Table Quotes

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Though amid all the smoking horror and diabolism of a sea-fight, sharks will be seen longingly gazing up to the ship's decks, like hungry dogs… — Herman Melville
Basically Ken is a very gentle, home-loving person. I remember when one of his stick insects had a knee infection. He stayed up all night… — Dave Barry
When I was research head of General Motors and wanted a problem solved, I'd place a table outside the meeting room with a sign: "Leave… — Charles Kettering
I don't know if that result's enough to life Birmingham off the bottom of the table, although it'll certainly take them above Sunderland — Mike Ingham
Like hungry guests, a sitting audience looks / Plays are like suppers; poets are the cooks / The founder's you; the table is this place… — George Farquhar
In the world of physics we watch a shadowgraph performance of the drama of familiar life. The shadow of my elbow rests on the shadow… — Arthur Eddington
The single most powerful tool for winning a negotiation is the ability to get up and walk away from the table without a deal — Paul Gauguin
What is a family without love? And by family I don't just mean a packed kitchen table with a hoard of children around it. A… — Pink
At your next dinner party, try playing the following game. Challenge everyone around the table to produce a single drug that can cure people of… — Lynne McTaggart
The roulette table pays nobody except him that keeps it. Nevertheless a passion for gaming is common, though a passion for keeping roulette tables is… — George Bernard Shaw
Thus when I come to shape here at this table between my hands the story of my life and set it before you as a… — Virginia Woolf
It is time for the rest of the world to join ... in demanding that ALL the nuclear weapons states -including Israel, India and Pakistan,… — Daniel Ellsberg
Keep a note pad and pencil on your bedside table. Million-dollar ideas sometimes strike at 3 A.M. — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
This past Thanksgiving, my father was at the farm, and I had all 11 dogs in the house with a father who never allowed dogs… — Oprah Winfrey
First of all, the Social Security money belongs to Main Street, not to Wall Street. It needs to be said very clearly here that privatization… — Dennis Kucinich
The full extent of the problem of hunger is not obvious to most of us. We see the homeless, but there are a great number… — Scott Glenn
Why should there be hunger and deprivation in any land, in any city, at any table, when man has the resources and the scientific know-how… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
For, after all, put it as we may to ourselves, we are all of us from birth to death guests at a table which we… — Rebecca Harding Davis
If either player abandon the game by quitting the table in anger, or in an otherwise offensive manner; or by momentarily resigning the game; or… — Howard Staunton
All chess masters have on occasion played a magnificent game and then lost it by a stupid mistake, perhaps in time pressure and it may… — Bent Larsen

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