PICNIC Quotes - page 2

Cricket needs brightening up a bit. My solution is to let the players drink at the beginning of the game, not after. It always works in our picnic matches. (Paul Hogan)
The examined life is no picnic. View quote
Robert Fulghum
I'll affect you slowly as if you were having a picnic in a dream. There will be no ants. It won't rain. View quote
Richard Brautigan
Tara: No more talk of gloomy Angel, though. Only happy thoughts. Sunshine, picnic, that spell we did last night. With the oil? View quote
Amber Benson
"I'm going on a picnic," went Penfold. "And I'm taking anthrax, beer, coffee, doughnuts, estrogen, flamingoes, glue, horses, ink, jelly, Knackwurst, lemonade, murder and Nurofen." (Chapter Fifteen) View quote
Ben Croshaw
The 24% unemployment reached at the depths of the Great Depression was no picnic. View quote
Barry Eichengreen
When I was growing up, kids would go outside and play all day and invent things. And my brothers and I pretended our picnic table was a ship one summer. Our bikes were horses, and our trees were forts. We turned everything in the world into make-believe. View quote
Mary Pope Osborne
It's not fair to compare one artist to another because they all come with their own sort of elements to the picnic, you know. View quote
Annie Lennox
I was on the beach every summer. That was the pleasant part of my childhood because we were right by the sea. We'd take a picnic, and I'd spend hours in the water until I turned blue. You couldn't get me out of there. View quote
Olga Kurylenko
What use the green river, the gold place, if time and death pinned human in the pocket of my land not rest from taking underground the green all-willowed and white rose and bean flower and morning-mist picnic of song in pepper-pot breast of thrush? View quote
Janet Frame
Drinking's funny. When I look back on it, all of our important decisions have been figured out when we were drinking. Even when we talked about having to cut back on drinking, we'd be sitting at the kitchen table or out at the picnic table with a six-pack or whiskey. (Raymond Carver)
I was 15 years old at university, studying economics and philosophy, and I saw a retrospective of Australian film. They were very raw. 'Picnic at Hanging Rock,' 'Gallipoli;' they were fantastic. View quote
Deborah Kara Unger
As a diabetic, I'm a walking picnic. I have to eat measured amounts of food at certain times. View quote
Elaine Stritch
There was something horribly depressing, she felt, about watching the weather report. That life could be planned like the perfect summer picnic drained it of spontaneity. View quote
Galt Niederhoffer
Like the end of a picnic, all the weenies will be roasted. View quote
Kim Harrison
He's a couple sandwiches short of a picnic. View quote
Lance Bass
I was at a picnic, and there were a lot of songwriters. I remember praying, 'God I wish you would give me a song.' About five minutes later, my ears popped, and I saw everybody in slow motion. Nobody knew what I was experiencing. View quote
Andrae Crouch
I can't get enough of London! I love all the picnic benches, the old-school phone booths and parks in the middle of the city. View quote
Jessica Lowndes
When I was 5 years old, we had nothing in the village. One day, in front of my house, some soldiers in a big Cadillac started to do a picnic. I looked at them like they were coming from the moon. I remember they gave me a box of rice pudding - that, for me, was the American Dream. View quote
Renzo Rosso
There are few things so pleasant as a picnic eaten in perfect comfort. View quote
W. Somerset Maugham
The perfect date for me would be staying at home, making a big picnic in bed, eating Wotsits and cookies while watching cable TV. (Kim Kardashian)
The things that make me happiest in the whole world are going on the occasional picnic, either with my children or with my partner; big family gatherings; and being able to go to the grocery store - if I can get those things in, I'm doing good. View quote
Kate Winslet
We [Helen and Clement Greenberg] went through the hill towns of Italy together, and we'd picnic in Perugia and argue about the Quattrocento painters and why this Simone Martini was better than that Simone Martini, or why this Sienese guy was better than that guy from Orvieto. I learned how to look at modern pictures because of Old Masters, and vice versa. View quote
Helen Frankenthaler
No, it is not only our fate but our business to lose innocence, and once we have lost that, it is futile to attempt a picnic in Eden. View quote
Elizabeth Bowen
Too much high-content information, and I get the existential willies. I keep sputtering out at intersections where life choices must be made and I either know too much or not enough. The examined life is no picnic. View quote
Robert Fulghum