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I think to be oversensitive about cliches is like being oversensitive about table manners.
Evelyn Waugh

Manners, Cliches

On 'Idol,' Steven Tyler will be sitting at a table with two other judges, and part of his job will be keeping his yap zipped while they talk. This makes no sense at all, since Tyler has zero yap-zipping skills.
Rob Sheffield

Job, Two, Sense

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

Down, Rise, Sit

I hope everybody will go back to the negotiating table. I've always said this is the only way forward.
Mohamed ElBaradei

Hope, Forward, Said

There are more people at Obama's table offering ideas than there were five years ago, but when it came to facing up to the Republicans' threat to force a double-dip recession if they didn't get their millionaires' tax cut, they still amounted to nothing. And therein lies our fundamental problem.
Eric Alterman

Nothing, Problem, Lies

If we talk about the glass being half empty or half full, I want to know what does the glass look like from underneath the table?
Brad Thor

Talk, Full, Half

Take one flower that you like and get lots of them. And don't try to 'arrange' them. It's surprisingly hard to do a flower arrangement the way a florist does one. Instead, bunch them all together or put them in a series of small vases all down the table.
Ina Garten

Hard, Together, Down

Being a CEO still means sitting across the table from big institutional investors and showing your leadership and having them believe in you.
Christie Hefner

Leadership, Big, Means

You would not exist if you did not have something to bring to the table of life.
Herbie Hancock

Life, Bring, Exist

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

Society, Girl, Else

I like to create what I call 'tablescapes.' It's so much more fun when you organize your table around a theme, don't you think?
Sandra Lee

Fun, Around, Call

I like doing food as a focal point on my table. It is not like going out and buying flowers or candles, which are expensive.
Sandra Lee

Food, Point, Flowers

Nothing is more pleasant than to see a pretty woman, her napkin well placed under her arms, one of her hands on the table, while the other carries to her mouth, the choice piece so elegantly carved.
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

Woman, Nothing, Pretty

Sitting at the table during Color Purple and looking up and suddenly realizing I was acting in front of Steven Spielberg, was pretty cool. It was pretty good.
Whoopi Goldberg

Good, Cool, Pretty

If the human condition were the periodic table, maybe love would be hydrogen at No. 1. Death would be helium at No. 2. Power, I reckon, would be where oxygen is.
David Mitchell

Love, Power, Death

My table seats eight, so that's my maximum. Having a small number of guests is the only way to generate good conversation. Besides, your whole house doesn't get wrecked that way.
Paul Lynde

Good, Small, Whole

The dining room in my old house was truly magnificent, but by far the worst room for conversation. I'd get up from the table, a very long table, and somebody would always say, Paul, I never got to talk to you.
Paul Lynde

Long, Old, Talk

I'm always working on a few different stories at once, so there's always some really big coffee table book I'm carrying around.
Mo Rocca

Book, Different, Working

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?
Wislawa Szymborska

Someone, Nothing, Person

My memories are of my dad taking me to football on Saturday mornings, and my mum taking me swimming. Those are the things I remember from my childhood, not sitting around the table debating capitalism and the profit squeeze.
David Miliband

Dad, Football, Remember

I find more people want to eat a little less. My generation, we're all watching our figures. They want to go to the bar and eat a few snacks, have a couple of cocktails or glasses of wine, and go home. People don't sit down at the table and have a whole three or four courses.
Todd English

Home, Down, Find

I used to smoke two packs a day and I just hate being a nonsmoker... but I will never consider myself a nonsmoker because I always find smokers the most interesting people at the table.
Michelle Pfeiffer

Hate, Two, Find

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

Away, Whether, Actor

Aren't we at the point where the closer we get to chaos, the more concern that there should be about coming to the table and compromising with Democrats? This is not leadership. This is almost like dictatorship.
Debbie Wasserman Schultz

Leadership, Point, Almost

We've been sitting at the compromise table for a long time. We're just waiting for that cold chair to be warmed up by the Republican leadership. They still have time to do the right thing and be responsible. They just seem to be moving further and further away from it.
Debbie Wasserman Schultz

Leadership, Time, Waiting

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

Food, Knowledge, Wealth

It really bothers me when people don't use coasters. Particularly on my table.
Reese Witherspoon

Bothers, Coasters

The reality is that when three or four networks are at the table with three or four political parties, someone is going to be the victim.
Rick Mercer

Someone, Political, Reality

I love doing demonstrations. I think to be a great chef you have to be a great teacher. I love doing classes with people who love food and enjoy food, bringing them all around one table so to speak.
Michael Symon

Love, Great, Food

Every lesson I learned as a kid was at the dinner table. Being Greek, Sicilian and Ruthenian - we are an emotional bunch. It is where we laughed, cried and yelled - but most importantly, where we bonded and connected.
Michael Symon

Emotional, Learned, Kid

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