Top 100 A Table Quotes
#1. 18 They j tested God in their heart by demanding the food they craved. 19 They spoke against God, saying, k Can God l spread a table in the wilderness? 20 m He struck the rock so that water gushed out
Anonymous
#2. The best fame is a writer's fame. It's enough to get a table at a good restaurant, but not enough to get you interrupted when you eat.
Fran Lebowitz
#3. In, taking a table by the window. Glancing around,
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#4. Be able to set a table so that you feel like you're dining, not just sitting and eating.
Marilyn Vos Savant
#5. Promises are like silly jokes, told around a table when the food is good and no one has anything to lose by telling a lie or two - lies should have been a synonym for the word 'promise' in dictionaries, but only a few people knew it.
Cameron Jace
#6. It was just the two of us, inside there with just mirrors, all the way around us. Everywhere we looked, there were these two freaks, sitting at a table, eyeballing each other
Christian Bale
#7. No matter how busy you are make time to eat at a table. A desk is not a table.
Pat Falvey
#9. My temper is not spoilt. I am absolutely non-homicidal. Nor do I ever attack unless I have been attacked first, and then Heaven have mercy upon the attacker, because I don't! I just sharpen my wits on a wooden head as a cat sharpens its claws on the wood legs of a table.
Edith Sitwell
#10. Myrnin was heading for Kim when she picked up a crossbow lying on a table nearby and shot him pointblank in the chest.
He staggered backward, muttered, Not again
Rachel Caine
#11. Ouch! Son of a gu - " I scrambled to get up. My hands hit rough upholstery and the edge of a table. Okay, now I was lost. Prying open my bleary eyes, I peered around. "What the ...
Anonymous
#12. When we lay awake after making love I could hear the sleepy birds settling in their nests in the thatch. We had a little pallet bed, a table and two stools, a fireplace where we warmed up our dinner from the palace, and nothing more. We wanted nothing more.
Philippa Gregory
#14. When I go to a restaurant I always ask the manager, "Give me a table near a waiter."
Henny Youngman
#15. Maybe I am a prophet. I really hope one day there will come Confucius, Muhammad, Buddha and Christ to see me. And we will sit at a table, taking tea and eating some brownies.
Alejandro Jodorowsky
#16. His lips felt dry with a literal thirst for righteousness, which was like a glass of ice-cold water on a table in another man's room.
Graham Greene
#17. Take a table and I'll join you in a second.'
When he walked away I did something I couldn't be scolded for doing.
I checked out his ass in his jeans and ... that looked good.
Stephanie Witter
#18. Try making a poem as if it were a table, clear and solid, standing there outside you.
May Sarton
#19. The evening lay out against the sky
Like a patient, etherised on a table
T. S. Eliot
#20. Across the room he had placed a mirror he'd found in her bathroom on a table. It was angled so that he could see her face reflected in it, while he remained hidden from her.
David Baldacci
#21. I write in the morning at a table, longhand on yellow legal pads, just like Nixon, when I'm doing fiction.
Gore Vidal
#22. Most of my career is spent in a meeting ... dressed sharply, looking really great; negotiating over a table, strategizing or coming up with new marketing plans or new ideas. And that makes me really, really happy.
Tyra Banks
#23. A woman comes to a table, and you're supposed to get up. Period. But I don't always do it. In general, you're supposed to do it every time. But sometimes you're seated against the wall, and it's awkward.
Lyle Lovett
#24. Michael nodded tersely, eyeing a table across the room. It was empty. So empty. So joyfully, blessedly empty.
He could picture himself a very happy man at that table.
"Not feeling very conversational this evening, are we?" Colin asked, breaking into his (admittedly tame) fantasies.
Julia Quinn
#25. You willingly tie yourself to these leashes. And you willingly become utterly socially autistic. You no longer pick up on basic human communication clues. You're at a table with three humans, all of whom are looking at you and trying to talk to you, and you're staring at a screen,
Dave Eggers
#26. My method is much like choreography. I don't sit at a table. I work in a room with people.
Robert Wilson
#27. If you call a hundred dollars but have a chance to win $10,000, those are excellent odds if you are at a table with people who have two aces or two kings. If you catch a flop you will get all their chips. I just play them because there is value.
Daniel Negreanu
#28. When I am alone, my table manners are rather piggish, but i suppose that's because I don't eat at a table, I eat at my desk. Which could be considered a table, except we tend to define things by their function, and this particular surface is a desk, so perhaps piggish is unfair.
Kelli Jae Baeli
#29. Once I had it free, I gobbled the sandwich like a nature-film otter cracking an oyster on its stomach: knees up in the wiring under the dashboard, my elbows jammed against the steering wheel, my chest serving as a table, my shirt as a tablecloth.
Jonathan Lethem
#30. When you look like I do its hard to get a table for one at Chucky Cheese.
Zach Galifianakis
#31. Good food is an amazing blessing. Whenever you can sit down at a table, eat food that is extremely delicious, and are surrounded by people you love ... it's: Wow, life is good.
Alicia Keys
#32. You have no idea, how much poetry there is in the calculation of a table of logarithms!
Carl Friedrich Gauss
#33. I think things like 'farm to table' are misleading. I think sometimes that becomes a pedestal or a soap box to get people into your restaurant but is not ... it's almost empty in a way. I mean, my food comes from a farm, and I serve it on a table.
Wylie Dufresne
#34. I looked at the book lying on a table. Though not a great reader myself, I knew that those who were - even Nora - could grow testy when one came between them and their books.
Susan Higginbotham
#35. When you're first learning how to do eyeliner, it's really hard to get both lids the same. A good tip for when you're putting it on, is to make sure your elbow is on a table. Make sure your arm's really stable. And make sure you have an eye makeup q-tip to get that really sharp line.
Becky G
#36. Except in expert hands, stats can get in the way of story; an array of data that might better be presented in a table instead clogs up sentences.
John Thorn
#37. You stupid cow!" He laughed at her behind those icicle eyes. "You really think anyone is better than you? Everyone's a thief, woman! Waiting for the next terrible thing to do to get ahead of their neighbor. Forty of us around a table weren't enough to convince you of that?
Devon Trevarrow Flaherty
#38. Um, you don't have to join me, but if you're looking for a table, there are a couple good seats over there. He nodded toward the far end.
J.M. Richards
#39. The idea of Kai and Luke sitting at a table discussing his pecs nearly made me snort out my coconut water.
Sophie Kinsella
#40. Though amid all the smoking horror and diabolism of a sea-fight, sharks will be seen longingly gazing up to the ship's decks, like hungry dogs round a table where red meat is being carved, ready to bolt down every killed man that is tossed to them.
Herman Melville
#41. And once again, there was a table and several worlds between them.
Sarra Manning
#42. It's rather disconcerting to sit around a table in a critique of someone else's work, only to realize that the antagonist in the story is none other than yourself, and no one present thinks you're a very likable character.
Michelle Richmond
#43. Two contestants would sit either side of a table, with a glass in front of each of them.
Douglas Adams
#44. Magnitude -15 A drifting mote of dust coming to rest on a table Sometimes it's nice not to destroy the world for a change.
Randall Munroe
#45. I'm constantly surprised by ... an orange will roll off a table, and I'll catch it before I knew it was falling. Something happens there. We could write it off and say, 'Subconsciously I knew that was happening,' but there's so many things every day - I'm amazed by how little we know.
Shane Carruth
#46. Usability methods are like sandpapering a chair. If you are making a chair, the sandpaper can make it smoother. But no amount of sandpaper will turn a chair into a table.
Alan Cooper
#47. A locked-room problem lies at the heart of my new novel, 'In The Morning I'll Be Gone,' in which an RUC detective has to find out whether a publican's daughter who fell off a table in a bar that was locked from the inside was in fact murdered.
Adrian McKinty
#48. Sometimes, I'd see Sarah and her mom share a look across a room and I'd want to heave myself over like a table.
Jandy Nelson
#49. My wife and I have created our own language. We can be at a table with six other people and have an argument without anyone knowing. It doesn't even have to be out loud. It's bizarre.
Pete Wentz
#50. I suffered the misfortune that I sat down at a table and started drinking one glass of beer after another.
Jaroslav Hasek
#51. Nebraskans have very strong opinions, but we sit down around a table and we solve our problems.
Dave Heineman
#52. There are advantages to being a star though - you can always get a table in a full restaurant.
Ingrid Bergman
#53. Lord, decked with jewels, sitting at the head of a table. It is a poetry of assonance
Peter Ackroyd
#54. It was a table that could seat six, but Ben was the only one there. She had never seen Ben with any of the other boys. It was too bad, because she believed Ben Hanscom had treasures buried inside. He would yield them up to a kind and patient prospector...if one ever came along.
Stephen King
#55. I turned, gaze sweeping the restaurant until I'd zeroed in on my sweet yellow Lab all crouched under a table, chewing on a shiny gold stiletto a diner had slipped off her foot.
Alyson Noel
#56. Three men sat around a table. All were muscled and similarly greasy and easily identifiable as scum. As he breached the entrance all three were moving, drawing their own guns in surprise.
Only one got off a shot.
G.S. Jennsen
#57. Almost any questions can be answered,cheaply, quickly and finally, by a test campaign. And that's he way to answer them - not by arguments around a table
Claude C. Hopkins
#58. The two of them were at a table, eating cereal. The kind with lots of marshmallows that lied and said it was good for you on the package.
James Dashner
#59. Along with tableity (the condition of being a table) and paneity (the state of being bread), cellarhood is a wonderful example of the spectacular ways English has of describing things that no ever thinks it necessary to describe.
Ammon Shea
#60. I'm the man who sits behind a table and tells true stories from his life. I'm also an actor. I was trained as an actor at Emerson College, and I use that training to play myself.
Spalding Gray
#61. Hitler never bothered with restaurant reservations; he just dropped by. And somehow they always found him a table.
George Carlin
#62. You get no writing done at all if you sit at a table with a view. You'd spent the whole time watching the birds or thinking about what you would like to be doing out of doors, instead of flogging yourself to work out of sheer boredom.
Mary Stewart
#63. I find that I have no problem getting a table at a restaurant when I walk in.
Walton Goggins
#64. And I put the latte down on a table, awash in the happy middle of my greatest adventure.
John Green
#65. Most people went to dance shows, but it was basically a table and a DJ playing and not really a spectacular thing. I brought the whole production with the effects - the best sound, the best lighting to blow the fans away.
Tiesto
#66. They consider themselves masters at cheating. But then, I think this will be the first time that they sit at a table with mortal humans facing them. Cheating? When it comes to that, the Elder Gods are as children compared to humans. Since the time of my return, this much at least I have learned.
Steven Erikson
#67. Self-esteem is as important to our well-being as legs are to a table. It is essential for physical and mental health and for happiness.
Louise Hart
#68. I'm not a big fan of table reads or sitting around a table and reading a script. I'd rather do it on set and do it for real.
Donnie Wahlberg
#69. You know what they say: 'Why sit at a table that doesn't have key lime pie on it if you don't have to?'
Sloane Crosley
#70. This congestion in the post offices is due to what are technically known as "regulations" but what are really a series of acrostics and anagrams devised by some officials who got around a table one night and tried to be funny.
Robert Benchley
#71. My perfect day is constantly changing. Right now, it would be to lie around in a hammock reading with a portable phone and a table of food next to it. I would spend all day there. And that's all that I can possibly come up with on the spur of the moment.
Eric Stoltz
#72. The first thing we do is sit around a table and discuss what we could pick up from daily life, from space. That's how it starts, completely abstract. There's no kind of, "Oh, let's do Peru," or "Let's do pleats," you know?
Rei Kawakubo
#73. I believe that people, regardless of their station in life, should be able to sit down at a table to a meal - inside away from the heat and cold, the rain and the snow.
Michael Nutter
#74. I don't go out to clubs. You'll never see me on a table at a bar, jumping up and down.
Lea Michele
#75. The camera movement should be like a cat jumping onto a table - with just enough amount of effort and that's it. That's enough.
Steve McQueen
#76. Let's get you into a room and conduct our own chemistry experiment," he said against my lips.
"Or maybe we'll just find a table to bend you over, since chemists do it on a table ... periodically."
"Mmm. I love it when you talk nerdy to me.
Cindi Madsen
#77. There's no handbook for parenting. So you walk a very fine line as a parent because you are civilizing these raw things. They will tip the coffee over and finger-paint on the table. At some point, you have to say, 'We're gonna have to clean that up because you don't paint with coffee on a table.'
Gary Oldman
#78. They were just two people sharing a table, trying to limp through the awkwardness.
Blake Crouch
#79. People who are upset about something ruminate on it whenever they get a chance; they are constantly drawn back to their own unhappy tale as if it were a horror story left open on a table.
Emile Chartier
#80. I was born in Brooklyn, delivered by a Chinese doctor on a table in a boarding house on Sept. 23, 1920.
Mickey Rooney
#81. A story without context is like a diamond without a mounting. The stone may be beautiful lying loose on a table, but when it is carefully mounted in the right setting it can dazzle you with its brilliance and sparkling beauty.
Charles R. Swindoll
#82. Katherine was sitting alone at a table, but she didn't look lonely. In fact, there was a small, defiant smile on her lips. As if she wanted to be alone. As if the fact people avoided her was a badge.
Victoria Schwab
#83. And this is a table ma'am. What in essence it consists of is a horizontal rectilinear plane surface maintained by four vertical columnar supports, which we call legs. The tables in this laboratory, ma'am, are as advanced in design as one will find anywhere in the world.
Michael Frayn
#84. As a general rule, you won't find the love of your life while you're on your knees under a table.
Helios Dayspring
Belinda McBride
#86. Living room by a curtain of colored beads. The room's furnishings consisted of a table, an image of the Sacred Heart of Jesus,
Paulo Coelho
#87. A kid under a tablecloth insists he's a ghost. A table
underneath a tablecloth is, I guess, like the rest of us,
only pretending to be invisible.
Richard Siken
#88. I want to get the American people to start sitting at a table together and talking to each other, holding court, and enjoying a meal - and it doesn't have an expense.
Kelly LeBrock
#89. I was a hoarder, and I got rid of everything. Now nothing comes in my home unless it has a purpose. And decor is not a purpose. Home is New York apartment with a table, a bed and sofas. That's it. Everything else is gone.
Linda Evangelista
#90. God will prepare a table before you in the presence of your enemies so let them watch you eat.
Tyler Perry
#91. I've never walked into a restaurant, asked for a table and been told, 'We're full.'
John Mayer
#92. 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.
Eleonora Duse
#93. To put down an ideogram of a table so that people will recognize it as a table is not the work of a painter, but to sense it for a moment as a magic carpet with a leg hanging down at each corner is the beginning of a painter's imagination.
Frank Auerbach
#94. During the first suffragist wave in this nation, women were possessions, like a table or a chair. So violence toward them was quite condoned. The attitude has diminished, but it's still there.
Gloria Steinem
#95. Food is about communal togetherness. Our family does sit at the table. I think it's a great tragedy if a family doesn't have a table, as there is such an atmosphere of good will and warmth when we have eight people sitting around it.
Jonathan Dimbleby
#96. Suddenly, I feel like a piece of china, ill-placed at the edge of a table, vulnerable to shattering with the slightest bump or misstep.
Jenna Nelson
#97. In the end, coming to faith remains for all a sense of homecoming, of picking up the threads of a lost life, of responding to a bell that had long been ringing, of taking a place at a table that had long been vacant.
Malcolm Muggeridge
#98. Sometimes, all company forsaking,
They settle to a game of chess
And, leaning on a table, guess
What move the other may be making,
And Lensky with a dreamy look,
Allows his pawn to take his rook.
Alexander Pushkin
#99. And the world said, Child, you will not be missed. You are cheaper than a wrench, your back is a road; Your death is a table in a book. You had our wit, our heart was sealed to you: Man is the judgment of the world.
Randall Jarrell
#100. But I don't think that sculpture belongs in everyday life like a table does, or like a chair.
Anthony Caro
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