Tables Quotes

Only those who went hungry with me and stood by me when I went through a bad time at some point in life will eat at my table.

My heart can take on any form: A meadow for gazelles, A cloister for monks, For the idols, sacred ground, Ka'ba for the circling pilgrim, The tables of the Torah, The scrolls of the Quran. My creed is Love; Wherever its caravan turns along the way, That is my belief, My faith.

Tables turn, bridges burn, you live and learn.

You've got to learn to leave the table When love's no longer being served".

You have to learn to get up from the table when love is not being served.

Dont put the sheep on the table.

When your opponent's sittin' there holdin' all the aces, there's only one thing to do: kick over the table.

At the banquet table of nature, there are no reserved seats. You get what you can take, and you keep what you can hold. If you can't take anything, you won't get anything, and if you can't hold anything, you won't keep anything. And you can't take anything without organization.

I was always the squarest person in the cool room, and alternatively, sometimes the weirder person at the mainstream table.

Throwing away food is like stealing from the table of those who are poor and hungry.

You cannot beat a roulette table unless you steal money from it.

If you don't have a seat at the table, you're probably on the menu.

My favourite pub game is, of course, snooker. Any game whose rules basically amount to finding a table covered in mess and slowly and methodically putting it all away out of sight is one with which I can empathise emphatically.

Food is such an important part of our lives, and sometimes we tend to diminish the importance of that, because we rely on conveniences or because our lives are so complicated. We forget about those moments that we can actually share around the table with our family, with our friends, with our loved ones.

At a flea market I always head for the junk jewelry table first.

The most all penetrating spirit before which will open the possibility of tilting not tables, but planets, is the spirit of free human inquiry. Believe only in that.

I serve dinner in three phases: serve the food, clear the table, bury the dead.

I've met Bob Dylan's bodyguards, and if Steve Earle thinks he can stand on Bob Dylan's coffee table, he's sadly mistaken.

I would sooner read a time-table or a catalogue than nothing at all. They are much more entertaining than half the novels that are written.

I love nerds. Comic-Con junkies are the tastemakers of tomorrow. Isn't that funny? The tables have turned

Those who are called to the table of the Lord must glow with the brightness.

The "trickle-down" theory: the principle that the poor, who must subsist on table scraps dropped by the rich, can best be served by giving the rich bigger meals.

It is not hard to compose, but what is fabulously hard is to leave the superfluous notes under the table.

So when it was my turn to start developing projects, I knew the writers I wanted to work with, and I had met every head of studio, every executive and a lot of producers. I started finding things, little crumbs off other people's tables that I would make my own.

In the cabaret of globalization, the state shows itself as a table dancer that strips off everything until it is left with only the minimum indispensable garments: the repressive force.

Conquering matter is to understand it, and understanding matter is necessary to understanding the universe and ourselves: and that therefore Mendeleev's Periodic Table, which just during those weeks we were learning to unravel, was poetry.

You have no idea, how much poetry there is in the calculation of a table of logarithms!

I don't want to push the envelope. Let the envelope stay in the middle of the table. I'll just make you laugh.

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

The best thing that happens to us is when a great company gets into temporary trouble...We want to buy them when they're on the operating table.

Unfortunately, I can't seal the sponsor deals for you. Only Haymitch can do that," says Effie grimly. "But don't worry, I'll get him to the table at gunpoint if necessary." Although lacking in many departments, Effie Trinket has a certain determination I have to admire.

I wasn't a very good waitress, always spilling things on people and forgetting things. I once spilled ashes all over Mike Wallace's table.

I obsess everyday about everything. Not only about what we do well but what we can do better... In the end, the only reason I am motivated to do what I do is for the hedonistic pleasures of the table.

Food is about being happy - at a table, thats probably where we spend most of our happiest hours.

Charity provides crumbs from the table; justice offers a place at the table.

Life's like an hourglass glued to the table.

Life is a menu. Whatever you order is what's delivered to the table.

I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.

It is not hard to compose but it is wonderfully hard to let the superfluous notes fall under the table. . . So many melodies fly about, one must be careful not to tread on them.

I had placed my stick on the table, as I do every evening. It had been specially made to suit my height, to enable me to walk without too much difficulty. As I was standing up, a customer called to me: 'Monsieur, don't forget your pencil.' It was very unkind, but most funny.

If, after the first twenty minutes, you don't know who the sucker at the table is, it's you.

If you come to a negotiation table saying you have the final truth, that you know nothing but the truth and that is final, you will get nothing.

I came literally to the table with a wealth of knowledge by simply understanding how food should taste.

And I put the latte down on a table, awash in the happy middle of my greatest adventure.

Rather than chairs and tables, I preferred the ground, trees, and caves, for in those places I felt I could lean against the cheek of God.

In the end, coming to faith remains for all a sense of homecoming, of picking up the threads of a lost life, of responding to a bell that had long been ringing, of taking a place at a table that had long been vacant.

Our full humanity is contingent on our hospitality; we can be complete only when we are giving something away; when we sit at the table and pass the peas to the person next to us we see that person in a whole new way.

In business we cut each others' throats, but now and then we sit around the same table and behave-for the sake of the ladies.

This is what God's kingdom is like: a bunch of outcasts and oddballs gathered at a table, not because they are rich or worthy or good, but because they are hungry, because they said yes. And there's always room for more.

The Lord has given us a table at which to feast, not an altar on which a victim is to be offered; He has not consecrated priests to make sacrifice, but servants to distribute the sacred feast.