Quotes with dinner-table

Quotes 61 till 80 of 153.

  • 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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  • 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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  • Adam Smith It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our necessities but of their advantages.
    Adam Smith
    Scottish Economist (1723 - 1790)
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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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  • Oscar Wilde It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then merely at dinner parties.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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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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  • Brandi Chastain Julie, Mia and I just met for a couple days, doing some work but really under the guise of having fun. We do events like the Women's Sports Foundation Dinner, where we get to not only do a good thing for the community but we get to hang out with one another again.
    Brandi Chastain
    American soccer player (1968 - )
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  • Benjamin Disraeli King Louis Philippe once said to me that he attributed the great success of the British nation in political life to their talking politics after dinner.
    Wit and Wisdom
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Hubert Humphrey Leadership in today's world requires far more than a large stock of gunboats and a hard fist at the conference table.
    Hubert Humphrey
    American politician (1911 - 1978)
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  • Joan Didion Life changes fast. Life changes in the instant. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends.
    The Year of Magical Thinking (2007) 4
    Joan Didion
    American Essayist (1934 - 2021)
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  • Bobbie Ann Mason Mama was a natural cook. At harvest time, she would whip up a noontime dinner for the men in the field: fried chicken with milk gravy, ham, mashed potatoes, lima beans, field peas, corn, slaw, sliced tomatoes, fried apples, biscuits, and peach pie.
    Bobbie Ann Mason
    American novelist and short story writer
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  • Bishop Joseph Henshaw Man's life is like unto a winter's day, Some break their fast and so depart away, Others stay dinner then depart full fed; The longest age but sups and goes to bed. Oh, reader, then behold and see, As we are now so must you be.
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  • Betty Dodson Men are hung up on breasts. They're looking at the titty dinner. It's pathetic.
    Betty Dodson
    American sex educator (1929 - )
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  • Caio Fonseca Most people draw from the mind, not the eye. They draw the idea of a table or a face, not what's in front of them. We don't actually see the line of the jaw as a line and we don't see an eye as a perfectly outlined almond shape.
    Caio Fonseca
    American painter (1959 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde Murder is always a mistake. One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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