggs #Actors

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 was easily able to carry them back. It was like one egg and a tiny bit of tea.
-- Judi Dench

#Eggs #Tea #Yorkshire

For workaholics, all the eggs of self-esteem are in the basket of work.
-- Judith M Bardwick

#Self Esteem #Eggs #Workaholic

In the most complete friendship there is always a little empty space, like the space in an egg.
-- Jules Renard

#Eggs #Space #Littles

I think one of the terrible things today is that people have this deathly fear of food: fear of eggs, say, or fear of butter. Most doctors feel that you can have a little bit of everything.
-- Julia Child

#Thinking #Doctors #Eggs

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.
-- Julia Child

#Real #Cake #Eggs

If you were lucky, very lucky indeed, there were one or two people in your life who you could tell the unvarnished truth too, shell and egg. And that these people held the essence of you inside them. The rest would be conversations that ended when night fell, or the dinner part ended.
-- Julia Gregson

#Night #Eggs #Two

He blinked a few times, each motion so slow that he was never quite sure if he’d get his eyes open again. He wasn’t wearing a shirt. Funny how he was only just realizing it. Funnier still that he couldn’t seem to summon any concern for her maidenly sensibilities. She might be blushing. He couldn’t tell. It was too dark to see. But it didn’t matter. This was Honoria. She was a good egg. A sensible egg. She wouldn’t be scarred forever by the sight of his chest.
-- Julia Quinn

#Eye #Dark #Eggs

Yesterday's news feeds our fear that our neighbours are more likely than not to be bad eggs: benefit fraudsters, bogus asylum seekers, paedophiles or jihadist terrorists.
-- Julian Baggini

#Yesterday #Eggs #Asylum Seekers

I hope his wife feeds him [Clarence Thomas, Justice, U.S. Supreme Court] lots of eggs and butter and he dies early like many black men do, of heart disease. . . . He is an absolutely reprehensible person.
-- Julianne Malveaux

#Heart #Men #Eggs

I love that after a day when nothing is sure, and when I say 'nothing' I mean nothing, you can come home and absolutely know that if you add egg yolks to chocolate and sugar and milk, it will get thick. It's such a comfort.
-- Julie Powell

#Home #Mean #Eggs

There, I was just a secretary-shaped confederation of atoms, fighting the inevitability of mediocrity and decay. But here, in the Juliaverse... energy was never lost, merely converted from one form to another. Here, I took butter and cream and meat and eggs and I made delicious sustenance.
-- Julie Powell

#Fighting #Eggs #Energy

A house should not be built so close to another that a chicken from one can lay an egg in the neighbor's yard, nor so far away that a child cannot shout to the yard of his neighbor.
-- Julius Nyerere

#Children #Home #Eggs

I wondered about her chicken-and-egg relationship with Dad. Which came first? Her helplessness or his controlling?
-- Justina Chen

#Dad #Eggs #Firsts

The hard reality is that the omelette has been made and you cannot get your egg back.
-- K.P. Fabian

#Past #Reality #Eggs

In the beginning, God created human beings, which is to say God put the ingredients together, embedded the instructions for building on the template, and put it all into four separate eggs marked 'Some Assembly Required.'
-- Karen Lord

#Eggs #Together #Four

The bottom line is that I'm an actor, so when somebody pitches me a great part, it's a no-brainer. You never know what it's gonna be like, in terms of the actual experience. You can be really excited about a part that can turn out shitty, you can have a bad time, there's a bad egg or two or three, in the bunch, or the producers are weird, or something like that.
-- Kathy Bates

#Eggs #Two #Three

All right, then. Emergency medical situation, take two.” He leaped to his feet, staggered, keeled over, then lifted his head weakly. “Chloe? Is that you?” He coughed. “Do you have my insulin?” I placed it in his outstretched hand. “You saved my life,” he said. “How can I ever repay you?” “Undying servitude sounds good. I like my eggs scrambled.” He held up a piece of fruit. “Would you settle for a bruised apple?” I laughed.
-- Kelley Armstrong

#Eggs #Two #Apples

White exists on the periphery of life. Bleached bones connect us to death, but the white of milk and eggs, for example, speaks to us of life.
-- Kenya Hara

#Eggs #White #Example

Every decently-made object, from a house to a lamp post to a bridge, spoon or egg cup, is not just a piece of 'stuff' but a physical embodiment of human energy, testimony to the magical ability of our species to take raw materials and turn them into things of use, value and beauty.
-- Kevin McCloud

#Philosophy #Bridges #Eggs

Lately, the world felt fragile, like a blown egg, as if it might shatter beneath a careless touch.
-- Kim Edwards

#Father #Eggs #World

Zimbabwe's stock market was the best performer this decade - but your entire portfolio now buys you 3 eggs
-- Kyle Bass

#Eggs #Zimbabwe #Portfolios

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

#Eggs #Use #Earth

I need to know the price of a gallon of milk and a dozen eggs. I need to know right now
-- Lamar Alexander

#Eggs #Needs #Dozen

Walter Duranty helped to turn the monster Stalin into a world figure and a hero of the leftistWestern intelligentsia by defending the bloodbath of the Soviet Union from its critics in the now famous: "You can't make an omelette without breaking eggs.
-- Lance Morrow

#Hero #Ukraine #Eggs

You know, I had the music baskets and the writing basket. And I had the acting. And those eggs just hatched first, and the others were slow to incubate.
-- Laura Bell Bundy

#Writing #Eggs #Acting

Changing my diet was the big thing. I had to learn correct portion control. . . . I eat an egg-white omelet for breakfast, shrimp and veggies for lunch, and chicken with asparagus for dinner.
-- Lauren Alaina

#Eggs #Lunch #White

The egg of a bird hatches only when the chick within is ready
-- Liam Williams

#Eggs #Bird #Peer Pressure

Greetings, ax murderer! I was just wondering how you like your eggs?
-- Libba Bray

#Eggs #Wonder #Murderer

Zombies smell worse than anything you can imagine if you haven’t been hunting things on the dark side of the world. It’s a ripe, gassy odour, like rotting eggs and meat gone bad, crawling blind with maggots. It’s road kill and decayed food and body odour all rolled into one package and tied up with puke.
-- Lilith Saintcrow

#Dark #Hunting #Eggs

We all lead more pedestrian lives than we think we do. The boiling of an egg is sometimes more important than the boiling of a love affair in the end.
-- Lillian Hellman

#Thinking #Eggs #Important

There is a dessert dish in Austria called Kaiserschmarrn - it's kind of like a sweet raisin pancake with eggs and sugar. It's definitely not something I can eat often, but if I've done well at a race, sometimes that's my celebration treat!
-- Lindsey Vonn

#Sweet #Race #Eggs

It was admitted by the early rabbis that the sectarians could be as full of good works as eggs were full of meat.
-- Lionel Blue

#Eggs #Meat #Good Work

Everyone needs time to develop their dreams. An egg in the nest doesn't become a bird overnight.
-- Lois Ehlert

#Dream #Eggs #Bird

I want to fly! I want to touch the sun!" "Finish your eggs first.
-- Lorraine Hansberry

#Eggs #Want #Firsts

I was a smoker for years. Occasionally I slip and have a cigarette. Remarkably, my voice has held up. I'm grateful, obviously. But I don't gargle with honey and ground-up bird eggs. I have no secrets.
-- Loudon Wainwright III

#Grateful #Years #Eggs

I have devoted my whole life to the study of Nature, and yet a single sentence may express all that I have done. I have shown that there is a correspondence between the succession of Fishes in geological times and the different stages of their growth in the egg,-this is all. It chanced to be a result that was found to apply to other groups and has led to other conclusions of a like nature.
-- Louis Agassiz

#Eggs #Growth #Done

Who wouldn't want to see some owl eggs?" I said, "Come on then, they are down here." He said, "Tallulah, the answer to who wouldn't want to see some owl eggs is... me!!!!
-- Louise Rennison

#Eggs #Owl #Answers

Salvador Dalí seduced many ladies, particularly American ladies, but these seductions usually consisted of stripping them naked in his apartment, frying a couple of eggs, putting them on the woman's shoulders and, without a word, showing them the door.
-- Luis Bunuel

#Couple #Doors #Eggs

All of us from fertile egg to embryo to corpse, are exactly that: warm, wet, furry animals compelled by the sexuality of our forefathers and foremothers to be, either directly or indirectly, our own exciting and excitable, provocative and provocable selves.
-- Lynn Margulis

#Animal #Self #Eggs

what I love is slowness. Slow people, slow reading, slow traveling, slow eggs, and slow love. Everything good comes slow.
-- Lynne Sharon Schwartz

#Reading #Love Is #Eggs

I used to help my dad with a stall selling eggs when I was about 12. People were so hard up they would ask for one egg. But mostly no one came by at all. It was very demoralising.
-- Lynne Truss

#Dad #Eggs #People

Probably one of the most private things in the world is an egg until it is broken.
-- M. F. K. Fisher

#Food #Eggs #Broken

I don't cook very well at all. I'm the girl that can't make scrambled eggs.
-- Mandy Moore

#Girl #Eggs #Cooks

My dear Excellency! I have not gone to war to collect cheese and eggs, but for another purpose.
-- Manfred von Richthofen

#War #Eggs #Cheesy

It is therefore proper to acknowledge that the first filaments of the chick preexist in the egg and have a deeper origin, exactly as [the embryo] in the eggs of plants.
-- Marcello Malpighi

#Eggs #Firsts #Plant

... all this talking, this rather liquid confessing, was something I didn't think I could ever bring myself to do. It seemed foolhardy to me, like an uncooked egg deciding to to come out of its shell: there would be a risk of spreading out too far, turning into a formless puddle.
-- Margaret Atwood

#Thinking #Talking #Eggs

It may be the ***** that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.
-- Margaret Thatcher

#Eggs #Crow #May

My policies are based not on some economics theory, but on things I and millions like me were brought up with: an honest day’s work for an honest day’s pay; live within your means; put by a nest egg for a rainy day; pay your bills on time; support the police.
-- Margaret Thatcher

#Mean #Rainy Day #Eggs

Baking makes me focus. On weighing the sugar. On sieving the flour. I find it calming and rewarding because, in fairness, it is sort of magic - you start off with all this disparate stuff, such as butter and eggs, and what you end up with is so totally different. And also delicious.
-- Marian Keyes

#Eggs #Focus #Magic

The public hardly suspects that their purchase of cosmetics, pet food, toothpaste, eggs and other common items have, in all likelihood, caused some form of animal suffering.
-- Marianne Thieme

#Animal #Eggs #Pet

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

#Mean #Eggs #Nests

The hedges are spruting like chicks from the eggs when they are newly hatched or as the vulgar says clacked.
-- Marjorie Fleming

#Eggs #Chicks #Vulgar

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

#Animal #Eggs #Two

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

#Eggs #Fart #Century

The egg creams of Avenue A in New York and the root beer float....are among the high points of American gastronomic inventiveness.
-- Mark Kurlansky

#New York #Beer #Eggs

Problems are an important part of maturing--meet them straight on. Work them out. It's like the chick in the egg. It has to break through the eggshell on its own. That's how it gains its first strength. If you break the shell for the chick, you end up with a puny little runt.
-- Mark Tobey

#Eggs #Important #Shells

The critic's symbol should be the tumble-bug: he deposits his egg in somebody else's dung, otherwise he could not hatch it.
-- Mark Twain

#Editors #Eggs #Bugs

Nothing helps scenery like bacon and eggs.
-- Mark Twain

#Food #Eggs #Fabulous

I work out Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday; take Thursday off; then I work out Friday and Saturday. So sometimes I'll eat whatever I want on Thursday, like a big breakfast of pancakes and bacon and eggs and stuff. You can eat a big, hearty breakfast because you're going to burn off most of it during the day anyway.
-- Mark Wahlberg

#Friday #Monday #Eggs

I believe everything in moderation. But breakfast is important. I have two hard-boiled or scrambled eggs with whole-wheat toast and try to get some fruit in there.
-- Martina McBride

#Believe #Eggs #Two

The difference between involvement and commitment is like ham and eggs. The chicken is involved; the pig is committed.
-- Martina Navratilova

#Inspirational #Commitment #Eggs

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
-- Mary Tyler Moore

#Eggs #Two #Dna

You can't make an omelet without breaking a few eggs.
-- Maximilien Robespierre

#Eggs

Omelets are not made without breaking eggs.
-- Maximilien Robespierre

#Eggs #Made

An egg cream can do anything. An egg cream to a Brooklyn Jew is like water to an Arab. A Jew will kill for an egg cream. It's the Jewish malmsey.
-- Mel Brooks

#Eggs #Water #Brooklyn

The egg cream is psychologically the opposite of circumcision--it pleasurably reaffirms your Jewishness.
-- Mel Brooks

#Eggs #Opposites #Circumcision

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

#Eggs #Hens #Royal

When we first put 'Let It Be' out, I had to cut out a lot of stuff that I really like and wanted to stay in there. The stuff in the new DVD has a lot of the stuff that had to be cut out. So for me, it's like the egg is now complete.
-- Michael Lindsay-Hogg

#Cutting #Eggs #Dvds

If you could choose to master a single ingredient, no choice would teach you more about cooking than the egg. It is an end in itself; it's a multipurpose ingredient; it's an all-purpose garnish; it's an invaluable tool. The egg teaches your hands finesse and delicacy. It helps your arms develop strength and stamina. It instructs in the way proteins behave in heat and in the powerful ways we can change food mechanically. It's a lever for getting other foods to behave in great ways. Learn to take the egg to its many differing ends, and you've enlarged your culinary repertoire by a factor of ten.
-- Michael Ruhlman

#Powerful #Hands #Eggs

If you are handed something, it's a blessing and a curse. Look at hip hop artists, they produced everything themselves. Even people like Robert De Niro are getting into production. Again, it's art vs. marketing. Not everyone can take the risk. You have to break a few eggs to make a good omelet.
-- Michael Winslow

#Art #Blessing #Eggs

It will be seen in the frying of the eggs.
-- Miguel de Cervantes

#Eggs #Results

Don't put all your eggs in one basket.
-- Miguel de Cervantes

#Eggs #Eggs In One Basket #Baskets

The main thing is to race over to McDonald's to get an egg McMuffin before they shut down for the morning.
-- Mike Babcock

#Morning #Eggs #Race

For how tiny the world, This ant's egg-and the sky!
-- Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib

#Garden #Eggs #Sky

You know, out-of-touch liberals like Barack Obama say they want a strong economy, but in everything they do, they show they don't like business very much. But the economy, of course, is simply the product of all the businesses of the nation added together. So it's a bit like saying you like an omelet, but you don't like eggs.
-- Mitt Romney

#Strong #Eggs #Together

If I had my life over again I should form the habit of nightly composing myself to thoughts of death. I would practice, as it were, the remembrance of death. No other practice so intensifies life. Death, when it approaches, ought not to take one -surprise. It should be part of the full expectancy of life. Without an ever-present sense of death, life is insipid. You might as well live on the whites of eggs.
-- Muriel Spark

#Practice #Eggs #Remembrance

Some perfect wife I am. I've been married four times, divorced four times, have no children, and can't boil an egg.
-- Myrna Loy

#Children #Eggs #Perfect

I think housework is far more tiring and frightening than hunting is, no comparison, and yet after hunting we had eggs for tea and were made to rest for hours, but after housework people expect one to go on just as if nothing special had happened.
-- Nancy Mitford

#Thinking #Hunting #Eggs

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

#Book #Dirty #Eggs

[On women:] We are all yeses. We are worthy enough, we passed inspection, we survived the great fetal oocyte extinctions. In that sense, at least - call it a mechanospiritual sense - we are meant to be. We are good eggs, every one of us.
-- Natalie Angier

#Women #Eggs #Extinction