“Hermes's eyes twinkled. "Martha, may I have the first package, please?" Martha opened her mouth ... and kept opening it until it was as wide as my arm. She belched out a stainless steel canister-an old-fashioned lunch box thermos with a black plastic top. The sides of the thermos were enameled with red and yellow Ancient Greek scenes-a hero killing a lion; a hero lifting up Cerberus, the three-headed dog. "That's Hercules," I said. "But how-" "Never question a gift," Hermes chided. "This is a collector's item from Hercules Busts Heads. The first season." "Hercules Busts Heads?" "Great show." Hermes sighed. "Back before Hephaestus-TV was all reality programming. Of course, the thermos would be worth much more if I had the whole lunch box-” HumorGiftPercy JacksonTvHermesHerculesCanteenMarthaCollectible Book:The Sea of Monsters Source: The Sea of Monsters
“I worked in Tesco's staff canteen because I fancied a boy on the tills. I served him his lunch in a hairnet and tan tights. Not just that, of course - I had a lovely white onesie.” CoursesWhiteBoysLovelyLunchStaffTightsCanteenTesco Author:Lena Headey
“Most of the boys would come with bits of equipment that their fathers had given them from their war days - helmets, canteens, binoculars, these kinds of things - that leant a kind of authenticity to the games we were playing. But, of course, my father never gave me anything. So I began to question him. You know, Why don't you have anything from the war? And I think he was...embarrassed to tell me he hadn't fought, because, you know, little boys want to turn their fathers into heroes, and he didn't want to be diminished in my eyes.” ThinkingKnowsWantKindLittlesWarEyeTurnsCoursesFatherGamesGivenBitsBoysHeroAuthenticityEmbarrassedEquipmentLittle BoysHelmetBinocularsCanteen Author:Paul Auster
“A canteen I remember vividly, and maybe one other thing, I can't remember. And I knew then that he had bought them in an army surplus store that day and he wanted to maybe enhance himself in my eyes, and say, "Well, yes, I have been in the army." Or [he] simply just didn't want to disappoint me. It could have been one or the other. But I knew that he had lied to me. And this filled me with a tremendous sort of anger towards him. At the same time, knowing he was trying to please me, so feeling good about him.” WantTryingWellsHas BeensI CanFeelingsEyeWantedRememberKnowingPleaseArmyFilledStoresFeel GoodCould Have BeenLiedDisappointSurplusPlease MeLied To MeCanteen Author:Paul Auster
“You can play guitar in your canteen, you know, your hair might be longer, but there's a lot more to playing than travelling around universities and things.” KnowsPlayMightHairGuitarUniversityCanteen Author:Syd Barrett
“One of the great mind destroyers of college education is the belief that if it's very complex, it's very profound.” IfsMindBeliefCollegeProfoundComplexesDestroyersGreat MindsCollege EducationCanteenCollege Freshmen Author:Dennis Prager
“Rebus was eating breakfast in the canteen and wishing there was more caffeine in the coffee, or more coffee in the coffee come to that.” WishEatingCoffeeBreakfastCaffeineEating BreakfastCanteen Author:Ian Rankin
“TO ALL THE ambulance drivers firewatchers air-raid wardens nurses canteen workers airplane spotters rescue workers mathematicians vicars vergers shopgirls chorus girls librarians debutantes spinsters fishermen retired sailors servants evacuees Shakespearean actors and mystery novelists WHO WON THE WAR.” WarGirlActorsAirMysteryWorkersServantNovelistsDriversNurseAirplaneRescueMathematicianRetiredLibrarianSailorChorusFishermanAmbulanceSpinstersWardensVicarsCanteenDebutantes Author:Connie Willis
“First Lieutenant Jimmy Cross carried letters from a girl named Martha, a junior at Mount Sebastian College in New Jersey. They were not love letters, but Lieutenant Cross was hoping, so he kept them folded in plastic at the bottom of his rusack. In the late afternoon, after a day's march, he would dig his foxhole, wash his hands under a canteen, unwrap the letters, hold them with the tips of his fingers, and spend the last hour of light pretending.” FirstsHandsLightLastsGirlHoursCollegeLateCrossesLettersFingersBottomMarchPretendingAfternoonPlasticJerseyJuniorsJimmyNew JerseyLove LetterLieutenantsFoxholesLate AfternoonCanteen Book:The Things They Carried Source: The Things They Carried
“Cheats, liars and criminals may resist every blandishment while respectable gentlemen have been moved to appalling treasons by watery cabbage in a departmental canteen.” MayHas BeensMovedCriminalsLoyaltyGentlemanLiarsCheatRespectableCabbageCanteen Author:John le Carre
“You want soldiers who, when they get to a river after a long march, don't start rooting for their canteen in their pack, but just dive right in.” WantLongRiversSoldierMarchPacksCanteen Author:Tom Waits
“I never thought I want to do anything, really, except not go to work properly and turn up at the same place every day and eat sandwiches in the same canteen, if I can possibly help it, as I don't think I'd be very good at it.” IfsThinkingWantI CanHelpingHumorFunnyTurnsVery GoodSandwichesCanteen Author:Dylan Moran
“Here's to the drunken Marine With beer in his canteen! You've heard of the Unknown Soldier But, never an unknown Marine!” HeardSoldierBeerMarineMarine CorpsCanteen Author:John Ripley
“I worked in an insurance office for six years, and it was there that I just woke up one day and realised there was something massively lacking in my life, and a non-contributory pension and a subsidised canteen could not fill it.” YearsOne DayOfficeSixLackingRealisedControversialProvocativePensionCanteen Author:Jamie Sives
“The Canteen Boy, the reason you feel bad for him and you can laugh is because he, and I guess a lot of my characters, they don't notice they're getting made fun of. So they'll say something back that's not that great a quip, but in their mind they won the argument.” FeelsMindMadeReasonCharacterFunBoysLaughingArgumentQuipCanteen Author:Adam Sandler