I want to keep a human mouth on my coffee table. It’ll be a great conversation starter.
Imagination must constantly run on a new track or it becomes lifeless. A living imagination is essential to prayer.
A brick could be used to support a wobbly table. Who got that table drunk, anyway?
If you want something beautiful to put on the dinner table, pick up a sockeye, the salmon species with the most vivid red flesh.
To address our current food system problems, I propose a series of local, regional, national and global conversations - starting around the dinner table - to rethink the food we produce, buy and eat.
Comedy has always been important in my family. If you got in a good joke at the dinner table, it meant more than almost anything else.
I always have several books on the go at any one moment, so it's no good you asking 'What's on the bedside table at the moment, Emma?' because often I can't even see the table!
The oldest form of theater is the dinner table. It's got five or six people, new show every night, same players. Good ensemble; the people have worked together a lot.
I love to cook. I love to cook for myself and my husband and big groups. I find it very relaxing, and I love socializing around a dinner table.
Scarlett: Now isn't this better than sitting at a table? A girl hasn't got but two sides to her at the table.
My folks are economists and have taught economics and social science so I grew up with those kind of conversations around the dinner table.
The bed is now as public as the dinner table and governed by the same rules of formal confrontation.
It is not at the table but in prison that you learn who your true friends are.
Never be daunted in public' was an early Hemingway phrase that had more than once bolstered me in my timid twenties. I changed it resolutely to 'Never be daunted in private'. - M.F.K. Fisher "A Is for Dining Alone
In normal life, "simplicity" is synonymous with "easy to do," but when a chef uses the word, it means "takes a lifetime to learn.
What happens when you don't know the truth but you can't believe the lies, when you can't find a way--through fact or fiction--to give meaning to your own existence? Without a narrative for your own life, do you ever really exist at all?
What happens when you don't know the truth but you can't believe the lies, when you can't find a way--through fact or fiction--to give meaning to your own existence? Without a narrative for you own life, do you ever really exist at all?
Tension fled from me. Tomorrow I would worry about Hugh d’Ambray and Andrea and Roland, but now I was simply happy. Aaahh. Home. My place, my smells, my familiar rug under my feet, my kitchen, my Curran in the kitchen chair . . . Wait a damn minute...
It's not difficult to take care of a child; it's difficult to do anything else while taking care of a child. Trying to clean up the kitchen after you've had a baby is a nightmare because you have to wait for the baby to be asleep, you're exhausted, a...
Art makes the spirit soar. And when the spirit is lifted, life follows.
Most people don't care who's in charge as long as someone is.
