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All great change in America begins at the dinner table. -- Ronald Reagan
I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck. -- Emma Goldman
If you don't have a seat at the table, you're probably on the menu. -- Elizabeth Warren
Wine makes every meal an occasion, every table more elegant, every day more civilized. -- Andre Simon
I love nerds. Comic-Con junkies are the tastemakers of tomorrow. Isn't that funny? The tables have turned -- Kristen Bell
A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy? -- Albert Einstein
Let us leave a spare place at our table: a place for those who lack the basics, who are alone. -- Pope Francis
Talent in cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work. -- Stephen King
If you put Buddha, Jesus Christ, Socrates, Shakespeare, Arjuna, Krishna at a dinner table together, I can't see them having an argument. -- Hugh Jackman
It takes a strong man to accept somebody else's children and step up to the plate another man left on the table. -- Ray Johnson
She has a laugh so hearty it knocks the whipped cream off an order of strawberry shortcake on a table fifty feet away. -- Damon Runyon
A society's competitive advantage will come not from how well its schools teach the multiplication and periodic tables, but from how well they stimulate imagination and creativity. -- Albert Einstein
They had me on the operating table all day. They looked into my stomach, my gall bladder, they examined everything inside of me. Know what they decided? I need glasses. -- Joe E. Lewis
When I sit at my table to write, I never know what it's going to be until I'm under way. I trust in inspiration, which sometimes comes and sometimes doesn't. But I don't sit back waiting for it. I work every day. -- Alberto Moravia
You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet. -- Franz Kafka
How much better is silence; the coffee cup, the table. How much better to sit by myself like the solitary sea-bird that opens its wings on the stake. Let me sit here for ever with bare things, this coffee cup, this knife, this fork, things in themselves, myself being myself. -- Virginia Woolf
Well, capitalism is going to grow and grow. The nature of it is that the guy who has the most poker chips on the table has more leverage than everyone else. He can eventually outbluff everyone else and outraise everyone else at the table. That's what has happened and it needs to be corrected. -- Simon Baker
Among the environmental trends undermining our future are shrinking forests, expanding deserts, falling water tables, collapsing fisheries, disappearing species, and rising temperatures. The temperature increases bring crop-withering heat waves, more-destructive storms, more-intense droughts, more forest fires, and, of course, ice melting. We are crossing natural thresholds that we cannot see and violating deadlines that we do not recognize. -- Lester R. Brown
Watch the sunrise at least once a year, put a lot of marshmallows in your hot chocolate, lie on your back and look at the stars, never buy a coffee table you can't put your feet on, never pass up a chance to jump on a trampoline, don't overlook life's small joys while searching for the big ones. -- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Mom and Dad were married 64 years. And if you wondered what their secret was, you could have asked the local florist - because every day Dad gave Mom a rose, which he put on her bedside table. That's how she found out what happened on the day my father died - she went looking for him because that morning, there was no rose. -- Mitt Romney
They say when opportunity knocks you should let it in and invite it to sit at your table. F*** that -- when opportunity knocks, you should take it captive. Beat that s*** down. I've got opportunity tied to a chair in my basement with a ball gag in its mouth. Opportunity ain't even thinking about leaving my house. If you keep quiet for a second, you'll hear it whining. -- Tracy Morgan
Tables turn, bridges burn, you live and learn. -- Drake
Judges ought above all to remember the conclusion of the Roman Twelve Tables :The supreme law of all is the weal [weatlh/ well-being] of the people. -- Francis Bacon
I don't think there is anything good about fame. 'Tables in restaurants.' People say that but, then again, why don't you just call the day before? Or go eat somewhere else? -- Jodie Foster
The concept that flourished during the most glorious periods of republican Rome and that appeared in the Twelve Tables of the Law as one of the first, though as yet imperfect, affirmations of the rights of man, inspired the struggle between patricians and plebeians. -- Ernesto Teodoro Moneta
Common sense says that chairs and tables exist independently of whether anyone happens to perceive them or not. -- Charles D. Broad
You know, I'm not terribly fast at my times tables, because that's not what I think mathematics is about. -- Marcus du Sautoy
What becomes a crime deserving capital punishment when the tables are turned is a matter of small moment when the negro woman is the accusing party. -- Ida B. Wells
Waiting tables has never paid my bills, a fact which I prefer to hide from my colleagues with deep sighs about the price of just about everything. -- David Chang
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. -- Laura Ingalls Wilder
We don't need lists of rights and wrongs, tables of do's and don'ts: we need books, time, and silence. Thou shalt not is soon forgotten, but Once upon a time lasts forever. -- Philip Pullman
Our deep respect for the land and its harvest is the legacy of generations of farmers who put food on our tables, preserved our landscape, and inspired us with a powerful work ethic. -- James H. Douglas, Jr.
We have associations to things. We have, you know, we have associations to tables and to - and to dogs and to cats and to Harvard professors, and that's the way the mind works. It's an association machine. -- Daniel Kahneman
I've done everything from cater, wait tables, pre-school teacher, painting, to being Cinderella, Elmo, a clown, nanny, selling hair... I would do kid's parties and entertain and do magic and paint faces and balloon animals. The highlight of my life. -- Diora Baird
I think my level of fame will drop back down. I think it'll recede. In fact, I know it will. That's life on Planet Earth. And I'm okay with that. Besides getting tables at restaurants and special treatment at the airport, what else is there? -- Tina Fey
I felt more comfortable playing other people than being myself, when I was a kid. And then, the tables turned. Through my performances, I've become more comfortable with who I am, and then I just bring more of myself into the people that I play. -- Jay Ryan
Moving between the legs of tables and of chairs, rising or falling, grasping at kisses and toys, advancing boldly, sudden to take alarm, retreating to the corner of arm and knee, eager to be reassured, taking pleasure in the fragrant brilliance of the Christmas tree. -- T. S. Eliot
I don't think you should be allowed to eat in a restaurant if you haven't waited tables at least once. It's so irritating when I see people being rude to waiters, like, it makes me want to slit their throats! Like, really? You're really this inconsiderate? -- Lizzy Caplan
Never forget: This very moment, we can change our lives. There never was a moment, and never will be, when we are without the power to alter our destiny. This second, we can turn the tables on Resistance. This second, we can sit down and do our work. -- Steven Pressfield
Our globe is under new dramatic environmental pressure: our globe is warming, our ice caps melting, our glaciers receding, our coral is dying, our soils are eroding, our water tables falling, our fisheries are being depleted, our remaining rainforests shrinking. Something is very, very wrong with our eco-system. -- Richard Lamm
People crave trustworthy information about the world we live in. Some people want it because it is essential to the way they make a living. Some want it because they regard being well-informed as a condition of good citizenship. Some want it because they want something to exchange over dinner tables and water coolers. -- Bill Keller
Starbucks was founded around the experience and the environment of their stores. Starbucks was about a space with comfortable chairs, lots of power outlets, tables and desks at which we could work and the option to spend as much time in their stores as we wanted without any pressure to buy. The coffee was incidental. -- Simon Sinek
Our family room, where we live, is about togetherness and ease. Nothing in my house is too formal. There are no coasters on tables; the kids can eat Popsicles on the couch if they want to. I let them ride these little cycles we got for them when they were 3 that have rubber wheels and no pedals. -- Cindy Crawford
When I played the Sahara Hotel in Las Vegas on New Year's Eve, I got to bring Wiley, my 85-pound black lab. He's responsible for my favorite New Year's memory of all: At the end of the show, he ran onstage and then out across all the tables in the showroom, sending champagne glasses and gamblers flying. -- Elayne Boosler
I remembered watching the film from Alfred Hitchcock, 'Dial M for Murder,' and he shot almost all of that movie in one room. There was a genius in what Hitchcock did by manipulating things in that room so that you could see the distances between things like the tables and the vases because of how he used perspective. -- Dario Argento
I was living as a young single mom. I was 19 when I was divorced, and my daughter was a year old, and I waited tables here three to four nights a week for several years while I was trying to support myself and my daughter and the day I got that acceptance at Harvard Law School was an unforgettable day. -- Wendy Davis
I started out mopping floors, waiting tables, and tending bar at my dad's tavern. I put myself through school working odd jobs and night shifts. I poured my heart and soul into a small business. And when I saw how out-of-touch Washington had become with the core values of this great nation, I put my name forward and ran for office. -- John Boehner
Ping-pong was invented on the dining tables of England in the 19th century, and it was called Wiff-waff! And there, I think, you have the difference between us and the rest of the world. Other nations, the French, looked at a dining table and saw an opportunity to have dinner; we looked at it an saw an opportunity to play Wiff-waff. -- Boris Johnson
There's something I call 'Moving Day,' which I've done for the last 20 years. Look at everything in your home, then think about how you could combine things in a different way. Maybe you break up your night tables and use one in the family room; maybe the dining room sideboard becomes a console table for your television, with storage underneath. -- Nate Berkus
I have the cliche 'struggling actor' story. I was waiting tables in New York, went out to L.A. soon after graduation to get some jobs, but it didn't work out. I wanted to cut my teeth in professional theater, so I came back to New York. It made my journey a longer one, but I really wanted to excel in the theater. -- Pedro Pascal
My parents didn't know much science; in fact, they didn't know science at all. But they could recognize a science book when they saw it, and they spent a lot of time at bookstores, combing the remainder tables for science books to buy for me. I had one of the biggest libraries of any kid in school, built on books that cost 50 cents or a dollar. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
Actors wait tables, directors work at video stores. -- Joss Whedon
I don't go to restaurants, I go to tables. -- Langdon Winner
I waited tables at Govnr's Park Tavern in Denver. -- Dana Perino
Eleutheria, the fire is burning. Eleutheria, the tables are turning. -- Lenny Kravitz
Men think monogamy is something you make dining tables out of. -- Kathy Lette
April in Paris, chestnuts in blossom, holiday tables under the trees. -- Yip Harburg
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The dead sit at our tables long after they have gone. -- Mitch Albom
And while you was bangin on tables, I was bangin Snow White. -- PMD
Creativity always dies a quick death in rooms that house conference tables. -- Bruce Herschensohn
Buy whatever kids are selling on card tables in their front yard. -- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
We have two tables on our airplane that are set up with the games. -- Steve Yzerman
Alchohol doesn't make you fat...it make you Lean...on tables, chairs & random people!!!... -- Ashley Purdy
Thrift, thrift, Horatio! The funeral bak'd meats did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables. -- William Shakespeare
I was the kid who was drawing on tables or removing the legs of furniture. -- Ty Pennington
I love round tables. They suit me so much better than a square." Magnus, pg. 137 -- Cassandra Clare
I really believe waiting tables, and service industry jobs in general, make you a better person. -- Judy Greer
World barista champions use the AeroPress to make coffee on the folding tray tables of airplanes. -- Tim Ferriss
World barista champions use the AeroPress to make coffee on the folding tray tables of airplanes. -- Tim Ferriss
Some people are so into web standards that they've removed all the tables from their houses -- Jared Spool
Drinking beer doesn't make you fat, it makes you lean...Against bars, tables, chairs, and poles. -- Gerard Way
It was exactly an assembly line. You could look into infinity down these rows of drawing tables. -- Gil Kane
My mother is very short - four-eleven. She could walk under tables and never hit her head. -- Mel Brooks
I love nerds. Comic-Con junkies are the tastemakers of tomorrow. Isn't that funny? The tables have turned. -- Kristen Bell
And homeless near a thousand homes I stood, And near a thousand tables pined and wanted food. -- William Wordsworth
If I were president, I would turn the tables and allow the fetus to abort its mother. -- David Sedaris
Fusion is the future. The mixing of ideas. The two lunch tables working together. Humanity...we're 1 people. -- Kanye West
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Me, I was waiting tables of 13 and married at 19. I graduated from public schools, and taught elementary school. -- Elizabeth Warren
I have sat at the sumptuous tables of power, but I have not run away with the silverware. -- Diosdado Macapagal
My audience is often hands-up, standing and cheering and on tables and all of that kind of things. -- Gloria Gaynor
I like the club. It looks nice with all the tables out. They were freaking out, the Gilly's people. -- Kim Deal
One must be able to say at all times--instead of points, straight lines, and planes--tables, chairs, and beer mugs -- David Hilbert
All my life I have said, "Whatever happens there will always be tables and chairs"--and what a mistake. -- Elizabeth Bowen
Encouragement is the most important thing in the world for young people, rather than league tables, which demoralise everyone. -- Tony Benn
It'sthe fate of most Ping-Pong tables in home basements eventually to serve the ends of other, more desperate games. -- Jonathan Franzen
You'd never catch me dancing on tables in public. I have no desire to be known for my personal life. -- America Ferrera
My first waitress job was at Johnny Rockets in New Jersey, and then I waited tables at a sports bar. -- Melissa Rauch
I waited tables in New York, and when you're in that line of work, you often have a horrible boss. -- Charlie Day
An abstract style is always bad. Your sentences should be full of stones, metals, chairs, tables, animals, men, and women. -- Alain de Lille
My dad and my uncles owned a bar outside of Cincinnati. I worked there growing up, mopping floors, waiting tables. -- John Boehner
I've always believed that the things middle class families struggle with around their kitchen tables should define my work in Washington. -- Gary Peters
Being famous gets me good concert tickets, good tables in restaurants, good seats at sporting events and that's really about it. -- Fran Drescher
Hope in gates, hope in spoons, hope in doors, hope in tables, no hope in daintiness and determination. Hope in dates. -- Gertrude Stein
The grand thing about the human mind is that it can turn its own tables and see meaninglessness as ultimate meaning. -- John Cage
I checked the actuarial tables, and the lowest death rate is among six-year-olds. So I decided to eat like a six-year-old. -- Warren Buffett
Thailand's seafood industry is the third largest in the world. And much of it is ending up on our dinner tables. -- Lourdes Garcia-Navarro
I see the strongest and the smartest men who have ever lived... and these men are pumping gas and waiting tables. -- Chuck Palahniuk
I was a waitress years ago when I was first trying to become an actress, waiting tables in New York City. -- Kim Dickens
It is the fact that the electrons cannot all get on top of each other that makes tables and everything else solid. -- Richard P. Feynman
I hate to think of the day when nobody remembers me as an actor and I can't get good tables in restaurants. -- Paul Henreid
Make your free men and guests sit as far as possible at tables on either side, not four here and three there. -- Robert Grosseteste
I majored in musical theatre performance at college, then went through years of waiting tables and temping while looking for acting work. -- Brooke Elliott
I could teach. I could wait tables. I could cook in a restaurant. Food and teaching were the two skills I had. -- Ann Patchett
I can be very polite, but I've found that doesn't always get a result. You have got to bang and thump tables. -- Joy Baluch
Always see the good in everyonelearn to see through God's eyes no matter whatremember, the tables may turn tomorrow. You just never know! -- Kemi Sogunle
I didn't know that it was going to launch a quote-unquote comedic career. I just wanted to do anything other than wait tables. -- Charlie Day
It is to their crimes that most great men are indebted for their gardens, their tables, their fine old plate - their love -- Latin Proverb
If I work on a movie for two months, I should be able to dance on as many tables as I want to. -- Tara Reid
I always assumed that everyone knew no country would ever be awarded a World Cup without pricey gifts exchanging hands under the tables. -- Rabih Alameddine
I like the level of fame that I have. You get nice tables in restaurants sometimes, but fame isn't something that I find comfortable. -- Aidan Quinn
Einstein's results again turned the tables and now very few philosophers or scientists still think that scientific knowledge is, or can be, proven knowledge. -- Imre Lakatos
The rules of prudence, like the laws of the stone tables, are for the most part prohibitive. "Thou shalt not" is their characteristic formula. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
True Civilization does not lie in gas, nor in steam, nor in turn-tables. It lies in the reduction of the traces of original sin. -- Charles Baudelaire
Success is created in studio apartments and garages, at kitchen tables, and in classrooms across the nation, not in government conference rooms in Washington. -- Tim Scott
Sometimes a crumb falls From the tables of joy, Sometimes a bone Is flung. To some people Love is given, To others Only heaven. -- Langston Hughes
The glory of the carpenter is the tables and chairs he manufactures; the glory of God is you and me because He manufactured us! -- Israelmore Ayivor
Grain that is used to feed animals that end up on our tables as turkeys and hams could have gone to feed starving people. -- Peter Singer

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