Quotes by Tables Table talk and Lovers' talk equally elude the grasp; Lovers' talk is clouds, table talk is smoke. Victor Hugo eludetablesclouds It isn't so much what's on the table that matters, as what's on the chairs. W. S. Gilbert cookingtablesfood Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table. W. H. Auden bedtablesevil It is the same game that Moonlight Graham played in 1905. It is a living part of history, like calico dresses, stone crockery, and threshing crews eating at outdoor tables. It continually reminds us of what was, like an Indian-head penny in a handful of new coins. W. P. Kinsella tablesbaseballgames A poem is a verbal artifact which must be as skillfully W. H. Auden artifactsmotorcycletables 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. W. Somerset Maugham novelhalftables A pear should come to the table popped with juice, Ripened in warmth and served in warmth. On terms Like these, autumn beguiles the fatalist. Wallace Stevens juiceautumntables 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. Walter Jon Williams experiencetableslittles I find that I have no problem getting a table at a restaurant when I walk in. Walton Goggins restaurantsproblemtables Why can't the Arabs and Jews resolve their disagreements at the conference table like good Christians? Warren Austin resolvetableschristian Servant leadership teaches us that you have to lay your cards on the table. Warren G. Bennis servant-leadershipcards-on-the-tabletables The best thing that happens to us is when a great company gets into temporary trouble...We want to buy them when they're on the operating table. Warren Buffett investing-moneybusinesstables 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 sixtablesyears I don't want to be on the other side of the table from the customer. I was never selling anything that I didn't believe in myself or use myself. Warren Buffett tablesusebelieve What is fanaticism today is the fashionable creed tomorrow, and trite as the multiplication table a week after. Wendell Phillips tomorrowtablestoday You know, when I'm looking at these '08 yachts that are for sale, I think "I could have just walked in with a briefcase of cash and put it on the table and walked out with a yacht." Will Ferrell cashtablesthinking Henry Colbert, the miller, always breakfasted with his wife--beyond that he appeared irregularly at the family table. Willa Cather wifetablesbook I suspect anyway that the important things we learn we never remember because they become a part of us, we absorb them...we don't absorb multiplication tables. William Alexander Percy importanttablesremember The "trickle-down" theory: the principle that the poor, who must subsist on table scraps dropped by the rich, can best be served by giving the rich bigger meals. William Blum principlestablesgiving [T]hey stretch you on a table. Then they bid you close your eyelids, And they mask you with a napkin, And the anæsthetic reaches Hot and subtle through your being. William Ernest Henley heytableshot«2223242526272829303132»
