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  • Here's to the drunken Marine With beer in his canteen! You've heard of the Unknown Soldier But, never an unknown Marine! -- John Ripley
  • Cheats, liars and criminals may resist every blandishment while respectable gentlemen have been moved to appalling treasons by watery cabbage in a departmental canteen. -- John le Carre
  • 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. -- Ian Rankin
  • 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. -- Tom Waits
  • 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. -- Lena Headey
  • 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. -- Connie Willis
  • 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. -- Jamie Sives
  • 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. -- Dylan Moran
  • 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. -- Adam Sandler
  • 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. -- Syd Barrett
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