Tables Quotations | Page 3

It's not a date. We're just agreeing to eat at the same table.

Basil Stag Hare tut-tutted severely as he remarked to Ambrose Spike, 'Tch, tch. Dreadful table manners. Just look at those three wallahs, kicking up a hullaballoo like that! Eating's a serious business.

Even with a round table, some people always seem able to sit at the head of it.

I waited tables at Govnr's Park Tavern in Denver.

13. 99 percent is a very large percentage. For instance, easily 99 percent of people want a roof over their heads, food on their tables, and the occasional slice of cake for dessert. Surely an arrangement can be made with that niggling 1 percent who disagree.

Having an aura of menace is like having a pet weasel, because you rarely meet someone who has one, and when you do, it makes you want to hide under the coffee table.

Some argued that the youth of today were poorly educated and insufficiently industrious, but one of them had sought to validate his generation by spending considerable time and effort chiseling an obscene word in the concrete picnic table, and he had spelled it correctly.

Wonder is the heaviest element on the periodic table. Even a tiny fleck of it stops time.

There is no national science, just as there is no national multiplication table; what is national is no longer science.

If you don't have a seat at the table, you're probably on the menu.

A hundred cabinet-makers in London can work a table or a chair equally well; but no one poet can write verses with such spirit and elegance as Mr. Pope.

To be grown up is to sit at the table with people who have died, who neither listen nor speak ...

I think it was 1987 - something like that - or '86, and I thought, 'When you go equity and you're gonna get paid, you'll finally be able to make a living.' But it was not to be so. I always bartended and waited tables so I ended up not doing theater for about a year because nobody would hire me.

A film is just like a muffin. You make it. You put it on the table. One person might say, Oh, I don't like it. One might say it's the best muffin ever made. One might say it's an awful muffin. It's hard for me to say. It's for me to make the muffin.

We actually purchased those real tall tables and chairs like you see at Starbucks.

We are limiting play to 72 players and all tickets will be pre-sold. We'll have 18 tables going and half of the $20 ticket price will be used for prizes.

The people around here who used to play pool are his age. I'd like to get them coming in. Walking around the tables is good exercise for their bodies and figuring out the shots is good for their minds.

The things that you can't really foresee and that kind of surprise you, and a lot of times they are bad, but other times, they bring something different and new to the table.

Obviously a fake Kyp. You distract him. I'll shoot him under the table." Han (to Leia)

At the banquet table of nature, there are no reserved seats. You get what you can take, and you keep what you can hold. If you can't take anything, you won't get anything, and if you can't hold anything, you won't keep anything. And you can't take anything without organization.

What we eat is the one simplest way to declare who we are - the table reflects our values with a clarity that few other theaters of human behaviour posses.

Whatever sense of professional competence we feel in adult life is less the sum of accomplishment than the absence of impossibility: it's really our relief at no longer having to do things we were never good at doing in the first place - relief at never again having to dissect a frog or memorize the periodic table.

Art means nothing if it simply decorates the dinner table of power which holds it hostage.

It is not enough to offer a smorgasbord of courses. We must insure that students are not just eating at one end of the table.

Food was celebration, conversation, and nourishment. The table is where the big decisions of the family are made and all the arguing takes place.

At the small table, sitting very upright, was one of the ugliest old ladies he had ever seen. It was an ugliness of distinction - it fascinated rather than repelled.

Our full humanity is contingent on our hospitality; we can be complete only when we are giving something away; when we sit at the table and pass the peas to the person next to us we see that person in a whole new way.

What did you see?' he asked then. Nothing,' I told him. 'Because nothing is what you wanted me to see, though the man on the table might disagree.

I see the strongest and the smartest men who have ever lived... and these men are pumping gas and waiting tables.

Both sides go the bargaining table holding cards quite close to the chest and bluffing like crazy, .

Women are storytellers, they are communicators. They'll go and sit around a table and talk about their first date, their first smoke, their first lipstick, whatever it is. Those rituals of life, marriages and death aren't part of the language of men.

I could stand on my head and flick the bean right there at the dinner table and my mom would be all, "Honey, Christmas is family time, we should be together" and make me finish in front of everyone.

There are a lot of people who must have the table laid in the usual fashion or they will not enjoy the dinner.

Do not speak of repulsive matters at table.

In those days, between the ages of 12 and 18 you meant nothing. You were the extra place at the side table if someone came to dinner. You were of no interest to anyone.

I know China are very good in table tennis. Let me see what happens in tennis. I am pretty happy with the way I am playing.

Almost any questions can be answered,cheaply, quickly and finally, by a test campaign. And that's he way to answer them - not by arguments around a table

I was terrified of vault, like literally I hated it. I had a fear of running as fast as I could at a solid object, which is I think a normal fear to have because nobody would really want to do that. Once I got over the fear of running into the table I just kind of relaxed and now it's like autopilot. I love it.

Our ego is a monster that loves to sit at the head of the table, and I have learned that my ego is just as rude and loud and hungry as everyone else's. It doesn't matter how much you get; you are left wanting more.

She looked at him, watched hum toss the remote on the table and say," So maybe I'm going to handcuff myself to you the next time you decide to take a stroll.

I didn't grow up in a traditional family, and I never had a family dinner around the table, so whenever I actually had a dinner 'plan,' it meant a lot to me; it made me feel excited and safe.

When your opponent's sittin' there holdin' all the aces, there's only one thing to do: kick over the table.

I think a good director casts a film so that the actors bring a lot to the table.

We Americans sit at the head of the banquet table, as we have done for a century. Our standard of living is luxurious by any measure.

What the Church should be telling him [the carpenter] is this: that the very first demand that his religion makes upon him is that he should make good tables.

The hardest exercise for most of us fat people is that one where we push our chairback from the dinner table.

Some of us will never ever find true love. Take, for instance me. And I'm pretty sure that guy right there. And that lady with the sideburns. And basically everybody at table nine.

I have to make what I see, whether it's a painting, a table, or a movie, or it's like a death and what would be the point of that?

I liked being able to work with all the different producers and take what they brought to the table and bring my own style to it.

We call them cool, those hearts that have no scars to show. The one's who never do let go. And risk the tables being turned.

Now do you see why war irritates me? It's always the same. A lot of people get killed, but in the end, the whole thing is settled at the conference table. The notion of having the conference first doesn't seem to occur to people.

Nebraskans have very strong opinions, but we sit down around a table and we solve our problems.

Some McDonald's restaurants are taking reservations on Valentine's Day. They are getting a lot of tables for one.

Rather than chairs and tables, I preferred the ground, trees, and caves, for in those places I felt I could lean against the cheek of God.

And I suddenly think, as I look across the table at him, that these are the days as they will be. This is the future as we see it. The swerve and the static. The confidence and the doubt.

I am not interested in politics at all. At home, around the dinner table, we never discuss politics.

I'm having trouble warming up to Mitt Romney. He looks like the guy in the restaurant that comes to your table to make sure everything's all right.

You'd never catch me dancing on tables in public. I have no desire to be known for my personal life.

When everyone is really busy and feeling stressed out, often the time with your partner is one of the first things to get bumped. Stretching with your loved one turns the tables on the rat race, allowing you both to be in the moment and renewing your connection.

I have a Damien Hirst spot painting which I love. It has pride of place over my dining-room table.

This year women learned that if we aren't at the table, we're on the menu.

You have no idea, how much poetry there is in the calculation of a table of logarithms!

Diversity for the sake of diversity is not an accomplishment or a step forward. It's what you bring to the table.

The walk downstairs to the breakfast table is excercise enough for any gentleman.

My parents were the traditional Filipino parents who didnt talk about money around the dinner table.

I like people to just bring it to the table and feel the moment. And that's why I've never done a session where I don't sing live.

The very good thing about MFA programs is their democratizing. They bring a lot of different people to the table.

True Civilization does not lie in gas, nor in steam, nor in turn-tables. It lies in the reduction of the traces of original sin.

Theory of the true civilization. It is not to be found in gas or steam or table turning. It consists in the diminution of the traces of original sin.

In my life there are not that many questions I can't properly deal with using my $40 adding machine and dog-eared compound interest table.

I think Twitter has brought something totally new to the table.

Their kitchen is their shrine, the cook their priest, the table their altar, and their belly their god.

I hate table reads. I hate anything where you have to say the words out loud.

A family unity which is only bound together with a table-cloth is of questionable value.

Calvin is hammering nails into coffee table. Mom: CALVIN WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO THE COFFEE TABLE?!? Calvin: Is this some sort of trick question, or what?

Republican women bring an important voice to the table.

Under the imaginary table that separates me from my readers, don’t we secretly clasp each other’s hands?

Charity provides crumbs from the table; justice offers a place at the table.

If you memorize the periodic table it will speed you up if you're a chemist, but by and large, the reason you have a periodic table is so that you can store that information outside of your body. That way it frees up some part of your brain to do something else.

Angels cry because they want to experience what you and I feel: the moment. They live in eternity. They dont know what it is like to read a newspaper and get ink on your fingers. They dont know what it is like to take your shoes off and wiggle your toes under the dinner table.

History is about life. It's awful when the life is squeezed out of it and there's no flavor left, no uncertainties, no horsing around. It always disturbed me how many biographers never gave their subjects a chance to eat. You can tell a lot about people by how they eat, what they eat, and what kind of table manners they have.

If I were president, I would turn the tables and allow the fetus to abort its mother.

What I didn't realize is that the writing process for comedies is that you do your table read, and if you aren't funny on that first day during the table read, they take your jokes away and give them to somebody else.

I'm not one of those actors who sits around the table and intellectualizing anything, or discusses much of anything. Everything for me is intuitive and instinctive.

Potatoes have such a high GI rating; it's almost the same as eating table sugar.

Usability methods are like sandpapering a chair. If you are making a chair, the sandpaper can make it smoother. But no amount of sandpaper will turn a chair into a table.

I have this feeling that if I could sort out what's on my dining room table, everything would fall into place.

The Paris peace talks kept a roof over my head and food on the table and clothes on my back because if something was said going in or coming out, I had the rent for the month.

One must be able to say at all times--instead of points, straight lines, and planes--tables, chairs, and beer mugs

Keep computations to the lowest level of the multiplication table.

What we're most proud of is are the young men and women that are sitting at these tables ... that are proof positive that this program is the most effective program in the nation when it comes to saving the next greatest generation. We will stay behind you all the way. You have a life partner for anything you want to do for the rest of your life with the National Guard.

When we first opened we wanted the restaurant to be slow- paced, the bar area with its couches to be medium-paced and this bit to be fast-paced. That's why we had square tables and wooden padded chairs here. The furniture wasn't bad but it was harder than it is now. Then we had a rethink and decided that really we didn't want anywhere in here to feel as though there should be a quick turnaround, so we moved in round tables and curved, leather seats.

We're getting a lay of the land. We're finding out where the microphones are, how they'll operate, which tables we're going be sitting at, how to present the exhibits -- the basic details that one wants to be familiar with when you're presenting a trial.

Waiting tables is tough work. But when I was doing it I was in the best shape of my life. I could eat anything I wanted and not gain a pound.

I saw in a dream a table where all the elements fell into place as required. Awakening, I immediately wrote it down on a piece of paper.

Playing an unamplified electric guitar is like strumming on a picnic table.

And the tables were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, graven upon the tables.

At 20, waiting tables is a great job, but at 24 it's not so great, and at 27, it's downright sobering.

I shall not be satisfied unless I produce something that shall for a few days supersede the last fashionable novel on the tables of young ladies.

Common sense says that chairs and tables exist independently of whether anyone happens to perceive them or not.