Picnics Quotes - Page 3

• It's not fair to compare one artist to another because they all come with their own sort of elements to the picnic, you know.

  Annie Lennox

  Artist, Elements, Compare

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• They remember when their parents went out there, had picnics on the Beck's Mill grounds. It was the nostalgia of it.

  Larry Nelson

  Parent, Nostalgia, Remember

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• Night was spreading slowly around the spinning Earth. It should have been full of pinpricks of light. It was not. There were five billion people down there. What was going to happen soon would make barbarism look like a picnic - hot, nasty, and eventually given over to the ants.

  Neil Gaiman

  Night, Light, Should Have

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• If the wolf had ever come to our back door, he'd have had to bring a picnic lunch.

  Bill Anderson

  Doors, Lunch, Participation

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• Some parents were nervous about how they would portray everything, ... At a picnic the moms put on for the team and coaches, I said that all the reality shows are turning around and showing good things, not bad things.

  Dick Butkus

  Mom, Team, Reality

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• Once abroad, I eat one meal a day picnic-style: Ive learned that no mature stomach can tolerate an endless routine of rich restaurant meals.

  Arthur Frommer

  Style, Meals, Routine

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• The artist one day falls through a hole in the brambles, and from that moment he is following the dark rapids of an underground river which may sometimes flow so near to the surface that the laughing picnic parties are heard above.

  Cyril Connolly

  Art, Fall, Dark

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• I could see the road ahead of me. I was poor and I was going to stay poor. But I didn't particularly want money. I didn't know what I wanted. Yes, I did. I wanted someplace to hide out, someplace where one didn't have to do anything. The thought of being something didn't only appall me, it sickened me . . . To do things, to be part of family picnics, Christmas, the 4th of July, Labor Day, Mother's Day . . . was a man born just to endure those things and then die? I would rather be a dishwasher, return alone to a tiny room and drink myself to sleep.

  Charles Bukowski

  Mother, 4th Of July, Sleep

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• As a diabetic, I'm a walking picnic. I have to eat measured amounts of food at certain times.

  Elaine Stritch

  Certain, Walking, Amount

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• The act of writing itself isn't outrageous. And the institution subtly and insidiously works on you in such a way that though you seem to have freedom you become a servant. Your main issue is to get promoted to the next thing. Or get invited to a picnic. Or get tenure. Or get laid.

  Gerald Stern

  Writing, Issues, Way

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Anyone who thinks that the climbing of Denali is a picnic is badly mistaken.

  Hudson Stuck

  Thinking, Climbing, Mistaken

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• One by one, the others all nodded their heads again, as if we were talking about having a spring picnic instead of going up against the deadliest woman in Ashland and all of her men.

  Jennifer Estep

  Spring, Men, Talking

  Jennifer Estep (2011). “Spider's Revenge”, p.275, Simon and Schuster

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• Go on daddy-daughter dates and father-and-sons' outings with your children. As a family, go on campouts and picnics, to ball games and recitals, to school programs, and so forth. Having Dad there makes all the difference.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Daughter, Dad, Children

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• 1994 was the nadir for heavy metal, although the rest of the '90s weren't much of a picnic either.

  Martin Popoff

  Nadir, Heavy Metal, Metals

  Source: archive.alternativenation.net

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• Cricket needs brightening up a bit. My solution is to let the players drink at the beginning of the game, not after. It always works in our picnic matches.

  Paul Hogan

  Player, Games, Idaho

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Playing an unamplified electric guitar is like strumming on a picnic table.

  Dave Barry

  Guitar, Tables, Electric

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry's Greatest Hits”, p.12, Ballantine Books

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• Nature never quite goes along with us. She is somber at weddings, sunny at funerals, and she frowns on ninety-nine out of a hundred picnics.

  Alexander Smith

  Nature, Ninety Nine, Funeral

  Alexander Smith (2012). “Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.102, tredition

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• I hope you accidentally drink leukemia at a picnic.

  Jim Norton

  Funny, Humor, Drink

  "How To Be A Comedian" by James Altucher, www.businessinsider.com. July 24, 2011.

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• The sight of one old man kneeling on all fours in front of me assembling a picnic table was enough to put all thoughts of lunch out of my head, possibly for life.

  Michael Simkins

  Men, Sight, Lunch

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• The pop artists did images that anybody walking down Broadway could recognize in a split second — comics, picnic tables, men’s trousers, celebrities, shower curtains, refrigerators, Coke bottles. All the great modern things that the Abstract Expressionists tried not to notice at all.

  Andy Warhol

  Artist, Men, Bottles

  Quoted in Andy Warhol and Pat Hackett POPism: The Warhol '60s (1980).

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• The notion that somehow or another they'll (Iran) put it in a picnic basket and hand it to some terrorist group is merely an argument that may be convincing to some people who don't know anything about nuclear weapons. I don't find that argument very credible, I'm not sure that people who make it even believe in it. But it's a good argument to make if you have no other argument to make. The fact of the matter is, Iran has been around for 3000 years, and that is not a symptom of a suicidal instinct.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Lying, Believe, Suicidal

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• Find yourself a cup of tea; the teapot is behind you. Now tell me about hundreds of things. Saki Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors.

  Alice Walker

  Finding Yourself, Tea, Cups

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• Let’s suppose that rain washes out a picnic. Who is feeling negative? The rain? Or you? What’s causing the negative feeling? The rain or your reaction? When you bump your knee against a table, the table’s fine. It’s busy being what it was made to be – a table. The pain is in your knee, not in the table. The mystics keep trying to tell us that reality is all right. Reality is not problematic. Problems exist only in the human mind. We might add: in the stupid, sleeping human mind.

  Anthony de Mello

  Pain, Stupid, Rain

  Anthony De Mello (2011). “Awareness: Conversations with the Masters”, p.80, Image

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• To the engineer, all matter in the universe can be placed into one of two categories: (1) things that need to be fixed, and (2) things that will need to be fixed after you've had a few minutes to play with them. Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.

  Tom Stoppard

  Art, Play, Skills

  Artist Descending a Staircase (1972)

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• [The answer to that, warns Saddam's eldest son, is no.] If they come, ... Sept. 11, which they are crying over and see as a big thing, will be a real picnic for them, Godwilling.

  Uday Hussein

  God, Real, Son

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