Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lorraine Hansberry

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

So many families live from paycheck to paycheck. So few have that nest egg anymore.

There are too many things being funneled into the mayor's office, too many eggs in one basket. We want to delegate.

I don't think it prudent to completely stop working with this kind of nest egg and feel comfortable that, no matter what happens to the market, my health or the economy, I've got enough to live on for the next 20 years,

From the time you take that egg out of the lake all you can do is hurt it.

Alice Temperley

I get up between 6:30 and 7 A.M., and my morning routine is always the same: hot water and lemon, eggs on toast and rose oil on the face.

Henry James

She is the one who leads the people of Little Egg Harbor to freedom.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

To the wingless a more interesting phenomenon is their (W/E Egg) dissimilarity in every particular except shape and size.

Estella Warren

I wanted to build up a little nest egg and go back to L.A. and choose roles that I wanted to do instead of roles that I had to do to pay the bills.

Federico Garcia Lorca

Death laid its eggs in the wound

Fran Lebowitz

Twenty-four-hour room service generally refers to the length of time that it takes for the club sandwich to arrive. This is indeeddisheartening, particularly when you've ordered scrambled eggs.

Fran Lebowitz

You don't have to lay an egg to know if it tastes good.

George Meyer

Advertising is a conscienceless industry, populated by cowards and idiots, that warps and drains everyone. It eggs on the worst in all of us. If I could eliminate either advertising or nuclear weapons, I would choose advertising.

Chrissy Teigen

I have to have breakfast and breakfast has to be eggs, whether in omelet form, hard-boiled, or over-easy,

George Eliot

Things don't happen because they're bad or good, else all eggs would be addled or none at all, and at the most it is but six to the dozen. There's good chances and bad chances, and nobody's luck is pulled only by one string.

George Eliot

Speech may be barren; but it is ridiculous to suppose that silence is always brooding on a nestful of eggs.

George Eliot

Speech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest. Your still fowl, blinking at you without remark, may all the while be sitting on one addled egg; and when it takes to cackling will have nothing to announce but that addled delusion.

For next year, we need people in Florida, ... We're putting all our eggs in the recruitment effort.

George Bernard Shaw

Although I cannot lay an egg, I am a very good judge of omelettes

Jasper Fforde

We were developing a machine that used egg white, heat and sugar to synthesize methanol when a power surge caused an implosion. Owens was meringued. By the time we chipped him out the poor chap had expired.

Jasper Fforde

I loved him, officer. More than any woman ever loved an egg.

Hannah Kent

No doves come from ravens’ eggs

I didn't know what to think on the appeal. I was walking on egg shells, but I was realistic. I thought it was 50-50 and figured it was in the Lord's hands.

Ingrid Newkirk

Every time we consume meat, eggs or dairy foods, we contribute to ecological devastation and the wasteful misuse of resources on a global scale.

Ingrid Newkirk

If you like to bake with eggs, you can substitute Ener-G egg replacer, bananas, tofu, or many other ingredients. You get the hang of it quickly enough.

Ingrid Newkirk

Consumers of meat, eggs and dairy products might well ask what they are supporting. Do farmers care about anyone but themselves? Can't anyone see the cow for the cheese?

Native fish like to lay eggs in gravel, not mud.

C. S. Lewis

You can't just go on being a good egg. You must either hatch or go bad!

Bill Buckner

I feel like I'm walking on eggs and can't take another step.

I was thinking about that when Ski (Hinske) led off with a double, ... I thought this would be the perfect time for me to get the goose egg off the RBI column.

I think the state has learned its lesson that you can't put all your eggs in one basket.

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

Frying gives cooks numerous ways of concealing what appeared the day before and in a pinch facilitates sudden demands, for it takes little more time to fry a four-pound carp than to boil an egg.

Janet Evanovich

Is there anything else you need from me?" Ranger asked. "Not right now." "There will come a time," Ranger said. "Let me know when." And he disconnected. I opened the freezer and stuck my head in to cool off. If there'd been any more innuendo in that conversation, I could have fried an egg on my forehead.