Top 415 Lunch Quotes

I did a play in New York at the public theater, a Shakespeare play, and M. Night Shyamalan, who is the writer/director of ‘The Village,’ came and saw me in the play and asked to go to lunch afterwards.
Bryce Dallas Howard
Make dinner with the goal of stretching it out for lunch in the back of your mind. Making more of one thing is cheaper than buying more varied ingredients for each meal.
Alex Guarnaschelli
Lunch is formal – that’s when my husband and I have our dates. And dinner is formal: we sit down every day with the kids at seven o’ clock.
Debi Mazar
I had cottage cheese for lunch and a glass of wine when I got home tonight.
Sally Quinn
A lunch date is more fun than a dinner date; you’re not tired. It’s a secret that not a lot of other parents told me about.
Jessica Capshaw
I go eat a sandwich for lunch and have a milk shake and miss going to the gym for 10 days, and somebody snaps a picture of me on the beach, and all of a sudden, I’ve lost it. Why do I need to be perfect all the time?
Eric Dane
Before I start my work in the morning, I need to have quickly browsed the entire paper, noting articles that I want to read during lunch.
Chang-Rae Lee
I learned that Chicago lunches are terrible. If I was a Chicago student, I would ask my mom to pack a lunch.
Mike Quigley
Just in any job, if you want to get ahead, take shorter lunch breaks, be happy to stay later, do the work, and finish it off well.
Gina Rinehart
We spend so much time sublimatin’, thinkin’ about, ‘What am I going to have for lunch, dinner?’
Matthew McConaughey
I enter my studio at 9 a.m. I have lunch here, I return right away to my work and I go out to dinner at 8 p.m. My daily tasks vary very much.
Oscar Niemeyer
When stuck years ago in a job I hated, my only friend was the public bench. As the tedious mornings dragged on, how I would long for the lunch hour, when I would be able to escape the torture of the office and stroll over to the churchyard and into the comforting wooden embrace of one of its benches.
Tom Hodgkinson
I breakfast when I get up, lunch when I get the chance.

I breakfast when I get up, lunch when I get the chance. If I never get it, I forget it. Sometimes I dine at seven, sometimes at midnight, sometimes not at all; and I never get to bed until four or five in the morning. Everything depends on the news; the hours make no difference to me.
Joseph Pulitzer
I often eat a lot of food when I eat and I eat maybe three or four times a day. I eat a good breakfast I have a protein shake or something between breakfast and my workout. After working out I have a shake and then eat lunch.
Alexander Gustafsson
Apparently I had lunch with Johnny Depp when I was three months old.
Alice Englert
Sometimes I have ice cream for lunch. Gelateria Sempione in Milan is the best in the world, hands down. The chocolate sorbetto is amazing.
Margherita Missoni
You learn as you grow up, if you’re intelligent – or even three-quarter witted – that there’s no free lunch. You pay for things in various ways. Living, loving, everything else is a matter of the same principles: you learn to work with what you have.
Iris Apfel
There is no free lunch, so if you’re playing with the big train set – on big movies – it’s a lot of money they’re entrusting you with, and you have to get that money back for them. I don’t take that responsibility lightly.
Jon Favreau
I wrote ‘Criminal’ in 45 minutes when everyone else went to lunch because I had to have a hit. I can force myself to do the work, but only if someone is right up behind me.
Fiona Apple
My mom asked me one day at lunch in a very lovely and respectful way. I was finally comfortable enough to say yes, I was gay, and it really was never talked about again.
Dan Levy
When I take my kids out for dinner or lunch, people smile at us.
Louis C. K.
Each week I try to have three lunches with my children, one working lunch, and one lunch with mates.
Xavier Niel
I’m just waiting for the first #MeToo moment to happen from a salon because the culture of how assistants are treated, especially in salons in L.A. and New York, is, like, truly unbelievable. You’re expected to clock out for lunch and never get paid. You’re expected to be there an hour early, stay two hours late.
Jonathan Van Ness
When someone else is getting punished you show up, you eat some lunch, you sit back because you’re not going to do anything. But when you’re the one that has to go, that whole day is a very miserable experience.
Sal Vulcano
It’s hard to make friends as an adult. You gotta work at it, you know? You have to ask people to lunch, and if you don’t know them, it’s weird.
Stephanie Beatriz
I was at lunch with some friends one day, and we looked down at our table – blond pasta, blond pizza – and then someone joked, ‘Blonde salad,’ and it stuck.
Chiara Ferragni
I am optimistic that many, when choosing where to buy their lunch, will settle on the sandwich chain which a map, or possibly an app, says has committed to providing disabled access in all its outlets.
Penny Mordaunt
The Depression was remarkable because you had nothing, and the salaries, when you got a job, were very small. But you could do anything. You see, a donut was ten cents. A cup of coffee was a nickel. That was lunch, with an apple. And I would be playing a lead on a Broadway show on that kind of diet.
Norman Lloyd
When I’m shooting, it averages out at a 16-hour day. You have two deadlines everyday – lunch and wrap.
Lenny Abrahamson
When I was growing up, Sunday lunch was my favorite time as a child. We would have a big Sunday English meal, and we would argue about things.
Joanna Coles
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
Breakfast is Special K cereal. If I’m having a big meal, it’s lunch instead of dinner. Some kind of wrap, like chicken for protein. For dinner, mainly vegetables. I mix it up if I go out to eat.
Jillian Rose Reed
I have a lot of friends, and it’s not necessary that if I go out for lunch or dinner with someone, they have to be my girlfriend; or that I’m committed to them.
Arbaaz Khan
Why does anybody want to be famous? You know what’s important to me? Having lunch! Pasta! Seeing my friends! Is that so crazy?
Sherry Stringfield
I’ve always been a leader. If someone was getting picked on in school, I’d try to deflate that situation by inviting that kid to eat lunch with me. I’ve always tried to be a uniter.
Brock Osweiler
But people that are worried about unborn babies are the same ones that vote against kindergarten programs in Indiana or school lunch funds out of the federal government.
Birch Bayh
I am a full-time mom; that is my first job. The most important job ever. I started my business when he started school. When he is in school, I do my meetings, my sketches, and everything else. I cook him breakfast. Bring him to school. Pick him up. Prepare his lunch. I spend the afternoon with him.
Melania Trump
I am a morning writer; I am writing at eight-thirty in longhand and I keep at it until twelve-thirty, when I go for a swim. Then I come back, have lunch, and read in the afternoon until I take my walk for the next day’s writing.
Carlos Fuentes
I thought I was Superman until I experienced that life-changing anaphylactic shock. I was eating lunch and gobbled down a couple of bowls of gumbo. Then, 15 minutes later, I’m in my dorm room resting up. My eyes started itching and my throat was swelling up. I could barely breathe.
Adrian Peterson
Some weasel took the cork out of my lunch.
W. C. Fields
For lunch, it’s usually a salad with sunflower seeds, cucumbers, celery, and a lot of vegetables.
JaVale McGee
When I was young, one Sunday every month or so, my mom would load my brothers and me into our station wagon and drive 80 miles north to Orange County, where we’d meet our extended family at a Persian restaurant for lunch.
Samin Nosrat
I’ve always just shown up and tried to figure out what’s for lunch and am I going to get to play some racquetball that night.
Robert Downey, Jr.
I remember how much fun it was to pick out my lunchbox.

I remember how much fun it was to pick out my lunchbox. My all-time favorite lunch box was from the movie ‘Annie.’ Also, I loved picking out school supplies! Trapper Keepers were my favorite.
Camille Guaty
My favorite fall or winter lunch is big steaming bowls of soup. I usually invite people for around 12:30 and have two hearty soups like shrimp corn chowder and lentil sausage soup, which can be made a day or two ahead.
Ina Garten
Between lunch and dinner, I try and snack on fruit and granola.
Deshaun Watson
I usually eat a salad for lunch and before a game since it keeps me feeling healthy and energized on the field. I love piling on the toppings: the more colorful the better! I usually do nuts, fruit and avocado, but I also mix up my creations with different toppings and lettuces.
Carli Lloyd
I live by this rule – breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and dinner like a pauper.
Suniel Shetty
I never missed a Sunday lunch growing up and I’ve continued that tradition with my own family.
Tess Daly
I have a huge breakfast every morning because I never know if I’ll have time for lunch, especially during Fashion Week. It keeps my mood positive all day. And my parents taught me to have tons of fruit and vegetables, which I think helps my skin.
Constance Jablonski
To be a good producer, one needs to be able to eat lunch, and make ill-informed decisions.
Cindy Morgan
Ham and cheese between two slices of bread do not make a great sandwich. But add some creamy mayonnaise, maybe some bright pickles, and some crunchy vegetables, and we got a decent lunch going on.
J. Kenji Lopez-Alt
When I’m doing a movie, I eat the same thing every day. For lunch, it’s tuna salad or chicken salad and cole slaw. That’s it. For dinner it’s either veal and rice, fish and rice or steak and rice. It gets boring; boy, does it get boring.
Sylvester Stallone
When you make his sandwiches, put a sexy or loving note in his lunch box.
Anne Rice