Work Tables Quotes

#1. The light was frozen, dead, a ghost. Only from the yellow barrels of the microscopes did it borrow a certain rich and living substance, lying along the polished tubes like butter, streak after luscious streak in long recession down the work tables.

Aldous Huxley

#2. We have to have the money to do the work we want to do, as well as to keep a roof over our heads and food on the table. Fat commissions are good, but not always easy to come by, and each new painting takes its time. So we need to find every way possible to earn extra income from our work.

Elizabeth Aston

#3. I was dating a guy once who spoke rudely to a taxi driver. I got out of the cab and walked home. Treat people with respect. I've waited tables, and that's why I just exceedingly overtip. It's exhausting work.

Kesha

#4. All the Ping-Pong and pool tables, on-site chefs, Nerf hoops, and stereo systems cannot make up for the truth that some places work people like dogs.

Ken Wilber

#5. Never forget: This very moment, we can change our lives. There never was a moment, and never will be, when we are without the power to alter our destiny. This second, we can turn the tables on Resistance. This second, we can sit down and do our work.

Steven Pressfield

#6. I was a very polite schoolgirl who did her work very well and hid under tables. I'd hate to think I haven't changed at all.

Joan Juliet Buck

#7. The poet's first job of work is to put bread on the table.

Yvor Winters

#8. There are a lot of people who wait tables. And especially because you can do it at night and you can do your work in the day, she and I had a very similar experience.

Piper Perabo

#9. Too many are willing to sit at God's table, but not work in his field.

Vance Havner

#10. For me, my 20s were all about reaching for the brass ring of work in theater, television, and film, surviving in between by waiting tables, painting houses, serving coffee, and temping.

Kate Walsh

#11. She surrounded herself with books at work and at home. Her living space was a testament to her first and abiding love with shelves jammed with books tables crowded with them. She saw them not only as knowledge entertainment comfort even sanity but as a kind of artful decoration.

Nora Roberts

#12. I think the biggest thing is just making sure that you do the work that you connect with, personally, and that you do work where you can really bring something to the table. It's just about being truthful to yourself.

Susanna White

#13. Take the military option off the table - we have already seen it doesn't work.

Gerhard Schroder

#14. I left my home in Massachusetts after college to move to New York City to pursue my dreams of acting. I took roles for free. I waited tables. I didn't care because it was work.

Uzo Aduba

#15. Political economy regards the proletarian like a horse, he must receive enough to enable him to work. It does not consider him, during the time when he is not working, as a human being. It leaves this to criminal law, doctors, religion, statistical tables, politics, and the beadle.

Karl Marx

#16. I waited tables in New York, and when you're in that line of work, you often have a horrible boss.

Charlie Day

#17. Our deep respect for the land and its harvest is the legacy of generations of farmers who put food on our tables, preserved our landscape, and inspired us with a powerful work ethic.

James H. Douglas Jr.

#18. A hundred cabinet-makers in London can work a table or a chair equally well; but no one poet can write verses with such spirit and elegance as Mr. Pope.

David Hume

#19. I've always believed that the things middle class families struggle with around their kitchen tables should define my work in Washington.

Gary Peters

#20. Put the park rangers to work. Lazy scheming loafers, they've wasted too many years selling tickets at toll booths and sitting behind desks filling out charts and tables

Edward Abbey

#21. Actors wait tables, directors work at video stores.

Joss Whedon

#22. Want to have better and more effective meetings? Get rid of the tables in your meeting room. It's weird but it works.

Alexander Kjerulf

#23. Hardcore wrestling like CZW is just nonsense. There's no story there. You've got guys jumping off of houses onto barb wired tables, and that's it. They don't know how to work. CZW is trash.

Triple H

#24. I started to work at the Colony in March 1958. I remember my first day because the telephone started to ring, and it was Sinatra, three for lunch, his usual table; Onassis, two for lunch, usual table; the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, Leland Hayward, Truman Capote, all wanting their usual tables.

Sirio Maccioni

#25. Being a human means waking up in this world, where we all have to work and slog to put food on the table.

Jason Mraz

#26. I had, like, two goals in my career: One was to try to get into 'Second City.' When I moved to Chicago, my goal was to try to work at 'Second City.' And beyond that, my goal was to make enough money as an actor to not do anything else but act, not have to go and wait tables again.

Steve Carell

#27. I majored in musical theatre performance at college, then went through years of waiting tables and temping while looking for acting work.

Brooke Elliott

#28. When thousands of men and women work full time but need food stamps to put food on their tables, when they can't get health benefits, when they can't get paid sick days, then we must do whatever we can to stand up for them.

Charles B. Rangel

#29. So when it was my turn to start developing projects, I knew the writers I wanted to work with, and I had met every head of studio, every executive and a lot of producers. I started finding things, little crumbs off other people's tables that I would make my own.

Rupert Sanders

#30. God is in the midst of us, or rather we are in the midst of him; wherever we are he sees us and touches us: at prayer, at work, at table, at recreation.

Claude De La Colombiere