Table Quotes

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.

Fashionably amusing table manners are a matter of breaking the right rule at the right time.

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

Barbarism? That's ironic coming from a woman helping to prepare us for slaughter. And what's she basing our success on? Our table manners?

The most stable elements, Clarice, appear in the middle of the periodic table, roughly between iron and silver. Between iron and silver. I think that is appropriate for you.

I love to cook, and I love to have all my family around the dinner table.

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.

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

I still have a vivid memory of my excitement when I first saw a chart of the periodic table of elements.

At the dinner table, if you can't think of anything to say, sit quietly. Don't throw rolls, or chew on your napkin.

I grew up with a lot of dinner table conversations about health care and ways in which the system was inadequate for the needs of many of the patients they took care of.

There are times when wisdom cannot be found in the chambers of parliament or the halls of academia but at the unpretentious setting of the kitchen table.

The dinner table is a rite of civilization and we need to participate in that to keep our families together, to keep our communities together.

I'm terrified of walking into a room full of people. Sitting down at a dinner table with 15 strangers brings me out in a sweat.

My father was a news guy, you know, he was in radio news. And so that was sort of in my DNA. It was something we talked about at the dinner table when I was a kid.

This letter is written on the skin of one of the water sprites who drowned your parents.' 'Ick!' I cried, and dropped the letter on the kitchen table.

My parents never condescended to me. As a child, I always sat at the head of our dinner table. I was always given a lot of responsibility.

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

I think the sort of person you want at a party is someone who is self-aware, polite and has a basic knowledge of table manners. And that goes for both men and women.

The people I'm honored to represent in Missouri and all over the country want leaders to address their kitchen table everyday problems.

The family was an art ... and the dinner table was the place it found expression.

I want to focus on what are called kitchen table issues. You know, the ones that keep you up at night, like the cost of childcare and college and prescription drugs and so much else.

People come to my shows and know that they're going to hear about what's going on in the world - what's happening at the moment. My material is as new as anything on the dinner table.

My material is as new as anything on the dinner table. What difference does it make if I'm 70 or if I'm 20? The audience knows they aren't getting any old stories from me.

some mornings... I sit at the kitchen table shaking salt into the hairs on my arm, and a feeling shoves up in me: it's finished. Everything went past without me.

I never want to sort of put all the cards on the table all at once, because that's somehow there's always a journey to go on. There's always something to be revealed, in my mind, about characters.

I grew up in a show biz family and, if you wanted to talk at the dinner table, you'd better be prepared to talk about film.

They found me at the kitchen table. Derek said, "There's something we need to tell you," and from the look on Andrew's face, I think he expected Derek to say he'd gotten me pregnant.

I had the halfway house. I can't tell how many nights I spent around my kitchen table, soothing broken hearts.

Breaks like a ball falling off a pool table.

Sometimes [genius] is just the thing that emerges after twenty years of working at your kitchen table.

Oh, Zoe Kazan - I'd move back to Brooklyn for her. She makes me happy with my life. Knowing her, being at her dinner table, going on a walk with her is the best of all possible worlds.

Things it is not polite to discuss at the dinner table: politics, religion, and the walking dead.

I read like an animal. I read under the covers, I read lying in the grass, I read at the dinner table. While other people were talking to me, I read.

I kind of just put my boards together wherever I feel comfortable that day. It could be on the kitchen table, on the ground, on the couch, wherever.

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

I'm sitting at the dinner table, wearing my future mother-in-law's underwear. It's like some twisted dream that you wake up and thinkL Crikey Moses! Thank God that didn't really happen!

All I can think of is the emaciated bodies of children on our kitchen table as my mother prescribes what the parent's can't give. More food.

What was created by the era of the proper gentleman was excellent table manners and genocide over most of the surface of the planet.

Servant leadership teaches us that you have to lay your cards on the table.

A leader’s cross is the temporal pain they go through and his crown is the permanent gain when at last victory is achieved.

Only our faith will allow God to prepare the table in front our enemies

If you are on social media, and you are not learning, not laughing, not being inspired or not networking, then you are using it wrong.

Freedom of Speech doesn't justify online bullying. Words have power, be careful how you use them.

The only thing a closed book is good for is a table that wobbles. Be an open book.

If the home is a body, the table is the heart, the beating center, the sustainer of life and health.

On Love - Love without trust is the love you give a dog. You may call that cute little mutt a member of the family but you don't let him in the kitchen when there's a roast on the table.

I feign fullness, but in reality I am achingly empty. And it is because I too often sit at the table of the world instead of the feet of God.

What goes on between a man and his missus is nobody's business

She was at the same table near the back where three nights ago I'd sat entranced by her songs. And where the two of us had talked like old friends.