Breakfast quotes

Breakfast

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Dan Brown Author
Breakfast

"My lawyers will fricassee your testicles for breakfast. And if you dare board my plane without a warrant, your spleen will follow."

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Breakfast

"You can get used to eating breakfast with a man in a fedora. You can get used to anything, my mother was in the habit of saying."

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Anthony Bourdain Chef, Author, Television Personality
Breakfast

"Big stuff and little: learning how to order breakfast in a country where I don't speak the language and haven't been before - that's really satisfying to me. I like that."

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Anthony Bourdain Chef, Author, Television Personality
Breakfast

"I eat strategically. If I know I'm having a big Chinese banquet tomorrow, I'm not eating a big dinner tonight, and I'm not having breakfast."

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Veronica Roth Author
Breakfast

"I wake wondering how I did not notice, every day I sat across from her at the breakfast table, that she was full to bursting with Dauntless energy. Was it because she hid it well? Or was it because I wasn't looking?"

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Oscar Wilde Writer
Breakfast

"In England people actually try to be brilliant at breakfast. That is so dreadful of them! Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast."

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Jane Austen Novelist
Breakfast

"I can recollect nothing more to say at present; perhaps breakfast may assist my ideas. I was deceived -- my breakfast supplied only two ideas -- that the rolls were good and the butter bad."

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John Steinbeck Novelist, Journalist
Breakfast

"When Kino had finished, Juana came back to the fire and ate her breakfast. They had spoken once, but there is not need for speech if it is only a habit anyway. Kino sighed with satisfaction - and that was conversation."

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Judd Nelson Actor
Breakfast

"We [ with Emilio Estevez] asked if we could take some things [ in Breakfast Club] that weren't in the shooting draft, but from earlier drafts, "Can we maybe use this?" And Hughes was very amenable to all that. And there was some stuff that I liked, and I said, "How about this?" And he went, "Well, we'll check with Molly [Ringwald]. Those scenes are with her. And if she likes it, fine." So it was just wonderful. It was great."

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Julian Barnes Author
Breakfast

"A couple's first task, it has always seemed to me, is to solve the problem of breakfast; if this can be worked out amicably, most other difficulties can too."

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