Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Herbert

The table robbes more then a thiefe.

Michael Enzi

If you're not at the table, you're on the menu

Michel de Montaigne

And not to serve for a table-talk.

Paul Auster

I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets. That kind of spilled out into translation as a way to earn money, pay for food and put bread on the table.

Michael Pollan

Do all your eating at a table.

Michael Pollan

Imagine for a moment if we once again knew, strictly as a matter of course, these few unremarkable things: What it is we're eating. Where it came from. How it found its way to our table. And what, in a true accounting, it really cost,

Seth Gordon

My folks are economists and have taught economics and social science so I grew up with those kind of conversations around the dinner table.

Groucho Marx

Thirteen at a table is unlucky only, when the hostess has only twelve chops.

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.

Nancy Pelosi

I have said it before and I will say it again: Impeachment is off the table.

Mike Matusow

There's over 2000 donkeys in this tournament and I had to be at the table with none of them.

Neil Gaiman

He tried to listen to the conversations going on at the table and he found that he could no longer concentrate on what anyone was saying and which was worse that he was not interested in any of what he was able to hear.

Words and works eat not at one table.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

Everything from the little house was in the wagon, except the beds and tables and chairs. They did not need to take these, because Pa could always make new ones.

If you can't spot the sucker in your first half hour at the table, then you ARE the sucker.

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.

Joe Biden

Social Security's not the hard one to solve. Medicare, that is the gorilla in the room, and you've got to put all of it on the table.

Madeleine M. Kunin

If we are to create a new agenda for family/work policies, employers and employees have to take a seat at the same table and recognize their mutual gains.

John Mayer

I've never walked into a restaurant, asked for a table and been told, 'We're full.'

Henry Ford

We have always found that, if the principles were right, the area over which they were affected did not matter. Size is only a matter of the multiplication table.

Mallory Ortberg

Diapers do not belong on the same table as food.

Malin Akerman

I get horrified when I have to do table reads with the whole cast, because there's a lot of stuttering coming from me, so I have to do a lot of prep.

Marilyn vos Savant

Be able to set a table so that you feel like you're dining, not just sitting and eating.

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.

John Mulaney

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

Peter Jacobson

I sat next to Robert Duvall at the lawyers' table for six weeks, and it's still probably the best six weeks of my life.

Pope Francis

Throwing away food is like stealing from the table of those who are poor and hungry.