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Quotes About Lunch

I go to a restaurant with a group of women and pray that we can order lunch without falling into the semi-covert business of collective monitoring, in which levels of intake and restraint are aired, compared, noticed: 'What are you getting? Is that all you're having? A salad? Oh, please.'
~ Caroline Knapp
It's my own personal hang-up, but I find adults who are picky eaters to be the worst. I don't mean food allergies or preferences: I mean picky eaters. We all know one, and they're impossible to go to lunch with or invite over for a dinner party.
~ Rumaan Alam
School lunch should be made fresh on the premises every day. Our children deserve that respect.
~ Laurie David
I'm constantly preparing. Material hits me; I'm always writing. I go back and listen to my shows and just prepare and put my set together. But the day of, I like to have some downtime. A nice lunch is important for me.
~ Wanda Sykes
You are about to have your first experience with a Greek lunch. I will kill you if you pretend to like it.
~ Jackie Kennedy
I want every child in America to eat a nutritious, delicious, sustainably sourced school lunch for free.
~ Alice Waters
My mom used to make delicious aloo ke parathe, and would give me two for school lunch.
~ Varun Sharma
When the only thing you look forward to in life is lunch, you know you have had your just desserts, and it is time to call it a day.
~ Katie Hopkins
During recess at school, I'd slip back into the classroom and find something in some other kid's lunch bag that wouldn't be missed - a package of crackers, an apple - and I'd gulp it down so quickly I would barely be able to taste it.
~ Jeannette Walls
I remember once Robert Taylor invited me to lunch. I asked him, 'What is your ambition?' He said, 'I want to have 10 very good suits.'
~ Luise Rainer
One key to success is to have lunch at the time of day most people have breakfast.
~ Robert Brault
I break open a lunch of Swiss cheese, pepperoni and crackers. I cut up the cheese and then the pepperoni in careful, neat slices. The silence allows you to do each thing right.
~ Robert M. Pirsig
Alistair scooped my legs up and walked us both onto the bed with his knees. When we were near the center of the bed, he laid me down and stayed on his knees, looking at me, towering over me. But I'd worked alongside Uther for three years. Six feet was nothing when you'd been having lunch with thirteen. I
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
I watch some kids ask the cafeteria ladies to sign their books. What do they write: Hope your chicken patties never bleed? Or, maybe, May your Jell-O always wiggle?
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
Nothing good ever happens at lunch. The cafeteria is a giant sound stage where they film daily segments of Teenage Humiliation Rituals. And it smells gross.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
My lunch consisted of a glass of wine (which the waiter solemnly called "grape juice")
~ Laurie R. King
Breakfast was always a slab of cold black toast and a cup of thick black coffee. Lunch and dinner were always the same—a tin plate piled with a suspicious pilaff, mostly rice with occasional bits of lamb and shreds of vegetable matter of indeterminate origin.
~ Lawrence Block
It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words like What about lunch?
~ A. A. Milne
A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.
~ Francis Bacon
Then I wondered if it would look weird if I wrapped up a few hot dogs to take with me for later.
~ Jenny Han
You're just so mysterious. I hardly know a things about you. The things I know are so unsubstantial, so unsatisfying, like that you eat a chicken sandwich every day at lunch, and you're on the golf team. I guess the one remotely real thing I know about you is you're a good writer, which must mean you have deep reserves of emotion.
~ Jenny Han
You're just so mysterious. I hardly know a thing about you. The things I know are so unsubstantial, so unsatisfying, like that you eat a chicken sandwich every day at lunch, and you're on the golf team. I guess the one remotely real thing I know about you is you're a good writer, which must mean you have deep reserves of emotion.
~ Jenny Han
Oh, don't go to hell," I said. "Stick around. We're just starting lunch.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Oh, go to hell. He stood up from the table his face white, and stood there white and angry behind the little plates of hors d' Å"uvres. Sit down, I said. Don't be a fool. You've got to take that back. Oh, cut out the prep-school stuff. Take it back. Sure. Anything. I never heard of Brett Ashley. How's that? No. Not that. About me going to hell. Oh, don't go to hell, I said. Stick around. We're just starting lunch.
~ Ernest Hemingway