Trays Quotes

• When I sell liquor, it's bootlegging. When my patrons serve it on a silver tray on Lakeshore Drive, it's hospitality.

  Al Capone

  Funny, Drinking, Humor

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• I'm like a waiter and you something like a hater with trays in both hands, place an order I can cater.

  Drake

  Hate, Hands, Order

  Song: City is Mine

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• Twinkle, twinkle little bat How I wonder what you're at! Up above the world you fly, Like a tea-tray in the sky.

  Lewis Carroll

  Sweet, Sky, Tea

  Alice's Adventures inWonderland ch. 7 (1865)

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• Using iPads as cameras, for example, is like taking pictures with a cafeteria tray.

  Brian Williams

  Ipads, Cafeteria, Cameras

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• Dating is like pushing your tray along in a cafeteria. Nothing looks good, but you know you have to pick something by the time you reach the cashier.

  Caprice Crane

  Dating, Looks, Cafeteria

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• Perriwickturned to Penelope as he set the tray down on a table. "If I might be so bold, my lady-" "Perriwick!" Blake roared. "If I hear the phrase 'if I might be so bold' one more time, as God is my witness, I'm going to toss you into the channel!" "Oh dear," Penelope said. "Perhaps he does have the fever, after all.Perriwick , what do you think?" The butler reached for Blake's forehead, only to have his hand nearly bitten off. "Touch me and die," Blake snarled.

  Julia Quinn

  Thinking, Hands, Doe

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• Taylor clapped for attention. “Miss New Mexico, let’s not get all down in the bummer basement where the creepy things live. There are people in heathen China who don’t even have airline trays. We have a lot to be grateful for.

  Libba Bray

  Grateful, People, Missing

  Libba Bray (2011). “Beauty Queens”, p.31, Scholastic Inc.

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• Why are they doing that?” his mother said, frowning at her grandsons. The boys were sorting the casserole into piles on their plates. “Doing what?” Eve asked. “Why aren’t they eating their food?” “They don’t like it when things touch,” Eve said. “What things?” his mother asked. “Their food. They don’t like it when different foods touch or mix together.” “How do you serve dinner, in ice cube trays?

  Rainbow Rowell

  Mother, Boys, Ice

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• I lifted the lid and found a piece of bread and some water—and a rat that quickly darted off the tray. Talk about adding insult to injury.

  Richelle Mead

  Insult To Injury, Water, Pieces

  Richelle Mead (2011). “Shadow Heir”, p.287, Kensington Publishing Corp.

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• You aren't a bit romantic, are you?" he asked, amused. She sat back and stared at him. She was beginning to think that Neal required a keeper. He seemed to have the craziest ideas. "Romance? Isn't that love stuff?" She asked finally. "It's more than just love. It's color, and-and fire. You don't want things magnificent and filled with-with grandeur," he said, trying to make her understand. "You know, drama. Importance. Transcendent Passion." "I just want to be a knight," Kel retorted, putting her used tableware on her tray. "Eat your vegetables. They're good for you.

  Tamora Pierce

  Drama, Passion, Thinking

  Tamora Pierce (2007). “First Test: Book 1 of the Protector of the Small Quartet”, p.59, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• Uriah drops his tray next to me. It is loaded with beef stew and chocolate cake. I stare at the cake pile. “There was cake?” I say, looking at my own plate, which is more sensibly stocked than Uriah’s. “Yeah, someone just brought it out. Found a couple boxes of the mix in the back and baked it,” he says. “You can have a few bites of mine.” “A few bites? So you’re planning on eating that mountain of cake by yourself?” “Yes.” He looks confused. “Why?” “Never mind.

  Veronica Roth

  Couple, Confused, Cake

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• [Jules] slides into a seat beside me with her hot lunch tray, sighing. “Four hours, thirty-six minutes, and twelve seconds till we’re out of purgatory for the weekend.” “Maybe later,” I murmur, still distracted by the day’s previous events. “So, let me show you how a conversation works. I say something, and then you say something back that actually relates to what I was talking about, as if you were even the least bit interested.” “Huh?” I say.

  Jodi Picoult

  Weekend, Talking, Lunch

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• "You two would make a cute couple," she says as she passes by with a full dough tray in her arms. I don't know why she says it. We aren't doing anything but folding boxes with the other drivers and telling dirty jokes.But we would.We would make a cute couple.

  A.S. King

  Cute, Couple, Dirty

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• Got a hundred grand in my ash tray, spend a 100 k on a bad day.

  Wiz Khalifa

  Meaningful, Bad Day, Ashes

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• Raw pain alarms. us. It reminds us that life isn't as orderly as we'd hoped. We demand that pain settle down before we shuffle it off to the quiet table. We want pain to stay in its own little section, want to keep it from spilling over into the other parts of life. Just like . lunch trays. Keep pain in its own little compartment.

  Philip Gulley

  Pain, Lunch, Alarms

  Philip Gulley (2009). “Home to Harmony”, p.127, Zondervan

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• He lasted about as long as the dessert tray at Rosie O'Donnell's house.

  Dennis Miller

  Football, Long, House

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• I have a little office in my house and it is an absolute pigsty but I know exactly where everything is and there are little things stuck all over the walls, and papers in in-trays and files I have saved on my computer and playlists I have made on my iTunes - things that take me to a place that I think is appropriate.

  Tom Hiddleston

  Wall, Thinking, Office

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• When I was a kid, my parents had a 900-pound television on top of a TV tray. My dad's theory was, 'Let him pull it over his head a few times, he'll learn.'

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Funny, Dad, Humor

  Jeff Foxworthy (2004). “No Shirt, No Shoes...No Problem!”, Hyperion

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• I just want to make a tray of good tofu. If people want something else, they should go to the restaurants and shops.

  Yasujiro Ozu

  Want Something, People, Tofu

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• London life was very full and exciting [...] But in London there would be no greenhouse with a glossy tank, and no apple-room, and no potting-shed, earthy and warm, with bunches of poppy heads hanging from the ceiling, and sunflower seeds in a wooden box, and bulbs in thick paper bags, and hanks of tarred string, and lavender drying on a tea-tray.

  Sylvia Townsend Warner

  Apples, Tea, Sunflower

  Sylvia Townsend Warner (1978). “Lolly Willowes: or, The loving huntsman”, Charles River Books

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• Our first single, 'Ticket To Ride', was a kind of half-hit, half flop: in some places it was number one, in others it was ash-tray material.

  Karen Carpenter

  Numbers, Ashes, Half

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• Womens, they ain't like men. A woman ain't gone beat you with a stick. Miss Hilly wouldn't pull no pistol on me. Miss Leefolt wouldn't come burn my house down. No, white womens like to keep they hands clean. They got a shiny little set of tools they use, sharp as witches' fingernails, tidy and laid out neat, like the picks on a dentist tray. They gone take they time with em.

  Kathryn Stockett

  Men, Hands, White

  Kathryn Stockett (2009). “The Help”, p.200, Penguin

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• On the delivery plate of the Nutri-Matic Drink Synthesizer was a small tray, on which say three bone china cups and saucers, a bone china jug of milk, a silver teapot full of the best tea Arthur had ever tasted and a small printed note saying "Wait.

  Douglas Adams

  Waiting, Tea, Jugs

  Douglas Adams (2009). “The Restaurant at the End of the Universe”, p.25, Pan Macmillan

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• Mona knocked at the wrong time. “Uh…yeah…wait a minute, Mona -- ” Mona shouted through the door. “Room service, gentlemen. Just pull the covers up.” Michael grinned at Jon. “My roommate. Brace yourself.” Seconds later, Mona burst through the doorway with a tray of coffee and croissants. “Hi! I’m Nancy Drew! You must be the Hardy Boys!

  Armistead Maupin

  Coffee, Boys, Doors

  Armistead Maupin (1989). “Tales of the city ; More tales of the city ; Further tales of the city: an omnibus”, Vintage

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• Time rushes towards us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.

  Tennessee Williams

  Death, Time, Dying

  Tennessee Williams, John S. Bak (2009). “New Selected Essays: Where I Live”, p.61, New Directions Publishing

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