Quotes with table-lands

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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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  • Arna Bontemps Is there something we have forgotten? Some precious thing we have lost, wandering in strange lands?
    Arna Bontemps
    American poet, novelist and librarian
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Bo Sanchez My parents were the traditional Filipino parents who didn't talk about money around the dinner table.
    Bo Sanchez
    Filippine author, lay pastor and entrepreneur (1966 - )
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  • Bayard Taylor Mysterious Flood, that through the silent sands Hast wandered, century on century, Watering the length of great Egyptian lands, Which were not, but for thee.
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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  • Richard Whately Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry always gets the best of the argument.
    Richard Whately
    British writer (1787 - 1863)
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  • James Joyce No pen, no ink, no table, no room, no time, no quiet, no inclination.
    James Joyce
    Irish writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Walt Whitman O lands! O all so dear to me - what you are, I become part of that, whatever it is.
    Walt Whitman
    American poet, essayist, and journalist (1819 - 1892)
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  • John Greenleaf Whittier Of all that Orient lands can vaunt, of marvels with our own competing, the strangest is the Haschish plant, and what will follow on its eating.
    John Greenleaf Whittier
    American poet and writer (1807 - 1892)
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  • Barry Ritholtz Often, investors will discover a manager after he's had a terrific run, usually when he lands on a magazine cover somewhere. Invariably, funds swell up with new investor money just before they revert to their long-term averages.
    Barry Ritholtz
    American author and newspaper columnist
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  • Carroll Quigley Once again the mastermind was Lionel Curtis, and the earlier Round Table Groups and Institutes of International Affairs were used as nuclei for the new network.
    Carroll Quigley
    American historian and theorist (1910 - 1977)
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  • Ben Carson One of the reasons surgeons have so much trouble separating Siamese twins is that nobody gets to do many of them. On the table, the anatomy is so different from normal, that you're constantly trying to figure out, 'Can I cut this? Does this wire lead to what?' It's like trying to defuse a bomb.
    Ben Carson
    American politician, and author (1951 - )
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