Cafeteria Ladies Sayings

#1. 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

#2. These are the cafeteria ladies. I call them Millie, Billie, and Tilly. I think they're part of a government program to get rid of the middle school population in this country, one lunch at a time.

James Patterson

#3. I have never had time for the idea of searching. Whenever I wanted to express something, I did so without thinking of the past or the future.

Pablo Picasso

#4. This place has its own mini version of a cafeteria, complete with a couple of old ladies in hairnets dishing out tasteless gruel from behind a counter. The food looks like it's been sitting out for days, and there's always a weird smell like floor wax and soggy vegetables.

Amy Reed

#5. she opened the lid and was hit with a musty smell she could immediately put a name to: camp. It was an unforgettable combination of mildew, wood smoke and outdoors, an essence that resisted laundering and airing out.

Susan Wiggs

#6. I really mean it when I say I love you."
"Love you too, dude. Still not doing you."
"Not doing you either, buddy.

Tymber Dalton

#7. If you have some other profession that allows you your evenings or weekends, terrific, stick with that. Having a profession other than writing also has the potential side benefit of providing you with material, something to write about.

Debra Dean

#8. Men are more conventional than women and much slower to change their ideas.

Kathleen Norris

#9. Evil is when we live life backwards

Shelley Hitz

#10. A gardener's best tool is the knowledge from previous seasons. And it can be recorded in a $2 notebook.

Andy Tomolonis