Quotes with dinner-table

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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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  • Roland Barthes Wine is a part of society because it provides a basis not only for a morality but also for an environment; it is an ornament in the slightest ceremonials of French daily life, from the snack to the feast, from the conversation at the local café to the speech at a formal dinner.
    Roland Barthes
    French writer, literary critic, linguist and philosopher (1915 - 1980)
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  • Beth Ditto With a stretch belt, anything can be a dress - a dinner napkin, a tablecloth, even a towel. Just wrap and snap, and away you go in an incredible outfit. Another plus is that the belt will pull all eyes to your lovely curves, and they even look good around a coat or a jacket.
    Beth Ditto
    American singer-songwriter and actress (1981 - )
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  • Boyle Roche Would cut us to mincemeat, and throw our bleeding heads on that table to stare us in the face.
    Boyle Roche
    Irish politician
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  • Bill Viola You can always tell in a movie when they are setting you up for something. If someone leaves an important object on the table and walks away, the camera will have some way of indicating that to you.
    Bill Viola
    American video artist (1951 - )
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  • Ben Stein You cannot win if you're not at the table. You have to be where the action is.
    Ben Stein
    American professor, writer
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  • Adlai Stevenson II You know, you really can't beat a household commodity - the ketchup bottle on the kitchen table.
    Adlai Stevenson II
    American politician and governor (1900 - 1965)
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  • Ann Patchett You see an absolutely brilliant film later, as an adult, and you walk out thinking about what to have for dinner. Whereas something like Jaws winds up having a huge effect on me. If only my parents had been taking me to Kurosawa films when I was eight, but no.
    Ann Patchett
    American author (1963 - )
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  • Bill Fagerbakke Your basic physical makeup does influence the parts you're offered. If you're big, they cast you either dumb or tough, although there are exceptions. Clint Eastwood and James Arness carved out niches for themselves in Westerns. I just hope I won't be faced with doing 'Li'l Abner' in dinner theater for the rest of my career.
    Bill Fagerbakke
    American actor (1957 - )
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  • Jean de la Bruyère A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.
    Jean de la Bruyère
    French writer (1645 - 1696)
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  • Ambrose Bierce Insurance: An ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that he is beating the man who keeps the table.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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