Quotes of: Coffee-table Keyword

What is fanaticism today is the fashionable creed tomorrow, and trite as the multiplication table a week after.

Wendell Phillips

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

Gary Peters

I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.

A. N. Wilson

Isabelle waved a hand. "No need to worry, big brother. Nothing happened. Of course," she added as Alex'a shoulders relaxed, "I was totally passed-out drunk, so he could really have done whatever he wanted and I wouldn't have woken up." "Oh, please," ...

City of Lost Souls

Unlike modern pills, these hard antimony pills didn’t dissolve in the intestines, and the pills were considered so valuable that people rooted through fecal matter to retrieve and reuse them. Some lucky families even passed down laxatives from fath...

The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements

I know what it is to be in need and what it is to have more than enough. I have learnt this secret, so that anywhere, at any time, I am content, whether I am full or hungry, whether I have too much or too little. I have the strength to face all condi...

THE HOLY BIBLE - The Authorized King James Version (Special Illustrated Anniversary Edition) : Best Selling Bible of All Time KJV - With Interactive Table ...

Almost immediately, I found the red door into the library. I opened it idly- and the breath stopped in my throat. It was the same room I remembered: the shelves, the lion-footed table, the white bass-relief of Clio. But now, tendrils of dark green iv...

Cruel Beauty

...crossed the room to where a selection of implements was arranged on a table top. These could have been mistaken for the trade tools of a cook, physician, or torturer, save for the fact that the surface on which they rested was a slab of polished p...

Neal Stephenson

I only meant, you know, you shouldn’t be wasting your time on imbeciles. I know how hard it is to find the right person, but that’s no reason to exhaustively work your way through all the wrong people. You seem to be living your romantic life by ...

Paul Murray

Been eating candies, have you?" "You sent those?" She kept her mouth closed as much as possible. "Of course." He picked up the brown bad of candy on the table. "What's your..." He trailed off as he weighed the bad in his hands. "Didn't I give you thr...

Sarah J. Maas

There were place cards at the head table, which was one long, rectangular thing that would have everyone facing the reception room. I sat at the one marked Chritine Russell. Randy say to my left, with Denise to his right. To my right read Chris Pin. ...

One Foot in the Grave

[Sunday dinner at the Corleone home... ] Sonny: Niggers havin' a real good time up in Harlem... Carlo Rizzi: I knew that was going to happen as soon as they tasted the big money. Connie: Papa never talked about business in front of the kids. Carlo Ri...

The Godfather

Howl: So, what do you have in your pocket, Sophie? Old Sophie: Huh? [Finds a folded piece of paper] Old Sophie: What is this? Howl: Give it to me. [paper burns leaving marks on the table] Markl: Scorch marks! Howl, can you read them? Howl: That is an...

Howl's Moving Castle

Stacey, American Dreamgirl: [points to beer bottle] What do you call that? Colin: Uh, Bottle. Stacey, American Dreamgirl, Jeannie, American Angel, Carol-Anne, American Goddess: [giggling, mimicking accent] BOHT-el! Jeannie, American Angel: [points ...

Love Actually

We accomplish much more when we are working WITH Him than when we are working for Him!

Coffee Hour with Chicklit Power A Cup of Encouragement for the Day

Pain gives a certain depth to life.

Coffee, Tea, and Holy Water: One Woman's Journey to Experience Christianity Around the Globe

All people who come to the dark come for power.

Coffee, Tea, and Holy Water: One Woman's Journey to Experience Christianity Around the Globe

Why can't we say 'When!' about money the way we say 'When!' about coffee?

Celebrating Time Alone: Stories Of Splendid Solitude

The first sign that Karma was now in cahoots with the Devil Incarnate to ruin her existance should've been before sunrise and pre-coffee.

The Dysfunctional Test

...but you drank your black coffee by choice, believeng that Paris was sufficient alcohol.

Exile's Return: A Literary Odyssey of the 1920s

Not much could have distracted me from coffee, but hearing Julius Caesar quoted at Spencer’s certainly did.

The Golden Lily