Tables Quotations

He was an innovator, an experimenter, a missionary in bringing the gospel of good cooking to the home table.

I hate to think of the day when nobody remembers me as an actor and I can't get good tables in restaurants.

I have always been fascinated by fashion. I never had any interest in waiting tables or bar-tending, so retail was sort of my best option.

Negotiations are a euphemism for capitulation if the shadow of power is not cast across the bargaining table.

It was exactly an assembly line. You could look into infinity down these rows of drawing tables.

If you come to a negotiation table saying you have the final truth, that you know nothing but the truth and that is final, you will get nothing.

Dining rooms are really all about the table and the chairs.

I still have a vivid memory of my excitement when I first saw a chart of the periodic table of elements.

If you're not at the table, you're on the menu

If I have a rough day, and I'm angry, I'll just go into Kirk Douglas and throw over a table. And when I need to lift my spirits, Kermit can always do the trick.

The concept that flourished during the most glorious periods of republican Rome and that appeared in the Twelve Tables of the Law as one of the first, though as yet imperfect, affirmations of the rights of man, inspired the struggle between patricians and plebeians.

Some of our most exquisite murders have been domestic, performed with tenderness in simple, homey places like the kitchen table.

I've always believed that the things middle class families struggle with around their kitchen tables should define my work in Washington.

I have the cliche 'struggling actor' story. I was waiting tables in New York, went out to L.A. soon after graduation to get some jobs, but it didn't work out. I wanted to cut my teeth in professional theater, so I came back to New York. It made my journey a longer one, but I really wanted to excel in the theater.

About seven years later I was given a book about the periodic table of the elements. For the first time I saw the elegance of scientific theory and its predictive power.

Dessert is probably the most important stage of the meal, since it will be the last thing your guests remember before they pass out all over the table.

People crave trustworthy information about the world we live in. Some people want it because it is essential to the way they make a living. Some want it because they regard being well-informed as a condition of good citizenship. Some want it because they want something to exchange over dinner tables and water coolers.

News channels have always had interview shows, but we need different kinds of interviews with different kinds of interviewers - interviewers who bring different life experiences to the table.

I obsess everyday about everything. Not only about what we do well but what we can do better... In the end, the only reason I am motivated to do what I do is for the hedonistic pleasures of the table.

It is not hard to compose, but what is fabulously hard is to leave the superfluous notes under the table.

I have traveled a long road from the battlefield to the peace table.

Well, capitalism is going to grow and grow. The nature of it is that the guy who has the most poker chips on the table has more leverage than everyone else. He can eventually outbluff everyone else and outraise everyone else at the table. That's what has happened and it needs to be corrected.

So when it was my turn to start developing projects, I knew the writers I wanted to work with, and I had met every head of studio, every executive and a lot of producers. I started finding things, little crumbs off other people's tables that I would make my own.

I recognize that as governor, my job is to sit on the other side of the table from the public sector unions and negotiate effectively on behalf of all the taxpayers of the state, including all of you.

The one happiness is to shut one's door upon a little room, with a table before one, and to create; to create life in that isolation from life.

I love to cook, and I love to have all my family around the dinner table.

I first fell in love with music when I was a little boy. When I first heard music, I felt the beauty in it. Then, being able to tap along on a table top and box was great, but my favorite thing to do was to watch records spin. I would almost get hypnotized by it. These things are what drew me in initially.

We've got to get women to sit at the table.

If you take the approach that you want to scrape every last nickel off the table, that'll work one or two times, but after awhile, your reputation will precede you.

I wasn't a very good waitress, always spilling things on people and forgetting things. I once spilled ashes all over Mike Wallace's table.

Once I was in a cafe in Portland and the woman at the next table and I began chatting and in the course of our conversation she strongly recommend I visit this web site called 'The Rumpus' so I could read this advice column called 'Dear Sugar.' It was so painful not to tell her that in fact I was Sugar, but I didn't.

The only thing I'm looking for in life is incredible passion and honest love, no matter what options are on the table. All I really operate on is the way I feel in my heart when it comes to love.

April in Paris, chestnuts in blossom, holiday tables under the trees.

No family should have to depend on the labor of its children to put food on the table and no person should be forced to work in captivity.

If you're playing a poker game and you look around the table and and can't tell who the sucker is, it's you.

Leave the table while you still feel you could eat a little more.

I can trace every romance of my life back to a meal. My memories are enhanced by the tender morsels had at tables across from lovers, on blankets with friends who'd eventually become more, in banquets, barbecues, and breakfasts.

The dinner table is a lively debate, and everybody weighs in in a different way. I like that, though.

My uniform is sweatpants, so crusted over with dried paint that they're as hard as a table. I wear T-shirts that are also covered in paint, and Crocs.

Canceling my landline phone account, cutting off service to my home for good, and rendering the telephones that had long sat on tables in every room as useless as my closeted bread machine, I took the final step in a lifelong attempt to free myself from the wires that tethered me.

It's important for me who is at the table with me; the moment when everyone speaks to each other and everyone listens. If there's good food, it's much better.

I see the same coffee table everywhere. It's mass marketing.

They had me on the operating table all day. They looked into my stomach, my gall bladder, they examined everything inside of me. Know what they decided? I need glasses.

I like the club. It looks nice with all the tables out. They were freaking out, the Gilly's people.

My material is as new as anything on the dinner table. What difference does it make if I'm 70 or if I'm 20? The audience knows they aren't getting any old stories from me.

You can't go to a negotiating table pointing a gun, but you've got to keep it over your shoulder.

The agendas on the management side of the table now are not in sync like they used to be because you have vastly different entities supplying programming to networks.

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

The restaurant business had a profound effect on my future and that of my two brothers. When we were able to stand on a stool to reach the sink, we washed dishes, and later, when we could see over the counter, we waited tables and managed the cash register.

Einstein's results again turned the tables and now very few philosophers or scientists still think that scientific knowledge is, or can be, proven knowledge.

I remembered watching the film from Alfred Hitchcock, 'Dial M for Murder,' and he shot almost all of that movie in one room. There was a genius in what Hitchcock did by manipulating things in that room so that you could see the distances between things like the tables and the vases because of how he used perspective.

At a flea market I always head for the junk jewelry table first.

Being famous gets me good concert tickets, good tables in restaurants, good seats at sporting events and that's really about it.

Politicians are nauseating by definition... They can produce nothing, neither a loaf of bread nor a table nor a picture; and this inability to create value, this total inferiority, makes them jealous, vengeful, insolent and a menace to life and limb.

I got a very good life. I sold plenty of records, I get recognized plenty, I can always have somebody call up and get me a fine table at a restaurant. What do you really need, ultimately?

I've never been to a dinner party where everyone at the dinner table didn't say something funny.

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.

At one time Tribune Syndicate emptied out their storeroom. They put tables full of original cartoons down in the lobby and said take one if you want one. The comics were simply a burden to them.

Poor, darling fellow - he died of food. He was killed by the dinner table.

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 am deluded enough to think I can bring something to the table.

No pen, no ink, no table, no room, no time, no quiet, no inclination.

I'm not playing myself. It's a symbolic situation, where I want to introduce a fascist behind the table. I couldn't have had anybody else do that; for it to be successful, I had to do it myself.

I used to do my Nelson Mandela voice to blag restaurant tables in Cape Town. It rarely worked. Now what a great city that is.

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

There are advantages to being a star though - you can always get a table in a full restaurant.

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.

It really bothers me when people don't use coasters. Particularly on my table.

No matter what message you are about to deliver somewhere, whether it is holding out a hand of friendship, or making clear that you disapprove of something, is the fact that the person sitting across the table is a human being, so the goal is to always establish common ground.

I'm looking for laughs, you know? If it take me to flip over a table, if I have to go physical comedy, I will do it. But whatever the joke needs at that particular time, is where I'm dedicated to. I'm not into beating somebody down and beating myself up. I don't do insults and things like that. I don't do it - I'm a storyteller.

I'm not lonely, and I think that has a lot to do with what's on my bedside table rather than what's in my bed.

I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.

The most all penetrating spirit before which will open the possibility of tilting not tables, but planets, is the spirit of free human inquiry. Believe only in that.

I vertically center things in tables a lot, and the fact that there is no way to control vertical positioning in divs affects the way we do things across the board.

Any director, if you really ask them, will tell you that the toughest thing to do is like a dinner table or a dialogue scene because you need to keep that electricity maintained throughout the course of the film.

That Sinn Fein, as I've already indicated, their leaders have already indicated that's what they want to achieve - once we get that credible statement, then we can get around the table and start to move forward, and I'm confident we can do so.

Don't underestimate the importance of having enough room to work. Grilling is much more relaxing when you are not trying to juggle a whole collection of plates and bowls as you do it. If your grill doesn't have enough workspace - and they almost never do - set up a table right next to your grill.

In order to be a good actor, I'm a firm believer that you need to bring something to the table.

An SF author who reads only SF will have little new to contribute, but someone with a broader experience will bring more to the table.

It is critical that the American people, and not just their financial institutions, be represented at the negotiating table.

But I don't begrudge anybody, because I know how hard it is to have that dream and to make it happen, whether or not it's just to put a roof over your head and food on the table.

Make your free men and guests sit as far as possible at tables on either side, not four here and three there.

I came literally to the table with a wealth of knowledge by simply understanding how food should taste.

I sleep with my gun on my bedside table. I live alone; it is my protection and makes me feel safer.

Comedy has always been important in my family. If you got in a good joke at the dinner table, it meant more than almost anything else.

In order to get somewhere in life, you need to have a vision. The vision brings you to the table. Without a vision, you just do what everybody else does and you are just there.

I believe in just enriching the economy. And we're leaving so much on the table, 72 percent of the planet.

The most important thing is that Milosevic agreed to sit at the negotiating table with the Kosovo Albanians

I majored in musical theatre performance at college, then went through years of waiting tables and temping while looking for acting work.

The way you have bipartisan negotiations, you sit down across the table, as we did with Ted Kennedy, as I've done with many other members, and you say, 'OK, here's what I want, here's what you want. We'll adhere to your principles, but we'll make concessions.'

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.

I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.

Aren't we at the point where the closer we get to chaos, the more concern that there should be about coming to the table and compromising with Democrats? This is not leadership. This is almost like dictatorship.

Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity.

Social Security's not the hard one to solve. Medicare, that is the gorilla in the room, and you've got to put all of it on the table.

Use a make-up table with everything close at hand and don't rush; otherwise you'll look like a patchwork quilt.

I was very happy sitting alone at a dining room table, writing a script.

I like doing food as a focal point on my table. It is not like going out and buying flowers or candles, which are expensive.

I started singing in coffeehouses when I was still in high school, in Santa Barbara. I took a job washing dishes and busing tables in the coffeehouse, so I could be there, and would beg permission to sing harmony with the guy who was singing onstage. That was the first time I ever got on a stage in front of people.