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Quotes About Lunch

His mother is calling him on the ultrasonic frequency reserved by the government for Jewish mothers in the event of lunch.
~ Michael Chabon
Lunch? You gotta be kidding. Lunch is for wimps.
~ Michael Douglas
Life becomes easier. Life becomes a dream. You begin to take a little longer lunch: thirty minutes instead of fifteen. You leave a little earlier at the end of the day: eight o'clock instead of nine. Harry comes to you occasionally to tell you what he needs, and you, busy as usual, simply tell him to handle it. How doesn't matter as long as he doesn't bother you with the details. You've got other fish to fry.
~ Michael E. Gerber
People love talking about their jobs. Take them out, buy them lunch or take them for a beer and they'll talk about their job, provided they know that you're going to respect their anonymity.
~ Irvine Welsh
It was a warm September day, and Ramona, neat and clean, with lunch bag in hand, half skipped, half hopped, scrunching through the dry leaves on the sidewalk.
~ Beverly Cleary
a fad started by Yard Ape, who sometimes brought his lunch.
~ Beveryly Cleary
I have eaten good food in unprepossessing locales, but I doubt the disparity between the crude, shabby atmosphere of that nameless cement-block dispensary of protein and redemption and the quality of the lunch laid on by the butcher of Zegota will ever be matched.
~ Bill Bryson
They were most peculiar. And they eat pizza pie." "For breakfast?" "No, for lunch and dinner. But it's not a pie at all, it's a kind of bread with tomato sauce and cheese on it." "Sounds dreadful.
~ Bill Bryson
New Rule: Someone has to make a mustard container that doesn't squirt out yellow water before it gets to the actual mustard. I get all excited for lunch, and then Grey Poupon pees on my sandwich. I suppose I could shake the bottle first, but fuck you, I'm an American consumer. Not only should your mustard be pre-blended to my specifications, it should also whiten my teeth.
~ Bill Maher
I feel like the secretary to the morning whose only/ responsibility is to take down its bright, airy dictation/ until it's time to go to lunch with the other girls,/ all of us ordering the cottage cheese with half a pear.
~ Billy Collins
From her first day with us, Kandy took lunch at the counter in Cuddy's.  They claim to serve "homestyle!" food there and, if you grew up in a cold war bunker, it might come pretty close because at Cuddy's they open an awful lot of cans.
~ T.R. Pearson
Osman and Prideep had been in my employment for some weeks. Every Friday I would take the to lunch. It was the high point of their calender. During the meal I would harangue them as a reminder of what they had been hired for: but my orations never seemed to increase their output. I realised later that, in the East, a commitment to produce does not automatically accompany employment.
~ Tahir Shah
My meeting with my alimentatore was at noon
~ Julie Kenner
Their conversations were almost all domestic now – about Zola, mostly; but also grocery shopping, home improvements, summer holiday plans, whether it was time to invite some or other combination of their families over for lunch.
~ Kamila Shamsie
If you stop for lunch elsewhere in the world, you tend to eat a sandwich, and a bad one. Italy is unique for the style of life. I think everyone envies it a bit.
~ Lapo Elkann
A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.
~ Francis Bacon
A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.
~ Francis Bacon
Lunch should be the largest meal—packed with protein, good fats, and vegetables—because
~ Frank Lipman
an invitation to lunch HOW DO YOU LIKE THAT? when I only have 16 cents and 2 packages of yoghurt there's a lesson in that, isn't there like in Chinese poetry when a leaf falls? hold off on the yoghurt till the very last, when everything may improve
~ Frank O'Hara
The late Lynn White, a distinguished historian of science, understood just what scientists mean by truth: "It is not a citadel of certainty to be defended against error; it is a shady spot where one eats lunch before tramping on."11
~ Franklin M. Harold
Kendra thought for a moment. "What dessert did you hate in your school lunch last year?" "Cherry cobbler," he said weakly. "What was your favorite shadow puppet Dad used to make?" "Chicken," he said. "It's him," Kendra said confidently.
~ Brandon Mull
Proper loafing requires company. One man lying about is being idle; two men lying about is a lunch break.
~ Brandon Sanderson
In third grade, I played basketball with the boys every day at lunch. I had braces that were yellow and purple, and I wore full Laker uniforms to school.
~ Gigi Hadid
In the morning, I always eat fruit and yogurt with cereal. And for lunch and dinner, I always have vegetables as a side.
~ Vittoria Ceretti