Tablecloths Quotes

#1. She watched through a slight mist a party of people who had just come into the restaurant, the movements of arms taking off overcoats, of legs in light-coloured stockings and fee in low-heeled shoes walking over the wooden floor to hide themselves under the tablecloths.

Jean Rhys

#2. Some people set them on the white tablecloths in front of them, but most hold the boxes carefully, unwilling to let their futures out of their hands so soon after receiving them.

Ally Condie

#3. The laundry has its hands on my dirty shirts, sheets, towels and tablecloths, and who knows what tales they tell.

Joseph Smith Jr.

#4. Hannah, as if she understood her place in the cosmos, grew from quiet infant to watchful child: a child fond of nooks and corners, who curled up in closets, behind sofas, under dangling tablecloths, staying out of sight as well as out of mind, to ensure the terrain of the family did not change.

Celeste Ng

#5. If life on Planet Earth was really supposed to be a picnic, we would all have been born clutching gingham tablecloths.

Jonathan Cainer

#6. Here, the name of the game was opulence. The floors were cherrywood, the tablecloths silk, and the guests sparkling with enough diamonds to send a Christmas tree into an epileptic seizure.

Ella Summers

#7. No tablecloths, silver cutlery, fine porcelain, sommeliers, or deep wine lists - that's fine. But no service or hospitality? That's going too far.

Daniel Humm

#8. She was stung by sharp regret thinking about the sheets and tablecloths, so costly and never used due to excessive regard.

Paolo Giordano

#9. If he only knew how often she and Eileen had discussed the benefits of Netflix on dateless weekend nights.

Kristin Billerbeck

#10. Science has never drummed up quite as effective a tranquilizing agent as a sunny spring day.

Wilton E. Hall

#11. For those of you who are about to embark on reading The Math Book from cover to cover, look for the connections, gaze in awe at the evolution of ideas, and sail on the shoreless sea of imagination.

Clifford A. Pickover

#12. Compliments and flattery oftenest excite my contempt by the pretension they imply; for who is he that assumes to flatter me? To compliment often implies an assumption of superiority in the complimenter. It is, in fact, a subtle detraction.

Henry David Thoreau

#13. The shapes we are creating are not abstract, they are absolute. They are released from any already existant thing in nature and their content lies in themselves.

Naum Gabo

#14. The brain rewards us for interacting with beautiful things. In this way, evolution wants to encourage us to do what is good for us.

Frank Wilczek

#15. Who knows, maybe I am simply a talented architect?

Moshe Safdie

#16. This was my eleventh lie.

Gillian Flynn

#17. Many strikes and similar disturbances might be avoided if the employers would cultivate the habit of getting nearer to their employees, of consulting and advising with them, and letting them feel that the interests of the two are the same.

Booker T. Washington

#18. Further, for once, I like the idea that people who think I'm a constant voice for the furthering of the imagination have to see that interest in a more materialistic fashion.

Peter Sotos

#19. God spoke to you by so many voices but you would not hear.

James Joyce

#20. He who believes he can and he who believes he cannot are both correct.

Henry Ford

#21. It's even difficult to hear that what we reject out there is what we reject in ourselves, and what we reject in ourselves is what we are going to reject out there.

Pema Chodron

#22. Sincerity is the eventual deception of all great men.

Rembrandt

#23. A more truthful perception may be seen from the perspective of the whole - what we really are, beyond names, roles, education, religion and other information added to our true nature.

Ilchi Lee