Napkins Quotations

She's been on more laps than a napkin.

When you start a show, the plans are not set in stone. They're really mutable, cocktail napkin sketches.

XML is not a language in the sense of a programming language any more than sketches on a napkin are a language.

I find that a shirt is most similar to a napkin when I don't have a napkin.

So precious a talent as intellect never was given to be wrapt in a napkin and buried in the earth.

Never trust the food in a restaurant on top of the tallest building in town that spends a lot of time folding napkins.

I had an American journalist say to me, "Is it true you wrote the whole of the first novel on napkins?" I was tempted to say, "On teabags, I used to save them.

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

Bring mine unopened, with a napkin and an opener. (Blaine) What? Afraid I’m going to spit in it, big boy? (Aimee)

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.

We don't choose our talents; but we needn't hide them in a napkin because they are not just what we want.

Never buy anything that you can't illustrate on the back of a napkin.

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?

[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.

Imagine censors that wouldn't let you sit in a man's lap. I've been in more laps than a napkin!

The censors wouldn't even let me sit on a guy's lap, and I've been on more laps than a table-napkin.

Keeping even the most humble talent wrapped in a napkin becomes the more reprehensible the greater the emergency.

When trying to seduce a woman, a writer says: 'I'm a writer', and scribbles a poem on a napkin. It always works.