Lunch Quotes - Page 18

• There is no better way to get to know someone than to have an affair ... it can save years of lunches.

  Helen Gurley Brown

  Years, Way, Affair

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• I've been on every diet in the world. I've been on Slim-Fast. For breakfast you have a shake. For lunch, you have a shake. For dinner, you kill anyone with food on their plate.

  Rosie O'Donnell

  World, Breakfast, Dinner

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• The rains are rhythmic, coming religiously in the afternoons (after lunch has been eaten but before tea, so that the nights are washed clean-black with bright pinpoints of silver starlight hanging over a restless, grateful earth).

  Alexandra Fuller

  Grateful, Rain, Night

  Alexandra Fuller (2014). “Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: Picador Classic”, p.202, Pan Macmillan

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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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• they're the sort of people one invites to lunch or tea, but never to dinner.

  Margery Wilson

  People, Tea, Dinner

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• I've now been doing this for ten years, and I actually got to skip a stage of going to casting directors, and now I meet with the directors, either for lunch or an audition room, and I still read sides; you're never going to get around that, but I'm not the best person to go on an audition.

  Carly Schroeder

  Years, Casting, Rooms

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• I encourage employers to permit their workers time off during the lunch hour to attend the noontime services to pray for our land.

  George W. Bush

  Humor, Land, Political

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• I want every child in America to eat a nutritious, delicious, sustainably sourced school lunch for free.

  Alice Waters

  Children, School, Patriotic

  "Alice Waters on Simple Food, the Future of Chez Panisse, and Dinner With Jay Z". Epicurious Interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 8, 2014.

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• I had just settled Grandma on her folding chair and popped open our box lunch when the corpse floated by.

  Thomas McGuane

  Grandma, Chairs, Boxes

  Thomas McGuane (2015). “Crow Fair: Stories”, p.35, Vintage

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• Take modern courtships! They resulted in the same thing as under George the Second, but took longer to reach it, owing to the motor-cycle and the standing lunch.

  John Galsworthy

  Owing, Modern, Courtship

  John Galsworthy (2016). “Swan Song: England Literature”, p.51, 谷月社

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• Before I ran for District Attorney, two Republicans invited my husband and me to lunch. And I knew a party-switch was exactly what they wanted. So, I told Chuck, we'll be polite, enjoy a free lunch and then say goodbye. But we talked about issues - they never used the words Republican, or Democrat, conservative or liberal. We talked about many issues, like welfare - is it a way of life, or a hand-up? Talked about the size of government - how much should it tax families and small businesses? And when we left that lunch, we got in the car and I looked over at Chuck and said, "I'll be damned, we're Republicans."

  Susana Martinez

  Goodbye, Husband, Party

  Susana Martinez's speech at the Republican National Convention, www.politico.com. August 29, 2012.

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• I need to eat before a workout. If I exercise in the morning, I'll have a little oatmeal, cereal, or a hard-boiled egg with toast. If I go in the afternoon, I'll eat a turkey sandwich with cheese for lunch.

  Ana Ortiz

  Workout, Morning, Exercise

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• Apparently on the screen I look tall, ageless, and damned close to omniscient-delivering jeopardy-laden warnings through gritted teeth. But when people see me on the street, they say 'by God, this kid is 5 foot 5, he's got a broken nose, and looks about as foreboding as a bank teller on a lunch break.'

  Rod Serling

  Kids, Lunch Break, Feet

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• Once when my father-in-law was leaving the house after lunch to return to the field to work, my mother-in-law said, 'Albert, you get right back in here and tell me you love me.' He grinned and jokingly said, 'Elsie, when we were married, I told you I loved you, and if that ever changes, I'll let you know.' It's hard to overuse the expression, 'I love you.' Use it daily.

  Joe J. Christensen

  Love, Mother, Father

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• In my teens, I worked as an aide in my community supervising and mentoring youth in various programs and delivering lunches to needy students.

  Hilda Solis

  Community, Mentor, Teens

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• Eclecticism is the degree zero of contemporary general culture: one listens to reggae, watches a western, eats McDonald's food for lunch and local cuisine for dinner, wears Paris perfume in Tokyo and 'retro' clothing in Hong Kong; knowledge is a matter of TV games. It is easy to find a public for eclectic works.

  Jean-Francois Lyotard

  Zero, Clothes, Mcdonalds

  "An A-Z of cultural terms". www.theguardian.com. October 17, 2000.

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• Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mail in the waste-basket, it should be saved for the dinner guests.

  John Cage

  Writing, Should Have, Dinner Guests

  John Cage (2010). “M: Writings ’67–’72”, p.115, Wesleyan University Press

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• One of the things that often gets lost in discussions of depression is that you know it's ridiculous. You know it's ridiculous while you're experiencing it. You know that most people manage to listen to their messages, and eat lunch, and organise themselves to take a shower and go out the front door, and that it's not a big deal. And yet you are nonetheless in its grip and you are unable to figure out any way around it.

  Andrew Solomon

  Doors, People, Way

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• The garden is doing so well, we have so many greens and radishes that everyone is enjoying. Also, we are using one square as a compost bin, the Green Team is collecting food waste at lunch. Things are looking great, a huge thank you again.

  Mike Moreno

  Team, Garden, Squares

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• I still do have the little lunch bag that my mother made out of a towel and embroidered with my name on it for when I went to kindergarten.

  Maira Kalman

  Mother, Names, Bags

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• Well, in some ways I had sort of the opposite experience of other people that are sort of dreaming of being in a rock band. I was dreaming of like corporate lunches and just like, and I'm not really joking. Like the whole idea to me was really appealing.

  Carrie Brownstein

  Dream, Ideas, Rocks

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• Increasingly, editing means going to lunch. It means editing with a credit card, not with a pencil.

  Robert Gottlieb

  Mean, Editing, Cards

  "Editor in the spotlight" by William Skidelsky, www.theguardian.com. January 23, 2007.

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• When I'm in the water I feel as though nothing bad has happened. I think about the fish, how they don't know what's going on. Their world is unchanged. Actually it's probably better now to be a tuna or a sardine or a salmon. Less chance of ending up as somebody's lunch.

  Susan Beth Pfeffer

  Thinking, Water, Salmon

  Susan Beth Pfeffer (2015). “The Life As We Knew It Collection”, p.76, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Warren Cox, God knew, was no prize; a commercial person, a sales person, the kind of man who said things like "x numbers of dollars". At lunch today, laboriously trying to explain some business procedure, he had said "x number of dollars" three times.

  Richard Yates

  Men, Sales Person, Numbers

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• Machismo makes no provision for preparing lunch, doing the laundry, or minding the baby.

  Mason Cooley

  Baby, Laundry, Provision

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