Quotes and Sayings About Tables
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I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.
-- A. N. Wilson -
At the banquet table of nature, there are no reserved seats. You get what you can take, and you keep what you can hold. If you can't take anything, you won't get anything, and if you can't hold anything, you won't keep anything. And you can't take anything without organization.
-- A. Philip Randolph -
Humanism is the philosophy that you should be a good guest at the dinner table of life.
-- A.C. Grayling -
Obviously a fake Kyp. You distract him. I'll shoot him under the table." Han (to Leia)
-- Aaron Allston -
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I leaned forward on the table and leveled her with my steady gaze. “Do not ever speak to her that way again. If she hadn’t agreed to come with me I wouldn’t have come. Don’t underestimate her importance. She’s mine. Respect that.
-- Abbi Glines -
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.
-- Abdallah II -
Whatever sense of professional competence we feel in adult life is less the sum of accomplishment than the absence of impossibility: it's really our relief at no longer having to do things we were never good at doing in the first place - relief at never again having to dissect a frog or memorize the periodic table.
-- Adam Gopnik -
You know, you really can't beat a household commodity - the ketchup bottle on the kitchen table.
-- Adlai E. Stevenson -
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Food was celebration, conversation, and nourishment. The table is where the big decisions of the family are made and all the arguing takes place.
-- Adriana Trigiani -
Art means nothing if it simply decorates the dinner table of power which holds it hostage.
-- Adrienne Rich -
All I needed was a steady table and a typewriter...a marble-topped bedroom washstand table made a good place; the dining-room table between meals was also suitable.
-- Agatha Christie -
At the small table, sitting very upright, was one of the ugliest old ladies he had ever seen. It was an ugliness of distinction - it fascinated rather than repelled.
-- Agatha Christie -
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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.
-- Aidan QuinnSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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I was raised by a single mother who made a way for me. She used to scrub floors as a domestic worker, put a cleaning rag in her pocketbook and ride the subways in Brooklyn so I would have food on the table. But she taught me as I walked her to the subway that life is about not where you start, but where you're going. That's family values.
-- Al SharptonSource : "Sharpton answers Bush in speech". www.cnn.com. July 29, 2004.
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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.
-- Alan K. Simpson -
I sleep with my gun on my bedside table. I live alone; it is my protection and makes me feel safer.
-- Alana StewartSource : "Alana Stewart: Hollywood honchos 'hypocritical' when it comes to guns". Interview with Hollie McKay, www.foxnews.com. January 30, 2013.
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It always seems that people who bring nothing to the table take the most from it.
-- Alec SulkinSource : Twitter post from May 31, 2011
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There goes a saying, and 'twas shrewdly said, ''Old fish at table, but young flesh in bed.
-- Alexander Pope -
The things that you can't really foresee and that kind of surprise you, and a lot of times they are bad, but other times, they bring something different and new to the table.
-- Alexander WangSource : Source: www.elle.com
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Cherie, did the table do something I did not see or were you just attempting to teach it a lesson?" "I was imagining it was Evor." "Strange that they do not resemble each other." "I have a good imagination." "Ah, in that case, I do not suppose you are imagining I'm Brad Pitt?
-- Alexandra Ivy -
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In those days, between the ages of 12 and 18 you meant nothing. You were the extra place at the side table if someone came to dinner. You were of no interest to anyone.
-- Alexis Korner -
Some of our most exquisite murders have been domestic, performed with tenderness in simple, homey places like the kitchen table.
-- Alfred Hitchcock -
Our full humanity is contingent on our hospitality; we can be complete only when we are giving something away; when we sit at the table and pass the peas to the person next to us we see that person in a whole new way.
-- Alice Waters -
My dressing table was willed to me, with some of my furniture.
-- Alicia Markova -
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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.
-- Ally Carter -
Look around the table. If you don't see a sucker, get up, because you're the sucker.
-- Amarillo SlimSource : "Amarillo Slim obituary" by Michael Carlson, www.theguardian.com. May 4, 2012.
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You'd never catch me dancing on tables in public. I have no desire to be known for my personal life.
-- America FerreraSource : "Surprise! She's a Bombshell (and You Can be One Too)". Interview with Laurie Sandell, www.glamour.com. September 2, 2007.
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I write by myself initially. That's the way I've always written, just working on pure thought by myself. Then I bring it to the table with whoever I'm collaborating with.
-- Amy Lee -
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Do not speak of repulsive matters at table.
-- Amy VanderbiltSource : Amy Vanderbilt (1954). “Amy Vanderbilt's complete book of etiquette: a guide to gracious living”
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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.
-- Anastasia MyskinaSource : "Henin-Hardenne survives in Qatar", cnn.com. March 3, 2004.