We juggle priceless eggs in variable gravity. I am afraid. I will taste fear until I die.
But this is a remarkable egg, an egg worth talking about, an egg worth crossing the street for, an egg worth writing about.
Ideas are like frog eggs: you've got to lay a thousand to hatch one.
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.
Some perfect wife I am. I've been married four times, divorced four times, have no children, and can't boil an egg.
Concentrate your energy, thought and capital exclusively upon the business in which you are engaged. . . 'Don't put all your eggs in one basket' is all wrong. I tell you 'put all your eggs in one basket, and then watch that basket. '
My biggest faults is that the faults I was born with grow bigger each year. It's like I was raising chickens inside me. The chickens lay eggs and the eggs hatch into other chickens, which then lay eggs. Is this any way to live a life? What with all these faults I've got going, I have to wonder. Sure, I get by. But in the end, that's not the question, is it?
The American system itself is incapable. It's, it is as incapable of producing freedom for the Afro-American as a, as the system of a chicken is of producing a duck egg.
We must be careful what we say. No bird resumes its egg.
Some people eat eggs, I wear them.
Put not your Knife to your mouth unless it be to eat an Egge.
An egg white omelet with vegetables is one of my favorite breakfasts.
The fellow who eggs you on to avenge yourself will rob you of what you were going to say - as we forgive our debtors. When you have forfeited that, all your sins will be held against you; absolutely nothing is forgiven.
Don't count your chickens before they egg.
In my own life, I decided to leave meat off my plate in medical school, but was a bit slow to realise that dairy products and eggs are not health foods either.
Although I cannot lay an egg, I am a very good judge of omelettes
I saw the young man over there with eggs Benedict, with hollandaise sauce. And I was going to suggest to you that you serve your eggs with hollandaise sauce in hubcaps. Because there's no plates like chrome for the hollandaise.
A cold supper, were you thinking? I asked dubiously. I was not, he said firmly, I mean to light a roaring fire in the kitchen hearth, fry up a dozen eggs in butter, and eat them all, then lay ye down on the hearth rug and roger ye 'till you - is that all right? he inquired, noticing my look. 'Til I what? I asked fascinated by his description of the evening's program. 'Til ye burst into flame and take me with ye, I suppose, he said, and stooping, swooped me up into his arms and carried me across the darkened threshold.
The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.
I wondered about her chicken-and-egg relationship with Dad. Which came first? Her helplessness or his controlling?