“[Ognev] recalled endless, heated, purely Russian arguments, when the wranglers, spraying spittle and banging their fists on the table, fail to understand yet interrupt one another, themselves not even noticing it, contradict themselves with every phrase, change the subject, then, having argued for two or three hours, begin to laugh.” TwoThreeHoursLaughingFailingSubjectsArgumentTablesEndlessPhrasesFistsNoticingBangingWranglers Author:Anton Chekhov
“How can you shorten the subject? That stern struggle with the multiplication table, for many people not yet ended in victory, how can you make it less? Square root, as obdurate as a hardwood stump in a pasturenothing but years of effort can extract it. You can't hurry the process. Or pass from arithmetic to algebra; you can't shoulder your way past quadratic equations or ripple through the binomial theorem. Instead, the other way; your feet are impeded in the tangled growth, your pace slackens, you sink and fall somewhere near the binomial theorem with the calculus in sight on the horizon.” PeopleWayYearsPastFallProcessGrowthEffortStruggleFeetSubjectsVictoryRootsSightMathematicsTablesMathShouldersMathematicalHorizonPaceSquaresEquationsRippleArithmeticAlgebraTangledCalculusTheoremsMultiplicationStumpsSquare RootsHardwoodQuadraticsQuadratic Equation Author:Stephen Leacock
“The enthronement of Christ over the minds of men is steadily going forward. His kingdom embraces the princes in the realm of mind. It embraces the nations of highest civilization. They are all beneath the cross. It is maintained by simple authority. Other mental monarchs rule by logic; Christ's word is law--it is satisfying to His subjects. His truth in the hands of His disciples, like the bread He broke upon the mountains, is an ample supply for the millions that gather at His table.” MenMindHandsLawNationsChristSimpleMillionsSubjectsCivilizationMountainAuthorityHighestCrossesLogicTablesEmbraceKingdomsBreadBrokeRealmsSatisfyingDiscipleMonarchsBroke Up Author:Edward Thomson
“My books are a subject of much discussion. They pour from shelves onto tables, chairs and the floor, and Chaz observes that I haven't read many of them and I never will. You just never know. One day I may - need is the word I use - to read Finnegans Wake, the Icelandic sagas, Churchill's history of the Second World War, the complete Tintin in French, 47 novels by Simenon, and By Love Possessed.” KnowsWorldNeedsMayBookWarUseNovelSubjectsHavensOne DayTablesDiscussionWar Of The WorldsChairsPossessedShelvesSecond World WarSagaFinnegans Wake Author:Roger Ebert
“Conversationis like the table of contents of a dull book.... All the greatest subjects of human thought are proudly displayedin it. Listen to it for three minutes, and you ask yourself which is more striking, the emphasis of the speaker or his shocking ignorance.” ThinkingHumansBookThreeAsksMinutesSubjectsIgnoranceConversationTablesBoredomThoughtfulDullSpeakersShockingEmphasisHuman ThoughtTable Of Contents Author:Stendhal
“For all the textbook reasons - any individual's reading of a photograph is preceded by the evidential authority of the medium. You have the literalness of a glass on a table - and at the same time of that evidential authority that you can't get around, there is the possibility of universalizing the subject - of getting the whole world into the picture.” WorldReasonWholeReadingIndividualSubjectsPossibilityAuthorityTablesPhotographGlassesWhole WorldMediumsTextbooks Author:Bill Henson
“History is about life. It's awful when the life is squeezed out of it and there's no flavor left, no uncertainties, no horsing around. It always disturbed me how many biographers never gave their subjects a chance to eat. You can tell a lot about people by how they eat, what they eat, and what kind of table manners they have.” PeopleKindLife IsLeftChanceSubjectsTablesAwfulMannersUncertaintyFlavorDisturbedBiographersTable MannersHorsing Around Author:David McCullough
“Topical-sketch writing were incredibly rational and well reasoned: don't do a joke if the subject doesn't deserve it. An ad hominem attack on someone might get you a cheap laugh, but it doesn't earn you any long-term trust. The biggest rule was: you attack whoever's in power. Don't bring your personal bias to the table.” IfsWritingWellsLongMightTermLaughingSubjectsJokesDeserveTablesRationalLong TermAdsBias Author:Michael Schur
“The late F. W. H. Myers used to tell how he asked a man at a dinner table what he thought would happen to him when he died. The man tried to ignore the question, but, on being pressed, replied: "Oh well, I suppose I shall inherit eternal bliss, but I wish you wouldn't talk about such unpleasant subjects."” MenWellsHappensUsedWishSubjectsHe ManEternalLateDiedTablesDinnerBlissWish YouDinner TableOh WellI Wish You Would Author:Bertrand Russell