Quotes with breakfast-table

Quotes 81 till 100 of 129.

  • Carly Fiorina Russia - having sat across the table from Vladimir Putin, it's pretty clear when you meet him that he has an almost limitless ambition for power. And he's been very good at acquiring it - political power, economic power, military power, territorial power.
    Carly Fiorina
    American businesswoman and political (1954 - )
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  • Malcolm X Sitting at the table doesn't make you a diner, unless you eat some of what's on that plate. Being here in America doesn't make you an American. Being born here in America doesn't make you an American.
    Malcolm X
    American activist (1925 - 1965)
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  • Boris Pasternak Snow, snow over the whole land
    across all boundaries.
    The candle burned on the table,
    the candle burned.
    Doctor Zhivago (1957)
    Boris Pasternak
    Russian writer (1890 - 1960)
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  • Alfred Hitchcock Some of our most exquisite murders have been domestic, performed with tenderness in simple, homey places like the kitchen table.
    Alfred Hitchcock
    English moviedirector (1899 - 1980)
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  • Bob Ehrlich Some of the most important conversations I've ever had occurred at my family's dinner table.
    Bob Ehrlich
    American lawyer and politician (1957 - )
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  • Lewis Carroll Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
    Lewis Carroll
    British Writer, Mathematician (1832 - 1898)
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  • Carey Mulligan Sometimes it's so weird just to do an interview. This morning I was back in my parents' house, with my brother, and we went for a jog together, then had breakfast as a family. And a couple of hours later I'm wearing high heels and a dress and makeup, and talking about my job.
    Carey Mulligan
    English actress (1985 - )
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  • Abdallah II Ten years ago I said, you know, my goal is to be able to get food on the table. What I'm trying to say by that is trying to create a vibrant, capable and effective middle class. The quicker and stronger that we can be able to do this, the easier it is for political reform to move forward.
    Abdallah II
    Jordan King (1962 - )
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  • William Shakespeare That's a valiant flea that dares eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Angela Carter The bed is now as public as the dinner table and governed by the same rules of formal confrontation.
    Angela Carter
    British author (1940 - 1992)
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  • A. P. Herbert The critical period of matrimony is breakfast-time.
    A. P. Herbert
    English humorist, novelist and playwright (1890 - 1971)
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  • Richard Nixon The lesson of all history warns us that we should negotiate only when our military superiority is so convincing that we can achieve our objective at the conference table, and deny the aggressor theirs.
    Richard Nixon
    American president (1913 - 1994)
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  • Oscar Wilde The man who can dominate a London dinner-table can dominate the world.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Boris Yeltsin The most important thing is that Milosevic agreed to sit at the negotiating table with the Kosovo Albanians.
    Boris Yeltsin
    Russian politician (1931 - 2007)
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  • Bruce Babbitt The notion that big business and big labor and big government can sit down around a table somewhere and work out the direction of the American economy is at complete variance with the reality of where the American economy is headed. I mean, it's like dinosaurs gathering to talk about the evolution of a new generation of mammals.
    Bruce Babbitt
    American attorney and politician (1938 - )
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  • Philip Roth The only way to have a funeral is to invite everyone who ever knew the person and just wait for the accident to happen-somebody who comes in out of the blue and says the truth. Everything else is table manners.
    Philip Roth
    American Novelist (1933 - 2018)
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  • Bayard Taylor The original home of the Aryan race appears to have been somewhere among the mountains and lofty table-lands of Central Asia. The word 'Arya,' meaning the high or the excellent, indicates their superiority over the neighboring races long before the beginning of history.
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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  • Gabriel Garcia Marquez The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.
    Gabriel Garcia Marquez
    Colombian writer (1927 - 2014)
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  • George Bernard Shaw 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 unknown.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • A. N. Wilson The Royal Family are not like you and me. They live in houses so big that you can walk round all day and never need to meet your spouse. The Queen and Prince Philip have never shared a bedroom in their lives. They don't even have breakfast together.
    A. N. Wilson
    English writer and columnist (1950 - )
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