Quotes About Table Napkin

#1. The censors wouldn't even let me sit on a guy's lap, and I've been on more laps than a table-napkin.

Mae West

#2. Surrender. Surrender.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#3. Either you 'are' in your mind, or you are where you are. Fully present.

Matthew Donnelly

#4. Fear is faith that it won't work.

Mary Kay Ash

#5. One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.

G.K. Chesterton

#6. The negative principle negates. The positive principle creates. The negative principle doubts. The positive principle believes. The negative principle accepts defeat. The positive principle goes for victory.

Norman Vincent Peale

#7. We call Japanese soldiers fanatics when they die rather than surrender, whereas American soldiers who do the same thing are called heroes.

Robert M. Hutchins

#8. Men deluded themselves when they believed in better days, some bygone era when the sun shone brighter. Better days had never existed. Joy had always been stolen, and sweeter because of that fact.

Zachary Jernigan

#9. At the dinner table, if you can't think of anything to say, sit quietly. Don't throw rolls, or chew on your napkin.

Mason Cooley

#10. I think it's critical that you feel you're working for a person who is committed to advancing your career.

Andrea Jung

#11. He squints at me. "Except for the red hair and freckles, you look okay. You'll be fine and dandy sitting at the table with a napkin on your lap.

Christina Baker Kline

#12. Nothing is more pleasant than to see a pretty woman, her napkin well placed under her arms, one of her hands on the table, while the other carries to her mouth, the choice piece so elegantly carved.

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

#13. [T]hey stretch you on a table. Then they bid you close your eyelids, And they mask you with a napkin, And the anaesthetic reaches Hot and subtle through your being.

William Ernest Henley

#14. Now, a month later, I sit, foggy, a similar state of mind, in a different seafood restaurant with a locals-know-every-secret bar, two happy hour martinis downed, fidgeting with my napkin below the lip of the table, and I barely hear Wendy ask me another question. She brought a bag of them tonight.

Justin Bog

#15. This is a great turtle, Katie." "James." Millie brings the waffles to the table. "Are you blind?" Yeah, you tell him, Millie. Some people just can't appreciate good art. Millie holds her folded napkin up proudly. "It's a frog." True artists (like Picasso or me) are always misunderstood.

Jenny B. Jones

#16. At mealtime a very broad cloth is laid on the trestle table in the solar. to facilitate service, places are set along one side only. On that side the cloth falls to the floor, doubling as a communal napkin...there are several kinds of knives...but no forks.

Joseph Gies

#17. Mr. Bennet stood, dropping his napkin on the table. As interesting as I find this conversation, an urgent matter has come up. I need a hamburger.

Curtis Sittenfeld

#18. Eight centuries have passed
like a nap in the late afternoon
my throat is choked
with words I cannot speak


(from The Last Soldier's Words to Saladin)

Najwan Darwish

#19. What year is it in your imagination?

Lynda Barry

#20. She had always hated cats. They seemed so full of rage. She put her napkin on the table and smiled with all her teeth.

Lauren Groff

#21. Luxury lives in the finer details. It's a cloth napkin at a dinner table. It's a mint on your pillow before bed.

Iggy Azalea

#22. Sunny likes me, Mama, she had said that night at dinner after he'd been sent from the table for making his napkin into a hand puppet and refusing to make the hand puppet be quiet.

Anna Quindlen

#23. Let the American infidels bask in their illusion.

Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf

#24. How old are you? 'I'm four and a half!' You're never thirty-six and a half. You're four and a half, going on five! That's the key.

George Carlin