Table Quotes - page 6

He [Iggy] started reaching for things around the table, and his hand landed on Total. "You're black.” "I prefer canine-American,” said Total. (James Patterson)
If you don't feel strong desires for the manifestation of the glory of God, it is not because you have drunk deeply and are satisfied. It is because you have nibbled so long at the table of the world. Your soul is stuffed with small things, and there is no room for the great. View quote
John Piper
Therefore they should come to the table and reach an agreement that would protect their identity. View quote
John Hume
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. View quote
Georgia O'Keeffe
My university degree is in art and, yes, I do a lot of drawing for all my books. I have a big drafting table set up in a spare bedroom and I cover it with maps and house plans and sketches that I use in the books. Also, I truly love architecture, so that plays a big part in all my books. View quote
Jude Deveraux
We know that people are less open in conversations if the other conversant puts a cell phone on the table. Even if it's turned off. The sign is enough to close the mind and make a prospective client or lover less likely to do what you ask. As people realize this, they'll start putting away phones or turning them off. View quote
Douglas Rushkoff
I see the same coffee table everywhere. It's mass marketing. View quote
Douglas Wilson
Misfortune is never invited. And it comes and sits at the table without permission and it eats, leaving nothing but bones. View quote
Jacques Roumain
When you sit down to eat at a table, you are ready to take in nourishment - we all need to eat to live. Even in primal tribes, people ate together. It's the opening for friendship. View quote
Lidia Bastianich
The oldest form of theater is the dinner table. It's got five or six people, new show every night, same players. Good ensemble; the people have worked together a lot. View quote
Michael Fox
The two men were greedily hunched over the table, like two wolves disputing a carcass, but their muttered speech in the echoing hall resembled more the grunting of pigs. One was less than a wolf: he was a public prosecutor. The other was more than a pig, he was a chief commissioner of police. (Jan Neruda)
The table is a meeting place, a gathering ground, the source of sustenance and nourishment, festivity, safety, and satisfaction. A person cooking is a person giving: even the simplest food is a gift. View quote
Laurie Colwin
The one happiness is to shut one's door upon a little room, with a table before one, and to create; to create life in that isolation from life. View quote
Eleanora Duse
I suggest to you that increasing the size of America's economic pie - which can be achieved only if everybody has a seat at the table - is the most important challenge facing our country today. View quote
William Weld
I started at 5 years old in the kitchen table with my family supporting me. I know where I'm from and I know exactly where I'm going. View quote
Celine Dion
But I believe that there are marriages where you can have your pool table and she can have her scrapbooking room or garden or whatever it is. But when everyone has what they want, it's not funny. There's no conflict. View quote
Brad Garrett
I always like to have flowers on the table. I think they make it look special. View quote
Ina Garten
I got myself extorted, which happens in this business. I come home from the road. There was a FedEx sitting on the kitchen table, and it was addressed to me, so I opened it. I don't know who delivered it. And there was a videocassette inside, with a note written on it that said "Gotcha." Oh, my god. Can you imagine? I freaked out. I tore the whole house apart, trying to find a VCR. I hadn't seen a tape in, like, over a decade. View quote
Dave Chappelle
Mothers send strips to daughters to make a point. Daughters smack strips down on the breakfast table to make a point. My own mom sometimes cuts a strip out and sends it to me to make sure I understand her. View quote
Cathy Guisewite
As beautiful as the chance encounter of a sewing machine and an umbrella on an operating table. View quote
Comte de Lautreamont
They had me on the operating table all day. They looked into my stomach, my gall bladder, they examined everything inside of me. Know what they decided? I need glasses. (Joe E. Lewis)
Evil is an act, not an appetite. How many haven't wanted to slash the throat of some boor across the dining room table? Present company excepted of course. Everyone has the appetite. If you give in to it, it, that act is evil. The appetite is normal. View quote
Gregory Maguire
What we bring to the table is not only our 56 field offices in the United States and our number of resident agencies, but also we have 45 legal attaches overseas. View quote
Robert Mueller
I think the Tea Party has brought important issues to the table. View quote
Roy Blunt
Leave the table while you still feel you could eat a little more. View quote
Helena Rubinstein