Table Quotes
1747 quotes by 1379 authors
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Some friends of theirs had rented their house for several months to an interior decorator. When they returned, they discovered that their entire library had…
— Anne Fadiman
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I want to put on the table, not why 85% of the members of the National Academy of Sciences reject God, I want to know…
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Charlotte leaned forward across the table. “The Dark Sisters never mentioned what use they intended to make of your abilities, did they?†“You know about…
— Cassandra Clare
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I have seem even those who have long since abjured God die in grace. . . . Atheists don't use their drying to bargain for…
— Stephen Levine
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There was a sergeant at a desk. I knew he was a sergeant because I recognized the marks on his uniform, and I knew it…
— Steven Brust
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When we were arguing on my twenty-fourth birthday, she left the kitchen, came back with a pistol, and fired it at me five times from…
— Denis Johnson
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How do you fight someone smarter than yourself?' Rand Whispered. 'The answer is simple. You make her think that you are sitting down across the…
— Brandon Sanderson
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Everybody is a story. When I was a child, people sat around kitchen tables and told their stories. We don't do that so much anymore.…
— Rachel Naomi Remen
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Tell me what game Steph Landry and I used to play in the big dirt pile they made while they were digging my family’s pool,…
— Meg Cabot
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The dark is generous, and it is patient, and it always wins. It always wins because it is everywhere. It is in the wood that…
— Matthew Woodring Stover
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Many folk like to know beforehand what is to be set on the table; but those who have laboured to prepare the feast like to…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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The kitchen was just as empty, even the refrigerator gone, the chairs, the table--the kitchen cabinets stood open, their bare shelves reminder her of a…
— Cassandra Clare
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And since we don’t just forget things because they don’t matter but also forget things because they matter too much because each of us remembers…
— Philip Roth
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Wizards don't believe in gods in the same way that most people don't find it necessary to believe in, say, tables. They know they're there,…
— Terry Pratchett
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I like on the table, when we're speaking, the light of a bottle of intelligent wine.
— Pablo Neruda
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And," Price adds, smiling, "if another round of Bellinis comes within a twenty-foot radius of our table we are going to set the maitre d'…
— Bret Easton Ellis
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The table was her stage. The mobile phone was the microphone. And the new moon was the spotlight. That kind of magic only Nana could…
— Ai Yazawa
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You want a round table meeting, we can have a round table meeting." "I love round tables," said Magnus brightly. "They suit me so much…
— Cassandra Clare
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Stuart must have sensed my despair from the way I began lightly banging my forehead on the table.
— Maureen Johnson
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Valek smiled. “Good. First, send Kade a reply, asking him not to come.†He pointed at the unopened letter on the table. I had forgotten…
— Maria V. Snyder
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