A Quote by Coco Chanel

Gentleness doesn't get work done unless you happen to be a hen laying eggs.

Coco Chanel

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Coco Chanel
French - Designer
August 19, 1883 - January 10, 1971

I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

H. L. Mencken

Why do men delight in work? Fundamentally, I suppose, because there is a sense of relief and pleasure in getting something done - a kind of satisfaction not unlike that which a hen enjoys on laying an egg.

H. L. Mencken

I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs. There is in every living creature an obscure but powerful impulse to active functioning. Life demands to be lived. Inaction, save as a measure of recuperation between bursts of activity, is painful and dangerous to the healthy organism- in fact, it is almost impossible. Only the dying can be really idle.

H. L. Mencken

It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.

Margaret Thatcher

Death is a fickle hen, and random are her eggs.

Armando Iannucci

Television is a golden goose that lays scrambled eggs; and it is futile and probably fatal to beat it for not laying caviar. Anyway, more people like scrambled eggs than caviar.

Lee Loevinger

Do not give, as many rich men do, like a hen that lays her eggs ...and then cackles.

Henry Ward Beecher

The gentleman puts me in mind of an old hen which persists in setting after her eggs are taken away.

Fisher Ames

There is no logical connection between flying and laying eggs.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

At exhibition openings always praise the chicken for laying eggs; you can wring its neck later.

Bill Jay

The poet or the revolutionary is there to articulate the necessity, but until the people themselves apprehend it, nothing can happen ... Perhaps it can't be done without the poet, but it certainly can't be done without the people. The poet and the people get on generally very badly, and yet they need each other. The poet knows it sooner than the people do. The people usually know it after the poet is dead; but that's all right. The point is to get your work done, and your work is to change the world.

James Baldwin

Don't be that guy that's laying in that hospital bed going, 'I wonder what would have happened if I tried it?' The worst thing that could happen is that it doesn't work.

Dana White

That, they never could lay their heads upon their pillows; that, they never could tolerate the idea of their wives laying their heads upon their pillows; that, they never could endure the notion of their children laying their heads upon their pillows; in short, that there never more could be, for them or theirs, any laying of heads upon pillows at all, unless the prisoner's head was taken off.

Charles Dickens

I love eggs. Eggs are probably one of the most versatile things we work with.

Daniel Humm

I like doing radio because it's so intimate. The moment people hear your voice, you're inside there heads, not only that, you're in there laying eggs.

Douglas Coupland

I'd like to get the sex thing over with, but I realized I'm not done with it. You should never will a change in your work - you have to work an idea to death. I often find that the best things happen when you're near the end.

John Currin

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