Table Quotes

There is no national science, just as there is no national multiplication table; what is national is no longer science. (Anton Chekhov)
People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas. View quote
Bob Dylan
All great change in America begins at the dinner table. View quote
Ronald Reagan
An orange on the table Your robe on the carpet And you in my bed Sweet present of the present Coolness of the night Warmth of my life. View quote
Jacques Prévert
She was a woman who, between courses, could be graceful with her elbows on the table. View quote
Henry James
Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table. View quote
W. H. Auden
A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek. View quote
Samuel Johnson
On the Continent people have good food; in England, people have good table manners. View quote
George Mikes
In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk - they are all part of the curriculum. View quote
Michel de Montaigne
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. View quote
Desmond Tutu
When a pile of cups is tottering on the edge of the table and you warn that they will crash to the ground, in South Africa you are blamed when that happens. (Desmond Tutu)
I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck. View quote
Emma Goldman
I've learned that in order to achieve what I wanted, it made more sense to negotiate than to defend the autonomy of my work by pounding my fist on the table. View quote
Thom Mayne
There is a significant moral difference between a person who commits a violent crime and a person who tries to cross a border illegally in order to put food on the family table. Such migrants my violate our laws against illicit entry, but if that's all they do they are trespassers, not criminals. They deserve to have their dignity respected. View quote
Madeleine Albright
The roulette table pays nobody except him who keeps it. Nevertheless, a passion for gaming is common, though a passion for keeping roulette wheels is unknown. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
Every fat person says it's not their fault, that they have gland trouble. You know which gland? The saliva gland. They can't push away from the table. View quote
Jesse Ventura
I have presented the periodic table as a kind of travel guide to an imaginary country, of which the elements are the various regions. This kingdom has a geography: the elements lie in particular juxtaposition to one another, and they are used to produce goods, much as a prairie produces wheat and a lake produces fish. It also has a history. Indeed, it has three kinds of history: the elements were discovered much as the lands of the world were discovered; the kingdom was mapped, just as the world was mapped, and the relative positions of the elements came to take on a great significance; and the elements have their own cosmic history, which can be traced back to the stars. View quote
Peter Atkins
Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work. View quote
Stephen King
In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table. View quote
H. G. Wells
Human rights are not things that are put on the table for people to enjoy. These are things you fight for and then you protect. View quote
Wangari Maathai
When a glass sits on a table here, people don't wonder if it's half filled or half empty. They just hope it's good beer. (Sherman Alexie)
I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit together at the table of brotherhood. View quote
Martin Luther King Jr.
A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy? View quote
Albert Einstein
Because I've lived in one room my entire life, working at the same table that you use to pay bills at and eat at. It's going to be nice to have actual space. View quote
Augusten Burroughs
It seems to me that anyone whose library consists of a Kindle lying on a table is some sort of bloodless nerd. View quote
Penelope Lively