Quotes with breakfast-table

Quotes 41 till 60 of 129.

  • Jennifer Jason Leigh I used to hang out by the food table at parties because you don't have to talk to anybody. If you do then you can talk about the food.
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  • Al Sharpton I was raised by a single mother who made a way for me. She used to scrub floors as a domestic worker, put a cleaning rag in her pocketbook and ride the subways in Brooklyn so I would have food on the table. But she taught me as I walked her to the subway that life is about not where you start, but where you're going. That's family values.
    Al Sharpton
    American civil rights activist, Baptist minister and talk show host (1954 - )
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  • Rodney Dangerfield I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put over my kitchen table.
    Rodney Dangerfield
    American comedian, actor (1921 - 2004)
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  • A. N. Wilson I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.
    A. N. Wilson
    English writer and columnist (1950 - )
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  • Bill Hader If a movie doesn't even have financing yet, they'll do a table read for it at a casting director's office with actors, for the producer and the writer, just to hear if the movie is working.
    Bill Hader
    American actor, comedian, writer, producer, and director (1978 - )
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  • James Agee If music be the breakfast food of love, kindly do not disturb until lunch time.
    Agee on Film: Criticism and Comment on the Movies (1958)
    James Agee
    American novelist, journalist, poet, screenwriter and film critic (1909 - 1955)
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  • Bob Menendez If you got up this morning and had fruits for breakfast, it was probably picked by the bent back of an immigrant worker. If you slept in a hotel or motel of the nation, you probably had your room done by an immigrant worker.
    Bob Menendez
    American politician (1954 - )
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  • Barry McCaffrey If you want to fight a war on drugs, sit down at your own kitchen table and talk to your own children.
    Barry McCaffrey
    American Army officer, professor and business consultant (1942 - )
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  • Carroll Quigley In fact, this network, which we may identify as the Round Table Groups, has no aversion to cooperating with the Communists, or any other groups, and frequently does so.
    Carroll Quigley
    American historian and theorist (1910 - 1977)
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  • Bruce Eric Kaplan In L.A., you can put out a craft-service table anywhere, and it's no big deal. But in New York, people who walk by it on the street get really angry about it.
    Bruce Eric Kaplan
    American cartoonist
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  • Leo Rosten In the dark colony of night, when I consider man's magnificent capacity for malice, madness, folly, envy, rage, and destructiveness, and I wonder whether we shall not end up as breakfast for newts and polyps, I seem to hear the muffled cries of all the words in all the books with covers closed.
    Leo Rosten
    Polish-American scientist (1908 - 1997)
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  • Brin-Jonathan Butler In the summer of 2007, two-time Olympic champion Guillermo Rigondeaux and his teammate, Erislandy Lara, had been arrested in Brazil after going AWOL from the Cuban team during the Pan Am Games. The defection attempt made international news and quickly became a national soap opera, regularly appearing on Cuban news and round table discussions.
    Brin-Jonathan Butler
    American journalist and filmmaker
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  • Anthony Trollope In these days a man is nobody unless his biography is kept so far posted up that it may be ready for the national breakfast-table on the morning after his demise.
    Anthony Trollope
    British writer (1815 - 1882)
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk - they are all part of the curriculum.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Konrad Lorenz It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young.
    Konrad Lorenz
    German so lied (1903 - 1989)
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  • Franz Kafka It is not necessary that you leave the house. Remain at your table and listen. Do not even listen, only wait. Do not even wait, be wholly still and alone. The world will present itself to you for its unmasking, it can do no other, in ecstasy it will writhe at your feet.
    Franz Kafka
    Chech German-speaking writer (1883 - 1924)
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  • William S. Gilbert It isn't so much what's on the table that matters, as what's on the chairs.
    William S. Gilbert
    English dramatist, poet and illustrator (1836 - 1911)
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  • Boris Pasternak It snowed and snowed, the whole world over, Snow swept the world from end to end. A candle burned on the table; A candle burned.
    Boris Pasternak
    Russian writer (1890 - 1960)
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  • Ben Shahn It used to be twelve people crowded around a sewing table; now it's ten.
    Ben Shahn
    Lithuanian-born American artist (1898 - 1969)
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  • Bruce Forsyth Just doing any kind of work - even an interview for breakfast television - makes me feel happy.
    Bruce Forsyth
    British presenter, actor, comedian, singer, dancer and screenwriter (1928 - 2017)
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