Cafeteria Quotes - Page 3

• Good question. (Acheron) I have a better one. How are we going to clean up this mess? (Kyrian) Nah, mine’s even better. How do you hide a chainsaw in your locker at school? I’m thinking they’re not going to stop, and while the school has a strict no-weapons policy, I don’t think the plastic sporks in the cafeteria are going to do much to combat them. I need protection, man. Serious protection. (Nick)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  School, Men, Thinking

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• I was a very extrovert kid. It felt normal to me to act. I always went to regular schools. I've never been catty or a prima donna, so I never had problems. I always had my seat at the cafeteria when I came back from acting.

  Kirsten Dunst

  School, Kids, Acting

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• He had a note excusing him from PE for the rest of his life because he had some kind of muscular disease in his legs. He walked funny, like every step hurt him, but don't let that fool you. You should've seen him run when it was enchilada day in the cafeteria.

  Rick Riordan

  Running, Hurt, Legs

  Rick Riordan (2006). “The lightning thief”

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• I watch some kids ask the cafeteria ladies to sign their books. What do they write: "Hope your chicken patties never bleed?" Or, maybe, "May your Jell-O always wiggle?

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Book, Writing, Kids

  Laurie Halse Anderson (1999). “Speak”, Puffin

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• It's a really crappy feeling to realize that your entire outook on your life can be controlled by some little pill that looks like a Pez, and that some weird combination of drugs can make your brain think it's on a holiday somewhere really sweet when you're standing naked in the middle of the school cafeteria while everyone takes pictures of you. Metaphorically. Or whatever.

  Michael Thomas Ford

  Sweet, School, Holiday

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• I get that rush that comes when you know you're doing something wrong and are getting away with it, like stealing from the school cafeteria of getting tipsy at a family holiday without anyone knowing it.

  Lauren Oliver

  School, Holiday, Knowing

  Lauren Oliver (2010). “Before I Fall”, p.30, Harper Collins

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• I just thought of a great theory that explains everything. When I went to that party, I was abducted by aliens. They have created a fake Earth and fake high school to study me and my reactions. This certainly explains cafeteria food.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Party, School, Fake

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). “Speak”, p.42, Macmillan

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• Parents have a right to expect that their efforts at home won't be undone each day in the school cafeteria or in the vending machine in the hallway. ...Parents have a right to expect that their kids will be served fresh, healthy food that meets high nutritional standards.

  Michelle Obama

  Children, School, Kids

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• Bell Labs Cafeteria, New York, 1943: His high pitched voice already stood out above the general murmur of well-behaved junior executives grooming themselves for promotion within the Bell corporation. Then he was suddenly heard to say: "No, I'm not interested in developing a powerful brain. All I'm after is just a mediocre brain, something like the President of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company."

  Alan Turing

  New York, Powerful, Voice

  "Alan Turing: The Enigma". Book by Andrew Hodges, p. 251, 1983.

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• It was how wars really ended, Dieffenbaker supposed -- not at truce tables but in cancer wards and office cafeterias and traffic jams. Wars died one tiny piece at a time, each piece something that fell like a memory, each lost like an echo that fades in winding hills. In the end even war ran up the white flag. Or so he hoped. He hoped that in the end even war surrendered.

  Stephen King

  Memories, War, Cancer

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• Normal people have an incredible lack of empathy. They have good emotional empathy, but they don't have much empathy for the autistic kid who is screaming at the baseball game because he can't stand the sensory overload. Or the autistic kid having a meltdown in the school cafeteria because there's too much stimulation.

  Temple Grandin

  Baseball, Children, School

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• Christianity is not a cafeteria line where you say, “I’ll have a little salvation, but no Lordship right now.

  Adrian Rogers

  Lines, Littles, Christianity

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