Herbie Hancock (Herbert Jeffrey Hancock) Quotes
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It's not the way I want to move up the tables, ... I want a proper podium and that's what I'll be working hard for, but I'm pretty happy with the season's best placing.
B. R. Hayden -
This is what God's kingdom is like: a bunch of outcasts and oddballs gathered at a table, not because they are rich or worthy or good, but because they are hungry, because they said yes. And there's always room for more.
Rachel Grace Held -
Be loving and kind. Call everyone to your table of kindness.
Ma Jaya -
If I bring anything to the table, it's the fact that not everybody realizes they're funny. So I just point a finger.
P. J. O'Rourke -
I love to cook, and I love to have all my family around the dinner table.
Julia Roberts -
What we need in this country is a general improvement in eating. We have the best raw materials in the world, both quantitatively and qualitatively, but most of them are ruined in the process of preparing them for the table.
H. L. Mencken
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His eldest sister (who modestly prefers to be identified here as a Tuckahoe homemaker) has asked me to describe him as looking like 'the blue-eyed Jewish-Irish Mohican scout who died in your arms at the roulette table at Monte Carlo.
J. D. Salinger -
We had a song for the alphabet, a song for the months of the year, still another for the arithmetic tables…
R. M. Williams -
Never sit a table when you can stand at the bar.
Ernest Hemingway -
Thrift, thrift, Horatio! The funeral bak'd meats did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables.
William Shakespeare -
Methinks a father Is at the nuptial of his son a guest That best becomes the table.
William Shakespeare -
Wonder is the heaviest element on the periodic table. Even a tiny fleck of it stops time.
Diane Ackerman
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A half finished shawl left on the coffee table isn't a mess; it's an object of art.
Stephanie Pearl-McPhee -
In God we trust, everybody else bring data to the table.
Narayan -
War is only glorious when you buy it in the Daily Mail and enjoy it at the breakfast table. It goes splendidly with bacon and eggs. Real war is the final limit of damnable brutality, and that’s all there is in it.
Geoffrey Studdert Kennedy -
What the ocean was to the child, the Periodic Table is to the chemist.
Karl Barry Sharpless -
I used to smoke two packs a day and I just hate being a nonsmoker.... but I will never consider myself a nonsmoker because I always find smokers the most interesting people at the table.
Michelle Pfeiffer -
They want to go to the bar and eat a few snacks, have a couple of cocktails or glasses of wine, and go home. People don't sit down at the table and have a whole three or four courses.
Todd English
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Be known for pleasing others, especially if you govern them. Ruling other has one advantage: you can do more good than anyone else.
Baltasar Gracian -
Oh why rebuke you him that loves you so? / Lay breath so bitter on your bitter foe.
William Shakespeare -
I'm not gonna respond to people calling me a race baiter. It doesn't serve me. Also, I'm not a race baiter.
Logan Browning -
The spirit of rejection finds its support in the consciousness of separateness; the spirit of acceptance finds its base in the consciousness of unity.
Rabindranath Tagore -
You would not exist if you did not have something to bring to the table of life.
Herbie Hancock