Table Quotes
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An SF author who reads only SF will have little new to contribute, but someone with a broader experience will bring more to the table.
Walter Jon Williams -
That's one of the reasons I wanted to be an actor, to be like them. And there they were at my table, all talking about how nervous they were, about the lines, and so forth. No matter how big you get, you still have the same kinds of anxieties and so forth.
Gavin MacLeod
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There is no gaming table in the world where loaded dice are tolerated, no athletic field where men must not start fair. Yet Mr. Rockefeller has systematically played with loaded dice, and it is doubtful if there has ever been a time since 1872 when he has run a race with a competitor and started fair.
Ida Tarbell -
I won't say, 'I have two degrees; I shouldn't be getting your latte.' Because I paid my dues when I got to the table, I actually had something to say.
Dana Fox -
I bring values, resiliency, a thick skin, and I'm not afraid to be confrontational. I don't remember anyone before bringing that to the table.
Carl Paladino -
I've never seen anything like the way some young people behave. They go out on a date, and they're sitting opposite each other at a table, and they're not looking at each other, and they text each other as though they're deaf-mutes. It's insane.
Iris Apfel -
I think all negotiations should take place at a round table and everybody should have to rotate counterclockwise once an hour so that even the perception of head of the table, or foot, are ritually obliterated.
Pearl Cleage -
I'm the Bjorn Boerg of table tennis.
Action Bronson
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I leaned forward on the table and leveled her with my steady gaze. “Do not ever speak to her that way again. If she hadn’t agreed to come with me I wouldn’t have come. Don’t underestimate her importance. She’s mine. Respect that.
Abbi Glines -
I am clean I am true I am playing with my cards on the table.
Elena Ferrante -
It always seems that people who bring nothing to the table take the most from it.
Alec Sulkin -
As she said goodbye, she said: ""Any good parties, invite me down."" I said ""Yes,"" but there was no way. I knew full well that if I invited her down, she would dance me under the table.
Prince William -
We gave up everything just to sit at your table.
John Lennon The Beatles -
you cannot leave a report like this on the table.
Jack Straw
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What Republicans have actually put on the table is almost nothing. All of the rest is just big talk. So how is the president supposed to negotiate with people who say, 'Here's my demands. By the way, I can't give you any specifics. Just make me happy'?
Paul Krugman -
That doesn't make much sense, to have another meeting, if there's nothing new on what they are going to put on the table.
Javier Solana -
I go all out. And I'm going to bring that to the table every day, in good times and bad times.
Eric Byrnes -
Now, we just have to run the table. And we're capable of doing that.
Gary Sheffield -
Keep a good table and attend to the ladies.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
My art career actually began under the kitchen table. My mother wanted to get me out of her hair while she cooked, so she laid out some paper and pencils on the floor under the kitchen table.
Alton Tobey
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The military option will remain on the table. If there is a good agreement to have, obviously it's worth waiting for and completing the negotiations.
Ashton Carter -
Many folk like to know beforehand what is to be set on the table; but those who have laboured to prepare the feast like to keep their secret; for wonder makes the words of praise louder.
J. R. R. Tolkien -
Oh, my tattered rags are caught on your coffee table.
Homer -
My dressing table was willed to me, with some of my furniture.
Alicia Markova