Wonder is the heaviest element on the periodic table. Even a tiny fleck of it stops time. — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
Leave the table while you still feel you could eat a little more. — Helena Rubinstein Copy Share Image
As beautiful as the chance encounter of a sewing machine and an umbrella on an operating table. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For me, my 20s were all about reaching for the brass ring of work in theater, television, and film, surviving in between… — Kate Walsh Copy Share Image
Gambling is not a vice, it is an expression of our humanness. We gamble. Some do it at the gaming table, some… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Baltimore is permissiveness. The pleasures of the flesh, the table, the bottle, and the purse are tolerated with a civilized understanding. — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
Capitalism, though it may not always give the scientific worker a living wage, will always protect him, as being one of the… — John B. S. Haldane Copy Share Image
I sat at a table where were rich food and wine in abundance, and obsequious attendance, but sincerity and truth were not;… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Stuart must have sensed my despair from the way I began lightly banging my forehead on the table. — Maureen Johnson Copy Share Image
Put some clothes on, you weird, yellow-eyed, table-dancing, werewolf-training, cryptic, stare-me-right-in-the-eyes-and-don't-even-blink wench. — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
People will buy anything at jumble sales,' I said. 'At the Evacuated Children Charity Fair a woman bought a tree branch that… — Connie Willis Copy Share Image
My ambition was to stop waiting tables. That was how I measured success: finally, I was able to stop waiting tables, and… — Graham Norton Copy Share Image
There was a still life on Billy's bedside table-two pills, an ashtray with three lipstick-stained cigarettes in it, one cigarette still burning,… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
It was a weird game. There was ugly shooting and a lot of turnovers and mistakes, and we were just fortunate to… — Shaquille O'Neal Copy Share Image
The culture of chefs is a melting pot, and I always say this - if we could put all the heads of… — Robert Irvine Copy Share Image
Since I have an aversion to movies in which people say grace at the dinner table (not to the practice but to… — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
Outside, the rain sometimes comes down so hard, we have to talk louder, and it feels like a miracle that the roof… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
There is a lot of acting that is on the table - precisely, good acting. The best movies of mine are the… — Jay Mohr Copy Share Image
I receive grace. And through me, grace could flow on. Like a cycle of water in continuous movement, grace is meant to… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
How did you keep this by you?" Grey demanded abruptly. "You were searched to the skin when you were brought back." The… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
You go first. Go through the door before me. Enter the limousine while I wait by your side. Enter the shops while… — Jean Sasson Copy Share Image
I must say, some are not very beautifully made. They’re coffee-table books for people who drink alcohol. I have nothing against coffee-table… — Karl Lagerfeld Copy Share Image
[T]he enshrinement of constitutional rights necessarily takes certain policy choices off the table… Undoubtedly some think that the Second Amendment is outmoded… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
I owe Marilyn Monroe a real debt … she personally called the owner of the Mocambo, and told him she wanted me… — Ella Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Finance ministers and central bank governors have the seats at the table, not labor unions or labor ministers. Finance ministers and central… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
What, then, is the effect of pesticides? Pesticides have created a legacy of pain, and misery, and death for farm workers and… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
Let us suppose that we have laid on the table... [a] piece of glass... and let us homologize this glass to a… — Leon Croizat Copy Share Image