Mackenzie flinched. Struggling to breathe, she stood up and walked over to the table.
If you're playing a poker game and you look around the table and and can't tell who the sucker is, it's you.
I like on the table, when we're speaking, the light of a bottle of intelligent wine.
I developed the habit of writing novels behind a closed door, or at my uncle's, on the dining table.
There's a value to getting the meal on the table every night, and there's a value to being an old-school kind of parent.
Use a make-up table with everything close at hand and don't rush; otherwise you'll look like a patchwork quilt.
Mum would have a panic attack if she had to stand up and give a speech around a table.
I don't want to push the envelope. Let the envelope stay in the middle of the table. I'll just make you laugh.
An SF author who reads only SF will have little new to contribute, but someone with a broader experience will bring more to the table.
I fed them every day. So it was a papa that kept food on the table for them. I did that. I did my part.
I've learned to sell my music, I've learned to direct, I've written screenplays... All of this fulfilled my artistic needs but also put food on the table.
I started at 5 years old in the kitchen table with my family supporting me. I know where I'm from and I know exactly where I'm going.
For businesses, biomimicry is about bringing a new discipline - biology - to the design table. It's not to write an environmental impact statement, as most biologists in business do right now.
There's not a huge pile of scripts at home. It's what happens to be on the table at that moment with your availability. And then you have no control over when these things come out.
I hope we can get back to what I call the kitchen table. Everyday issues that people are really worried about and focused on.
How we feel about ourselves as we read the newspaper, set the table, wash the dishes, recycle the trash and wash our clothes... is essential to our overall happiness and well-being.
For, after all, put it as we may to ourselves, we are all of us from birth to death guests at a table which we did not spread.
I used to do my Nelson Mandela voice to blag restaurant tables in Cape Town. It rarely worked. Now what a great city that is.
I try not to picture a reader when I'm writing. It's like trying to make a great table but not picturing anybody sitting at it.
I love the idea of farm to table and farmer's markets. I enjoy a meal more if I know I'm eating something that's good quality and good for me.
My husband was very special and very funny and outspoken, and he would have a black and blue every so often because under the table, I'd say, 'Don't say that!'
