Table Quotes

Once I had learnt my twelve times table (at the age of three) it was downhill all the way.

A profound political question is suddenly on the table: Must the country continue to give precedence to private financial gain and market determinism over human lives and broad public values?

Reagan didn't put anything off the table, if he felt it was for the good of the American people to tweak the tax system.

To let the people know there was life beyond Shirley Dean, we decided to focus on voter registration; each day I set up my card table somewhere in the district, signed people up, and passed out noses.

Lidia Bastianich, sorry, but kind of boring. I mean, I love Lidia, but you can fall asleep watching her. And Mario Batali? I love Mario to death... but he's not romantic or sensual. Those are the things I bring to the table.

I've always thought with relationships, that it's more about what you bring to the table than what you're going to get from it. It's very nice if you sit down and the cake appears. But if you go to the table expecting cake, then it's not so good.

Any girl that's got a $500,000 table and $5 shoes, I'm in love with.

Our response has been, 'Well, let's then make an effort to get the Israelis and the Palestinians to sit around the table.' That hasn't happened. So we only have ourselves to blame for this crisis.

I hope we can get back to what I call the kitchen table. Everyday issues that people are really worried about and focused on.

Ping-pong was invented on the dining tables of England in the 19th century, and it was called Wiff-waff! And there, I think, you have the difference between us and the rest of the world. Other nations, the French, looked at a dining table and saw an opportunity to have dinner; we looked at it an saw an opportunity to play Wiff-waff.

I had this extraordinarily bizarre moment when, two Fridays ago, my missus gave birth to our second child at 11am and by the same time the following day I was sitting around a table with Ridley Scott, Russell Crowe and Leonardo DiCaprio in Rabat in Morocco, rehearsing a scene we were going to shoot the next day.

The most important thing is that Milosevic agreed to sit at the negotiating table with the Kosovo Albanians.

Someone sits at a table or lies on a sofa while staring motionless at a wall or ceiling. Once in a while this person writes down seven lines, only to cross out one of them 15 minutes later, and then another hour passes, during which nothing happens. Who could stand to watch this kind of thing?

I can't cook, but I have a nice book of menus... and I can plate and set the table.

When you're creating a character out of nothing, you have to make all the guesses as to how they walk, how they talk, how they think. It was all there on the table for us to pick and choose for Murrow.

Every day, families in the United States face the stark choice between a roof over their heads and food on the table. Buying health insurance, owning a home, and saving up for college are just too far out of their reach.

And the test for any actor is whether you stay at the table or go away.

Some of our most exquisite murders have been domestic, performed with tenderness in simple, homey places like the kitchen table.

Always rise from the table with an appetite, and you will never sit down without one.

I've never walked into a restaurant, asked for a table and been told, 'We're full.'

That Sinn Fein, as I've already indicated, their leaders have already indicated that's what they want to achieve - once we get that credible statement, then we can get around the table and start to move forward, and I'm confident we can do so.

The Spice Girl Victoria Beckham has just published the story of her life. I confess that it is not in my reading table.

Society prizes a girl for being thin more than anything else she might bring to the table.

I am deluded enough to think I can bring something to the table.

Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry always gets the best of the argument.

I was too busy looking into Yeltsin's eyes to notice what was under the table.

Therefore they should come to the table and reach an agreement that would protect their identity.

This is what a family is all about - one another, sitting around the table at night. And it's very, very important, I think, for the kid to spend time not only around the table eating with their parents, but in the kitchen.

I was raised by a single mother who made a way for me. She used to scrub floors as a domestic worker, put a cleaning rag in her pocketbook and ride the subways in Brooklyn so I would have food on the table. But she taught me as I walked her to the subway that life is about not where you start, but where you're going. That's family values.

All of my judges will want to welcome every child into the world, give them a place at the table.