Lunch famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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If you read about Mussolini or Stalin or some of these other great monsters of history, they were at it all the time, that they were getting up in the morning very early. They were physically very active. They didn't eat lunch.
-- A. N. Wilson -
I used to eat a whole chicken, every day, for lunch. I did that for four years. But it got tiring - go to the store, buy it, eat it. It's a mess.
-- Adam Driver -
The small businessman is smart; he realizes there's no free lunch. On the other hand, he knows where to go to get a good inexpensive sandwich.
-- Adam Osborne -
I've never had a problem with the way I look. I'd rather go for lunch with my friends than go to a gym.
-- Adele -
Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, and dinner like a pauper.
-- Adelle Davis -
If you remember the shape of your spoon at lunch, it has to be the wrong shape. The spoon and the letter are tools; one to take food from the bowl, the other to take information off the page... When it is a good design, the reader has to feel comfortable because the letter is both banal and beautiful.
-- Adrian Frutiger -
The recent developments in cosmology strongly suggest that the universe may be the ultimate free lunch.
-- Alan Guth -
Does my hair look alright? Of course, it looks alright. Why am I asking you for? ...We get lunch right? ...Can we get this thing going? I gotta meet my girlfriend for a martini.
-- Alex Riley -
Being followed is weird, that people want to discuss where I ate lunch or what I wear when I go to lunch... the private life is just gone.
-- Alexander Skarsgard -
Fine - I said huffily. - But I hope I'm at least allowed to fly around the corridors during lunch hour. Gabriel threw me a disapproving look. I waited for him to get my joke, but his eyes remained serious. I sighed. Much as I loved him, Gabriel could be totally lacking in any sense of humor.
-- Alexandra Adornetto -
Apparently I had lunch with Johnny Depp when I was three months old.
-- Alice Englert -
I am confident that we will see a growing consensus about the most effective way to transform food in America: building a real, sustainable and free school-lunch program.
-- Alice Waters -
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 -
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 -
That's why we're going to disrupt the lunch," she (Kat) said. "You know," Angus said, "I've got a little C-four that I've been saving for a rainy--" "We're not blowing up my company, Angus," Hale said. "Righto. Carry on, Kitty.
-- Ally Carter -
The very old certainly do not go back on lunch remains but they do bite back at old conversational topics ...
-- Ama Ata Aidoo -
Democracy is four wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
something about giving himself over to a woman was worse than having lunch with the devil...
-- Ana Castillo -
Democracy is not freedom. Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to eat for lunch.
-- Andrew Napolitano -
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 -
No wonder lawyers, who control the legal system, have fought so hard, and with great success, against "no fault" insurance. No fault, no lawsuits. No lawsuits, no lunch.
-- Andrew Tobias -
I bring my bike to work, and I make laps around our parking lot on my lunch break.
-- Angela Kinsey -
Women who are devoted to causes, such as overpopulation and the underprivileged [sic], are much less interested in fashion than, let's say, those who lunch at La Grenouille and Le Cirque.
-- Ann Landers -
Forgiveness means it finally becomes unimportant that you hit back. You're done. It doesn't necessarily mean that you want to have lunch with the person. If you keep hitting back, you stay trapped in the nightmare...
-- Anne Lamott -
When you make his sandwiches, put a sexy or loving note in his lunch box.
-- Anne Rice -
For God's sake, have some self-respect and do not run off at the mouth if your brain is out to lunch.
-- Anton Chekhov -
My body is like breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I don't think about it, I just have it.
-- Arnold Schwarzenegger -
I don’t like to feel that I owe anything. I like to feel that I pay my own way, no free lunch.
-- B. B. King -
Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.
-- Baron de Montesquieu -
Everything is connected to everything else. Everything must go somewhere. Nature knows best. There is no such thing as a free lunch. If you don't put something in the ecology, it's not there.
-- Barry Commoner -
I usually like to throw on some flip flops and go to a really nice lunch in Venice, or Santa Monica, or stay in and cook dinner.
-- Ben Savage -
If the wolf had ever come to our back door, he'd have had to bring a picnic lunch.
-- Bill Anderson -
You can always tell when Obama's negotiations with the Republicans are winding down, because he's missing his watch and his lunch money.
-- Bill Maher -
Be tenacious. One thing that has allowed me to have some level of success is that I am fine with cold-calling people. It doesn't scare me to call someone who has no idea who I am and say I'd love to take you to lunch.
-- Blake Mycoskie -
All of us prepare our own lunch. If we don't like our jobs, if we don't like the state of our relationships, if we don't like what's happening to our spiritual lives - we have no one to blame but ourselves. Because God has given us free will.
-- Bo Sanchez -
I think Balanchine and Robbins talk to God and when I call, he's out to lunch.
-- Bob Fosse -
There's a counter for every hold and a hold for every counter, and a lunch counter for every person that you know Schivone.
-- Bobby Heenan -
I punched my buddy in the nose after lunch, now I'm in trouble cause the dean saw the punch.
-- Bobby Vee -
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 -
I've forgotten who I had lunch with earlier, and even more important, where.
-- Bret Easton Ellis -
Knowledge is a thing that one cannot have enough of. It is the fruit of wisdom, to be eaten carefully and digested fully, unlike that lunch you are bolting down, little friend.
-- Brian Jacques -
Mmmm! Lunch and no clean up!! Can life get better? I submit that it CANNOT!!
-- Brian Regan -
When you have something for breakfast, you're not going to be starving by lunch.
-- Bruce Barton -
The fire trucks are out, there are thousands of people in the streets. You have a choice. You can have this, or you let Negroes eat at the lunch counters.
-- Burke Marshall -
I think he likes you" Miranda Whispered. Realizing she and Derek had drawn attention, she glanced away. "He's probably just curious about me like everyone else" she whispered back. "Nope. He's hot for you" Della said, reminding Kylie of the supernatural hearing of some of the campers. "When he was sitting by you at lunch, he oozed so much testosterone that it was hard to breathe. He wants your body" Della teased. "Well, he's not getting it" Kylie said.
-- C.C. Hunter -
A new regulation for the publishing industry: "The advance for a book must be larger than the check for the lunch at which it was discussed.
-- Calvin Trillin -
I'm never going to apologize for having a lot of guy friends, and I always have. That happens, and I'm not going to live my life where I'm not going to go out and have a coffee or lunch with my guy friends.
-- Camilla Belle -
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 -
My grandmother used to cook for eight every day - sitting down lunches and dinner, the way you do it in Italy, you sit down. And when my parents could afford their own place, I went with them but still my mother used to work but used to come back from work to cook lunch for my father, come back from work, cook dinner for my father and me.
-- Carrie Ann Inaba -
I have to go out for lunch and dinner because I can't cook. I need a woman to come and save me from my cooking.
-- Carrot Top -
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 -
I get up around 6:30. I work from about 8:00 to 1:00, take a break for lunch, work again until about 5:00, and then go for a long walk and have dinner. Then, if my wife and I have no previous plans, we decide what to do for the evening.
-- Chaim Potok -
The free lunch is the essence of modern liberalism.
-- Charles Krauthammer -
The size of a challenge should never be measured by what we have to offer. It will never be enough. Furthermore, provision is God's responsibility, not ours. We are merely called to commit what we have - even if it's no more than a sack lunch.
-- Charles R. Swindoll -
In France, you're with the crew, and you have lunch with them. It's more like a family.
-- Charlotte Gainsbourg -
Really, can anyone drink several martinis at lunch?
-- Christine Baranski -
How do I put this? 'Glee' is like 'High School Musical' if 'High School Musical' had its stomach punched and its lunch money stolen.
-- Cory Monteith -
We eat breakfast, lunch, and dinner to the soundtrack of our own impending death.
-- Courtney Summers -
I grow my own vegetables and herbs. I like being able to tell people that the lunch I'm serving started out as a seed in my yard.
-- Curtis Stone -
They'll remember you if you're the best reader in class-or if you throw up at lunch.
-- Cynthia Lewis -
When women got the vote, they did not redefine voting. When African-Americans got the right to sit at a lunch counter alongside white people, they did not redefine eating out. They were simply invited to the table. That is all we want to do; we have no desire to change marriage. We want to be entitled to not only the same privileges but the same responsibilities as straight people
-- Cynthia Nixon -
If we all make systematic mistakes in our decisions, then why not develop new strategies, tools, and methods to help us make better decisions and improve our overall well-being? That's exactly the meaning of free lunches- the idea that there are tools, methods, and policies that can help all of us make better decisions and as a consequence achieve what we desire-pg. 241
-- Dan Ariely -
It's good to see you," Said Haru. "You can see me?" asked Marcus, patting himself in sudden shock."The potion must have worn off! That's the last time I give my lunch to a talking squirrel". P12
-- Dan Wells -
I've been pounding the table here for a year or so saying there's no free lunch, and there is going to be a day of reckoning for every company that thinks they are going to try and sell a free model.
-- Darl McBride -
I just lost my lunch and I didn’t even have any!
-- Darrell Waltrip -
It's impossible to make a movie out of 'Naked Lunch.' A literal translation just wouldn't work. It would cost $400 million to make and would be banned in every country of the world.
-- David Cronenberg -
See, you can't rewrite, 'cause to rewrite is to deceive and lie, and you betray your own thoughts. To rethink the flow and the rhythm, the tumbling out of the words, is a betrayal, and it's a sin, Martin, it's a sin." --Hank (Kerouac)to Martin (Ginsberg) in the film Naked Lunch
-- David Cronenberg -
Right, I breast feed baby camels in my backyard just for the freaking fun of it. Just tell me where you live, Pinocchio, and save the baloney for lunch.
-- David Sedaris -
I've done panel shows, which I enjoy, and on those you're recording half-an-hour of TV and sometimes they film for two hours. But with 'Britain's Got Talent,' you're on camera for eight hours, with a large theatre audience watching - and in between you're being filmed for ITV2 as you eat your lunch.
-- David Walliams -
Instinct told me it was dangerous. I could handle dangerous. Dangerous and me went back a long way. We did lunch when dangerous was in town.
-- Devon Monk -
Allure is a word very few people use nowadays, but it's something that exists. Allure holds you, doesn't it? Whether it's a gaze or a glance in the street or a face in the crowd or someone sitting opposite you at lunch... you are held
-- Diana Vreeland -
Every single day we sit down to eat, breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and at our table we have food that was planted, picked, or harvested by a farm worker. Why is it that the people who do the most sacred work in our nation are the most oppressed, the most exploited?
-- Dolores Huerta -
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 -
I just go to lunch. And I never know when something is going into the file and something is not.
-- Donna Leon -
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 -
"Close your mouth when you chew." That was my mother's big one.Why do people eat lunch together? I want to eat by myself. Chewing is one of the most revolting things to me. Wind makes me unnerved, too.
-- Doug Stanhope -
The History of every major Galactic Civilization tends to pass through three distinct and recognizable phases, those of Survival, Inquiry and Sophistication, otherwise known as the How, Why, and Where phases. For instance, the first phase is characterized by the question 'How can we eat?' the second by the question 'Why do we eat?' and the third by the question 'Where shall we have lunch?
-- Douglas Adams -
Havin lunch and debatin Ferrari prices. 23 and goin through a midlife crisis.
-- Drake -
The hours of the morning between breakfast and lunch were the time which the inhabitants of Riseholme chiefly devoted to spying on each other.
-- E.F. Benson -
One should never refuse an invitation to lunch or dinner, for one never knows what one may have to eat the next day.
-- Edouard de Pomiane -
There will always be ladies who lunch. Always. And apparently they live a long time.
-- Elaine Stritch -
I had been invited to speak after the lunch. But I did not go to the table until the feast ended, as I never like to eat or talk before speaking.
-- Elizabeth Cady Stanton -
When you fall asleep after a big lunch you're really just saving up energy to work off all the calories later on.
-- Elizabeth Jane Howard -
Right at the end of the war I wrote a piano sonata, which was written at a time when Sam Barber used to come down here and we used to have lunch together in a very nice old hotel that's now not there.
-- Elliott Carter -
Let this serve as an axiom to every lover: A woman who refuses lunch refuses everything.
-- Enid Bagnold -
I had lunch with a chess champion the other day. I knew he was a chess champion because it took him 20 minutes to pass the salt.
-- Eric Sykes -
When you start having lunch and actually eating, it's already over.
-- Erica Jong -
There was a policy at Hughes against drinking at lunch, but the men ignored it
-- Esther Williams -
I was completely surrounded by religion from a young time. I was taught by my father. I engaged in discussions with him and many of these scholars who visited and came around the dining table, the lunch table, and attended many lectures with my dad. And so I learned the apprentice way.
-- Feisal Abdul Rauf -
A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.
-- Francis Bacon -
The original form is the contagion of fear and alarm. You're in a flock of birds. One bird suddenly takes off. You have no time to wait and see what's going on. You take off, too. Otherwise, you're lunch.
-- Frans de Waal -
I had a cigarette for breakfast, just for beginners, Cried for my lunch, and sleep for dinner.
-- G. Dep -
Learn to work with people you wouldn't go to lunch with.
-- Garry Marshall -
I have lifestyle requirements. Photos, meetings, lunches, dinners, facial care, tooth care. It requires an exorbitant amount of money.
-- Gary Coleman -
Two full time-outs. I could eat lunch with that long.
-- Gary Danielson -
I like a cheese and pickle. Nice cheese and pickle on a real old-fashioned bread. Ploughman's lunch.
-- Gary Oldman -
Why wouldn't I dance?' Uh, maybe because at first glance he looked like he ate puppies for breakfast and kittens for lunch?
-- Gena Showalter -
Is this film more interesting than a documentary of the same actors having lunch?
-- Gene Siskel
