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I love nerds. Comic-Con junkies are the tastemakers of tomorrow. Isn't that funny? The tables have turned

India is content with itself, and driven by the will to sit on the high table of prosperity. It will not be deflected in its mission by noxious practitioners of terror.

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

The attitude and capacity of the factory, the old metal table and the new ideas of the wooden furniture quickly and naturally suggested the possibility of metal furniture.

Studies have been done showing that there really are gender differences, that women do bring more congeniality and compromise to the table.

What is fanaticism today is the fashionable creed tomorrow, and trite as the multiplication table a week after.

I know this is rather trivial - I will not be very deep about this - but it's great when you call the hottest restaurant in town and ask for a table for five at 8:00 P.M., and they say, 'Okay,' instead of, 'You have to wait two months.

Waiting tables has never paid my bills, a fact which I prefer to hide from my colleagues with deep sighs about the price of just about everything.

You know what they say: 'Why sit at a table that doesn't have key lime pie on it if you don't have to?'

There's not a huge pile of scripts at home. It's what happens to be on the table at that moment with your availability. And then you have no control over when these things come out.

I was a dishwasher at one of those Japanese places that cook on your table. Not too fun.

You know, you really can't beat a household commodity - the ketchup bottle on the kitchen table.

The fact is I'm an opportunist. I'll take materials around me, materials on my table, and work with them as I'm searching for an idea that works.

I started at 5 years old in the kitchen table with my family supporting me. I know where I'm from and I know exactly where I'm going.

Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.

Because I've lived in one room my entire life, working at the same table that you use to pay bills at and eat at. It's going to be nice to have actual space.

I don't like sitting at a table that's too large, where everyone is too far apart. That's a party killer.

At North Hollywood High School, I was shunned by everyone. I would sit down in the cafeteria, and students would get up from the table and walk away. They thought I was from the Mafia.

I can go into restaurants and a whole table will get up and clap if they recognize me, because they love Fox News. Other places - or even the same place - people will turn the other way.

I think to be oversensitive about cliches is like being oversensitive about table manners.

Starbucks was founded around the experience and the environment of their stores. Starbucks was about a space with comfortable chairs, lots of power outlets, tables and desks at which we could work and the option to spend as much time in their stores as we wanted without any pressure to buy. The coffee was incidental.

In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.

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.

Don't you understand how dramatic it is to be a comic? To be a fool, to get people to laugh at this show-off? Milton Berle could take Laurence Olivier and stick him under the table if he wanted to. And so could I.

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

You would not exist if you did not have something to bring to the table of life.

My kitchen is not a place to live in. I made it white so I can tell instantly if it's not clean-and I like it clean enough to be able to eat off the floors-or the tables,for that matter.

I shall not be satisfied unless I produce something which shall for a few days supersede the last fashionable novel on the tables of young ladies.

If players are performing for you, their age shouldn't really matter, especially because the older players can bring their experience to the table.

We were a very small circle of writers. Everybody brought to the table their own life experience.

I put steam on the table by being an actor. That is how I live. The longer I live, the more expensive it becomes. So I do my work. And I can't be immensely picky. How many beautiful scripts come in one's lifetime? I have had more than anybody, practically.

Leadership in today's world requires far more than a large stock of gunboats and a hard fist at the conference table.

Before I was ever a poet, my father was writing poems about me, so it was a turning of the tables when I became a poet and started answering, speaking back to his poems in ways that I had not before.

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

Me, I was waiting tables of 13 and married at 19. I graduated from public schools, and taught elementary school.

What I'm bringing to the pop table is that I'm not pretentious.

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.

I don't want to push the envelope. Let the envelope stay in the middle of the table. I'll just make you laugh.

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.

My family... always had the value of the family table and these cultural influences of growing up.

When a pile of cups is tottering on the edge of the table and you warn that they will crash to the ground, in South Africa you are blamed when that happens.

I know what it's like to be famous. It's good money and it's great fun. A real kick in the pants. People wave at you and smile at you. You get great tables in restaurants. They send you gifts - beautiful clothes and cars.

I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets. That kind of spilled out into translation as a way to earn money, pay for food and put bread on the table.

I do not recall a Jewish home without a book on the table.

I would sooner read a time-table or a catalogue than nothing at all. They are much more entertaining than half the novels that are written.

Prince Charles is very relaxed at the table, throwing his salad around willy-nilly. I didn't find him stiff at all.

Many casting directors won't hire aspiring actors because you might be burning some chick's headshot under the table so she doesn't get the part.

You cannot win if you're not at the table. You have to be where the action is.

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.

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

It is a religious duty for those who cook to learn how to prepare food in different ways, hygienically, for the table, so that it may be eaten with enjoyment.

My parents didn't know much science; in fact, they didn't know science at all. But they could recognize a science book when they saw it, and they spent a lot of time at bookstores, combing the remainder tables for science books to buy for me. I had one of the biggest libraries of any kid in school, built on books that cost 50 cents or a dollar.

All women, and men of color - we were owned like tables and chairs. We spent a hundred years getting a legal identity as human beings. That's a big thing.

What we're most proud of is are the young men and women that are sitting at these tables ... that are proof positive that this program is the most effective program in the nation when it comes to saving the next greatest generation. We will stay behind you all the way. You have a life partner for anything you want to do for the rest of your life with the National Guard.

When we first opened we wanted the restaurant to be slow- paced, the bar area with its couches to be medium-paced and this bit to be fast-paced. That's why we had square tables and wooden padded chairs here. The furniture wasn't bad but it was harder than it is now. Then we had a rethink and decided that really we didn't want anywhere in here to feel as though there should be a quick turnaround, so we moved in round tables and curved, leather seats.

We're getting a lay of the land. We're finding out where the microphones are, how they'll operate, which tables we're going be sitting at, how to present the exhibits -- the basic details that one wants to be familiar with when you're presenting a trial.

Waiting tables is tough work. But when I was doing it I was in the best shape of my life. I could eat anything I wanted and not gain a pound.

I saw in a dream a table where all the elements fell into place as required. Awakening, I immediately wrote it down on a piece of paper.

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

History is about life. It's awful when the life is squeezed out of it and there's no flavor left, no uncertainties, no horsing around. It always disturbed me how many biographers never gave their subjects a chance to eat. You can tell a lot about people by how they eat, what they eat, and what kind of table manners they have.

Playing an unamplified electric guitar is like strumming on a picnic table.

What I didn't realize is that the writing process for comedies is that you do your table read, and if you aren't funny on that first day during the table read, they take your jokes away and give them to somebody else.

Angels cry because they want to experience what you and I feel: the moment. They live in eternity. They dont know what it is like to read a newspaper and get ink on your fingers. They dont know what it is like to take your shoes off and wiggle your toes under the dinner table.

Under the imaginary table that separates me from my readers, don’t we secretly clasp each other’s hands?

Republican women bring an important voice to the table.

If you memorize the periodic table it will speed you up if you're a chemist, but by and large, the reason you have a periodic table is so that you can store that information outside of your body. That way it frees up some part of your brain to do something else.

Charity provides crumbs from the table; justice offers a place at the table.

This year women learned that if we aren't at the table, we're on the menu.

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

You have no idea, how much poetry there is in the calculation of a table of logarithms!

When everyone is really busy and feeling stressed out, often the time with your partner is one of the first things to get bumped. Stretching with your loved one turns the tables on the rat race, allowing you both to be in the moment and renewing your connection.

Diversity for the sake of diversity is not an accomplishment or a step forward. It's what you bring to the table.

I have this feeling that if I could sort out what's on my dining room table, everything would fall into place.

Usability methods are like sandpapering a chair. If you are making a chair, the sandpaper can make it smoother. But no amount of sandpaper will turn a chair into a table.

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

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.

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

I hate table reads. I hate anything where you have to say the words out loud.

Their kitchen is their shrine, the cook their priest, the table their altar, and their belly their god.

Theory of the true civilization. It is not to be found in gas or steam or table turning. It consists in the diminution of the traces of original sin.

True Civilization does not lie in gas, nor in steam, nor in turn-tables. It lies in the reduction of the traces of original sin.

In my life there are not that many questions I can't properly deal with using my $40 adding machine and dog-eared compound interest table.

Calvin is hammering nails into coffee table. Mom: CALVIN WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO THE COFFEE TABLE?!? Calvin: Is this some sort of trick question, or what?

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

I like people to just bring it to the table and feel the moment. And that's why I've never done a session where I don't sing live.

My parents were the traditional Filipino parents who didnt talk about money around the dinner table.

The walk downstairs to the breakfast table is excercise enough for any gentleman.

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

The Paris peace talks kept a roof over my head and food on the table and clothes on my back because if something was said going in or coming out, I had the rent for the month.

Keep computations to the lowest level of the multiplication table.

One must be able to say at all times--instead of points, straight lines, and planes--tables, chairs, and beer mugs

A hundred cabinet-makers in London can work a table or a chair equally well; but no one poet can write verses with such spirit and elegance as Mr. Pope.

A film is just like a muffin. You make it. You put it on the table. One person might say, Oh, I don't like it. One might say it's the best muffin ever made. One might say it's an awful muffin. It's hard for me to say. It's for me to make the muffin.

I think it was 1987 - something like that - or '86, and I thought, 'When you go equity and you're gonna get paid, you'll finally be able to make a living.' But it was not to be so. I always bartended and waited tables so I ended up not doing theater for about a year because nobody would hire me.

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

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

My tears simply broke through the fragile wallthat had held them, and with a terrible feeling of shame, I laid my head upon the table and let them drain out of me.

There is no national science, just as there is no national multiplication table; what is national is no longer science.

Wonder is the heaviest element on the periodic table. Even a tiny fleck of it stops time.

Some argued that the youth of today were poorly educated and insufficiently industrious, but one of them had sought to validate his generation by spending considerable time and effort chiseling an obscene word in the concrete picnic table, and he had spelled it correctly.