#egg

Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's egg. ↗

— Hans Christian Anderson

#born #does #duck #egg #hatched

Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not possess anything of its own beneath the sun, for the glory of your name, and that it have no other patrimony than begging. ↗

— Francis of Assisi

#begging #beneath #distinctive #does #glory

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. ↗

— Dave Barry

#biological #cells #despite #directions #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. ↗

— Neal Barnard

#dairy #decided #eggs #either #foods

When they make a woman's picture, they treat it like a 'woman's picture.' In the '40s, they didn't treat Joan Crawford movies like that, but as the big movies of their year. I'm upset that there's no 'Terminator' with a woman in Arnold Schwarzenegger's role. Because that would make just as much money. ↗

— Ellen Barkin

#because #big #crawford #i #joan

The definition of a Schwarzenegger Republican is a Bush Republican who says he's a Schwarzenegger Republican. ↗

— Warren Beatty

#definition #republican #says #schwarzenegger #who

Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away. ↗

— Walter Benjamin

#bird #boredom #dream #drives #egg

In singing, there's a vibration that comes from deep down inside, literally from your sex. When you put out that vibration, people can feel it. Billie Holiday does it. Peggy Lee does it. It's very hot. ↗

— Elizabeth Berkley

#billie holiday #comes #deep #deep down #does

Every musician liked Peggy Lee, but not the general public. ↗

— Mel Ferrer

#general #general public #lee #liked #musician

Whenever I walk out on a stage, I'm begging for affection. ↗

— Eartha Kitt

#begging #i #out #stage #walk