Top 1200 Pool Table Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

You know, you really can't beat a household commodity - the ketchup bottle on the kitchen table.

The trick is figuring out how do we structure government systems that pool resources, and hence facilitate some [wealth] redistribution, because I actually believe in redistribution, at least at a certain level, to make sure that everybody's got a shot.

In the end, arguing about affirmative action in selective colleges is like arguing about the size of a spigot while ignoring the pool and the pipeline that feed it. Slots at Duke and Princeton and Cal are finite.

I'd like to cook for Stephen Fry. I can't think of a better dinner table companion.

The Arab world is erupting, which is extraordinary, and to see it happen is like watching rings spreading on a pool - it goes out; it varies so much. The spontaneity is wonderful, but very often, if it's not well organized, it breaks up, and it peters out.

In Hawaii, we go to this wonderful place, all families. My wife and I go directly from breakfast to a beach chair where we read all day. My daughter goes from water to pool to running around with friends she meets, some of whom are regulars there.

I've always been the person at the table who is like, 'I have this weird rash. Anybody else have this?'

We're living longer, we social network alone with our screens, and our depth of feeling gets shallower. Soon it'll be nothing but a tide pool, then a thimble of water, then a micro drop.

I think a good director casts a film so that the actors bring a lot to the table.

I was raised before the advent of DVD players in cars and iPads at the dinner table.

Things it is not polite to discuss at the dinner table: politics, religion, and the walking dead.

I grew up in northern California, where it was consistently in the hundreds in the summertime. My dad didn't think he should have to turn on the air conditioning when we had a swimming pool in our backyard; it was our built-in air conditioner.

My mom and dad are great cooks. We ate meals at the dinner table, as a family.

It's true that an offer from Manchester United was on the table - I was really close to leaving Inter.

When I hear from people who are struggling to put food on the table, I understand because I've been there.

I'll tell you why I like writing: it's just jumping into a pool. I get myself into a kind of trance. I engage the world, but it's also wonderful to just escape. I try to find the purities out of the confusion. It's pretty old-fashioned, but it's fun.

It is critical that the American people, and not just their financial institutions, be represented at the negotiating table.

Fortune provides a man's table with luxuries, virtue with only a frugal meal.

My method is much like choreography. I don't sit at a table. I work in a room with people.

I was three over. One over a house, one over a patio, and one over a swimming pool.

When I look back on my childhood, my fondest memories are those surrounding the dinner table.

The essence of a thoughtful spring menu is bringing the table to life with flavorful color!

I owe Marilyn Monroe a real debt … she personally called the owner of the Mocambo, and told him she wanted me booked immediately, and if he would do it, she would take a front table every night. She told him – and it was true, due to Marilyn’s superstar status – that the press would go wild. The owner said yes, and Marilyn was there, front table, every night. The press went overboard. After that, I never had to play a small jazz club again. She was an unusual woman – a little ahead of her times. And she didn’t know it.

I want to widen the pool. In the past, England players have maybe had the comfort of knowing what the next squad is going to be before it's announced, but I'd like there to be more uncertainty. More competition for places means the standard goes up.

The reason I invest in technology is it's the only work humans do that actually is creative. All other types of economic activity are just moving money from one pool to another, whereas technology is what allows us to create value out of thin air.

I was raised in a family where vulnerability was barely tolerated: no training wheels on our bicycles, no goggles in the pool, just get it done. And so I grew up not only with discomfort about my own vulnerability, I didn't care for it in other people either.

Watching talented colleagues walking away from the Cabinet table is never easy.

Africa does not have an uncle abroad who will come to bail it out of its political and economic woes. It is important that African countries wake up and pool whatever resources they have and jointly deal elements pulling our continent down a death blow.

If theft is advantageous to everyone who succeeds at it, and adultery is a good strategy, at least for males, for increasing presence in the gene pool, why do we feel they are wrong? Shouldn't the only morality that evolution produces be the kind Bill Clinton had - being sorry you got caught?

The humiliating idea that we just slide from the top E.U. table to third country is unthinkable.

Ive been a swimmer and a diver for quite a while. It was something that I think I got too comfortable with, and I dove into my black-bottomed pool and hit the slope from the shallow end to the deep end. And I had a chin to chest paralyzing break.

There's a pressure to conform to particular images, and it feels a pretty exclusive pool of body image or facial image that is considered appealing. And in a way, that feels like pre-judging what an audience might actually want.

There's guys like me who aren't going to the theater, so distributors are leaving money on the table.

Diversity and inclusion of women and underrepresented minorities in science should not affect the way education is handled or research is carried out. So diversity should not be a problem but rather an opportunity to involve a large talent pool.

A pool at the edge of the ocean is the simplest geometry, yet you feel connected to the sea. In a forest with the mountains in the background, you also feel the connection to nature, yet it's a very complex geometry. I think architecture is about controlling these feelings.

A half finished shawl left on the coffee table isn't a mess; it's an object of art.

The slaves had food stamps, too. It was called 'scraps from Massa's table.'

A book does not discriminate against any reader. All are welcome at the table of literature.

He was an innovator, an experimenter, a missionary in bringing the gospel of good cooking to the home table.

I've played a lot of people in ping-pong. I had a table growing up.

I lost my hair mixing a substance called white gunpowder on the kitchen table.

It used to be twelve people crowded around a sewing table; now it's ten.

'Seat at the Table' has expressed real adversity, struggle, and also triumph and joy.

Swimming outside the pool is scary. I don't like not knowing what's underneath me - it's quite dark in lakes. I swam in the sea in Australia around the Great Barrier Reef, though, and that was incredible because you could see exactly what was underneath you.

Writing used to be my hobby, but now that it's my job, I have no hobby - except watching TV and laying around the pool reading 'U.S. Weekly.' I have tried many hobbies, such as knitting, Pilates, ballet, yoga, and guitar, but none of them have taken.

I'm no ethnomusicologist. There is a connection between the five-note scale used both in traditional Chinese music and the blues, but I don't really understand it. All I know is, whenever I play with Chinese musicians, we seem to belong to the same musical gene pool.

Faith is something we never discuss at the dinner table in my family, but I do believe in God.

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

I was very happy sitting alone at a dining room table, writing a script.

My dad was kind of a pool shark and had a Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin thing going on. I've always been fascinated by the fifties because of him. There was a hip, cool, anything-goes atmosphere back then, but looking good was still a priority.

Waking up each morning to a hysterical alarm clock on the bedside table.

She was a woman who, between courses, could be graceful with her elbows on the table.

I don't like people's table manners. That really puts you off eating food.

Trans-dating is hardcore, and it's really scary. And that's coming from me, someone who couldn't be dating in a more open-minded Manhattan pool of artsy boys and creative folk. Not saying it all sucks. I'm just saying it's not easy.

I try to ground most of my characters in reality somehow. That's kind of what I bring to the table.

One thing I am scared of is the unlimited amounts of dark money that Republicans have access to in terms of the Koch Brothers, Sheldon Adelson. There is a large pool of Republican mega-donors who can pump money into competitive races across America.

There would be nights when I would wake up and couldn't get back to sleep. So I would go downstairs and write. The staff had a pool going on how many pages of typing I would bring in here in the morning.

Methinks a father Is at the nuptial of his son a guest That best becomes the table.

I have a low tolerance for people who complain about things but never do anything to change them. This led me to conclude that the single largest pool of untapped natural resources in this world is human good intentions that are never translated into actions.

This is a global economy. If you're not at the bargaining table, if you don't get an agreement, someone else does.