323 Quotes About Tables

I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets. That kind of spilled out into translation as a way to earn money, pay for food and put bread on the table.

About seven years later I was given a book about the periodic table of the elements. For the first time I saw the elegance of scientific theory and its predictive power.

Bad news drives out good news. The irrational is more controversial than the rational. Concurrence can no longer compete with dissent. One minute of Eldridge Cleaver is worth ten minutes of Roy Wilkins. The labor crises settled at the negotiating table is nothing compared to the confrontation that results in a strike ... normality has become the nemesis of network news.

A poem is a verbal artifact which must be as skillfully and solidly constructed as a table or a motorcycle.

Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.

Humorists always sit at the children's table.

My grandfather had a wonderful funeral... On the buffet table there was a replica of the deceased in potato salad.

TABLE D'HOTE, n. A caterer's thrifty concession to the universal passion for irresponsibility.

It's important for me who is at the table with me; the moment when everyone speaks to each other and everyone listens. If there's good food, it's much better.