Tables Quotes - Page 26

• Yes, I can understand that a man might go to a gambling table when he sees that all that lies between him and death is his last crown.

  Honore de Balzac

  Lying, Men, Gambling

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• What Donald Trump is going to bring to the table. He's going to bring straight, honest conversation and bring up topics that, while they may be sensitive, they have to be said.

  Donald Trump, Jr.

  May, Topics, Honest

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I've always wanted to play with this idea - and I didn't want to leave it to the last season, but I wasn't quite sure when it was going to happen - of putting Jax [sons of Anarchy] at the head of the table and the ripple effect on the guys and the loyalties of it and where people land.

  Kurt Sutter

  Loyalty, Son, Land

  Source: collider.com

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• People who are upset about something ruminate on it whenever they get a chance; they are constantly drawn back to their own unhappy tale as if it were a horror story left open on a table.

  Emile Chartier

  Horror Stories, People, Upset

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• A lot of the content that goes directly to the internet, or is web-created content, is very hand-held video where you can watch this woman fall off the coffee table, or see a funny little gag, or is interview-style stuff, which is great. I love that. I consume it like crazy. But, this is designed to be reminiscent of what you would see during primetime, and reminiscent of what you would see in a movie theater, on any given weekend, and in that regard, it's brand new.

  Joseph McGinty Nichol

  Crazy, Fall, Coffee

  Source: collider.com

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• My parents discussed singing every night over the dinner table; I had a tremendous music education.

  Renee Fleming

  Night, Parent, Singing

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The world looks like a multiplication-table, or a mathematical equation, which, turn it how you will, balances itself.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Mathematical Equations, Balance, Looks

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2004). “Essays”, p.73, 1st World Publishing

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• 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

  Dream, Book, Writing

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• I can go into restaurants and a whole table will get up and clap if they recognize me, because they love Fox News. Other places - or even the same place - people will turn the other way.

  Rupert Murdoch

  People, News, Way

  "Rupert Murdoch Has Potential". www.esquire.com. September 11, 2008.

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• I think that a strong Israel is the only Israel that will bring the Arabs to the peace table.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Strong, Thinking, Israel

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• Laws, written, if not on stone tables, yet on the azure of infinitude, in the inner heart of God's creation, certain as life, certain as death, are there, and thou shalt not disobey them.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Heart, Science, Law

  Thomas Carlyle (1872). “Past and Present”, p.198

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• Table talk and Lovers' talk equally elude the grasp; Lovers' talk is clouds, table talk is smoke.

  Victor Hugo

  Clouds, Elude, Lovers

  "Les Misérables". Book by Victor Hugo, Book III, 1862.

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• I had been hungry all the years- My noon had come, to dine- I, trembling, drew the table near And touched the curious wine. 'Twas this on tables I had seen When turning, hungry, lone, I looked in windows, for the wealth I could not hope to own. I did not know the ample bread, 'Twas so unlike the crumb The birds and I had often shared In Nature's diningroom. The plenty hurt me, 'twas so new,-- Myself felt ill and odd, As berry of a mountain bush Transplanted to the road. Nor was I hungry; so I found That hunger was a way Of persons outside windows, The entering takes away.

  Emily Dickinson

  Hurt, Wine, Years

  Emily Dickinson, “I Had Been Hungry All The Years”

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• I don't think that women ought to sit down at table with men. It ruins conversation and I'm sure it's very bad for them. It puts ideas in their heads, and women are never at ease with themselves when they have ideas.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Men, Thinking, Ideas

  W. Somerset Maugham (2013). “The Essential W. Somerset Maugham Collection”, p.2031, eBookIt.com

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• Eve hugged her, hard. “It’s beautiful,” she said. “What happened to the old frosting?” Shane, sitting at the table, raised his hand. “Took one for the team.” “Jesus, you ate it? All of it?” “Nah.” He held up the bowl that was sitting in front of him. There was still about half a cup left. “Couldn’t finish it all.” Eve blinked and looked at Claire, who shrugged and said, “I always thought he was sweet.

  Rachel Caine

  Beautiful, Sweet, Jesus

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• Alec licked his spoon, then set it on the table and popped his drink open. "Okay, I may be breaking some kind of girl bonding rule or something, but can I offer you a guy's perspective on this?" I frowned, my spoon halfway to my mouth. "Is this gonna make me want to hit you?" He shrugged. "Maybe. But it's the truth. Here goes: kissing back is an instinct. Unless the girl smells like a sewer or has tentacles feeling you up independently, a guy's first instinct is to kiss back. That's how it works. What's important is how long that kissing back lasted. So...how long?

  Rachel Vincent

  Girl, Kissing, Smell

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• Drink to me! I just realized that I've slept with everyone at this table! ~Nell

  Jennifer Crusie

  Drink, Just Realized

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• The universe always moves from an ordered state to a disordered one; that a glass may fall to the ground and shatter yet you never see a broken glass reassemble itself and then jump back on the table.

  Jasper Fforde

  Moving, Fall, Glasses

  Jasper Fforde (2003). “Lost in a Good Book”, Viking Adult

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• But they know about us, they know, the four corners, and the chairs nearby us. Discerning shadows also know, and even the table keeps quiet.

  Wislawa Szymborska

  Shadow, Four, Quiet

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• HAMLET [...] we fat all creatures else to fat us, and we fat ourselves for maggots. Your fat king and your lean beggar is but variable service, two dishes, but to one table; that's the end. CLAUDIUS Alas, alas. HAMLET A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king, and eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm. CLAUDIUS What dost thou mean by this? HAMLET Nothing but to show you how a king may go a progress through the guts of a beggar.

  William Shakespeare

  Kings, Mean, Men

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 4, sc. 2, l. [29]

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• Because when I looked at you across that table at the diner, no one else existed. And whether or not anything happens between you and me, it took meeting you to show me what I was missing.

  J.R. Ward

  Missing, Diners, Between You And Me

  J.R. Ward (2009). “Covet: A Novel of the Fallen Angels”, p.240, Penguin

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• He gazed amusedly down the table at Tessa. “You’re the shape-changer, aren’t you?” he said. “Magnus Bane told me about you. No mark on you at all, they say.” Tessa swallowed and looked him straight in the eye. They were discordantly human eyes, ordinary in his extraordinary face. “No. No mark.” He grinned around his fork. “I do suppose they’ve looked everywhere?” “I’m sure Will’s tried,” said Jessamine in a bored tone.

  Cassandra Clare

  Eye, Bored, Ordinary

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• I'm unaware that my feet are moving to the table until I'm inches from the holograph. My hand reaches in and cups a rapidly blinking green light. Someone joins me, his body tense. Finnick, of course. Because only a victor would see what I see so immediately. The arena. Laced with pods controlled by Gamemakers. Finnick's fingers caress a steady red glow over a doorway. "Ladies and gentlemen..." His voice is quiet, but mine rings through the room. "Let the Seventy-sixth Hunger Games begin!

  Suzanne Collins

  Moving, Voice, Feet

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.251, Scholastic Inc.

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• The Pantechnicon stored and distributed a good deal of furniture as well. The very idea of a lady of good breeding visiting such a place. There would be tables lying about, on their sides, naked! Not to mention flaccid dirigibles! Alexia shuddered at the very idea.

  Gail Carriger

  Lying, Ideas, Naked

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• Leif's frown eased and he slid his finger under my chin and gently caressed my jaw line with the pad of his thumb. "Pagan,will you do me the honor of being my date for Homecoming Dance?The prospect of not being able to hold you in my arms all night is heartbreaking." Mirand sighed from across the table. "Okay,that was beautiful.Why didn't you ask me like that?"she asked Wyatt. Wyatt shot Leif an annoyed frown. "Thanks,buddy.Next time you decide to break out your romantic side,could you do it alone?

  Abbi Glines

  Beautiful, Night, Annoyed

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