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Rut, routine, robotic. These are the three R's of adult-hood. Wake up, eat, go to work, eat, work more, come home, eat, sleep, and repeat every day until we all reach retirement, or death.


Craig R. Key

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DEREK LANDY If we remained perpetually infatuated, we couldn't eat, sleep or work.
HELEN FISHER Those who eat too much or eat too little, who sleep too much or sleep too little, will not succeed i...
BHAGAVAD GITA A lot of locals eat lunch every day, ... Some eat three times and others eat five times a week.
DEREK BROWN It's lots of work to pack up and go out to eat.
DENISE DILLON I like to work out. I like a routine. I'm kind of simple. I eat almost the same thing every day....
BRITNEY SPEARS We work to eat to get the strength to work to eat to get the strength to work.
JOHN DOS PASSOS I remember an old catholic joke about a man who spent his whole life going to a church every day and...
MOVIE: EAT If you were wondering about my culinary skills... I've been asked to bring paper towels to our famil...
EAT QUOTES They're going to go home and every time they eat an apple, they'll remember how much sugar is produc...
JOE SABOL Eat well, drink in moderation, and sleep sound, in these three good health abound
PROVERB You can never go more than three or four hours without having something to nibble on or eat - you ha...
RANDY JACKSON I spent an hour getting ready for work, an hour travelling to work, nine hours at work, and an hour ...
JOSS SHELDON We all wake up at our leisure; the kids know not to wake me up. Then we make breakfast or go out to ...
JOSIE BISSETT I eat a lot. I eat three times a day and I snack.
SUZANNE SOMERS I feel as if I'm disappearing. I wake, I work, I eat, I sleep. No family, no great career. I could d...
MIRANDA EMMERSON Life is made of fear. Some people eat fear soup three times a day. Some people eat fear soup all the...
MARTIN AMIS I find more people want to eat a little less. My generation, we're all watching our figures. The...
TODD ENGLISH I didn't come out until 5 or 6 o'clock in the evening. Sleep all day, sleep and cook and eat...
DAVID EDWARDS It's so much easier just to eat and work out than not eat and work out like crazy.
ALEXANDER LUDWIG What is the reason for killing those innocent people? They work to eat. If they don't work, they wil...
HASHIM NAJI Life's short. Eat dessert first, work less and vacation MORE!!
LEA MISHELL I am going to outlive myself. Eat, sleep, sleep, eat. Exist slowly, softly, like these trees, like a...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Red gave us a choice. If we came up (to Boston) Sunday, we could eat Chinese. If we came up Monday, ...
ALAN COHEN I love breakfast - I like going to sleep at night because I know I get to wake up and eat in the mor...
CHARLES MICHAEL DAVIS I eat three meals a day and three juices a day.
GEORGIA MAY JAGGER Hold it. You know what I'd like to see? I'd like to see the three bears eat the three little pigs, a...
BILL WATTERSON It's a lot easier to eat three meals a day for one week, than it is to eat all your meals at once,
JOANNE LEWIS We breathe, sleep, drink, eat, work and then die! The end of life is death. What do you long for? Lo...
GUY DE MAUPASSANT We wanted a place to cook, sleep, eat and work on one floor and it became apparent we couldn't do al...
JOE HALE I am not a vegetarian. I subscribe to my own mantra: eat less, move more, eat plenty of fruits and v...
MARION NESTLE I have candy around my bed. I just kinda like reach over and eat it and then go back to sleep, no pr...
LAMAR ODOM I work out all the time. But I eat junk.
ELEANOR MONDALE Anyone can relate to struggle, whether you're European or Asian. Anyone can relate to having to ...
YELAWOLF Live happy, eat happy, drink happy, sleep happy, work happy and have fun. You are in control of your...
KISHAN S CHAUHAN And ye shall sow the eighth year, and eat yet of old fruit until the ninth year; until her fruits co...
BIBLE If we work less, wear less, and eat less, we will be more wealthy, healthy, and wise.
HUGH NIBLEY A cheat day for me, the first thing that I crave, I'll eat. That's my rule. So if I wake up ...
HAILEY BALDWIN We eat. We sleep. We keep going.
JESSICA PARK Life = Work Earn Eat Roam and Hustle....
MIT GAJJAR You can eat alkaline foods until the cows come home, but if you're a miserable SOB, you're acidic.
NANCY S. MURE All these plans for testing sound great, but until we actually see someone doing something, it doesn...
IAN WHITE I didn't eat or sleep for the first three days. I was just staring at the wall, and kind of in shock...
JACKI GEMELOS You eat and sleep it all day long and play on the streets until mom calls you in. My story is no dif...
ADAM OATES I want to go to sleep and not wake up, but I don't want to die. I want to eat like a normal person e...
LAURIE HALSE ANDERSON Why must everything be repeat and repeat, never finish, never resting? You work so hard one day, but...
ELIZABETH GILBERT Well, I like to eat, sleep, drink, and be in love.

I like to work, read, learn, and under...
LANGSTON HUGHES I eat like no other; it drives everyone crazy. I eat donuts three times a day, and I probably go thr...
BRITT ROBERTSON I enjoy three meals a day, and 90 per cent of what I eat is vegetarian and homemade. I occasionally ...
SAINA NEHWAL Eat, sleep and play bingo.
BLAINE SELVA She had died, I just never told her. So still, we walk, eat and sleep together, in fear one day she'...
ANTHONY LICCIONE People could have it three or four times a week if they want to. People in other countries eat fish ...
DONNA KERNODLE I don't eat out much. I eat mostly home food and no carbs after 5 P.M. You are what you eat, and...
TIGER SHROFF I know that when I get stressed, I want to eat junk food. So now I just know - 'I'm stressed...
CARA CASTRONUOVA All around us are people, of all classes, of all nationalities, of all ages. For three days these pe...
AGATHA CHRISTIE I eat eight times a day. But it's what my intake is. I eat all the time, but it's good stuff...
BILLY MAGNUSSEN [To head off a future fat generation, parents must set an example.] Parents are role models, ... We ...
JAMES HILL If I eat something a little crazy or if I feel sluggish, I know I have to eat better the next day an...
JORDIN SPARKS If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM I could probably eat sushi every day.
ERIC MCCORMACK On game day, if I eat fruit - I usually eat fruit in the mornings - I have to have three pieces of c...
SAM BRADFORD Eat, Breath, Sleep, and BE what you are passionate about
NICHOLAS MASSA I start training two weeks before a competition, every other day. I'll drink a gallon of water and e...
IAN HICKMAN We are not really privy to all that crazy stuff that goes on in the show. I go to work, eat, and tal...
TOM COLICCHIO I never have time to have a dinner. I have to eat while I'm memorizing lines. The only way to ma...
ZOOEY DESCHANEL We eat three meals a day together. How many families can say that?
BILL KERR Tip for the day: never eat a bible when you're starving to death.
KEVIN BROOKS Don't worry about which fiber you should eat. Just eat more of all of them.
CHERYL ROCK You don?t want to eat chicken every day.
BARRY LOY influence flows across networks up to three degrees away. What your friends’ friends eat or do or ...
ANNE-MARIE SLAUGHTER We are indeed much more than what we eat, but what we eat can nevertheless help us to be much more t...
ADELLE DAVIS We are indeed much more than what we eat, but what we eat can nevertheless help us to be much more t...
ADELLE DAVIS Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Die, search for meaning, search for ...
DOUG HORTON I always thought that you breathe, you eat, you go to sleep, and you draw.
PALOMA PICASSO I got pride in my work. I'd hate to throw that out and just go weed-eat somewhere.
GEORGE ROSS People are putting themselves at risk if they eat tuna every day.
JOANNA BURGER The traditional structure of the lunch hour has transformed as the nature of work has evolved. Effic...
CHRIS CONGDON I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made ...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON I eat, sleep, and drink my character. It is my fantasy to go to another planet.
ACE FREHLEY Managing perfect body weight is not a complicated rocket science. Our body is made up of food which ...
SUBODH GUPTA People are the only animals who eat themselves to death.
ANONYMOUS We like our food fried, greasy and sweet. My people in the audience know we go to a funeral to eat, ...
RONIECE WEAVER The rich eat life, the poor eat death; so what is the problem they ask?
ANTHONY LICCIONE Oh..please dont eat me, I have a wife and three kids...eat them!
HOMER SIMPSON We don't know what to eat and not to eat. We all ate the same stuff last night and Christine had a r...
AMY NIXON These have always been my legs. I train harder than other guys, eat better, sleep better and wake up...
OSCAR PISTORIUS I work out, I go to pilates, I walk and I eat everything I can get my hands on.
SALLY KELLERMAN I am actually a bit chubby, and I eat everything. I eat in a way - if my parents fed me the way I ch...
HARI KONDABOLU I don't need to wait for someone to tell me it's a holiday or a day to eat turkey. I eat turkey almo...
JULIO FRANCO You get to play in a college coliseum and it's like the next level. When we came here, we went to wo...
JOE WEST I think it's a terrible thing to write and not enjoy it. It's a sad thing. But of course a lot of pe...
ANNE PERRY Whether we like it or not, the one justification for the existence of all religions is death, they n...
JOSé SARAMAGO If any would not work, neither shall he eat.
BIBLE I used to eat a whole chicken, every day, for lunch. I did that for four years. But it got tiring - ...
ADAM DRIVER (Walker) is continuing to eat up Peach County and he's gonna eat up some more - all the way up to (I...
WALTER SMITH I try to be healthy. I train three days a week with a trainer. But I do like to eat, clearly. And I ...
REBEL WILSON Before you eat, you have to work to take out the flowers.
DONATELLA GIROMBELLI I unwrapped my love for her like one might unwrap leftovers. Gotta eat up the old stuff first, as a ...
DARK JAR TIN ZOO Do your best to eat a little. Try to be an adult.
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GEORGE R. R. MARTIN As Faulkner says, all of us have the capacity in us for great good and for great evil, for love but ...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN Over the years, more than one reviewer has described my fantasy series, 'A Song of Ice and Fire&...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN I had an encyclopedia with a list of flags in the back, so I would look at all these flags of China ...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN Middle English is an exciting field - almost uncharted, I begin to think, because as soon as one tur...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN It is plain indeed that in spite of later estrangement Hobbits are relatives of ours: far nearer to ...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN He had a feeling that the answer was quite different and that he ought to know it, but he could no...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN The distinction between literary and genre fiction is stupid and pernicious. It dates back to a feud...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN Short cuts make long delays.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN When I am writing best, I really am lost in my world. I lose track of the outside world. I have a di...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN Still round the corner there may wait,
A new road or a secret gate.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN 'I wish life was not so short,' he thought. 'Languages take such a time, and so do all the things on...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN Many that live deserve death. And some die that deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then be not t...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN His house was perfect, whether you liked food, or sleep, or work, or story-telling, or singing, or j...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN One Ring to rule them all,
One Ring to find them,
One Ring to bring them all
and in the ...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN All that is gold does not glitter; not all those that wander are lost.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN It's a dangerous business going out your front door.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as wel...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more p...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN The Hobbits are just rustic English people, made small in size because it reflects the generally sma...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN Little by little, one travels far.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN It's a job that's never started that takes the longest to finish.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN