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Quotes About Lunch

I did the first Parker novel, in which he got caught, and the editor at Pocket Books took me to lunch and said, 'Is there any way that this guy could get away at the end, and you could do three books a year for us?' And I said, 'I think so.'
~ Donald E. Westlake
My writing partner, Nicki, and I became obsessed with a monologist who performs unscripted shows equipped with nothing more than scribbled bullet points and a glass of water. We wrote him a fan letter and found ourselves sharing lunch and eventually a friendship.
~ Emma McLaughlin
I go to Hooters for lunch every day. Then for coffee.
~ Ray Romano
I don't buy comics anymore, for the most part. I eat my lunch off of them.
~ Jim Lee
I really am at a place where I think we need to feed every child at school for free and feed them a real school lunch that's sustainable and nutritious and delicious. It needs to be part of the curriculum of the school in the same way that physical education was part of the curriculum, and all children participated.
~ Alice Waters
We have lunch at ten-forty-five," Colin said. A stupidly early lunch. At our school, the older you get, the stupider your lunch period.
~ Rebecca Stead
Tell Fritz there will be guests at lunch. What do boys of that age eat?" "They eat everything." "Tell Fritz to have that.
~ Rex Stout
She still called it dinner, although the vicar had tried to educate her for years that the working classes had their dinner at midday, but the upper classes had luncheon.
~ Rhys Bowen
Not even his most important discovery kept Fermi from going home for lunch.
~ Richard Rhodes
They ate a late lunch in the cafeteria. When she mentioned lunch, he realized with horror that he would need money, and he didn't know how to tell her that he hadn't brought any—didn't have any to bring, for that matter. But before he had time to figure anything out, she said, "Now I'm not going to have any argument about whose paying. I'm a liberated woman, Jess Aarons. When I invite a man out, I pay.
~ Katherine Paterson
When we broke for lunch, I caught up with Daniel outside the classroom. Corey and Brendan took off, saying they'd meet up with us at our table. "What's wrong?" Daniel said. "Noth--" "If those guys can tell something's wrong, then it is, Maya.
~ Kelley Armstrong
According to Cortez, the Cabals had strict policies against employing any supernatural being that might mistake them for lunch.
~ Kelley Armstrong
When I was younger I made it a rule never to take a strong drink before lunch. It is now my rule never to do so before breakfast.
~ Winston Churchill
He'd discovered the devil's yellow cake in grade school during lunch. Everyone's mother but his had packed their little Americans off to school with these cellophane-wrapped loaves of gold. All Mo ever got was an apple he'd snap into with
~ David Sosnowski
cubicle in the girls' toilets and fed the rat some of the bread she was meant to be saving for her lunch.
~ David Walliams
empty carafes of wine on their table. "We should get one of those," Sebastián said. And though it was not yet noon, Lydia agreed, and they mostly drank their lunch that day instead of eating it. She cut her eyes at him across the table and did not say the things she wanted to say, that it was asinine of him to write this stuff, that he was turning himself into a target, that she wanted no part of his righteous campaign of truth, that she hoped he was satisfied with
~ Jeanine Cummins
The group parted happily for the scheduled lunch break, planning to return at 3:00 to look at some potential Yentes and Perchiks, beginning with Bea Arthur.
~ Alisa Solomon
A naked lunch is natural to us, we eat reality sandwiches But allegories are so much lettuce. Don't hide the madness.
~ Allen Ginsberg
That's why we're going to disrupt the lunch," she (Kat) said. "You know," Angus said, "I've got a little C-four that I've been saving for a rainy--" "We're not blowing up my company, Angus," Hale said. "Righto. Carry on, Kitty.
~ Ally Carter
Private weddings are becoming something of a family tradition. My daughter Saethryd married her husband Jason at Marylebone Register Office in 2005 while my wife and I had a lunch at Pizza Express.
~ Gyles Brandreth
Then I had lunch with my cousin who works for WaterAid and she said yes, it's a catastrophe. And another catastrophe is that every day 1,400 children die from poisoned water, so now I'm an ambassador for WaterAid.
~ Sofia Helin
Growing up poor, I didn't even have a lunch to take to school. Lunch was 26 cents, and we didn't even know what 26 cents looked like. I didn't love school because I wanted to disguise that I was poorer than everybody else.
~ George Foreman
Working at the hospital, there was a lot of starchy food. I was in good with the lunch lady, so she would hook me up with all kinds of macaroni and cheese and potatoes and that kind of food. I would eat it all night to the part where I hated food. I got pretty big.
~ Rashad Evans
When I'm home, I've got the kind of time that other dads who live there full time don't have. I can go and have lunch with my kids at school and that sort of thing.
~ Thomas Gibson