Lunch Quotes - Page 15

• Being aggressive is a lot less risky in the end. Are you going to eat your lunch, or have your lunch eaten for you.

  William Esrey

  Ends, Aggressive

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• Everything is connected to everything else. Everything must go somewhere. Nature knows best. There is no such thing as a free lunch.

  Barry Commoner

  Nature, Environment, Ecology

  "Barry Commoner, scientist and influential environmentalist, dies at 95" by Matt Schudel, www.washingtonpost.com. October 2, 2012.

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• Playing the game for money produces the proper professional attitude. It inculcates the lunch-pail state of mind that shows up for work despite rain or snow or dark of night and slugs it out day after day.

  Steven Pressfield

  Attitude, Rain, Dark

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• You could be a rebel, a profound thinker, and a rock and roll maniac and still eat breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and drink a nice cup of tea with your friends.

  Pamela Des Barres

  Nice, Rocks, Rock And Roll

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• Acting has always been something for me that's been a romp. I just show up and I have a good time, and I hope that I get through the day and I can have lunch in the sun.

  George Hamilton

  Acting, Sun, Good Times

  "George Hamilton puts his life out in the open". Interview with Andrea Mineo, www.cnn.com. August 24, 2009.

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• Never buy an editor or publisher a lunch or a drink until he has bought an article, story or book from you. This rule is absolute and may be broken only at your peril.

  John Creasey

  Book, Editors, Broken

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• I'm working as hard as I can to get my life and my cash to run out at the same time. If I can just die after lunch Tuesday, everything would be perfect.

  Doug Sanders

  Running, Golf, Tuesday

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• Life isn't, and has never been, a 2-0 home victory after a fish and chip lunch.

  Nick Hornby

  Home, Victory, Chips

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• Coffee is cheap, drinks are an audition, lunch is an interview, but dinner means business; the business of romance.

  Patti Stanger

  Coffee, Mean, Romance

  Patti Stanger, Lisa Johnson Mandell (2009). “Become Your Own Matchmaker: 8 Easy Steps for Attracting Your Perfect Mate”, p.87, Simon and Schuster

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• If you knew how meat was made, youd probably lose your lunch.

  K. D. Lang

  Vegetarianism, Meat, Made

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• The recent developments in cosmology strongly suggest that the universe may be the ultimate free lunch.

  Alan Guth

  Development, May, Cosmology

  "The New Physics". Book edited by Paul Davies, 1992.

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• I just lost my lunch and I didn’t even have any!

  Darrell Waltrip

  Lost

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• Quite frankly, I am not very comfortable in chitchat. When I go to board meetings, I arrive two minutes before and leave when it's over. I don't stay for lunch or go early and have coffee.

  Lou Gerstner

  Coffee, Two, Boards

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• I usually eat six times a day, small meals. For breakfast, an egg and a corn tortilla, salsa and cilantro, and some ham. For snacks, I'll have an apple, some string cheese, a yogurt. For lunch I'll have salad with protein in it and for dinner usually steamed vegetables and chicken or fish.

  Sprague Grayden

  Eggs, Apples, Vegetables

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• Anyone who calls it "sexual intercourse" can't possibly be interested in actually doing it. You might as well announce you're ready for lunch by proclaiming, "I'd like to do some masticating and enzyme secreting."

  Allan Sherman

  Sex, Enzymes, Might

  Allan Sherman (1973). “The Rape of the APE (American Puritan Ethic): The Official History of the Sex Revolution, 1945-1973: the Obscening of America, an RSVP (redeeming Social Value Pornography) Document”

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• You now have six-year campaigns for the Senate - you never stop running. It's not uncommon for a member of the Senate to have a fundraising breakfast, a fundraising lunch and a fundraising dinner, and then when the Senate breaks for the week to go home, more fundraisers. And that's driven by the cost of campaigning.

  Evan Bayh

  Running, Home, Years

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• I punched my buddy in the nose after lunch, now I'm in trouble cause the dean saw the punch.

  Bobby Vee

  Education, Noses, Saws

  Song: Stayin' In, Album: Bobby Vee

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• I just had lunch with Slash two days ago. He loves Axl. He holds no grudges towards him. Twenty years of great music wasn't created because of some stupid grudge. That's a shame.

  Steven Adler

  Stupid, Years, Two

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• So you think the best way to prepare kids for the real world is to bus them to a government institution where they're forced to spend all day isolated with children of their own age and adults who are paid to be with them, placed in classes that are too big to allow more than a few minutes of personal interaction with the teacher-then spend probably an hour or more everyday waiting in lunch lines, car lines, bathroom lines, recess lines, classroom lines, and are forced to progress at the speed of the slowest child in class?

  Steven James

  Teacher, Children, Real

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• Raw pain alarms. us. It reminds us that life isn't as orderly as we'd hoped. We demand that pain settle down before we shuffle it off to the quiet table. We want pain to stay in its own little section, want to keep it from spilling over into the other parts of life. Just like . lunch trays. Keep pain in its own little compartment.

  Philip Gulley

  Pain, Alarms, Demand

  Philip Gulley (2009). “Home to Harmony”, p.127, Zondervan

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• Now there is something about [Tuukka] you probably don’t know and that is he loves chicken wings more than any person I’ve ever met in my life. If he could eat them for breakfast, lunch and dinner he would.

  Brad Marchand

  Wings, Breakfast, Dinner

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• If done correctly, these techniques can allow the Bobo pilgrim to have 6 unforgettable moments a morning, 2 rapturous experiences over lunch, 1,5 profound insights in the afternoon (on average), and .667 life-altering epiphanies after each sunset.

  David Brooks

  Morning, Sunset, Average

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• I bring my bike to work, and I make laps around our parking lot on my lunch break.

  Angela Kinsey

  Lap, Break, Parking

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• I had a 2-week courtship with a fellow student in the fiction workshop in Iowa and a 5-minute wedding in a lawyer's office above the coffee shop where we'd been having lunch that day. And so I sent a cable to my father saying, 'By the time you get this, Daddy, I'll already be Mrs. Blaise!'

  Bharati Mukherjee

  Father, Coffee, Iowa

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• Someone's killed 100,000 people. We're almost going, "Well done! You killed 100,000 people? You must get up very early in the morning! I can't even get down the gym. Your diary must look odd: 'Get up in the morning, death, death, death, death, death, death, death - lunch - death, death, death - afternoon tea - death, death, death - quick shower ...' "

  Eddie Izzard

  Funny, Morning, People

  "Eddie Izzard: Dress to Kill". Documentary, Comedy, 1998.

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