Kitchen Table Quotes - Page 2

• I want to focus on what are called kitchen table issues. You know, the ones that keep you up at night, like the cost of childcare and college and prescription drugs and so much else.

  Hillary Clinton

  Night, College, Issues

  Source: time.com

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• When people come up to me and say, "I was at your Game 7 in the playoffs in Toronto," or, "I saw your first goal in the NHL," that triggers memories. But I don't sit around my kitchen table and tell my kids, "You know, one year I got 92 goals."

  Wayne Gretzky

  Memories, Kids, Years

  "Wayne Gretzky on the love of his life". Interview with Jonathon Gatehouse, www.macleans.ca. October 6, 2016.

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• What happens at the average church or synagogue or mosque is that I don't know many priests or ministers or rabbis who say to their congregation, 'go home and talk about the religion at the kitchen table with your kids...talk about God, talk about what this is all about.' They say in general, come back on the weekend, we'll talk to you about it.

  Norman Lear

  Home, Kids, Weekend

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• When I'm writing in my bedroom, in a bar, at my kitchen table or wherever, I'm conjuring it all up on the page. That's all well and good, but it is going to be a limited perspective at that point and time. Occasionally, what I write might read really well initially, but then you change your mind while hunting for locations when you discover settings which offer even better opportunities for drama or dramatic staging.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Drama, Writing, Opportunity

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• Reading is performance. The reader--the child under the blanket with a flashlight, the woman at the kitchen table, the man at the library desk--performs the work. The performance is silent. The readers hear the sounds of the words and the beat of the sentences only in their inner ear. Silent drummers on noiseless drums. An amazing performance in an amazing theater.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Children, Reading, Men

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2004). “The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination”, p.143, Shambhala Publications

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• Like all our memories, we like to take it out once in a while and lay it flat on the kitchen table, the way my wife does with her sewing patterns, where we line up the shape of our lives against that which we thought it would be by now.

  Claire Vaye Watkins

  Memories, Wife, Kitchen

  Claire Vaye Watkins (2012). “Battleborn”, p.26, Granta Books

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• I remember writing 'The One I Can't Have' at the kitchen table. I was looking at a picture of Truman Capote with Marilyn Monroe and that's where I started. It doesn't make any sense because he was gay, but it was just the idea of the short guy and the beautiful blonde out of his league. That's where I started, but very quickly it became about me.

  Teddy Thompson

  Beautiful, Writing, Gay

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• I was born on the kitchen table. We were so poor my mother couldn't afford to have me; the lady next door gave birth to me.

  Mel Brooks

  Mother, Doors, Kitchen

  "Mel Brooks Is Always Funny and Often Wise in This 1975 Playboy Interview". Interview with Alex Belth, www.thedailybeast.com. February 16, 2014.

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• Sometimes [genius] is just the thing that emerges after twenty years of working at your kitchen table.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Years, Kitchen, Genius

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• My art career actually began under the kitchen table. My mother wanted to get me out of her hair while she cooked, so she laid out some paper and pencils on the floor under the kitchen table.

  Alton Tobey

  Mother, Art, Hair

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• My mom is one of those really angry moms who gets mad at absolutely everything. Once when I was a little kid, I accidentally knocked a Flintstones glass off the kitchen table. She said, 'Well, dammit, we can't have nice things.'

  Paula Poundstone

  Mom, Nice, Kids

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• My father had a phase of having jukeboxes all over the house. He was a music lover but he was also into musical machinery. Not instruments, he was never interested in playing particularly but there would be these odd objects, like valve amplifiers being dismantled on the kitchen table. My mum wasn't massively keen on that, but it was part of the environment.

  Squarepusher

  Father, House, Kitchen

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Perhaps the world will end at the kitchen table, while we are laughing and crying, eating of the last sweet bite.

  Joy Harjo

  Sweet, Laughing, Kitchen

  "The Woman Who Fell From the Sky". Book by Joy Harjo, www.npr.org. 1994.

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• When I got inside, I just sort of stood there. There's nothing stranger than the smell of someone else's house. The scent goes right to your stomach. Mary's house smelled like lemon furniture polish and oatmeal cookies and logs in a fireplace. For some reason it made me want to curl up in the fetal position. I could have slept right there on their kitchen table.

  Adam Rapp

  Smell, Oatmeal, House

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• When television families aren't gathered around the kitchen table exchanging wisecracks, they are experiencing brief but moving dilemmas, which are handily solved by the youngest child or by some cute extraterrestrial houseguest. Emerging from Family Ties or My Two Dads, we are forced to acknowledge that our own families are made up of slow-witted, emotionally crippled people who would be lucky to qualify for seats in the studio audience of JEOPARDY!

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Cute, Children, Dad

  Barbara Ehrenreich (1990). “WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES”, Pantheon

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• They found me at the kitchen table. Derek said, "There's something we need to tell you," and from the look on Andrew's face, I think he expected Derek to say he'd gotten me pregnant.

  Kelley Armstrong

  Thinking, Kitchen, Needs

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• He pulled my coat off my shoulders, looked at it with distaste, hung it on the back of one of the chairs pushed in under the kitchen table. "You are beautiful". No one had ever looked me in the eyes and said that. Eric to Sookie, Page 208.

  Charlaine Harris

  Beautiful, Eye, Kitchen

  Charlaine Harris (2009). “Sookie Stackhouse 8-copy Boxed Set”, p.921, Penguin

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• some mornings... I sit at the kitchen table shaking salt into the hairs on my arm, and a feeling shoves up in me: it's finished. Everything went past without me.

  Jennifer Egan

  Morning, Past, Hair

  Jennifer Egan (2010). “A Visit from the Goon Squad”, p.65, Anchor

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• ...when I came back, I found Mom sobbing at the kitchen table...Then I asked her what had happened. 'Nothing,'she said. 'I was thinking about that man...I started thinking about...if he and his wife and their other child are okay, and I don't know. It just got to me.' 'I know,' I said, because I did know. Sometimes it's safer to cry about people you don't know than to think about people you really love.

  Susan Beth Pfeffer

  Mom, Children, Thinking

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• All told, she owned fourteen books, but she saw her story as being made up predominantly of ten of them. Of those ten, six were stolen, one showed up at the kitchen table, two were made for her by a hidden Jew, and one was delivered by a soft, yellow-dressed afternoon.

  Markus Zusak

  Book, Two, Yellow

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• Scream at the mangled leather carcass lying at the foot of the stairs, and my parents would roar with laughter. "That's what you get for leaving your wallet on the kitchen table.

  David Sedaris

  Dog, Laughter, Lying

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• All I can think of is the emaciated bodies of children on our kitchen table as my mother prescribes what the parent's can't give. More food.

  Suzanne Collins

  Mother, Children, Thinking

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.80, Scholastic Inc.

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• How big are souls anyway?" asked Coraline. The other mother sat down at the kitchen table and leaned against the back wall, saying nothing. She picked at her teeth with a long crimson-varnished fingernail, then she tapped the finger, gently, tap-tap-tap against the polished black surface of her black button eyes.

  Neil Gaiman

  Mother, Wall, Eye

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• I learned early and at that kitchen table that there are ways of avoiding, without guilt, the commitments of love.

  P. D. James

  Commitment, Kitchen, Guilt

  P. D. James (2010). “The Children of Men”, p.40, Vintage

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• This letter is written on the skin of one of the water sprites who drowned your parents.' 'Ick!' I cried, and dropped the letter on the kitchen table.

  Charlaine Harris

  Water, Parent, Kitchen

  Charlaine Harris (2010). “Dead in the Family: A Sookie Stackhouse Novel”, p.58, Penguin

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