Not since the Depression has the state been this dry, have our rivers been this low, our water table this low, and our reservoirs this low.
Parris Glendening

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

On the Continent people have good food; in England people have good table manners.
George Mikes

Once again the mastermind was Lionel Curtis, and the earlier Round Table Groups and Institutes of International Affairs were used as nuclei for the new network.
Carroll Quigley

Once I had learnt my twelve times table (at the age of three) it was downhill all the way.
Fred Hoyle

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.
Jim Sasser

Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity.
Lord Acton

Peace is not made at the council table or by treaties, but in the hearts of men.
Herbert Hoover

People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas.
Bob Dylan

People who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors of the breakfast table.
Max Beerbohm

Peyton Manning is doing things that I think no other quarterback in the history of the league has done at the line of scrimmage... I just think they are a team right now that's got a real chance to run the table.
Don Shula

Poor, darling fellow - he died of food. He was killed by the dinner table.
Diana Vreeland

Prince Charles is very relaxed at the table, throwing his salad around willy-nilly. I didn't find him stiff at all.
Madonna Ciccone

Self-esteem is as important to our well-being as legs are to a table. It is essential for physical and mental health and for happiness.
Louise Hart

She was built for crowds. She has never come any closer to life than the dinner table.
Janet Flanner

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

Some of our most exquisite murders have been domestic, performed with tenderness in simple, homey places like the kitchen table.
Alfred Hitchcock

Some of the most important conversations I've ever had occurred at my family's dinner table.
Bob Ehrlich

Talent in cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.
Stephen King

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.
Harri Holkeri