Quotes with breakfast-table

Quotes 101 till 120 of 129.

  • C. S. Forester The work is with me when I wake up in the morning; it is with me while I eat my breakfast in bed and run through the newspaper, while I shave and bathe and dress.
    C. S. Forester
    English novelist (1899 - 1966)
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  • Alexander Pope There goes a saying, and 'twas shrewdly said, ''Old fish at table, but young flesh in bed.''
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • William M. Peck There will be no peace so long as God remains unseated at the conference table.
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  • Bobby Ghosh There's much talk about how there can't be democracy in a region that has problems of illiteracy and poverty. But I bring a different idea to the table when I say, 'Guys, I come from India. I'm more optimistic coming from where I'm coming.'
    Bobby Ghosh
    Indian-born American journalist and commentator
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  • Joe E. Lewis They had me on the operating table all day. They looked into my stomach, my gall bladder, they examined everything inside of me. Know what they decided? I need glasses.
    Joe E. Lewis
    American writer
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  • Beth Broderick This one fellow I met at the gym. I went out to dinner with him and he said, 'I've been watching you for a year and I never thought you'd go out with me!' Then he fainted at the dinner table. I didn't know what the hell to make of that.
    Beth Broderick
    American actress (1959 - )
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  • Philip Roth To become a celebrity is to become a brand name. There is Ivory Soap, Rice Krispies, and Philip Roth. Ivory is the soap that floats; Rice Krispies the breakfast cereal that goes snap-crackle-pop; Philip Roth the Jew who masturbates with a piece of liver.
    Philip Roth
    American Novelist (1933 - 2018)
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  • Carl Honore Turn the preparing of food into a communal affair by enlisting others to help with the chopping, grating, stirring, simmering, tasting and seasoning. When the cooking is finished, eat together round the table with the electronic gadgets switched off so you can savor the food and let the conversation flow.
    Carl Honore
    Canadian journalist (1967 - )
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  • Calista Flockhart Webster and I are very aloof. The two of us go and sit there by ourselves. I sit by myself in the corner with my book and the newspaper. He kind of runs around a little bit, and then he goes and sits on top of the picnic table. He never plays with other little dogs.
    Calista Flockhart
    American actress (1964 - )
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  • Bob Dylan What good are fans? You can't eat applause for breakfast. You can't sleep with it.
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • Carly Fiorina What I think we need to do to engage the American people in a conversation about entitlement reform is to have a bipartisan group of people who come together and put every solution on the table, every alternative on the table. And then we ought to engage in a long conversation with the American people so they understand the choices.
    Carly Fiorina
    American businesswoman and political (1954 - )
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  • Alberto Moravia When I sit at my table to write, I never know what it's going to be until I'm under way. I trust in inspiration, which sometimes comes and sometimes doesn't. But I don't sit back waiting for it. I work every day.
    Alberto Moravia
    Italian writer (ps. by Alberto Pincherle) (1907 - 1990)
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  • Charles F. Kettering 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 SLIDE RULES HERE! If I didn't do that, I'd find some engineer reaching for his slide rule. Then he'd be on his feet saying, ''Boss you can't do that.''
    Charles F. Kettering
    American inventor (1876 - 1958)
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  • Anthony Holden When the young Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret were growing up, that was at it's height and the War cemented that with photographs of the Royal Family having breakfast together and so on, by pinning their reputation so firmly on that particular issue.
    Anthony Holden
    English writer, broadcaster and critic
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  • Oprah Winfrey When you forgive somebody, it doesn't necessarily mean you want to invite them to your table.
    Oprah Winfrey
    American TV host, Actress (1954 - )
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  • Bruce Barton When you have something for breakfast, you're not going to be starving by lunch.
    Bruce Barton
    American Author, Advertising Executive (1886 - 1967)
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  • Barbara Kingsolver When you pick up a novel from the bed side table, you put down your own life at the same time and you become another person for the duration.
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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  • Oliver Goldsmith Whenever you see a gaming table be sure to know fortune is not there. Rather she is always in the company of industry.
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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  • Benjamin Netanyahu Why are we talking about talking? Why negotiating about negotiating? It's very simple. If you want to get to peace, put all your preconditions on the side, sit down opposite a table, not in a studio, by the way.
    Benjamin Netanyahu
    Israeli politician (2009 - )
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  • Barbara Kingsolver Why does a person even get up in the morning? You have breakfast, you floss your teeth so you'll have healthy gums in your old age, and then you get in your car and drive down I-10 and die. Life is so stupid I can't stand it.
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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