Table Quotes

Table Quote of the day

Peace is not made at the council table or by treaties, but in the hearts of men.

On the Continent people have good food; in England people have good table manners.

About seven years later I was given a book about the periodic table of the elements. For the first time I saw the elegance of scientific theory and its predictive power.

People who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors of the breakfast table.

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

Humanism is the philosophy that you should be a good guest at the dinner table of life.

If you put Buddha, Jesus Christ, Socrates, Shakespeare, Arjuna, Krishna at a dinner table together, I can't see them having an argument.

Most of us lead far more meaningful lives than we know. Often finding meaning is not about doing things differently; it is about seeing familiar things in new ways.

Vince Russo destroyed the Periodic Table as he only recognises the element of surprise.

Compassion is the foundation of everything positive, everything good. If you carry the power of compassion to the marketplace and the dinner table, you can make your life really count.

Perhaps the world will end at the kitchen table, while we are laughing and crying, eating of the last sweet bite.

I lost my hair mixing a substance called white gunpowder on the kitchen table.

I think no matter what the occasion may be, you can never go wrong by showing up at the dinner table with a hot plate of fried chicken.

A loving silence often has more power to heal and to connect than the most well-intentioned words.

The family dinner table is the cornerstone of civilization and those who 'graze' from refrigerators or in front of the television sets are doomed to remain in a state of savagery.

You know, you really can't beat a household commodity - the ketchup bottle on the kitchen table.

Luxury lives in the finer details. It's a cloth napkin at a dinner table. It's a mint on your pillow before bed.

I never want to be that guy at a dinner table saying, 'I wish I could have dessert.' I actually went through a stage when I would order dessert first.

I hope we can get back to what I call the kitchen table. Everyday issues that people are really worried about and focused on.

The oldest form of theater is the dinner table.

Some of our most exquisite murders have been domestic, performed with tenderness in simple, homey places like the kitchen table.

Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry gets the best of the argument.

All you need is a pool table, beer, an electric jukebox and good conversation. The day a girl beats me in a game of Beirut [a kind of beer pong] is a good sign!

I started at 5 years old in the kitchen table with my family supporting me. I know where I'm from and I know exactly where I'm going.

I'm a child of the 50s. I was expected to have table manners. There needs to be some expectations for behavior. I'm seeing some children today, they don't push them enough.

What the ocean was to the child, the Periodic Table is to the chemist.

The element of surprise wasn't allowed near the Periodic Table.

You can find that sort of regularity in Stock Exchange quotations. [Expressing his lack of confidence in reported regularities in the periodic classification of elements.]

What we bring to the table is not only our 56 field offices in the United States and our number of resident agencies, but also we have 45 legal attaches overseas.

My grandfather was a chef for a Baron in Sicily before he came to America. I grew up with him. I used to do my homework at one end of the kitchen table while he cooked at the other end.

I do not recall a Jewish home without a book on the table.

The dinner table is a lively debate, and everybody weighs in in a different way. I like that, though.

I woke up to the world of science when my high school chemistry teacher introduced me to the elegantly ordered periodic table.

Most successful businesses in the country were started on a kitchen table. As long as people have needs unmet or problems unsolved, there are business opportunities.

Poor, darling fellow - he died of food. He was killed by the dinner table.

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

Comedy has always been important in my family. If you got in a good joke at the dinner table, it meant more than almost anything else.

I think to be oversensitive about cliches is like being oversensitive about table manners.

The oldest form of theater is the dinner table. It's got five or six people, new show every night, same players. Good ensemble; the people have worked together a lot.

The bed is now as public as the dinner table and governed by the same rules of formal confrontation.

I think if we all acted the way we felt, four out of eight people at a dinner table would be sitting there sobbing.

When I was in fourth grade, a novelist came to talk to my English class. She told us that being an author meant sitting at the kitchen table in pajamas, drinking tea with the dogs at your feet.

It's not even known how many kinds of cells there are in the brain. If you were looking for a periodic table of the brain, there is no such thing. I really like to think of the brain as a computer.

I was raised by a single psychologist mother and we spent every evening sitting at the kitchen table and dissecting our emotions and speculating about the inner life of everyone we knew.

My art career actually began under the kitchen table. My mother wanted to get me out of her hair while she cooked, so she laid out some paper and pencils on the floor under the kitchen table.

My parents discussed singing every night over the dinner table; I had a tremendous music education.

Sydney! Stop. Think of something else. Conjugate Latin verbs. Recite the periodic table.

... and holy hell the chocolate is so intense and pure it should be named an element and given a spot on the periodic table. It would be Ch, which isn't even taken.

I have a conscience, man, and I've worked really hard to keep it where you would feel like you were talking to the same man at one of my shows or sitting down at my dinner table.

There is a list of things Im not allowed to discuss at the dinner table! I am extraordinarily passionate about the Black Death, which is not something most people are into.