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I lost my hair mixing a substance called white gunpowder on the kitchen table. -- Mark Oliphant
You know, you really can't beat a household commodity - the ketchup bottle on the kitchen table. -- Adlai E. Stevenson
I've just always loved singing, and I come from a family that loves singing around the kitchen table. -- Jane Lynch
Some of our most exquisite murders have been domestic, performed with tenderness in simple, homey places like the kitchen table. -- Alfred Hitchcock
If you want to fight a war on drugs, sit down at your own kitchen table and talk to your own children. -- Barry McCaffrey
I hope we can get back to what I call the kitchen table. Everyday issues that people are really worried about and focused on. -- Dick Gephardt
I started at 5 years old in the kitchen table with my family supporting me. I know where I'm from and I know exactly where I'm going. -- Celine Dion
I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put over my kitchen table. -- Rodney Dangerfield
I was raised by a single psychologist mother and we spent every evening sitting at the kitchen table and dissecting our emotions and speculating about the inner life of everyone we knew. -- Annie Baker
My grandfather was a chef for a Baron in Sicily before he came to America. I grew up with him. I used to do my homework at one end of the kitchen table while he cooked at the other end. -- Vincent Schiavelli
I hate homework. I hate it more now than I did when I was the one lugging textbooks and binders back and forth from school. The hour my children are seated at the kitchen table, their books spread out before them, the crumbs of their after-school snack littering the table, is without a doubt the worst hour of my day. -- Ayelet Waldman
I've written in every imaginable location; a repurposed closet, the kitchen table, the bleachers while my kids had basketball practice, the front seat of the car when they were at soccer. In airports. On trains. In the break room when I was supposed to be wolfing down dinner. In the back of classrooms when I was supposed to be paying attention. -- Laurie Halse Anderson
I wander around the house and write in bed, at the kitchen table, by the window, in the yard. -- Sarah Hall
The people I'm honored to represent in Missouri and all over the country want leaders to address their kitchen table everyday problems. -- Dick Gephardt
I kind of just put my boards together wherever I feel comfortable that day. It could be on the kitchen table, on the ground, on the couch, wherever. -- Ryan Sheckler
On the good days, my mother would haul out the ukulele and we'd sit around the kitchen table - it was a cardboard table with a linoleum top - and sing. -- Carol Burnett
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
Women oftentimes are the ones making those economic decisions, sitting around the kitchen table and trying to figure out how to pay for rising gas prices or food prices or the health insurance costs. -- Cathy McMorris Rodgers
Learn to ignore everything anyone (including myself) has ever told you about wine protocol. Sometimes win drinking, like spontaneous sex on the kitchen table, is far more satisfying when you toss out all the rules. -- Bob Blumer
I'm not a trained academic. Neither am I a veteran social worker. I was 26 years in the corporate world, trying to make organizations profitable. And then in 2003 I started Parikrma Humanity Foundation from my kitchen table. -- Shukla Bose
When I was in fourth grade, a novelist came to talk to my English class. She told us that being an author meant sitting at the kitchen table in pajamas, drinking tea with the dogs at your feet. -- J. Courtney Sullivan
We need to address the economic issues around the kitchen table, and if people want a more high-minded politics and want to move our country forward, go on to martinomalley.com and help my campaign move our country moves. -- Hillary Clinton
My mom is one of those really angry moms who gets mad at absolutely everything. Once when I was a little kid, I accidentally knocked a Flintstones glass off the kitchen table. She said, 'Well, dammit, we can't have nice things.' -- Paula Poundstone
Back in the 40s and early 50s, building simple electronic projects was a popular hobby of many people. Back then, you could buy, you know, a few parts and - with tubes and build something on your kitchen table, and it would actually work. -- Robert Moog
I started writing at the kitchen table after midnight. It took ten months to finish that first book; I sent it to a publisher and I got some kind of prize, so it was like a dream - I was surprised to find it happening. -- Haruki Murakami
Back in the '40s and early '50s, building simple electronic projects was a popular hobby of many people. Back then, you could buy, you know, a few parts and - with tubes and build something on your kitchen table, and it would actually work. -- Robert Moog
Two Voices,' from my album with Peter Schwalm, is an intact dream-poem. I awoke one night with an image of a piece of paper and all the words of the poem written on it, so I just blundered down to the kitchen table and 'copied it out.' -- Brian Eno
Harriet Beecher Stowe was thirty-nine when she began Uncle Tom's Cabin. She had given birth to seven children and seen one die. She wrote her book to be serialized in an abolitionist newspaper. Much of it she composed on the kitchen table in between the cooking, mending, tending to her house. -- Sophy Burnham
Even when I lost my job at CBS News, I set up shop in my youngest daughter's bedroom and started Brainstormin' Productions and the Hannah Storm Foundation. And guess who was there, visiting me and enthusiastically making business charts and graphs that covered my entire kitchen table? My dad, of course. -- Hannah Storm
Women oftentimes are the ones making those economic decisions, sitting around the kitchen table and trying to figure out how to pay for rising gas prices or food prices or the health insurance costs. And I think that they see where they expect their leaders in Congress to also make those tough decisions. -- Cathy McMorris Rodgers
I eat bags and bags of cashews. I've got them in the kitchen, and about ten feet away I've got another bowl on the kitchen table. In my backpack, I've always got a bag of cashews. I started eating them in the airports because that's the one food that you can find in every airport that's actually nutritious. -- Michael Franti
Everybody is a story. When I was a child, people sat around kitchen tables and told their stories. We don't do that so much anymore. Sitting around the table telling stories is not just a way of passing time. It is the way the wisdom gets passed along. The stuff that helps us to live a life worth remembering. -- Rachel Naomi Remen
I don't care where you went to school. There - have I made your day? No? All right, I'll go further: I also don't care what your dad did for a living or how your mum voted. Nor do I mind whether you ate your tea in front of the telly, dinner at the kitchen table, or supper in the dining room. -- Robert Webb
My father had a phase of having jukeboxes all over the house. He was a music lover but he was also into musical machinery. Not instruments, he was never interested in playing particularly but there would be these odd objects, like valve amplifiers being dismantled on the kitchen table. My mum wasn't massively keen on that, but it was part of the environment. -- Squarepusher
Sometimes [genius] is just the thing that emerges after twenty years of working at your kitchen table. -- Malcolm Gladwell
Their kitchen is their shrine, the cook their priest, the table their altar, and their belly their god. -- Charles Buck
I learned early and at that kitchen table that there are ways of avoiding, without guilt, the commitments of love. -- P. D. James
I had the halfway house. I can't tell how many nights I spent around my kitchen table, soothing broken hearts. -- Kirstie Alley
Perhaps the world will end at the kitchen table, while we are laughing and crying, eating of the last sweet bite. -- Joy Harjo
In New York, pretending to be above the struggle means no seat on the bus and a table next to the kitchen. -- Mason Cooley
I was born on the kitchen table. We were so poor my mother couldn't afford to have me; the lady next door gave birth to me. -- Mel Brooks
All I can think of is the emaciated bodies of children on our kitchen table as my mother prescribes what the parent's can't give. More food. -- Suzanne Collins
Most successful businesses in the country were started on a kitchen table. As long as people have needs unmet or problems unsolved, there are business opportunities. -- Brian Tracy
There are times when wisdom cannot be found in the chambers of parliament or the halls of academia but at the unpretentious setting of the kitchen table. -- E.A. Bucchianeri
This letter is written on the skin of one of the water sprites who drowned your parents.' 'Ick!' I cried, and dropped the letter on the kitchen table. -- Charlaine Harris
some mornings... I sit at the kitchen table shaking salt into the hairs on my arm, and a feeling shoves up in me: it's finished. Everything went past without me. -- Jennifer Egan
Scream at the mangled leather carcass lying at the foot of the stairs, and my parents would roar with laughter. "That's what you get for leaving your wallet on the kitchen table. -- David Sedaris
One can't work/by limelight.//A bowlful/right at/one's elbow//produces no/more than/a baleful/glow against/the kitchen table.//The fruit purveyor's/whole unstable/pyramid//doesn't equal/what daylight did. -- Kay Ryan
They found me at the kitchen table. Derek said, "There's something we need to tell you," and from the look on Andrew's face, I think he expected Derek to say he'd gotten me pregnant. -- Kelley Armstrong
I want to focus on what are called kitchen table issues. You know, the ones that keep you up at night, like the cost of childcare and college and prescription drugs and so much else. -- Hillary Clinton

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