Quotes about lunch
A collection of quotes on the topic of lunch, going, doing, timing.
Quotes about lunch

KCRW – Man In The Moon (January 4, 1994)
From Interviews

Source: I Feel Bad about My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman

“Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what’s for lunch.”

[looks up] Really God? Really?
Aged and Confused (2009)

Diogenes Laërtius, vi. 40
Quoted by Diogenes Laërtius

Source: Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and its Consequences (1988), Chapter 5, “Statistics, Trade-Offs, and Society” (p. 147)

2013, "Let Freedom Ring" Ceremony (August 2013)

"Food Talks: Willem Dafoe, His Italian Family, Broccoli, Carciofi & Panzanella" http://www.foodiamo.com/italian-food-news/food-talks-willem-dafoe/, interview with Foodiamo (January 2018).

“Some contemptible scoundrel stole the cork from my lunch …”
You Can't Cheat an Honest Man (1940)
Source: Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith
Source: Alice in Zombieland

“Anything else?"
Haymitch rises to go. "While I was waiting… I ate your lunch.”
Variant: While I was waiting... I ate your lunch.
Source: Mockingjay
“I blend in the backgroud. when I arive for lunch my friends are surprised i'm not already there.”
Source: Finally
“Sometimes the only answer to death is lunch.”
Source: Warlock
Source: Burn for Me

“I've forgotten who I had lunch with earlier, and even more important, where.”
Source: American Psycho
Source: Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder
Republished on The Journey Home website.
The Journey Home: Autobiography of an American Swami (Tulsi Books, 2010)

"The Tale of an Unprejudiced Heart: An Interview with James Cromwell" http://www.humanesociety.org/news/magazines/2015/01-02/unprejudiced-heart-interview-with-babe-actor-james-cromwell.html by The Humane Society of the United States (17 December 2014)

“Depressions are Different”, in Robert M. Solow, ed. Economics for the Curious: Inside the Minds of 12 Nobel Laureates. 2014.

In a 1990 ad for PETA, standing beside a cow; as quoted in Have Not Been the Same: The CanRock Renaissance 1985-1995 by Michael Barclay, Ian A.D. Jack, Jason Schneider (Toronto: ECW Press, 2011 ebook edition), p. 419 https://books.google.it/books?id=UkvPAgAAQBAJ&pg=PT419.

January 30, 1948
The Kennan Diaries

Quote of Camille Pissarro, Paris, 2 April 1883, in a letter to his son Lucien; from Camille Pissarro - Letters to His Son Lucien ed. John Rewald, with assistance of Lucien Pissarro; from the unpublished French letters; transl. Lionel Abel; Pantheon Books Inc. New York, second edition, 1943, p. 26
1880's

Interview in The Vegetarians by Rynn Berry (Brookline, MA: Autumn Press, 1979), p. 30.
To Leon Goldensohn (12 February 1946). Quoted in "The Nuremberg Interviews" - by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately - History - 2004

On Fellini and Fernando Pessoa
Federico Fellini: Sou um Grande Mentiroso (2008)

Source: Margolis, Jonathan (Dec. 12, 2002). "But It Did Happen To A Vet". Time Magazine

Source: The Human Problems of an Industrial Civilisation, (1933), p. 65, chapter 3: The Hawthorne experiment Western Electric Company

Gameplay magazine

Oscar Wilde, letter to Frank Harris, June 13, 1897, in The Letters of Oscar Wilde (1962) p. 608.
Criticism

Apology to Michael Scotto (29 January 2014) http://www.politico.com/story/2014/01/michael-grimm-michael-scotto-reporter-102785.html.
2010s

Martin Landau: ‘Doubt Is Important’, Washington Times (December 25, 2016)

Source: Alistair Cooke's America (1973), p. 280

Widely attributed to Franklin on the Internet, sometimes without the second sentence. It is not found in any of his known writings, and the word "lunch" is not known to have appeared anywhere in English literature until the 1820s, decades after his death. The phrasing itself has a very modern tone and the second sentence especially might not even be as old as the internet. Some of these observations are made in response to a query at Google Answers. http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=389308
The earliest known similar statements are:
A democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.
Gary Strand, Usenet group sci.environment, 23 April 1990. http://groups.google.com/group/sci.environment/msg/057b1c6389f4776f?dmode=source
Democracy is not freedom. Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to eat for lunch. Freedom comes from the recognition of certain rights which may not be taken, not even by a 99% vote.
Marvin Simkin, "Individual Rights", Los Angeles Times, 12 January 1992. http://articles.latimes.com/1992-01-12/local/me-358_1_jail-tax-individual-rights-san-diego
Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.
James Bovard, Lost Rights: The Destruction of American Liberty (1994), ISBN 0312123337, p. 333.
Also cited as by Bovard in the Sacramento Bee (1994) http://www.giraffe.com/gr_wolves.html
Misattributed
Variant: Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote.

Welcoming decorator Billy Baldwin to the island of Skorpios; quoted in Ari (1986) by Peter Evans
"How the Little Mandate Came to Be", p. 23
Unfinished Pilgrimage (1995)

Brown : The Last Discovery of America (2003)

Alan Guth and Paul Steinhardt, The inflationary universe, edited by [Paul Davies, The New Physics, Cambridge University Press, 1992, 0-521-43831-4, 54]

The entire restaurant was at his feet. He was twenty years old now and as thin as Kafka. He was Rome. He had adopted us the way Rome adopts everyone, and we loved him.
On Fellini's final years
Federico Fellini: Sou um Grande Mentiroso (2008)

In Amrita Ghosh, "Author in Focus: An Interview with Dalrymple".
“A bad review may spoil your breakfast, but you shouldn't allow it to spoil your lunch.”
Attributed in Aren't We Due a Royalty Statement? (1993) by Giles Gordon, and The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (1999) by Elizabeth M. Knowles, p. 14

“The New Music”, opening
Great Days (1979)

Interview segment http://www.radiodiaries.org/mandela/t_movement.html on All Things Considered (NPR) broadcast (27 April 2004)
2000s

How I Write: John Banville on ‘Ancient Light,’ Nabokov, and Dublin (2012)

The Austrians Were Right, November 20, 2008 http://www.house.gov/apps/list/speech/tx14_paul/statement_11_20_08.shtml http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PIEGK0IbA4
2000s, 2006-2009

Exclusive Interview: John DiMaggio & Lawrence Shapiro https://diaboliquemagazine.com/exclusive-interview-john-dimaggio-lawrence-shapiro/ (September 6, 2013)

Frankie says... http://www.zttaat.com/article.php?title=751 at zttaat.com, Accessed May 2014.

"Muslim Bites Dog" (15 February 2006) http://www.anncoulter.com/cgi-local/printer_friendly.cgi?article=100.
2006

comment in aftermath of Hurricane Wilma (CNN's Showbiz Tonight-October 27, 2005)
2007, 2008
December “HOUSE TO HOUSE”
The Sheep Look Up (1972)

Treadmill to Oblivion http://books.google.com/books?id=8IC6ZSGPAAYC&q="A+molehill+man+is+a+pseudo+busy+executive+who+comes+to+work+at+9+am+and+finds+a+molehill+on+his+desk+He+has+until+5+pm+to+make+this+molehill+into+a+mountain+An+accomplished+molehill+man+will+often+have+his+mountain+finished+even+before+lunch"&pg=PA27#v=onepage (1954).

David Cronenberg's Body Language http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/18/magazine/18cronenberg.html?pagewanted=all (September 18, 2005)

“Take an Indian home to lunch.”
When asked how the USA should celebrate the Bicentennial, as quoted in Avant Garde magazine (March 1968)

Waiting for the Olympians (p. 257)
Platinum Pohl (2005)

Remarks to the National Restaurant Association, in Chicago, Illinois (28 May 1978)
1970s

Epilogue (p. 448)
Wagers of Sin (1996)
To Leon Goldensohn (12 February 1946). Quoted in "The Nuremberg Interviews" - by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately - History - 2004

Violating the Boundaries: An Interview with Richard Rodriguez (1999)