quotes about Napkins
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Never trust the food in a restaurant on top of the tallest building in town that spends a lot of time folding napkins.
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So precious a talent as intellect never was given to be wrapt in a napkin and buried in the earth.
-- Angelina GrimkeSource : Sarah Grimke, Angelina Grimke (2015). “On Slavery and Abolitionism: Essays and Letters”, p.96, Penguin
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Beauty without intelligence, is a masterpiece painted on a napkin.
-- Barbara Palvin -
It needs to be said that sometimes my mom forgets important details when she talks. Like the time she told us she was considering leather (couches, it turns out), or when I was little and she said, "Here's a napkin to put your balls in" (the Atomic Fireballs that I was eating, she meant).
-- Bill KonigsbergSource : Bill Konigsberg (2013). “Openly Straight”, p.93, Scholastic Inc.
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The most exciting business ideas fit on the back of an airplane napkin.
-- Carmine Gallo -
XML is not a language in the sense of a programming language any more than sketches on a napkin are a language.
-- Charles Simonyi -
When you start a show, the plans are not set in stone. They're really mutable, cocktail napkin sketches.
-- Eric KripkeSource : "Executive Producer Eric Kripke and New Show Runner Sera Gamble Interview SUPERNATURAL". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 24, 2010.
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All that changing of plates and flapping of napkins while you wait 40 minutes for your food.
-- Hugh Casson -
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We don't choose our talents; but we needn't hide them in a napkin because they are not just what we want.
-- Louisa May Alcott -
If I scribbled a few words on a cocktail napkin and showed it to my family, they'd proclaim it astonishing and more culturally relevant than the Bible.
-- Marisha Pessl -
When we ever invited the beast to dinner he didn't come in and swipe the napkins and start taking notes on the tablecloth 'bout how to take over the whole house?
-- Toni Cade Bambara -
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[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.
-- William Ernest Henley -
Dialogue is not just quotation. It is grimaces, pauses, adjustments of blouse buttons, doodles on a napkin, and crossings of legs
-- Jerome SternSource : Jerome Stern (2011). “Making Shapely Fiction”, p.14, W. W. Norton & Company