Lunch Break Quotes

• Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.

  Orson Welles

  Country, Food, Cooking

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• What contemptible scoundrel has stolen the cork to my lunch?

  W. Clement Stone

  Funny, Witty, Humorous

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• There's no such thing as a free lunch.

  Milton Friedman

  Economics, Ecological Crisis, Ecology

  1973 Lecture. The phrase is thought to have been coined anonymously, perhaps referring to the 19c US tradition of supplying food in bars to patrons buying drinks.

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• A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.

  Francis Bacon

  Cooking Dinner, Breakfast, Life Is

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• Things break all the time. Glass and dishes and fingernails. Cars and contracts and potato chips. You can break a record, a horse, a dollar. You can break the ice. There are coffee breaks and lunch breaks and prison breaks. Day breaks, waves break, voices break. Chains can be broken. So can silence, and fever... promises break. Hearts break.

  Jodi Picoult

  Horse, Coffee, Heart

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.1, Simon and Schuster

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• This is official today. China has surpassed the U.S. and now has the No. 1 economy in the world. After hearing this, China's children asked, 'So now can we take a lunch break?'

  Conan O'Brien

  Children, World, Today

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• I bring my bike to work, and I make laps around our parking lot on my lunch break.

  Angela Kinsey

  Lunch, Lap, Break

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• It's very different - the European way of working and the American way of working. There are two sides for each of them. In Italy, or France, we take it very slow. For example, we would have a lunch break of an hour or more. Just sitting down at the table, chitchatting. In America, it's like, "Grab your sandwich, we're ready to shoot in 10 minutes." But at the same time, everything works so much better in America. It's more efficient, so it's easier to bring the results home faster.

  Bianca Balti

  Home, Two Sides, America

  Source: www.sheknows.com

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• I was very quiet until I got at the piano, and weekends, lunch breaks, after school, before school, I was just making music.

  Emeli Sande

  School, Weekend, Piano

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I definitely think we should not serve alcoholic beverages at the lunch break.

  McLean Stevenson

  Thinking, Beverages, Should

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• I worked the AV counter at the Roland Heights public library in the '80s. My best story from the library was the time a couple asked for a recommendation, and I recommended Raising Arizona and they absolutely hated it. They came back hungry for blood. I was on my lunch break and my boss came out and said, "Hey kid, you need to come talk to these people. They totally hate Arizona." And he said, "Arizona's a dog; nobody gets that movie."

  John Darnielle

  Dog, Couple, Hate

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• Singer and actress Gertrude Lawrence once overheard an assistant describing the beauty of a coat she knew she could never even dream of affording. Having ascertained the exact shop, coat and price, Ms. Lawrence returned from her lunch break wearing that coat, apparently in order to flaunt and emphasize her greater purchasing power and, by inference, her superior status.

  Sheridan Morley

  Dream, Order, Class

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• Booyah, I will summon the ninja. Oh, and take a lunch break while we burgle." "You're going, too?" "Am I not ninja enough? Are you saying that I lack ninja?" "No, I was just thinking you're a little, uh, recognizable, maybe?" Eve batted her thick eyelashes. "Why, thank you, sweetie. That's the nicest insult I've had today, not counting the jock who said he'd date me but he had a restraining order out for necrophelia.

  Rachel Caine

  Thinking, Eyelashes, Order

  Rachel Caine (2011). “Bite Club”, p.19, Allison & Busby

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• Okay," Claire finally said. "I admit, he has significant ninja qualities." "Booyah. I will summon the ninja. Oh, and take a lunch break while we burgle." "You’re going too?" "Am I not ninja enough? Are you saying that I lack ninja?

  Rachel Caine

  Eyelashes, Quality, Ninja

  Rachel Caine (2011). “Bite Club”, p.19, Allison & Busby

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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, Feet, People

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• Like a lot of inwardly drawn young people, I spent a lot of time in libraries. At my high school, I often spent my lunch breaks there.

  Henry Rollins

  School, People, Library

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