Famous Quotes & Sayings

Diana Wynne Jones

Look. Survey. Inspect. My hair is ruined! I look like a pan of bacon and eggs!

Clarence Day

The egg it is the source of all. Tis everyone's ancestral hall. The bravest chief that ever fought, The lowest thief that e'er was caught, The harlot's lip, the maiden's leg, They each and all came from an egg.

Anne Sexton

I try to take care and be gentle to them. Words and eggs must be handled with care. Once broken they are impossible things to repair.

Robert Benchley

I can remember the day when all that a professor was supposed to do was to mark "C minus" on students' examination papers, then gohome to tea. Nowadays they seem to feel that they must know just how much we (outside the university) eat, what we do with our spare time, and how we like our eggs.

Victor Davis Hanson

Stalin and Mao killed over 80 million and did not make omelets despite the broken eggs.

Neil Gaiman

Even if your goose habitually lays golden eggs, it will still be cooked.

Theodore Roosevelt

One of our defects as a nation is a tendency to use what have been called ''weasel words.'' When a weasel sucks eggs the meat is sucked out of the egg. If you use a ''weasel word'' after another there is nothing left of the other.

Michael Foot

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

Maureen Johnson

Money is for doing things, my love. Don't sit on it like a hen sits on an egg. It doesn't hatch. I should know. I've made enough of it.

Katherine Dunn

When your mama was the geek, my dreamlets," Papa would say, "she made the nipping off of noggins such a crystal mystery that the hens themselves yearned toward her, waltzing around her, hypnotized with longing.

Henry Ward Beecher

There is a patience that cackles. There are a great many virtues that are hen-like. They are virtue, to be sure; but everybody in the neighborhood has to know about them.

Euclid

Sire, there is no royal road to geometry.

George Herbert

The Royall Crowne cures not the head-ach. [The Royal Crown cures not the headache.]

Christa B. Allen

I want to play a princess or some woman from royalty or aristocracy. If I get to have an accent, even better. And I want to play a butt-kicking superhero, like Catwoman.