Table Quotes

The dining room in my old house was truly magnificent, but by far the worst room for conversation. I'd get up from the table, a very long table, and somebody would always say, Paul, I never got to talk to you.

I'm absolutely gonna win it, because I'm ruthless. I sit at the poker table and my job is to destroy people.

Los Angeles has always been on the table with us.

You cannot win if you're not at the table. You have to be where the action is.

When the great history of trouble is written, my family will stand extremely high in the table of contents.

Well, it was never supposed to be like that. Walt died before we had finished. The original idea of Walt's was that you came down there, into the caves, and there were no pirates. But they had been there just seconds before! There was a hot meal on the table, steaming.

I was very happy sitting alone at a dining room table, writing a script.

I'm not lonely, and I think that has a lot to do with what's on my bedside table rather than what's in my bed.

I like Mitch Daniels on the fiscal conservative issues. You disagree with him on this idea that social issues, you takeoff the table. I do that for two reasons. I think the fiscal issues in a sense are a symptom of a lot of the deeper cultural issues in America. I don't think they are as disconnected as he thinks.

I'm very superstitious... I never shout at magpies, walk under ladders or put my shoes on the table.

I fed them every day. So it was a papa that kept food on the table for them. I did that. I did my part.

The agendas on the management side of the table now are not in sync like they used to be because you have vastly different entities supplying programming to networks.

My inspiration was my mom. She's a great cook, and she still cooks, and we still banter back and forth about cooking. Growing up in a mostly Portuguese community, food was important and the family table was extremely important. At a very young age I understood that.

Aren't we at the point where the closer we get to chaos, the more concern that there should be about coming to the table and compromising with Democrats? This is not leadership. This is almost like dictatorship.

I've been on the other side of the table many times, trying to get people to be sympathetic to projects, and I've been the victim of that kind of intense kindness masking extreme stupidity.

People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas.

I started doing radio commercials for Kmart when I was 4. They had to splice all my consonants together because I couldn't talk very well. But these jobs helped my mother and me put food on the table. It took the two of us working.

I left the table where there were important people and had lunch with my husband and a few friends. The reception was organised in my honour, so it was rather amusing.

Through Hamas, Iran has been able to buy itself a seat on the table in talking about the Palestinian issue. And, as a result, through Hamas it does play a role in the issue of the Palestinians, as strange as that should sound.

She was built for crowds. She has never come any closer to life than the dinner table.

The capability of negotiating... is something that means you not only have to understand fully what you believe and what your national interests are but in order to be a really good negotiator, you have to try to figure out what the other person on the other side of the table has in mind.

What could be more convincing, moreover, than the gesture of laying one's cards face up on the table?

I used to smoke two packs a day and I just hate being a nonsmoker... but I will never consider myself a nonsmoker because I always find smokers the most interesting people at the table.

What I would ask the Democrat Party is to put your plan on the table, because most people agree with the facts, and the facts are that Social Security is running out of money.

Prince Charles is very relaxed at the table, throwing his salad around willy-nilly. I didn't find him stiff at all.

At North Hollywood High School, I was shunned by everyone. I would sit down in the cafeteria, and students would get up from the table and walk away. They thought I was from the Mafia.

I am not interested in politics at all. At home, around the dinner table, we never discuss politics.

I think that was one thing I definitely brought to the table, my aggressiveness and my style of play, and I think that's one of the reasons why the fans here really appreciated the way that I went out and played, just because I think they kind of liked that.

In order to be a good actor, I'm a firm believer that you need to bring something to the table.

I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.