Tables Quotes - Page 26

The discourses of the table among true loving friends are held in strict silence.

I grow as many of our vegetables as I can, because my granddad was a professional gardener, and it's in the blood.

I think the biggest thing is just making sure that you do the work that you connect with, personally, and that you do work where you can really bring something to the table. It's just about being truthful to yourself.

My notion of an elegant table is you don't leave the knife sticking out of the mayonnaise jar.

I like food, I like stripping vegetables of their skins, I like to have a slim young parsnip under my knife.

I just planted the family vegetables yesterday. You name it, I grow it.

Do not, as you value the health and happiness of those who sit at your table, place before them hot leavened bread or biscuit.

I used to do my Nelson Mandela voice to blag restaurant tables in Cape Town. It rarely worked. Now what a great city that is.

I see things and I hear things I do not understand. I'm a skilled, resourceful... vegetable!

The Petal table is a flower that is always in bloom.

It is the fact that the electrons cannot all get on top of each other that makes tables and everything else solid.

I had to make my body fit like Bruce Lee. I trained for eight months, five days a week, eight hours a day. I just ate chicken breasts and vegetables, sometimes just egg whites.

There's nothing I like more than picking fresh vegetables then putting them in the dinner you make that night.

No matter how busy you are make time to eat at a table. A desk is not a table.

I stalk certain words... I catch them in mid-flight, as they buzz past, I trap them, clean them, peel them, I set myself in front of the dish, they have a crystalline texture to me, vibrant, ivory, vegetable, oily, like fruit, like algae, like agates, like olives... I stir them, I shake them, I drink them, I gulp them down, I mash them, I garnish them... I leave them in my poem like stalactites, like slivers of polished wood, like coals, like pickings from a shipwreck, gifts from the waves... Everything exists in the word.

Fashionably amusing table manners are a matter of breaking the right rule at the right time.

Primarily I'm a meat man, although once in a while I toy with a few vegetables.

I'm not playing myself. It's a symbolic situation, where I want to introduce a fascist behind the table. I couldn't have had anybody else do that; for it to be successful, I had to do it myself.

I feel like your generation is like, "We deserve a place at this table, we have a right to be here," whereas when I was in my 20s I was like, "Who am I?" It's exciting because I do see a lot of young women feeling empowered.

My goal involves a hammock, a vegetable patch, and a solar-powered house. And I hope to eventually get there.

It should be fun introducing kids to fruits and vegetables. If you start young, it will be something that they'll attach to really quickly.

If you're not at the table, you're on the menu

Eat food. Eat actual food. I try to not eat anything processed or sugar-free - I eat lots of fruits and vegetables.

Eating is so intimate. It's very sensual. When you invite someone to sit at your table and you want to cook for them, you're inviting a person into your life.

Just washed, How chill The white leeks!