Tables Quotes

Lindsay Doran goes round the table and introduces everyone - making it clear that I am present in the capacity of writer rather than actress, therefore no one has to be too nice to me.

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

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.

Hope in gates, hope in spoons, hope in doors, hope in tables, no hope in daintiness and determination. Hope in dates.

Buy whatever kids are selling on card tables in their front yard.

I am deluded enough to think I can bring something to the table.

We have the most skillful, firecest, and certainly the most ethical ground forces in the world... I'm not saying we have to commit right now, but certainly don't pull it off the table.

I'd been out in Los Angeles for about eight years, knocking around. I actually, instead of waiting tables, worked in offices as a temporary assistant.

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

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.

Fusion is the future. The mixing of ideas. The two lunch tables working together. Humanity...we're 1 people.

For me, my 20s were all about reaching for the brass ring of work in theater, television, and film, surviving in between by waiting tables, painting houses, serving coffee, and temping.

Men think monogamy is something you make dining tables out of.

I'm very comfortable being married to an extremely strong, opinionated, and driven woman. But I also sit at the head of the table. I have both of those sides to me.

Mum would have a panic attack if she had to stand up and give a speech around a table.

Always remember to set a place at the table of life for the unexpected guest.

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

Be the smartest at the table and you can wear whatever you want.

It is the fact that the electrons cannot all get on top of each other that makes tables and everything else solid.

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.

The vote on the Peacekeeper is also a vote on Geneva. Rejecting the Peacekeeper will knock the legs out from under the negotiating table. (On importance of the MX missile)

I like being straightforward. We can deal with anything as long as it's on the table.

A poem is a verbal artifact which must be as skillfully and solidly constructed as a table or a motorcycle.

Why can't the Arabs and Jews resolve their disagreements at the conference table like good Christians?

I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.

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

Our response has been, "Well, let's then make an effort to get the Israelis and the Palestinians to sit around the table." That hasn't happened. So we only have ourselves to blame for this crisis.

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.

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.

Iran is the only country around the negotiating table that has not been attacked by either al-Qaida or Daesh.

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

I like the level of fame that I have. You get nice tables in restaurants sometimes, but fame isn't something that I find comfortable.

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

I sleep with my gun on my bedside table. I live alone; it is my protection and makes me feel safer.

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.

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.

Do not speak of repulsive matters at table.

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.

That child whose mother has never smiled upon him is worthy neither of the table of the gods nor the couch of the goddesses.

You remove heavy metals out of the ground and you turn that into tables, and houses and bridges and dreams for people in the developing world. I love doing that.

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

I could teach. I could wait tables. I could cook in a restaurant. Food and teaching were the two skills I had.

Society prizes a girl for being thin more than anything else she might bring to the table.

When you pick up a novel from the bed side table, you put down your own life at the same time and you become another person for the duration.

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

The place I feel most at home is when I have health insurance. I really don't care how I get it, whether it's on film, or television or waiting tables, you know?

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

In high school, everybody rapped. You just pounded on the table.

Dining rooms are really all about the table and the chairs.

I'm still the girl that might get up to dance on the table. It's just who I am, and I'm going to be me and that's it.