Working for several years as a waitress, you learn really quickly a couple of default scripts, so you know exactly what the interaction is going to be when the person sits down at the table.

- Ann Leckie

I - at the table reads, I break constantly. If something is up there that I'm not expecting, I tend to - I can't help myself; I'll start laughing.

- Bill Hader

I learned that you don't take dishes from the table to the dishwasher; you have to rinse them first. I think that's stupid because I don't go out in the back yard and hose off before taking a shower.

- Bill Engvall

You cannot win if you're not at the table. You have to be where the action is.

- Ben Stein

Reagan didn't put anything off the table, if he felt it was for the good of the American people to tweak the tax system.

- Alan K. Simpson

I could think of worse ways of going than at the poker table.

- Al Alvarez

In those days, between the ages of 12 and 18 you meant nothing. You were the extra place at the side table if someone came to dinner. You were of no interest to anyone.

- Alexis Korner

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

- Arabella Weir

In my library/study/barn, there is a Ping-Pong table on which I can pile working books and spread maps.

- Antony Beevor

I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.

- A. N. Wilson

Through Hamas, Iran has been able to buy itself a seat on the table in talking about the Palestinian issue. And, as a result, through Hamas it does play a role in the issue of the Palestinians, as strange as that should sound.

- Abdullah II of Jordan

It's around the table and in the preparation of food that we learn about ourselves and about the world.

- Alice Waters

When I'm sitting at my drafting table in my studio, I could really be anywhere.

- Adrian Tomine

The first Mardi Gras I went to, I stayed at the Tulane AE Pi house on Broadway. Slept on a pool table one night, slept under it the next.

- Adam Richman

I was a dishwasher at one of those Japanese places that cook on your table. Not too fun.

- Aziz Ansari

You can much better have an influence on the debate when you sit at the bargaining table and you can give input.

- Angela Merkel

I write by myself initially. That's the way I've always written, just working on pure thought by myself. Then I bring it to the table with whoever I'm collaborating with.

- Amy Lee

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

- Alfred Hitchcock

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

- Adlai E. Stevenson

I'm the Bjorn Boerg of table tennis.

- Action Bronson