“ I've always been a tapper, as in, on tables, school desks, my legs and chest. I've eventually been able to figure out how to move that to the guitar. ”
- Ian Williams- Copy
- 587
“ She that with poetry is won, Is but a desk to write upon; And what men say of her they mean No more than on the thing they lean. ”
- Samuel Butler- Copy
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“ True luck consists not in holding the best of the cards at the table; luckiest is he who knows just when to rise and go home. ”
- John Hay- Copy
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“ You save an old man and you save a unit; but save a boy, and you save a multiplication table. ”
- Gypsy Smith- Copy
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“ TABLE D'HOTE, n. A caterer's thrifty concession to the universal passion for irresponsibility. Old Paunchinello, freshly wed, Took Madam P. to table, And there deliriously fed As fast as he was able. "I dote upon good grub," he cried, Intent upon its throatage… ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
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“ In later life, as in earlier, only a few persons influence the formation of our character; the multitude pass us by like a distant army. One friend, one teacher, one beloved, one club, one dining table, one work table are the means by which one's nation and the spirit of one's nation affect the individual. ”
- Jean Paul Richter- Copy
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“ Si vous reunissez a table une douzaine de personnes, il y a toujours une femme "qui fait la gueule", un monsieur qui s'ennuie, un homme qui parle trop et quelqu'un de distrait qui fait gaffe sur gaffe. Lorsque vous avez un medecin a votre table, pensez a mettre aupres de lui un bloc de papier et un stylo, afin qu'il puisse, entre la poire et le fromage, faire autant d'ordonnances qu'il y aura de convives… ”
- Sacha Guitry- Copy
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“ My ambition was to stop waiting tables. That was how I measured success: finally, I was able to stop waiting tables, and I was able to pay the rent, and that was by being a stand-up comic. Not a very good stand-up comic, but good enough to make a living. ”
- Graham Norton- Copy
- 406
“ One's need for loneliness is not satisfied if one sits at a table alone. There must be empty chairs as well. ”
- Karl Kraus- Copy
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“ Higher emotions are what separate us from the lower orders of life… Higher emotions, and table manners. ”
- Deanna Troi- Copy
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“ Rather, she simply is the Ultimate Hostess who tells you when your table's ready. It's up to other powers what section you're seated in ”
- John C. Straffin- Copy
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“ She was a woman who, between courses, could be graceful with her elbows on the table. ”
- Henry James- Copy
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“ Why you may take the most gallant sailor, the most intrepid airman, and th most audacious soldier, put them at a table together-and what do you get? The sum of their fears. ”
- Winston Churchill- Copy
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“ i like to have a martini, two at the very most - at three i'm under the table, at four, i'm under the host! ”
- Dorothy Parker- Copy
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“ Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity. ”
- Lord Acton- Copy
- 3.7K
“ Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shores our bed and eats at our own table. ”
- Herman Melville- Copy
- 1.1K
“ Sometimes it's like you're a big pie settin' on the table, and everybody runs up and gets their piece of you. When it's over, the plate's empty. ”
- Loretta Lynn- Copy
- 2.7K
“ Leadership in today's world requires far more than a large stock of gunboats and a hard fist at the conference table. ”
- Hubert H. Humphrey- Copy
- 973
“ A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek. ”
- Samuel Johnson- Copy
- 3.4K
“ Always rise from the table with an appetite, and you will never sit down without one. ”
- William Penn- Copy
- 1.4K
“ An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life. ”
- Jacques Prévert- Copy
- 22
“ Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table. ”
- W. H. Auden- Copy
- 2.5K
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