Tables Quotes - Page 6

• I try to keep my characters raising more questions than giving answers. I don't want to leave too much on the table. I want you to have your connection and your secret understanding of the character.

  Nicolas Cage

  Character, Giving, Understanding

  "SDCC 2010: Nicolas Cage, Amber Heard and William Fichtner Interview DRIVE ANGRY 3D". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 1, 2010.

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• He [Lyndon Johnson] hated the war. He hated having anybody put in harm away. But he believed that what we were doing is what we had to do for our commitments with SEATO, for many reasons. And he was carrying forth a policy that he had inherited. And he tried and got us to the peace table in 1968.

  Lynda Bird Johnson Robb

  War, Commitment, Reason

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• America's cultural table is set by the people living in the three bubbles - New York Washington D.C. and Hollywood.

  Mike Huckabee

  Leadership, Christian, New York

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• If we were made to watch a doctor pull off the little baby's legs and arms one by one and place them on the table like a dentist removing cotton from your mouth - if all Americans were made to see what it really is, the pro-life goal of abortion being unthinkable (not just illegal) would be much nearer.

  John Piper

  Baby, Doctors, Goal

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• [T]he 47th proposition in Euclid might now be voted down with as much ease as any proposition in politics; and therefore if Lord Hawkesbury hates the abstract truths of science as much as he hates concrete truth in human affairs, now is his time for getting rid of the multiplication table, and passing a vote of censure upon the pretensions of the hypotenuse.

  Sydney Smith

  Hate, Science, Ease

  SYDNEY SMITH (1839). “The Works”, p.374

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• Relationships have always seemed very mysterious, and therefore worth exploring. I’m single, so it’s still kind of a mystery - a worthwhile mystery, one that I want to be on the scent of. 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.

  Michelle Williams

  Lonely, Thinking, Bed

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  Carlos Santana

  Angel, Shoes, Toes

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• Judges ought above all to remember the conclusion of the Roman Twelve Tables :The supreme law of all is the weal [weatlh/ well-being] of the people.

  Francis Bacon

  Law, Judging, People

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• To the table or to bed, you must come when you are bid.

  Laura Esquivel

  Bed

  Laura Esquivel (2010). “Like Water For Chocolate”, p.5, Random House

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• If you accept that human beings are difficult to change, and embrace (rather than curse) the uniqueness that everyone brings to the table, you’ll navigate the world with more bliss and effectiveness. And make better decisions, too.

  Seth

  Effectiveness, Decision, World

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• Yeah, Under The Table And Dreaming shaped the way that I think about writing songs.

  John Mayer

  Dream, Song, Writing

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• I mean if there are going to be missiles that are going off and there are going to be going off over Canadian airspace whether we want it or not, no I don't think that is acceptable. I think that we want to be at the table.

  Paul Martin

  Mean, Thinking, Want

  "CTV Question Period", April 27, 2003.

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• MY TOUGHEST MATCH; is not on the mat. It's at the dinner table and it's at fast food restaurants. It's hearing about the party I can Never go to. It's realizing being a Great Wrestler isn't a sport, It's a LIFE.

  Stephen Neal

  Sports, Party, Dinner

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• I went to this restaurant last night that was set up like a big buffet in the shape of an Ouija board. You'd think about what kind of food you want, and the table would move across the floor to it.

  Steven Wright

  Kindness, Food, Moving

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• Scallops are expensive, so they should be treated with some class. But then, I suppose that every creature that gives his life for our table should be treated with class.

  Jeff Smith

  Food, Class, Giving

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• Our deep respect for the land and its harvest is the legacy of generations of farmers who put food on our tables, preserved our landscape, and inspired us with a powerful work ethic.

  James H. Douglas

  Powerful, Land, Work Ethic

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• 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.

  Michelle Williams

  Lonely, Thinking, Bed

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Oh, Zoe Kazan - I'd move back to Brooklyn for her. She makes me happy with my life. Knowing her, being at her dinner table, going on a walk with her is the best of all possible worlds.

  Michelle Williams

  Moving, Knowing, Brooklyn

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• Unless you turn out to be a shining and ballistic genius, then, trust me, if you want to do this then you're going to be spending the next few years doing little else. This is a thing you do at a table with a notebook and a keyboard, and there's no getting away from it. Put in the hours. You don't get to turn off 'being a writer.'

  Warren Ellis

  Notebook, Years, Shining

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• Another tormentor inquired if it was true that I had installed two ping-pong tables in my basement. I asked, was it a crime? No, he said, but why two? Is that a crime? I countered, and they all laughed.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Two, Mentor, Ping Pong

  Vladimir Nabokov (1992). “Pale fire”

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

  Joe Murray

  Memories, Elements, Vivid

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• There are a lot of people who must have the table laid in the usual fashion or they will not enjoy the dinner.

  Christopher Morley

  Fashion, People, Dinner

  CHRISTOPHER MORLEY (1923). “INWARD HO!”

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• Government schools, with your tax money, now discourage the teaching of multiplication tables by rote memorization but teach reading by the 'look-and-say' method which is memorization of spelling patterns. In doing so, they ensure that children will neither be able to read nor calculate.

  Greg Perry

  Education, Children, Teaching

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• I prefer the Chinese method of eating.... You can do anything at the table except arm wrestle.

  Jeff Smith

  Food, Cooking, Chinese

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• Tea at college was served on long tables with an urn at the end of each. Long baguettes of bread, three to a table, were set out with meagre portions of butter and jam; the china was coarse to withstand the schoolboy-clutch and the tea strong. At the Hôtel de Paris I was astonished at the fragility of the cups, the silver teapot, the little triangular savoury sandwiches, the éclairs stuffed with cream.

  Graham Greene

  Strong, Food, College

  Graham Greene (1966). “The Comedians”

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