Tables Quotes

Prince Charles is very relaxed at the table, throwing his salad around willy-nilly. I didn't find him stiff at all.

I always hold out hope. Mediation is an opportunity for each side to present their case, and for us to get back to the table again.

The agendas on the management side of the table now are not in sync like they used to be because you have vastly different entities supplying programming to networks.

America was built on immigrants, and what they bring 'to the table.'

Tis not the food, but the content, That makes the table's merriment.

Look, the world is everywhere: satellites, end tables, the pink and white poinsettias outside the church; reunions and degrees. All those radiant asterisks . . . Soon it will all make sense.

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.

No matter where I go, I always make friends at the bridge table

Laws, written, if not on stone tables, yet on the azure of infinitude, in the inner heart of God's creation, certain as life, certain as death, are there, and thou shalt not disobey them.

I really don't want to thank my wife because I could be bussing tables at the Daily Grill right now if not for her. Jesus, what a gig that'd be.

The parties are the gamesters; but government keeps the table, and is sure to be the winner in the end.

We've got to recognize that when we march into Iraq, we're setting up the card tables in front of every university in the Arab world, the Islamic world, to recruit for al-Qaida.

We have two tables on our airplane that are set up with the games.

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.

You may abuse a tragedy, though you cannot write one. You may scold a carpenter who has made you a bad table, though you cannot make a table. It is not your trade to make tables.

People with big personalities are best in the center of the table. They can help carry the conversation from that place.

The rules of prudence, like the laws of the stone tables, are for the most part prohibitive. "Thou shalt not" is their characteristic formula.

Sometimes a crumb falls From the tables of joy, Sometimes a bone Is flung. To some people Love is given, To others Only heaven.

Einstein's results again turned the tables and now very few philosophers or scientists still think that scientific knowledge is, or can be, proven knowledge.

I don't go to restaurants, I go to tables.

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.

Everything is exactly as it is for a reason. The crumb on your table is no mystical reminder of this morning's cookie, it is there because you have chosen not to remove it. No exceptions.

If I have a rough day, and I'm angry, I'll just go into Kirk Douglas and throw over a table. And when I need to lift my spirits, Kermit can always do the trick.

I was the kid who was drawing on tables or removing the legs of furniture.

It really bothers me when people don't use coasters. Particularly on my table.

Reagan didn't put anything off the table, if he felt it was for the good of the American people to tweak the tax system.

For, after all, put it as we may to ourselves, we are all of us from birth to death guests at a table which we did not spread.

Whenever you see a gaming table be sure to know fortune is not there. Rather she is always in the company of industry.

[T]hey stretch you on a table. Then they bid you close your eyelids, And they mask you with a napkin, And the anæsthetic reaches Hot and subtle through your being.

Being famous gets me good concert tickets, good tables in restaurants, good seats at sporting events and that's really about it.

I suspect anyway that the important things we learn we never remember because they become a part of us, we absorb them...we don't absorb multiplication tables.

There was a note on my dressing room table that said, Call Neil Young.

Let us remember well, however, that whenever food is thrown out it is as if it were stolen from the table of the poor, from the hungry!

Everybody has something to bring to the table.

Breaking news is a thing that's on TV all day. 10 or 15 years ago, breaking news would get everybody around the table because it was going to be something huge.

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

His place was always set at the table, in case he rturned from the dead without warning .

Actors wait tables, directors work at video stores.

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

If I bring anything to the table, it's the fact that not everybody realizes they're funny. So I just point a finger.

The one thing a creator can bring to the table when everybody else has all the money and power is centeredness and the ability to walk away. Never sit at a table you can't walk away from.

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

She was a woman who, between courses, could be graceful with her elbows on the table.

Table talk and Lovers' talk equally elude the grasp; Lovers' talk is clouds, table talk is smoke.

Sit, Your High Majestic Lord Princes," she said. She yanked a chair from the table and sat herself down. "You're in fine temper," Raffin said. "Your hair is blue," Katsa snapped back.

English tradition debars from dinner-table conversation almost all topics that might interest the conversers and insists upon strict adherence to banalities.

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.

Elbows are never put on the table while one is eating.

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

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.