Tables Quotes - Page 20

There's over 2000 donkeys in this tournament and I had to be at the table with none of them.

People with big personalities are best in the center of the table. They can help carry the conversation from that place.

Without civilization, we would not turn into animals, but vegetables.

... why I like timetables, because they make sure I don't get lost in time.

The only way to get vegetables at a diner late night is to order the omelette. A feta cheese and broccoli omelette.

If this was adulthood the only improvement she could detect in her situation was that she could now eat dessert without eating her vegetables.

I can do basics, but I'm not a proper cook. I can do a roast. I can stick a chicken in the oven with vegetables.

I need to put bread on the table man

To eat at another's table is your ambition's height. [Lat., Bona summa putes, aliena vivere quadra.]

...failure is a human condition, not victory over odds; for each Hellen Keller who triumphs, there are tens of millions who fail, mute and deaf and insensate as vegetables tossed upon a vast garbage pile to rot.

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

The grand thing about the human mind is that it can turn its own tables and see meaninglessness as ultimate meaning.

One congressman asked 'I just want to know if you've accepted Jesus Christ as your personal savior. The minister looked stunned, and he said 'no.' The whole table almost fell on the floor. The congressman was quite serious. That was his litmus test.

The West is color. Its colors are animal rather than vegetable, the colors of earth and sunlight and ripeness.

When I first became really interested in building furniture, I went to Toys-R-Us, and spent $200 on Transformers toys. By taking the toys apart and studying how they moved, I was able to figure out how to hide a table leaf, what type of contraption I'd need to slide it under the table. I'm a really visual learner.

Revelation isn't just end time's prophecy, it's God showing off his Son and his glory and honoring us, his treasured bride, with a seat at his table forever!

Some people are so into web standards that they've removed all the tables from their houses

Cabbage as a food has problems. It is easy to grow, a useful source of greenery for much of the year. Yet as a vegetable it has original sin, and needs improvement. It can smell foul in the pot, linger through the house with pertinacity, and ruin a meal with its wet flab. Cabbage also has a nasty history of being good for you.

It's a bunch of bull! If God, or nature, or whatever you want to call it didn't want you to mix carbohydrates, starches and fats, you'd never have a grain, you'd never have a vegetable or a fruit, would you? What's in a grain? It's got carbohydrates, starches, fats, sugar. It's got everything in it. Why does nature do that? One guy says don't mix carbohydrates, and the other guy says don't mix protein with it; it's all a bunch of lard, something to sell a book. And the poor public is so confused, they don't know what to do.

Many folk like to know beforehand what is to be set on the table; but those who have laboured to prepare the feast like to keep their secret; for wonder makes the words of praise louder.

Comedy has always been important in my family. If you got in a good joke at the dinner table, it meant more than almost anything else.

Oh, my tattered rags are caught on your coffee table.

That is where consensus-building begins-with the idea that you have your own truth, but that the negotiator on the other side of the table has his own truth as well.

[My father] didn't make much money, and I tell a lot of people, you know, I was a vegetarian before people knew what a vegetarian was. That's all I ate was vegetables.

Policeman: "A hermit eh? Then why's your table set for four?" Groucho: "That's nothing. My alarm clock is set for eight.