Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Cooper

Usability methods are like sandpapering a chair. If you are making a chair, the sandpaper can make it smoother. But no amount of sandpaper will turn a chair into a table.

Chris Bauer

I'm not one of those actors who sits around the table and intellectualizing anything, or discusses much of anything. Everything for me is intuitive and instinctive.

Caio Fonseca

My uniform is sweatpants, so crusted over with dried paint that they're as hard as a table. I wear T-shirts that are also covered in paint, and Crocs.

William Shakespeare

A table full of welcome makes scarce one dainty dish.

David Hilbert

Keep computations to the lowest level of the multiplication table.

Denis Leary

I'm not saying being a comedian is brain surgery, but it is definitely - it's like being a carpenter. You learn how to make tables and chairs. You have to have the right tools, and you have to know how to put the thing together, right?

Diana Vreeland

Poor, darling fellow - he died of food. He was killed by the dinner table.

Dana Perino

I waited tables at Govnr's Park Tavern in Denver.

Elizabeth Warren

If you don't have a seat at the table, you're probably on the menu.

Adam Gopnik

What we eat is the one simplest way to declare who we are - the table reflects our values with a clarity that few other theaters of human behaviour posses.

A. Bartlett Giamatti

It is not enough to offer a smorgasbord of courses. We must insure that students are not just eating at one end of the table.

Agatha Christie

At the small table, sitting very upright, was one of the ugliest old ladies he had ever seen. It was an ugliness of distinction - it fascinated rather than repelled.

Calvin Coolidge

Don't hesitate to be as revolutionary as science. Don't hesitate to be as reactionary as the multiplication table.

Debbie Wasserman Schultz

Aren't we at the point where the closer we get to chaos, the more concern that there should be about coming to the table and compromising with Democrats? This is not leadership. This is almost like dictatorship.

Desmond Tutu

When a pile of cups is tottering on the edge of the table and you warn that they will crash to the ground, in South Africa you are blamed when that happens.

David Lynch

I have to make what I see, whether it's a painting, a table, or a movie, or it's like a death and what would be the point of that?

Deepak Chopra

We Americans sit at the head of the banquet table, as we have done for a century. Our standard of living is luxurious by any measure.

Carrie Snodgress

There was a note on my dressing room table that said, Call Neil Young.

John Mulaney

I was always the squarest person in the cool room, and alternatively, sometimes the weirder person at the mainstream table.

Kesha

What I'm bringing to the pop table is that I'm not pretentious.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Keep a good table and attend to the ladies.

Henry James

She was a woman who, between courses, could be graceful with her elbows on the table.

Helena Rubinstein

Leave the table while you still feel you could eat a little more.

Ethel Merman

At a flea market I always head for the junk jewelry table first.

Erma Bombeck

I don't know when pepper mills in a restaurant got to be right behind frankincense and myrrh in prominence. It used to be in a little jar that sat next to the salt on the table and everyone passed it around, sneezed, and it was no big deal.

Ferran Adria

Food is about being happy -- at a table, thats probably where we spend most of our happiest hours...

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

I had placed my stick on the table, as I do every evening. It had been specially made to suit my height, to enable me to walk without too much difficulty. As I was standing up, a customer called to me: 'Monsieur, don't forget your pencil.' It was very unkind, but most funny.

James A. Garfield

I will not vote against the truths of the multiplication table.

Fran Drescher

Being famous gets me good concert tickets, good tables in restaurants, good seats at sporting events and that's really about it.

Jennifer Tilly

Felting Phil (taking all of his chips down to the felt on the table). I loved beating him and then hed go over to the couch and sulk, staring at the ceiling.

Jeannette Walls

One thing about whoring: It put a chicken on the table.

Jeannette Walls

It's really not that hard to put food on the table if that's what you decide to do.

George Carlin

Hitler never bothered with restaurant reservations; he just dropped by. And somehow they always found him a table.