Tables Quotations | Page 5

What a magnificent body, how I should like to see it on the dissecting table.

When we were on tour, a lot of people just dropped joints on the merch table for us. That was great. Every time, I was like, "Thank you so much."

Women must have seats at the table because peace is too crucial to be left only to the politicians or only to the male half of our world.

During the first suffragist wave in this nation, women were possessions, like a table or a chair. So violence toward them was quite condoned. The attitude has diminished, but it's still there.

When the bread basket comes to the table and I have a bite, people are like, "Oh, you eat bread?" I say, "Oh, my God, of course I eat bread. I'm human."

I agree with the president [Barack Obama]. I've said myself, we will not send American combat troops back to either Syria or Iraq - that is off the table.

Being a human means waking up in this world, where we all have to work and slog to put food on the table.

It's always a good idea to sit at the fun table.

I have said publicly no option should be off the table, but I would certainly take nuclear weapons off the table.

Felting Phil (taking all of his chips down to the felt on the table). I loved beating him and then hed go over to the couch and sulk, staring at the ceiling.

Oh, my tattered rags are caught on your coffee table.

That is where consensus-building begins-with the idea that you have your own truth, but that the negotiator on the other side of the table has his own truth as well.

I prefer the Chinese method of eating.... You can do anything at the table except arm wrestle.

Evil is an act, not an appetite. How many haven't wanted to slash the throat of some boor across the dining room table? Present company excepted of course. Everyone has the appetite. If you give in to it, it, that act is evil. The appetite is normal.

I used to hang out by the food table at parties because you don't have to talk to anybody. If you do then you can talk about the food.

I was in Rent, for Gods sake. The closest we came to stunts was dancing on a table.

You don't... get it, boy... This isn't a mudhole... it's an operating table. And I'm the surgeon.

Misfortune is never invited. And it comes and sits at the table without permission and it eats, leaving nothing but bones.

I will not vote against the truths of the multiplication table.

You might be a redneck if your coffee table used to be a telephone cable spool.

You might be a redneck if...Your only condiment on the dining room table is the economy size bottle of ketchup.

Being honest when you're dealing with others is easier to do because your honesty is on the table for all to view...Being honest with yourself is more difficult because you only have to justify it in private where no one can see it.

It doesn't matter which leg of your table you make first, so long as the table has four legs and will stand up solidly when you have finished it.

It's really not that hard to put food on the table if that's what you decide to do.

One thing about whoring: It put a chicken on the table.

If you decide that you're going to do only the things you know are going to work, you're going to leave a lot of opportunity on the table.

Never ask while you are doing it if what you are doing is fun. Don't introduce even your most reliably witty acquaintance as someone who will set the table on a roar.

Any girl that's got a $500,000 table and $5 shoes, I'm in love with.

If you saw me working with construction crews or graphic designers, you'd see how much I'm really hoping for them to bring something to the table and let God in the room and let things happen naturally.

At most project meetings, everyone has a seat at the table except the poor victims who will have to operate the technology.

They remember me as this shy girl sitting under the table. But they obviously didn't know what was going on in my head.

Many folk like to know beforehand what is to be set on the table; but those who have laboured to prepare the feast like to keep their secret; for wonder makes the words of praise louder." - Gandalf

Take the military option off the table - we have already seen it doesn't work.

I was always shouted at by my teacher because I would draw straight on the table in the school,

I've just always loved singing, and I come from a family that loves singing around the kitchen table.

Netflix is like sitting at the cool kids' table. Netflix is amazing. We're the biggest fans of not only working there, but of the company, in general.

I found that the majority of people who stopped at my table [ at the Comic Con] last didn't even know who Winnie the Pooh was, and the new feature was just opening in the theaters.

There's not a sense that the person who is waiting on the table is somehow a lesser person that the person who is eating in the restaurant.

I don't care about risk to me," he hissed, leaning forward across the table. "I care about what happens to you! Dammit, I'm practically indestructible. Let me go. You stay behind." "Yes," Clary said, "Jace won't find that odd at all. You can just tell him you've always been secretly in love with him and you can't stand being parted.

Does anyone know why Will left?" Charlotte demanded, standing at the head of a long table around which the rest of them were seated. Cecily, her hands folded demurely before her, suddenly became very interested in the pattern of the carpet.

When you go to auditions, pretend you already have the job and you're just presenting - almost like you're at the table read. Don't go in with an air of, 'Please like me,' or, 'Please hire me.' You're like, 'Here's my take on it. Take it or leave it. I've got a lot of other things to do today.'

Listen, here's the thing. If you can't spot the sucker in the first half hour at the table, then you ARE the sucker.

In life we sit at the table and refuse to eat, and in death we are eternally hungry.

We have marched in lockstep with Israel. We've been side by side with them as they've confronted the Iranian nuclear threat and we'll continue to be. All options do remain on the table. That's something that we've said all along. That continues to be the case.

I come to the table from a conservative or libertarian point of view, and I admit that. I'm a commentator. I'm not a journalist or anything else.

You don't get to pick your partners in families; you get assigned a seat at the table.

Its always nice to have a stud muffin at the table.

I took the volume to a table, opened its soft, ivory pages... and fell into it as into a pool during dry season.

Table the label and wear your own name.

I hope everybody will go back to the negotiating table. Ive always said this is the only way forward.

The duties of men are summarily comprised in the Ten Commandments, consisting of two tables; one comprehending the duties which we owe immediately to God-the other, the duties we owe to our fellow men.

You can fake your way to the table, but ultimately you have to learn how to eat.

Early on, I knew I had ideas, but I wasn't sure when it was appropriate to bring them to the table and I was so intimidated by these titans that I was working for.

I dont know whether its a fear of standing up, but I really love sitting at the table and blabbing. I learn so much that way, and I think I get free that way, free from inhibition and fears.

The familiarities of the gaming-table contribute very much to the decay of politeness ... The pouts and quarrels that naturally arise from disputes must put an end to all complaisance, or even good will towards one another.

And I put the latte down on a table, awash in the happy middle of my greatest adventure.

This is when I realize that Anna has already left the table, and more importantly, that nobody noticed.

The best fame is a writer's fame. It's enough to get a table at a good restaurant, but not enough to get you interrupted when you eat.

Writers get exactly the right amount of fame: just enough to get a good table in a restaurant but not enough so that people are constantly interrupting you while you're eating dinner.

He has been named as the heir apparent of the great Argentine hero, Diego Maradona, by journalists, players, and Maradona himself, alike. I'd personally put him in a drawer of my bedside table.

Is it really not possible to touch the gaming table without being instantly infected by superstition?

Even as I approach the gambling hall, as soon as I hear, two rooms away, the jingle of money poured out on the table, I almost go into convulsions.

The happiest moments for me, creatively, are doing readings of a play around a table where there's no audience.

My audience is often hands-up, standing and cheering and on tables and all of that kind of things.

The oppressed always learned from and copied the oppressor. When the tables were turned, the stage was set for another round of revenge and violence -- roles reversed. And reversed and reversed ad nauseam.

I was never an ingénue at any point in my career. I was hoping that whatever I was bringing to the table, it wasn't some physical attribute that would change or fade over time.

The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it's profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater.

The table is the only place where we do not get weary during the first hour.

With wine and food, the confidence of my own table, and the necessity of reassuring my wife, I grew by insensible degrees courageous and secure.

Speake not of a dead man at the table.

The table robbes more then a thiefe.

To speake of an Vsurer at the table marres the wine.

Expensive, well-executed, and familiar ads convince the investors, as nothing in the black and white tables of assets and debits can, that the company is important and prosperous.

Hospitality invites to prayer before it checks credentials, welcomes to the table before administering the entrance exam.

the conversation whipped gaily around the table like rags in a high wind.

Be good at something. It makes you valuable. Have something to bring to the table, because that will make you more welcome.

Do all your eating at a table.

That is the power of the Eucharist. At the communion table you have rich and poor together in the early church and they were being challenged.

Truffles must come to the table in their own stock and as you break open this jewel sprung from a poverty-stricken soil, imagine - if you have never visited it - the desolate kingdom where it rules.

Imagine for a moment if we once again knew, strictly as a matter of course, these few unremarkable things: What it is we're eating. Where it came from. How it found its way to our table. And what, in a true accounting, it really cost,

My folks are economists and have taught economics and social science so I grew up with those kind of conversations around the dinner table.

The problem with taking offense is that it's really hard to figure out what to do with it after you're done using it. Better to just leave it on the table and walk away. Umbrage untaken quietly disappears.

And since we don’t just forget things because they don’t matter but also forget things because they matter too much because each of us remembers and forgets in a pattern whose labyrinthine windings are an identification mark no less distinctive than a fingerprintit’s no wonder that the shards of reality one person will cherish as a biography can seem to someone else who, say, happened to have eaten some ten thousand dinners at the very same kitchen table, to be a willful excursion into mythomania

The dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their masters' table.

Stuart must have sensed my despair from the way I began lightly banging my forehead on the table.

Try making a poem as if it were a table, clear and solid, standing there outside you.

Be able to set a table so that you feel like you're dining, not just sitting and eating.

It's very important, at least to me as a writer, that there be some rules on the table when I'm writing. Rules come from genres. You're writing in a genre, there are rules, which is great because then you can break the rules. That's when really exciting things happen.

Michael nodded tersely, eyeing a table across the room. It was empty. So empty. So joyfully, blessedly empty. He could picture himself a very happy man at that table. "Not feeling very conversational this evening, are we?" Colin asked, breaking into his (admittedly tame) fantasies.

For table-talk, I prefer the pleasant and witty before the learned and the grave; in bed, beauty before goodness.

And not to serve for a table-talk.

Dinner's in one hour. If you're not back, sitting at the table, I'll beat you all unconscious with a spatula.

I have only been seeking to get them to the negotiating table and, thank God, that's where they are.

Wittgenstein's ruler: Unless you have confidence in the ruler's reliability, if you use a ruler to measure a table you may also be using the table to measure the ruler.

If you can't spot the sucker in your first half hour at the table, then you ARE the sucker.

I've never really thought of myself as having an ego. I've always found myself as having a lot of confidence. I know I have a lot of great ability. I know what I bring to the table.

The oldest form of theater is the dinner table.

There's a certain status to suffering in Ireland, that the person who - if you're sitting around a table, the person with the greatest status is the person who had the most horrible thing happen to them most recently.

The dead sit at our tables long after they have gone.

You've got to learn to leave the table When love's no longer being served".