Breakfast Quotes - Page 5

• We had our breakfasts--whatever happens in a house, robbery or murder, it doesn't matter, you must have your breakfast.

  Wilkie Collins

  House, Matter, Murder

  Wilkie Collins (2007). “The Moonstone”, p.124, 1st World Publishing

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• I enjoy having breakfast in bed. I like waking up to the smell of bacon, sue me. And since I don't have a butler, I have to do it myself. So, most nights before I go to bed, I will lay six strips of bacon out on my George Foreman grill. Then I go to sleep. When I wake up, I plug in the grill. I go back to sleep again. Then I wake up to the smell of crackling bacon. It is delicious, it's good for me, it's the perfect way to start the day.

  Steve Carell

  Sleep, Night, Smell

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• Religion is not about accepting twenty impossible propositions before breakfast, but about doing things that change you. It is a moral aesthetic, an ethical alchemy. If you behave in a certain way, you will be transformed. The myths and laws of religion are not true because they they conform to some metaphysical, scientific or historical reality but because they are life enhancing. They tell you how human nature functions, but you will not discover their truth unless you apply these myths and doctrines to your own life and put them into practice.

  Karen Armstrong

  Life, Change, Truth

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• What the dead don't know piles up, though we don't notice it at first. They don't know how we're getting along without them, of course, dealing with the hours and days that now accrue so quickly, and, unless they divined this somehow in advance, they don't know that we don't want this inexorable onslaught of breakfasts and phone calls and going to the bank, all this stepping along, because we don't want anything extraneous to get in the way of what we feel about them or the ways we want to hold them in mind.

  Roger Angell

  Phones, Mind, Want

  "Over the Wall" by Roger Angell, www.newyorker.com. November 19, 2012.

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• Listen, three eyes," he said, "don't you try to outweird me, I get stranger things than you free with my breakfast cereal.

  Douglas Adams

  Eye, Cereal, Trying

  Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five”, p.184, Pan Macmillan

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• A pretty face had been damaged by acne scars and she wore and extra forty pounds on her frame like a threat. Her eyes were dull with anger disguised as apathy. If she kept on her current path, she'd grow into the type of person who fed her kids Doritos for breakfast and purchased angry bumper stickers with lots of exclamation points. But right now, she was just another in a long line of pissed-off small-town girls with a shitty outlook.

  Dennis Lehane

  Girl, Kids, Eye

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• If it's not chocolate, it's not breakfast.

  Laini Taylor

  Chocolate, Ifs

  Laini Taylor (2011). “Daughter of Smoke and Bone: Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy”, p.114, Hachette UK

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• It's like being on Death Row in an American jail. You are waiting for the door handle to turn, not knowing whether it's a reprieve or just your final breakfast before being executed.

  Howard Wilkinson

  Doors, Knowing, Jail

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• And on Thursday, President Obama seized the opportunity of the National Prayer Breakfast to forthrightly criticize the 'terrible deeds' . . . committed 'in the name of Christ.'.

  Jonah Goldberg

  Prayer, Opportunity, Names

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• Chiron probably wanted me to say, Heck it wa nothing. I eat hellhounds for breakfast. But I didn't feel like lying.

  Rick Riordan

  Lying, Hellhounds, Feels

  Rick Riordan (2006). “The lightning thief”

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• Real mothers don't just listen with humble embarrassment to the elderly lady who offers unsolicited advice in the checkout line when a child is throwing a tantrum. We take the child, dump him in the lady's cart, and say, "Great. Maybe you can do a better job." Real mothers know that it's okay to eat cold pizza for breakfast. Real mothers admit it is easier to fail at this job than to succeed.

  Jodi Picoult

  Mother, Jobs, Children

  Jodi Picoult (2010). “House Rules: A Novel”, p.178, Simon and Schuster

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• What I don't like is breakfast in the morning. I have a double-espresso cappuccino, but no food.

  Wolfgang Puck

  Morning, Espresso, Cappuccino

  "Q&A: Wolfgang Puck, Now of Top Chef". Interview with Eric Vilas-Boas, www.esquire.com. November 29, 2012.

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• All he said was, "Here, have your dinfast. Then we can start packing." "Dinfast," Nick repeated. "Dinner and breakfast!" Alan said triumphantly. "Like brunch." Nick subjected him to a long, judgemental stare. "There's something very wrong with you," he said at last. "I thought you should know.

  Sarah Rees Brennan

  Long, Judgemental, Brunch

  Sarah Rees Brennan (2010). “The Demon's Lexicon”, p.41, Simon and Schuster

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• And now South Africa has finally woken up and it is doing great things. And if South Africa becomes the template to what AIDS is in the sub-Saharan continent, then all the other countries are going to follow suit. And Michel Sidibe, who spoke at the breakfast meeting this morning, was saying that there is so much hope for Africa now that South Africa has got its house in order.

  Elton John

  Country, Morning, Order

  "Elton John on AIDS: Compassion is Part of the Cure". Interview with Gwen Ifill, www.pbs.org. July 24, 2012.

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• My eating is pretty consistent. I like Greek yogurt for breakfast. I eat two giant salads a day, a broiled meat or fish, and a dark green vegetable at every meal.

  Veronica Webb

  Dark, Two, Greek Yogurt

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• For me, having greek yogurt and some granola is the perfect start-up breakfast because it has many benefits. Its filling, healthy and gives me energy to start my day.

  Shantel VanSanten

  Greek Yogurt, Giving, Perfect

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The perfect breakfast is fish with grits and scrambled eggs with onions. I'm getting hungry thinking about that.

  Daymond John

  Thinking, Eggs, Perfect

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• If I'm playing in the morning, I'll get some carbs early: porridge with chopped banana. If I'm playing in the afternoon, I'll start with less carbs and have some eggs and fruit for breakfast, then a light lunch about 90 minutes before I play, so I don't feel sluggish or full.

  Rory McIlroy

  Morning, Light, Play

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• The Royal Family are not like you and me. They live in houses so big that you can walk round all day and never need to meet your spouse. The Queen and Prince Philip have never shared a bedroom in their lives. They don't even have breakfast together.

  A. N. Wilson

  Family, Queens, House

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• If I look at the fighters that are coming through, fighters like Carl Froch for instance, do I worry about fighters like that? Course not, I could eat them for breakfast.

  Joe Calzaghe

  Motivation, Worry, Looks

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• For my parents it was all about getting a deal, my dad came to America and he heard of this concept of brunch. He didn't quite know what it was. And he thought it was this other meal that existed between breakfast and lunch. He was kind of like - I remember he sort of was like America has so much food that between breakfast and lunch they have to stop and eat again. They have brunch. It was completely legal it was, like, a legal meal that you could have. I mean, clearly it wasn't the only reason he came to America, but I think it certainly sweetened the pot for him.

  Aasif Mandvi

  Dad, Mean, Thinking

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• I used to be a pre-industrial writer: thousands of words in a spurt and then a few days off. But as I get older, I've switched to a mode best described as 'slow and steady wins the race.' Basically, I write during the same four hours every day, after breakfast and the all-important coffee, generally in the same room and wearing the same pajamas.

  Scott Westerfeld

  Coffee, Writing, Winning

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• By now you know: I come from another planet. But I will never say to you, "Take me to your leaders." Even I--unused to your ways though I am--would never make that mistake. We ourselves have such beings among us, made of cogs, pieces of paper, small disks of shiny metal, scraps of coloured cloth. I do not need to encounter more of them. Instead I will say, "Take me to your trees. Take me to your breakfasts, your sunsets, your bad dreams, your shoes, your nouns. Take me to your fingers; take me to your deaths." These are worth it. These are what I have come for.

  Margaret Atwood

  Dream, Mistake, Sunset

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• That's a valiant flea that dares eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.

  William Shakespeare

  Courage, Lions, Fleas

  William Shakespeare, J. M. Jephson (1866). “The Works of William Shakespeare”, p.454

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• The land of embarrassment and breakfast.

  Julian Barnes

  Land, Embarrassment, Breakfast Being Important

  Flaubert's Parrot (1984) ch. 7

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