Tables Quotes - Page 9

• 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.

  David McCullough

  People, Flavor, Awful

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• I can assure you full immunity is not on the table. But your hand is.

  Jack Bauer

  Hands, Immunity

  "24: Live Another Day/ 8:00 p.m.-9:00 p.m". www.imdb.com. 2014.

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• I don't think there is anything good about fame. 'Tables in restaurants.' People say that but, then again, why don't you just call the day before? Or go eat somewhere else?

  Jodie Foster

  Thinking, Somewhere Else, People

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• I pretended I had urgent business at the prosecutor's table which, in one of The System's obvious tells, was always millimeters from the jury box.

  Sergio De La Pava

  Boxes, Obvious, Jury

  Sergio De La Pava (2012). “A Naked Singularity: A Novel”, p.82, University of Chicago Press

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• I fell in love with scent when I was a small boy.
  I was intrigued by how each bottle on my mother's dressing table
  gave such a different scent-each like a genie waving its spell,
  transporting us away from the mundane to worlds full of fantasy.

  Roja Dove

  Mother, Boys, Different

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• Find someone who disagrees and invite them to your table.

  Daryl Davis

  Invites, Disagree

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• If 'The Wild One' were filmed today, Marlon Brando and the Black Rebel Motorcycle Club would all have to wear helmets. I used to be afraid that when (Hells) Angels became movie stars and Cal the hero of the book, the bikerider would perish on the coffee tables of America. But now I think that this attention doesn't have the strength of reality of the people it aspires to know, and that as long as Harley-Davidsons are manufactured other bikeriders will appear, riding unknown and beautiful through Chicago, into the streets of Cicero.

  Danny Lyon

  Beautiful, Stars, Coffee

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• Table the label and wear your own name.

  Mr. T

  Names, Labels

  "Cheesy Mr. T. Clip Advises You to 'Table the Label'". www.moviefone.com. May 26, 2010.

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• Fortune provides a man's table with luxuries, virtue with only a frugal meal.

  Democritus

  Men, Luxury, Meals

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• Women must have seats at the table because peace is too crucial to be left only to the politicians or only to the male half of our world.

  Gloria Steinem

  Our World, Males, Half

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• Without fail, every cartoonist that I asked advice from bent over backward to be helpful and encouraging. It took many forms: some of it was just an implicit acceptance, like being invited along to the dinner with all of the good cartoonists, or sitting down at a drafting table with an artist and him showing me how to draw backgrounds and perspectives.

  Adrian Tomine

  Acceptance, Artist, Perspective

  Interview with Nicole Rudick, believermag.com. October 1, 2007.

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• I served as a missionary for my church. I served as a pastor in my congregation for about 10 years. I’ve sat across the table from people who were - were out of work and worked with them to try and find new work or to help them through tough times.

  Mitt Romney

  Years, People, Tough Times

  Mitt Romney at the Second Presidential Debate at Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York, www.nytimes.com. October 16, 2012.

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• I like being straightforward. We can deal with anything as long as it's on the table.

  Tory Burch

  Long, Straightforward, Deals

  "Meet Your Career Coach: Tory Burch". Interview with Cindi Leive, www.glamour.com. October 8, 2014.

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• I was dating a guy once who spoke rudely to a taxi driver. I got out of the cab and walked home. Treat people with respect. I've waited tables, and that's why I just exceedingly overtip. It's exhausting work.

  Kesha

  Home, People, Dating

  "Ke$ha: There's a Real Girl Underneath All That Glitter". Interview with Logan Hill, www.glamour.com. February 2, 2012.

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• Each individual has a responsibility to get out of bed, learn their ABCs, learn your math tables, not use race and racism as an excuse.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Responsibility, Math, Race

  "Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. October 21, 2013.

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• When I have children that go home and mom and dad are not home because they're working, they're trying to get food on the table, and they come home to an empty house and they go to sleep in an empty house, there is no way that child can compete against a child from the west side of Los Angeles who both parents went to Stanford. Well, good for them, God love them. That's not an equal playing field.

  Rafe Esquith

  Mom, Children, Dad

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Even with a round table, some people always seem able to sit at the head of it.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  People, Rounds, Seems

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• Mitt Romney has a new fundraising gimmick. If you donate $3 or more to his campaign, your name will be entered into a drawing to win a dinner with Mitt Romney and Donald Trump. If you donate more than $10, you get to sit at a different table.

  Jay Leno

  Winning, Names, Drawing

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• I find that I have painted my life, things happening in my life - without knowing. After painting the shell and shingle many times, I did a misty landscape of the mountain across the lake,
  and the mountain became the shape of the shingle - the mountain I saw out my window, the shingle on the table in my room. I did not notice that they were alike for a long time after they
  were painted.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Lakes, Knowing, Long

  Georgia O'Keeffe (1977). “Georgia O'Keeffe”, Viking Pr

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• Be able to set a table so that you feel like you're dining, not just sitting and eating.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Dining, Sitting, Like You

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• Some of us will never ever find true love. Take, for instance me. And I'm pretty sure that guy right there. And that lady with the sideburns. And basically everybody at table nine.

  Adam Sandler

  Guy, Nine, Finding True Love

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• It is not hard to compose but it is wonderfully hard to let the superfluous notes fall under the table. . . So many melodies fly about, one must be careful not to tread on them.

  Johannes Brahms

  Fall, Notes, Be Careful

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• A poem is a verbal artifact which must be as skillfully
  and solidly constructed as a table or a motorcycle.

  W. H. Auden

  Motorcycle, Artifacts

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• In mathematical science, more than in all others, it happens that truths which are at one period the most abstract, and apparently the most remote from all useful application, become in the next age the bases of profound physical inquiries, and in the succeeding one, perhaps, by proper simplification and reduction to tables, furnish their ready and daily aid to the artist and the sailor.

  Charles Babbage

  Artist, Profound, Age

  Charles Babbage, Peter Mark Roget (1989). “Reflections on the decline of science in England and on some of its causes: with a new appendix of correspondence by Charles Babbage & Peter M. Roget from the Philosophical magazine”

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• Harriet Beecher Stowe was thirty-nine when she began Uncle Tom's Cabin. She had given birth to seven children and seen one die. She wrote her book to be serialized in an abolitionist newspaper. Much of it she composed on the kitchen table in between the cooking, mending, tending to her house.

  Sophy Burnham

  Uncles, Children, Book

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