Tables Quotes

You want a round table meeting, we can have a round table meeting." "I love round tables," said Magnus brightly. "They suit me so much better than square.

I have a Damien Hirst spot painting which I love. It has pride of place over my dining-room table.

Republican women bring an important voice to the table.

Modeling was successful for me. I didn't have to wait tables or anything like that, so that was nice. And I got to see the entire world.

I didn’t know that it was going to launch a quote-unquote comedic career. I just wanted to do anything other than wait tables.

I waited tables in New York, and when you're in that line of work, you often have a horrible boss.

A family unity which is only bound together with a table-cloth is of questionable value.

I'm not one of those actors who sits around the table and intellectualizing anything, or discusses much of anything. Everything for me is intuitive and instinctive.

I can't cook, but I have a nice book of menus... and I can plate and set the table.

On reflection,’ Crake said to Frey, as they huddled behind an upturned table, ‘this wasn’t one of your better plans.

Constant companionship is not enjoyable, any more than constant eating. We sit too long at the table of friendship, when we outsit our appetites for each other's thoughts.

My body can't put anyone in jeopardy of not making money anymore - my body is just not on the table that way anymore.

I see the strongest and the smartest men who have ever lived... and these men are pumping gas and waiting tables.

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

Some McDonald's restaurants are taking reservations on Valentine's Day. They are getting a lot of tables for one.

I don't think I can remember a moment in my life where people didn't discuss politics. People discuss politics at the table.

I lived at home for 2 1/2 months each time. I waited tables at Govnr's Park Tavern in Denver and then I moved on.

Diplomacy is not merely talking somebody into something; it's talking to somebody from a position of strength. You put your power on the table to open up the conversation; that's diplomacy.

Sometimes I just want to sit and write at a clean table and not get paint all over my hands.

Nebraskans have very strong opinions, but we sit down around a table and we solve our problems.

I've noticed that when I am selling a lot of records, certain things become easier. I'm not talking about getting a table in a restaurant.

I'm having trouble warming up to Mitt Romney. He looks like the guy in the restaurant that comes to your table to make sure everything's all right.

I have to make what I see, whether it's a painting, a table, or a movie, or it's like a death and what would be the point of that?

If I were president, I would turn the tables and allow the fetus to abort its mother.

With me, everything's right on the table.

It is far easier to explain to a three-year-old how babies are made than to explain the processes whereby bread or sugar appear on the table.

I'd rather be at home with 12 people around the table.

We have a president [Barack Obama] that can't sit them [companies] around a table and get them to approve something.

I would never take any of my cards off the table.

I'm not going to use nukes, but I'm not taking cards off the table.

I turn the tables and challenge our people, our scouts, and they respond. We had a meeting with our scouts this week and told them [we] will use and value their opinions. That perks them up.

Most people that commit to a life of celibacy weren't leaving that much on the table in the first place.

To be grown up is to sit at the table with people who have died, who neither listen nor speak.

The very good thing about MFA programs is their democratizing. They bring a lot of different people to the table.

Fame means absolutely nothing except a good table at a restaurant.

I hope to be 70 and sitting at the table with journalists, talking about my films.

When one is a child, the disposition of objects, tables and chairs and doors, seems part of the natural order: a house-move lets in chaos - as it does for a dog.

All my life I have said, "Whatever happens there will always be tables and chairs"--and what a mistake.

I had been invited to speak after the lunch. But I did not go to the table until the feast ended, as I never like to eat or talk before speaking.

I had a hollow leg. I could drink everyone under the table and not get drunk. My capacity was terrifying.

I love furniture. And I thought, why are we not seeing who's making the cool new coffee table and these new designs that come out?

At a party, I am the kind of girl who will wait until the end of the night before I really get going. I'm a little anti-social at first, but I'm not immune to dancing on tables either.

I don't consciously seek out Australian projects. I put them on the same table as all the other scripts and I wouldn't ever do a film just because it's been shot at home.

Playing drums or music, being a musician, is inside of you. So you would always see me tapping on something, playing on tables... I never felt the need to pull out drums.

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."

What has impressed me the most about the Italians whose tables we've sat at is that they are traditional cooks but also outrageously innovative. These people are wild improvisers.

And the test for any actor is whether you stay at the table or go away.

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

In the creative arts you draw a special power. The discipline required is awesome to be an actor or an actress, to be really good, not just another one waiting tables.

Be honest about who you are and what your bringing to the table and what your expectations are.