Table Quotes
1747 quotes by 1379 authors
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She stood by the tea-table in a light-coloured muslin gown, which had a good deal of pink about it. She looked as if she was…
— Elizabeth Gaskell
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Let me get this straight. Your table ran away because you polished it with Windex?
— Rick Riordan
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Some morning while your eating breakfast and you need something new to think about, though, you might want to ponder the fact that you see…
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
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After a while he played with the pencil and the paper again and was delighted when he discovered how to make a mark with the…
— Douglas Adams
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A kid under a tablecloth insists he’s a ghost. A table underneath a tablecloth is, I guess, like the rest of us, only pretending to…
— Richard Siken
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I invited myself. Thought this table needed some class.
— Libba Bray
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All right, beautiful. You've got me tied down to this stone table, and there's a knife in your hand that says you get to rule…
— C.S. Lewis
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The trick to having good ideas is not to sit around in glorious isolation and try to think big thoughts. The trick is to get…
— Steven Johnson
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A half finished shawl left on the coffee table isn't a mess; it's an object of art.
— Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
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Percy?" Annabeth gripped his arm. "Oh, bad," he muttered. "Bad. Bad." He looked across the table at Frank and Hazel. "You guys remember Polybotes?" "The…
— Rick Riordan
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The meeting was like a war council with donuts. Then again, back at Camp Half-Blood they used to have their most serious discussions around the…
— Rick Riordan
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-You're simple, straightforward and honest, a little bit on the primitive side, I should think. To interest you a woman would have to... -To lay…
— Tennessee Williams
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Think of the actual physical elements that compose our bodies: we are 98 percent hydrogen and oxygen and carbon. That's table sugar. You are made…
— Augusten Burroughs
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I guess I make things that need energy stronger. I'm like a walking battery." "You're the table everyone wants at Starbucks," Gansey mused as he…
— Maggie Stiefvater
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Watch the sunrise at least once a year, put a lot of marshmallows in your hot chocolate, lie on your back and look at the…
— H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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Was it Aristotle who said the human soul is composed of reason, will, and desire?†“No, that was Plato. Aristotle and Plato were as different…
— Haruki Murakami
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According to Festus, our flying table, Buford, made it back safely while we were in Charleston, so those eagles didn't get him. Unfortunately, he lost…
— Rick Riordan
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A ruby-encrusted orb popped its top and helicopter blades unfolded. Leo was glad Buford the table wasn't here-he would've fallen in love.
— Rick Riordan
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I'd sit at my kitchen table and start scanning help-wanted ads on my laptop, but then a browser tab would blink and I'd get distracted…
— Robin Sloan
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Writing has always been a serious business for me. I felt it was a moral obligation. A major concern of the time was the absence…
— Chinua Achebe
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