Lunch Quotes - Page 29

• 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

  Fashion, Causes, Philanthropy

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• 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

  Mother, Father, Eight

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• 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

  War, Nice, Piano

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• I am someone who tweets about what I have for breakfast, what I have for lunch, what I have for dinner, and for 99.99999 percent of the world, it's useless. It's meaningless. But for my mother, she loves it.

  Jack Dorsey

  Mother, Useless, World

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• The first complaint we hear from everyone is: 'Why would I want to join this stupid useless thing and know what my brother's eating for lunch?' But that really misses the point because Twitter is fundamentally recipient-controlled - you choose to listen and you choose to leave. But you also choose what to put down and what to share.

  Jack Dorsey

  Brother, Stupid, Useless Things

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• I don't know when the cult of conspicuous busyness began, but it has swept up almost all the upwardly mobile, professional women I know. Already, it is getting hard to recall the days when, for example, 'Let's have lunch' meant something other than 'I've got more important things to do than talk to you right now.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Important, Example, Cult

  Barbara Ehrenreich (1990). “WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES”, Pantheon

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• 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

  Tables, Speak, Invited

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Harriot (Stanton). Blatch (Mrs) (1922). “Elizabeth Cady Stanton as revealed in her letters, diary and reminiscences”

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• As a general rule, fans and idols should always be kept at arm's length, the length of the arm to be proportionate to the degree of sheer idolatry involved. Don't take a Beatle to lunch. Don't wait up to see if the Easter Bunny is real. Just enjoy the egg hunt.

  Shana Alexander

  Easter, Real, Idols

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• it came to me, as we sat there, glumly ordering lunch, that for extremely stupid people anti-Semitism was a form of intellectuality, the sole form of intellectuality of which they were capable. It represented, in a rudimentary way, the ability to make categories, to generalize.

  Mary McCarthy

  Stupid, People, Way

  Mary McCarthy (1961). “On the contrary”, Farrar, Straus and Cudahy

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• I really felt sometimes like I was physically pulling the plot, and it was heavy. I'm sure it didn't look great that I was going into my dressing room at lunch.

  Shelley Long

  Plot, Looks, Rooms

  Source: www.gq.com

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• If you let anything infringe on your writing time, it will. And you won't get the writing done. Taking one day off can cost me five days of getting back in the mood. Going out to lunch can cost me anywhere from five hours to three days. And for me it's not worth it. For my own sense of well-being I have to finish my work before I can play.

  Danielle Steel

  Writing, Play, One Day

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• Golf is the cruelest game, because eventually it will drag you out in front of the whole school, take your lunch money and slap you around.

  Rick Reilly

  School, Golf, Games

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• 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

  Vegetables, People, Yards

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• Curiosity’s primal. Our senses scan our surroundings, alerting us most urgently about sudden change. Useful, that. Change can mean opportunity. It can mean danger. Finding lunch or being lunch. We’re hard-wired to notice the unexpected, then take action.

  Julie Czerneda

  Mean, Opportunity, Curiosity

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• If I want to eat lunch, I can't go out at noon and head over to Chick-fil-A or Mac's restaurant and not get stopped.

  Deshaun Watson

  Noon, Want, Chicks

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• I usually have my protein at lunch and my carbs at night - I don't mix protein and carbs.

  Jenny McCarthy

  Night, Carbs, Protein

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• Move to Italy. I mean it: they know about living in debt; they don't care. I stayed out there for five months while I was making a film called 'Order Of Death,' and they've really got it sussed. Nice cars. Sharp suits. Great food. Stroll into work at 10. Lunch from 12 till three. Leave work at five. That's living!

  John Lydon

  Nice, Moving, Mean

  "Sex Pistols, 'posh boys' Cameron and Clegg, and those butter ads" by Michael Odell, www.theguardian.com. July 16, 2010.

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• Our economic competitors ... are eating us for lunch, and we can get in the game or not. We can be at the table, or we can be on the table.

  Jennifer Granholm

  Motivation, Inspiration, Games

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• Mostly though, they waited. For the mail. For the news. For the bells. For breakfast and lunch and dinner. For one day to be over and the next day to begin.

  Julie Otsuka

  Next Day, One Day, News

  Julie Otsuka (2007). “When the Emperor Was Divine”, p.54, Anchor

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• Democracy is not freedom. Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to eat for lunch.

  Unknown

  Freedom, Two, Voting

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• Don't think of Diana Vreeland's memoir as a book; it's more like a lunch. A bit of souffle, a glass of champagne, some green grapes - light, bubbly and slightly tart - all served up by an egocentric but inventive hostess.

  Cathleen McGuigan

  Book, Thinking, Glasses

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• Lee Marvin was there at the same time, and I knew obviously it was his movie [Emperor Of The North], and Ernie Borgnine was playing the other part in the movie.I met Marvin there at wardrobe, and he said, "What are you doing for lunch?" I said, "Nothing." He said, "C'mon with me!" And he took me to the commissary. I walked into the commissary with Lee Marvin at 20th Century Fox, and he introduced me to people. He said, "This's Keith Carradine. We're doin' this movie together." He was so cool. I mean, my God.

  Keith Carradine

  Mean, People, Together

  "Keith Carradine on Deadwood, Fargo, and Madonna". Interview with Will Harris, www.avclub.com. July 20, 2016.

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• I didn't used to care about living a long time. Not that I wasn't enjoying life, but I never sat around asking how I'd get to be 100, you know. But now I want to live long enough to see every school child in the world getting a good, nutritious lunch every day.

  George McGovern

  Children, School, Long

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• I will never tire from repeating my commitment to ensuring that every Brazilian can have breakfast, lunch and supper every day.

  Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

  Commitment, Breakfast, Hunger

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• Some days you tame the tiger, and some days the tiger has you for lunch.

  Tug McGraw

  Motivational, Sports, Baseball

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