Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

The element of surprise wasn't allowed near the Periodic Table.

Joy Baluch

I can be very polite, but I've found that doesn't always get a result. You have got to bang and thump tables.

Marilyn vos Savant

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

This was the year to be in Europe, but the tables have now turned, and 2006 will be a different story.

They will turn the tables if they know someone is after them.

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.

Pranab Mukherjee

India is content with itself, and driven by the will to sit on the high table of prosperity. It will not be deflected in its mission by noxious practitioners of terror.

Jodi Picoult

This is when I realize that Anna has already left the table, and more importantly, that nobody noticed.

Nicole Krauss

In life we sit at the table and refuse to eat, and in death we are eternally hungry.

Matt Damon

Listen, here's the thing. If you can't spot the sucker in the first half hour at the table, then you ARE the sucker.

Michel de Montaigne

And not to serve for a table-talk.

Fran Drescher

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

Robert Herrick

Tis not the food, but the content, That makes the table's merriment.

Walter Jon Williams

An SF author who reads only SF will have little new to contribute, but someone with a broader experience will bring more to the table.

Wendell Phillips

What is fanaticism today is the fashionable creed tomorrow, and trite as the multiplication table a week after.

W. Somerset Maugham

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.