Basket Quotes

The way to become rich is to put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket. (Andrew Carnegie)
A wise man does not trust all his eggs to one basket. View quote
Miguel de Cervantes
Conventional wisdom is not to put all of your eggs in one basket. 80/20 wisdom is to choose a basket carefully, load all your eggs into it, and then watch it like a hawk. View quote
Richard Koch
The waste basket is the writer's best friend. View quote
Isaac Bashevis Singer
The terrorist and the policeman both come from the same basket. View quote
Joseph Conrad
My first real kiss came when I was 10, and it was in an acting class. I had to do a scene from a movie where someone gets kissed under a tree, and I did not want to do it! But my acting partner wanted me to feel comfortable, so he bought a picnic basket with all these snacks. He made such an effort - and it was cute. View quote
Vanessa Hudgens
I've always been a fella who put most of my eggs in one basket and then take a dump in the basket but I really don't know. View quote
Robert Downey Jr.
Trust is as slippery as a basket of eels sometimes. View quote
Robert Jordan
They got how many trillions of dollars in gold and silver and jewelry and art and real estate and stained glass and they're passing the basket on Sunday so they can get the tomato farmers' donation? View quote
Ted Nugent
As I have discovered by examining my past, I started out as a child. Coincidentally, so did my brother. My mother did not put all her eggs in one basket, so to speak: she gave me a younger brother named Russell, who taught me what was meant by "survival of the fittest." View quote
Bill Cosby
You know what I think? Fate! That's what it is fate! There's a thing that comes after a fellow:got a name,but I forgot what it is. Creeps up behind him, and puts him in the basket when he ain't expecting it. (Georgette Heyer)
My grandmother flew only once in her life, and that was the day she and her new husband ascended into the skies of Victorian London in the wicker basket of a hot-air balloon. They were soon to emigrate to Canada, and the aerial ride was meant to be a last view of their beloved England. View quote
Alan Bradley
When I'm singing, it's like I'm at home. And music is a great healer. I think I'd have been a basket case if I hadn't been a singer. View quote
Lulu
I like fruit baskets because it gives you the ability to mail someone a piece of fruit without appearing insane. Like, if someone just mailed you an apple you'd be like, 'huh? What the hell is this?' But if it's in a fruit basket you're like, 'this is nice!' View quote
Demetri Martin
Women are like dogs really. They love like dogs, a little insistently. And they like to fetch and carry and come back wistfully after hard words, and learn rather easily to carry a basket. View quote
Mary Roberts Rinehart
Basketball is a simple game. Your goal is penetration, get the ball close to the basket, and there are three ways to do that. Pass, dribble and offensive rebound. View quote
Phil Jackson
I know what it's like to finish the laundry and to look in the basket five minutes later and it's full again. I know what it's like to pull all the groceries in, and see the teenagers run through, and all of a sudden, all of the groceries you just bought a few hours ago are gone. View quote
Ann Romney
If the human race wants to go to hell in a basket, technology can help it get there by jet. View quote
Charles Mengel Allen
I've chosen my wedding ring large and heavy to continue forever. But exactly because of that all the time that Dave and I have an argument I feel it like handcuffs, and on anger time I throw it in a basket. Poor Dave, he bought me three wedding rings already! View quote
Carmen Miranda
This year I've just been aggressive. I still have that mindset of passing the ball, and being aggressive and attacking to the basket is going to draw more attention, and that way I can find my teammates. Being in attack mode is something I try to bring into every single game, and that's what's making me be so successful. View quote
James Harden
I mean if you put all of your eggs in one basket, boy, and that thing blows up you've got a real problem. (Jerry Bruckheimer)
I think one of the things that saved me is that I never put all my eggs in one basket. View quote
Ricky Schroder
I put all my eggs in one basket and invested in property. I didn't do anything internationally - it was all in Ireland. View quote
Shane Filan
One of the things that was introduced to me at an early stage in life was to try to make stuff happen. But nothing ever worked that way for me. What I learned on my own was that to try and play God with your life will wreck your brain and your nervous system, and mess up your natural direction in the course that's already there...But look, I just don't want to read about me being made into a basket case because of my work. It's self-pity that I hate. I mean, it comes with the territory. An actor with any conviction goes the extra mile. View quote
River Phoenix
I got the sneaking suspicion that the vampire was a couple of Peeps short of an Easter basket. View quote
Jim Butcher
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