Lunch Quotes - Page 2

• I have lunch, flirt with some local grandmothers, undercut my flirting by crotching myself on the corner of a table as I leave. -- "The Great Divider

  George Saunders

  Grandmother, Flirting, Tables

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• In Spain people have lunch and dinner a lot later - when I return to England I'll have to eat alone at midnight.

  David Beckham

  People, Midnight, Spain

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• After dinner or lunch or whatever it was -- with my crazy 12-hour night I was no longer sure what was what -- I said, "Look, baby, I'm sorry, but don't you realize that this job is driving me crazy? Look, let's give it up. Let's just lay around and make love and take walks and talk a little. Let's go to the zoo. Let's look at animals. Let's drive down and look at the ocean. It's only 45 minutes. Let's play games in the arcades. Let's go to the races, the Art Museum, the boxing matches. Let's have friends. Let's laugh. This kind of life like everybody else's kind of life: it's killing us.

  Charles Bukowski

  Baby, Art, Jobs

  Charles Bukowski (2014). “Charles Bukowski Fiction Collection”, Harper Collins

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• My favorite day at 30 Rock is Thursday, when the show airs. At lunch we screen the episodes. For everyone to watch together, to see the stuff we all worked on, to hear the crew laugh - it’s great fun.

  Tina Fey

  Fun, Favorite Day, Rocks

  "Tina Fey: Funny Girl". Interview with Jancee Dunn, www.rd.com.

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• Tibby sat on the outside of a group of kids in the film program. There was a lot of dark clothing and heavy footwear, and quite a few piercings glinting in sunlight. They had invited her to sit with them while they all finished up their lunches before film seminar. Tibby knew that they had invited her largely because she had a ring in her nose. This bugged her almost as much as when people excluded her because she had a ring in her nose.

  Ann Brashares

  Kids, Dark, People

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• Cultivate a sense of humour. From a humorous point of view this lunch is rather good.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Humorous, Views, Sense Of Humor

  "They and I".

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• Because that's what you do, you stand up for your best friend. And you eat lunch with him and talk with him and share secrets and laugh a lot and go places and do stuff, and when you wake up in the morning, he's the first person you think of.

  Jerry Spinelli

  Morning, Thinking, Laughing

  Jerry Spinelli (2002). “Loser”

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• I am a woman who is a granddaughter of a lady who used to be beaten on the head by her husband, of a mother who went through hell because she was divorced and had to bring up these kids. And I can take 10 men out to lunch and pay the bill, and nobody even thinks twice about it. So don’t mess with me.

  Arundhati Roy

  Mother, Husband, Kids

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• We tilt our heads back and open wide. The snow drifts into our zombie mouths crawling with grease and curses and tobacco flakes and cavities and boyfriend/girlfriend juice, the stain of lies. For one moment we are not failed tests and broken condoms and cheating on essays; we are crayons and lunch boxes and swinging so high our sneakers punch holes in the clouds. For one breath everything feels better. Then it melts. The bus drivers rev their engines and the ice cloud shatters. Everyone shuffles forward. They don't know what just happened. They can't remember.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Cheating, Girlfriend, Lying

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• But Lunch Isn't That Bad, Really Once I get used to having to eat with two people instead of one. Two people who have known each other for such a long time that they practically speak in code. Two people who are always saying, "Remember the time when this happened?" and "Remember the time when that happened?" (Which, of course, I never do, because I wasn't there.) Well, okay, it is that bad. It sucks, even.

  Sonya Sones

  Two, Long, People

  Sonya Sones (2007). “What My Girlfriend Doesn't Know”, p.207, Simon and Schuster

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• One day I was watching these construction workers go back to work. I was watching them kind of trudging down the street. It was like a revelation to me. I realized these guys don’t want to go back to work after lunch. But they’re going. That’s their job. If they can exhibit that level of dedication for that job I should be able to do the same. Trudge your ass in.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Jobs, Dedication, Construction Workers

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• I don’t ask writers about their work habits. I really don’t care. Joyce Carol Oates says somewhere that when writers ask each other what time they start working and when they finish and how much time they take for lunch, they’re actually trying to find out, "Is he as crazy as I am?" I don’t need that question answered.

  Philip Roth

  Crazy, Trying, Needs

  FaceBook post by Philip Roth from Sep 01, 2013

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• The Middle Ages hangs over history's belt like a beer belly. It is too late now for aerobic dancing or cottage cheese lunches to reduce the Middle Ages. History will have to wear size 48 shorts forever.

  Tom Robbins

  Beer, Dancing, Forever

  "Jitterbug Perfume". Book by Tom Robbins, 1984.

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• The press and politicians. A delicate relationship. Too close, and danger ensues. Too far apart and democracy itself cannot function without the essential exchange of information. Creative leaks, a discreet lunch, interchange in the Lobby, the art of the unattributable telephone call, late at night.

  Howard Brenton

  Art, Night, Creative

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• I grabbed her, right there outside the lunch room in the swarming mob. I didn't care if others were watching. In fact, i hoped they were. I grabbed her and squeezed her. I had never been so happy and so proud in my life.

  Jerry Spinelli

  Care, Proud, Rooms

  Jerry Spinelli (2012). “The Stargirl Collection”, p.90, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Zaphod Beeblebrox, adventurer, ex-hippie, good-timer (crook? quite possibly), manic self-publicist, terrible bad at personal relationships, often thought to be completely out to lunch.

  Douglas Adams

  Hippie, Self, Crooks

  Douglas Adams (2010). “The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy”, p.51, Del Rey

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• Here's a quick rule of thumb: Don't annoy science fiction writers. These are people who destroy entire planets before lunch. Think of what they'll do to you.

  John Scalzi

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• It would be so nice to have the luxury just to laze. So nice not to have to always get up and get dressed for some occasion. Always having to move from here to there, where everything is scheduled and even having lunch with my kids on their Easter break has to be slotted in. Maybe one day...

  Benazir Bhutto

  Easter, Nice, Moving

  "Destiny's daughter". Interview with Ginny Dougary, www.thetimes.co.uk. April 28, 2007.

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• Fine, if you see no reason to worry about bisonbecks who do the bidding of Risto'-- he sat down on a log and pulled out his lunch--'or mordakleeps who team up with anything nasty and currently have a wonderful working relationship with that same evil wizard Risto, then why should I worry? Why should we warn Kale?' Leetu's scowl turned darker. Dar lifted his sandwich to his mouth, but had one more thing to say before he bit into it. 'Actually, I agree with you. Worrying now over an encounter that might occur later would only ruin our digestion.

  Donita K. Paul

  Team, Kale, Evil

  Donita K. Paul (2008). “DragonSpell: A Novel”, p.62, WaterBrook

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• Las Vegas is Everymans cut-rate Babylon. Not far away there is, or was, a roadside lunch counter and over it a sign proclaiming in three words that a Roman emperors orgy is now a democratic institution. 'Topless Pizza Lunch'.

  Alistair Cooke

  Food, Cutting, Vegas

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• A man's minor actions and arrangements ought to be free, flexible, creative; the things that should be unchangeable are his principles, his ideals. But with us the reverse is true; our views change constantly; but our lunch does not change. Now, I should like men to have strong and rooted conceptions, but as for their lunch, let them have it sometimes in the garden, sometimes in bed, sometimes on the roof, sometimes in the top of a tree. Let them argue from the same first principles, but let them do it in a bed, or a boat, or a balloon.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Strong, Men, Garden

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• Who can fail to mist at Fergie's anthem, 'My humps, my humps, my lovely lady lumps.' Hmmm. 'My lunch, my lunch, I swear it's coming up.

  Celia Rivenbark

  Lovely Lady, Anthem, Failing

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• IT was the time of day when Lake Eden residents decided it was too late for a breakfast cookie and too early for a lunch cookie.

  Joanne Fluke

  Lakes, Eden, Too Late

  Joanne Fluke (2011). “Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder”, p.79, Kensington Books

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• I'd like to find whoever taught the Stump that extra work builds character and push him down the stairs," Neal told Kel at lunch.

  Tamora Pierce

  Character, Taught, Stumps

  Tamora Pierce (2014). “Protector of the Small Quartet”, p.81, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• We went to lunch and were talking about procrastination and the waitress overheard us and she said, 'I have a problem with procrastination, too.' I said 'Really?... Get my sandwich.'

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Procrastination, Talking, Sandwiches

  "Ellen DeGeneres: Here and Now". www.imdb.com. 2003.

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