Quotes of: Dinner-table Keyword

Common sense says that chairs and tables exist independently of whether anyone happens to perceive them or not.

Charles D. Broad

It was exactly an assembly line. You could look into infinity down these rows of drawing tables.

Gil Kane

As the daughter of immigrants, growing up in New York City, you are either at the table or on the menu.

Grace Meng

I'm completely ecstatic when a woman has own back story and brings something to the table and has a real strong kind of independence.

Dane Cook

Nebraskans have very strong opinions, but we sit down around a table and we solve our problems.

Dave Heineman

For holidays, I like doing special cheery touches around the table, like color-coordinating the plates and napkins to fit the theme.

Debi Mazar

Vicki Vale: [speaking across the entire dining room table] Could you pass the salt?

Batman

The only things that are a little bit newer are the CD burners, but we hid them under the table, so basically we had the feeling we were somewhere completely different, in another time.

Meg White

That is where consensus-building begins-with the idea that you have your own truth, but that the negotiator on the other side of the table has his own truth as well.

Harri Holkeri

Pumpkin: Garçon! Coffee! [the waitress approaches the table and refills Pumpkin's cup] Waitress: 'Garçon' means boy.

Pulp Fiction

What I would ask the Democrat Party is to put your plan on the table, because most people agree with the facts, and the facts are that Social Security is running out of money.

Jack Kingston

I try not to and I don't think I ever have just jumped at any opportunity because a company wanted me. Just because there was money on the table doesn't mean that I took it.

Tim Howard

In these days a man is nobody unless his biography is kept so far posted up that it may be ready for the national breakfast-table on the morning after his demise.

Anthony Trollope

The holiday season can be an especially trying time for our service men, women, and families. Military service and deployment create empty seats at holiday tables, religious services, and celebrations.

Geoff Stults

Mothers send strips to daughters to make a point. Daughters smack strips down on the breakfast table to make a point. My own mom sometimes cuts a strip out and sends it to me to make sure I understand her.

Cathy Guisewite

My mom, she was unbelievable. She ran the whole town. She was like the mayor. There would be 15 people eating at our lunch table. She'd drag people from the street.

Francisco Costa

In my library/study/barn, there is a Ping-Pong table on which I can pile working books and spread maps.

Antony Beevor

I like the level of fame that I have. You get nice tables in restaurants sometimes, but fame isn't something that I find comfortable.

Aidan Quinn

I am invariably of the politics of the people at whose table I sit, or beneath whose roof I sleep.

George Borrow

Wine makes every meal an occasion, every table more elegant, every day more civilized.

Work

Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.

W. H. Auden