Quotes of: Dinner-table Keyword

Let books be your dining table, / And you shall be full of delights. / Let them be your mattress,/And you shall sleep restful nights

Life

I tried doing the head-bang they were doing and banged my head with the table several times before I understood that I shouldn't be doing that.

Life

I would sooner read a time-table or a catalogue than nothing at all. They are much more entertaining than half the novels that are written.

W. Somerset Maugham

Human rights are not things that are put on the table for people to enjoy. These are things you fight for and then you protect.

Wangari Maathai

Dessert is probably the most important stage of the meal, since it will be the last thing your guests remember before they pass out all over the table.

William Powell

On many occasions, an informal buffet and casual seating offer a little more intimacy than a loud gathering around a big table.

Yotam Ottolenghi

The next generation of innovators, who need neutrality the most, are not at the bargaining table. They're hard at work in their labs or classrooms, dreaming of the next big thing, and hoping that the Internet is as open to them as it was to the found...

Edward Felten

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

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

Decisions just look different with women at the table. We still have a long way to go. The most powerful thing we own is our vote.

Bev Perdue

The very first television ad targeted to women was produced by the Eisenhower-Nixon campaign in 1956. It includes footage of a woman supervising her children doing their homework at the kitchen table.

Jill Lepore

India and China have not shied away from addressing boundary questions, have wisdom to find a fair and mutually acceptable solution... We have been able to put all issues on the table.

Li Keqiang

I bought a big brown stuffed animal. You know, for dinner.

The Days of Yay are Here! Wake Me Up When They're Over.

Ah, God, it's barbaric, however you look at it,' he told Ruth. 'What, cremation?' she asked. 'Death.

Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant

The world needed a little Evil, so Good had something to compare itself to, but you couldn't let it think it had the right-of-way on the road and an invitation to dinner.

The Dead Town

The only way I could conceive of waving a white flag, would be during the process of folding it, so to be used as a napkin later, at our victory dinner.

The Frowny Face Cow

Family we cannot always choose, but it sure is fun to try and make them laugh during dinners. Especially when they are trying to eat their soup.

The Frowny Face Cow

Oh yeah," Zane says and smirks at me. "I had her for dinner once. Best meal of my life.

Falling for the Ghost of You

Dinner-parties bore us because our imagination is absent, and reading interests us because it is keeping us company.

The Guermantes Way

After his dinner, the wolfhound liked to prowl the grounds, sniffing the grass to learn what creatures of field and forest had recently visited. The yard was Merlin's newspaper.

Breathless

Diplomacy has always involved dinners with ruling elites, backroom deals and clandestine meetings. Now, in the digital age, the reports of all those parties and patrician chats can be collected in one enormous database. And once collected in digital ...

Heather Brooke