“I had various jobs, I taught a SAT class, I was a bartender, I had a day job at an office and was making short films. I got grants from NYSCA and NEA for an idea, which later became 'Huckabees,' about a guy in a Chinese restaurant who had microphones on every table and heard every personal conversation and would write perversely personal fortunes.” WritingIdeasJobsFilmGuyClassHeardTaughtConversationOfficeTablesFortuneVariousChineseSatRestaurantsGrantsMicrophonesDay JobsBartenderShort Films Author:David O. Russell
“You see, even though back then Barack was a Senator and a presidential candidate... to me, he was still the guy who'd picked me up for our dates in a car that was so rusted out, I could actually see the pavement going by through a hole in the passenger side door... he was the guy whose proudest possession was a coffee table he'd found in a dumpster, and whose only pair of decent shoes was half a size too small.” StillsGuyFoundSidesHalfDoorsCarTablesShoesSizePossessionCoffeeHolesBarackPresidentialCandidatesDecentPairsSenatorsPassengersPavementPresidential CandidateDumpstersSimple Guy Author:Michelle Obama
“I'm having trouble warming up to Mitt Romney. He looks like the guy in the restaurant that comes to your table to make sure everything's all right.” LooksGuyTroubleTablesRestaurantsRomneyWarming Up Author:David Letterman
“I go to restaurants and the groups always play "Yesterday." I even signed a guy's violin in Spain after he played us "Yesterday." He couldn't understand that I didn't write the song. But I guess he couldn't have gone from table to table playing "I Am The Walrus.” WritingPlayGuySongGoneGroupsTablesYesterdayRestaurantsSpainViolinWalrus Book:The Playboy interviews with John Lennon and Yōko Ono Source: The Playboy interviews with John Lennon and Yōko Ono
“It was a weird game. There was ugly shooting and a lot of turnovers and mistakes, and we were just fortunate to get the win. I should have done better, but it was just a very ugly and weird game... I knew the game was going to be an ugly game when I saw those three guys at the scorer's table. Ugly people call ugly games.” PeopleShouldDoneGuyThreeGamesWinningMistakeSawsBasketballShould HaveTablesUglyShootingFortunateNbaTurnoverUgly People Author:Shaquille O'Neal
“The censors wouldn't even let me sit on a guy's lap, and I've been on more laps than a table-napkin.” GuyLet MeTablesLapNapkins Author:Mae West
“I remember writing 'The One I Can't Have' at the kitchen table. I was looking at a picture of Truman Capote with Marilyn Monroe and that's where I started. It doesn't make any sense because he was gay, but it was just the idea of the short guy and the beautiful blonde out of his league. That's where I started, but very quickly it became about me.” WritingI CanIdeasBeautifulRememberGuyGayTablesLeagueKitchenBlondeTrumanKitchen Table Author:Teddy Thompson
“When I naturally write a story and I feel that the guy is sitting across the table from the girl and flirting with her... I think, 'God, that can't be me' because I'm just too old for that part. You need a 30-year-old or a 35-year-old for that part. And so I've given myself less and less roles.” ThinkingNeedsFeelsWritingYearsStoriesGuyGirlGivenRolesSittingTablesFlirting Author:Woody Allen
“My theory on Jenks: The guys look really good from afar, but once they come up to our table they are jacked hideous. It reminds me of the aquarium next door to Jenks, where it's just good to look. The moment you tap on the glass and make them come to you, it just freaks you out.” LooksMomentsGuyNextDoorsTheoryTablesGlassesCome UpFreakHideousAfarAquariums Author:JWoww
“I love people-watching at the clubs in Los Angeles, where girls make fools of themselves and guys pay thousands of dollars for a couple of bottles of vodka just so they can get a table. It's quite a scene.” PeopleGuyGirlPayFoolCoupleSceneTablesDollarsClubsLos AngelesBottlesVodka Author:Jackie Collins
“You liked the freshness of it, c'mon try it" and I said "oh God, I read it three of four times" and finally I said "all right, I want you guys to organize a reading and I want you to be there to see how terrible this is not going to work at all", so we had a table like this, and read the script, and it was just great.” WantTryingSaidGuyThreeReadingFourTerribleTablesScriptsI Want YouOrganizeGoing To WorkFreshness Author:Jeff Bridges
“I was dating a guy once who spoke rudely to a taxi driver. I got out of the cab and walked home. Treat people with respect. I've waited tables, and that's why I just exceedingly overtip. It's exhausting work.” PeopleHomeGuyTreatsDatingTablesSpokesDriversExhaustingTaxiCabTreating People With Respect Author:Kesha
“Some of us will never ever find true love. Take, for instance me. And I'm pretty sure that guy right there. And that lady with the sideburns. And basically everybody at table nine.” GuyTablesNineInstanceThat GuyFinding True LoveSideburns Author:Adam Sandler
“Oh, I love making independent films, it's such a special, magical thing because you collaborate with a small group of people and everyone's pitching in. You'll see producers setting up the lunch table and the sound guy driving a van. We're all really there because we want to be.” PeopleWantFilmGuySoundGroupsSpecialIndependentTablesDrivingSettingProducersSettingsLunchVansPitchingLove MakingIndependent FilmSmall Groups Author:Olivia Thirlby
“I've always wanted to play with this idea - and I didn't want to leave it to the last season, but I wasn't quite sure when it was going to happen - of putting Jax [sons of Anarchy] at the head of the table and the ripple effect on the guys and the loyalties of it and where people land.” PeopleWantIdeasPlayHappensWantedLastsGuyLandEffectsSonSeasonsTablesLoyaltyAnarchyRippleRipple Effect Author:Kurt Sutter
“Anybody I'm in a band with can do what they do better than me. I'm a huge believer that I can play bass or whatever I bring to the table - producing, songwriting, orchestrating - and I can look at the other guys and say, "He's got that, he's got this, and I have this." It's a team thing.” LooksI CanPlayGuyCan DoTeamHugeBandTablesBelieverSongwritingBassOther Guys Author:Nikki Sixx
“I was spending three days literally just kibitzing with Jack Nicholson at a table! It was heaven! And talk about a normal guy. My God, he was just so real and cool and relaxed and fun. And he was a great performer. He's such an actor. He really was so focused on every moment. It was great.” RealMomentsGuyThreeActorsFunHeavenNormalTablesFocusedSpendingPerformersRelaxedNicholson Author:Peter Jacobson
“My father was a news guy, you know, he was in radio news. And so that was sort of in my DNA. It was something we talked about at the dinner table when I was a kid.” KnowsKidsGuyFatherNewsTablesRadioDinnerDnaDinner TableRadio News Author:Bill Maher
“It just seemed that we always ended up at the Rainbow, to the point where they finally just said, why don't you guys go up into this loft where we'll kind of protect people from coming around and, you know, sitting on the tables. And we thought that was a great idea.” PeopleKindSaidIdeasGuyProtectSittingTablesRainbowGreat Idea Author:Alice Cooper
“My guys studied music from a young age and I did not so I think, like, adding the idiot to the table of very talented musicians gave us a unique rub.” ThinkingAgeYoungGuyMusicianUniqueTablesIdiotYoung AgeTalented Musicians Author:Anthony Kiedis
“We thought for the longest time we might have a chance to run the table because we're such nice guys and centrist party, etcetera, but not getting into the debates really sort of foreclosed that option.” MightRunningGuyChancePartyNiceTablesDebateNice GuyEtcetera Author:William Weld
“If a woman says, I love myself; I love my body; I'm comfortable with my life, comfortable with my mistakes, and I deserve a seat at every table and everything should be completely equal, there are guys who lose their minds.” IfsShouldMindBodyGuyLosesMistakeEqualComfortableDeserveTablesSeatsMy MistakesLove MyselfI Love Myself Author:Judd Apatow
“I'm tall for the weight class. I am built to go in and stand in front of the man and trade bombs - why would I do that? I've got length, I've got reach, I've got speed; I've got footwork and defense, but that's not what's going to be the difference in this fight. It's not a tall guy versus a short guy - It's Chris Algieri versus Manny Pacquiao. It's what I bring to the table versus what he brings to the table. I think a lot of it has to do with my mental preparation and mind going into this fight as well as what we know from Manny.” ThinkingKnowsMenMindWellsGuyFightingDifferencesClassFrontsHe ManBuiltWeightTablesTradeSpeedDefensePreparationBombsLengthTallVersusFootworkPacquiaoTall Guys Author:Chris Algieri
“When I studied computer science at Duke University in the first half of the 1980s, I had professors who treated women differently than men. I kind of got used to it. At Microsoft, I had to use my elbows and make sure I spoke up at the table, but it was an incredibly meritocratic place. Outside, in the industry, I would feel the sexism. I'd walk into a room and until I proved my worth, everyone would assume that the guy presenting with me had credibility and I didn't.” MenFeelsFirstsKindUseUsedGuyWalksRoomsHalfIndustryComputerTablesAssumingUniversityTreatedSpokesSexismProfessorsCredibilityMicrosoftPresentingComputer ScienceDukesElbowsDuke University Author:Melinda Gates
“Well, capitalism is going to grow and grow. The nature of it is that the guy who has the most poker chips on the table has more leverage than everyone else. He can eventually outbluff everyone else and outraise everyone else at the table. That's what has happened and it needs to be corrected.” NeedsWellsGuyGrowsHappenedCapitalismTablesChips Author:Simon Baker
“I train my chefs completely different to anyone else. My young girls and guys, when they come to the kitchen, the first thing they get is a blindfold. They get blindfolded and they get sat down at the chef's table... Unless they can identify what they're tasting, they don't get to cook it.” FirstsDifferentYoungGuyGirlTablesTrainCooksSatKitchenChefTastingBlindfoldedBlindfolds Author:Gordon Ramsay
“Have you guys been playing in toxic waste again?" Fang asked severely, putting his hands on his hips. Nudge giggled. "No." "Been bitten by a radioactive spider?" Fang went on. "Struck by lightning? Drink a super-soldier serum?" "No, no, no," said Iggy. He started reaching for things around the table, and his hand landed on Total. "You're black." "I prefer canine-American." said Total. "When's that pie coming? I'm starving.” SaidHandsGuyBlackDrinkWasteTablesSoldierHipsReachingToxicLightningPieSpidersStarvingFangsCanineNudgeToxic Waste Book:Maximum Ride: The Final Warning Source: Maximum Ride: The Final Warning
“But let me tell you, this gender thing is history. You're looking at a guy who sat down with Margaret Thatcher across the table and talked about serious issues.” PoliticalGuyPoliticsIssuesSeriousLet MeTablesGenderSatSerious Issues Author:George H. W. Bush
“The inside is packed with people. Lots of them crowding the bar, passing drinks back for people to carry to tables. A bunch of guys are pouring shots of vodka. "To Zacharov!" one toasts. "To open hearts and open bars!" calls another. "And open legs," says Anton.” PeopleHeartGuyDrinkShotsTablesLegsBarsBunchPassingPassingsPouringToastsOpen HeartVodka Author:Holly Black
“Dance with me,' Win said. 'I know I'm probably making a fool of myself. You're probably thinking, how many times do I have to reject this guy? Can't he take a hint?' I shook my head. 'But somehow I don't even care. I see you in your red dress, standing by the punch table, and something in me wants to keep trying. I think, she is a person worth knowing.” ThinkingKnowsWantTryingPersonsSaidCareGuyWinningKnowingFoolRedStandingDressesTablesRejectsThis GuyHintsKeep Trying Author:Gabrielle Zevin
“Alec licked his spoon, then set it on the table and popped his drink open. "Okay, I may be breaking some kind of girl bonding rule or something, but can I offer you a guy's perspective on this?" I frowned, my spoon halfway to my mouth. "Is this gonna make me want to hit you?" He shrugged. "Maybe. But it's the truth. Here goes: kissing back is an instinct. Unless the girl smells like a sewer or has tentacles feeling you up independently, a guy's first instinct is to kiss back. That's how it works. What's important is how long that kissing back lasted. So...how long?” WantFirstsKindMayLongImportantFeelingsGuyGirlPerspectiveDrinkOffersKissingMouthsOkayTablesInstinctSmellHalfwayWhat's ImportantSpoonsBondingKind Of GirlSewersTentacles Author:Rachel Vincent
“So I guess that the next time I make a date with a concussed guy, I should pin a note to his collar so he doesn't forget." "Good plan." His hand was next to hers on the table. He let his thumb glide over her fingers, a small, almost casual touch that sent a shudder through her. "I'm sorry I forgot our date.” ShouldHandsGuyNextForgetPlansTablesNotesFingersSorryNext TimeI'm SorryPinsCasualThumbsCollars Author:Jill Shalvis
“Percy?" Annabeth gripped his arm. "Oh, bad," he muttered. "Bad. Bad." He looked across the table at Frank and Hazel. "You guys remember Polybotes?" "The giant who invaded Camp Jupiter," Hazel said. "The anti-Poseidon you whacked in the head with a Terminus statue. Yes, I think I remember” ThinkingSaidRememberGuyArmsTablesGiantsCampsFrankStatuesAnnabethJupiterPoseidonHazel Levesque Author:Rick Riordan
“"I've been thinking," Brooklyn said as I gawked at the god sitting next to me, "if you get all lovey-dovey and decide to elope to Las Vegas where Jared uses his powers to clean up at the poker tables and you guys buy a mansion in the Manzano Mountains with twenty-seven rooms and decide - because you're rich and all - to buy a new computer, can I have your iMac then?"... "Um, no, you're not getting my iMac." "Dang."” IfsThinkingSaidUseGuyNextRoomsRichMountainComputerSittingTwentiesTablesCleanSevenVegasLas VegasBrooklynMansionsImac Author:Darynda Jones
“If this was a movie, we would've sat down at the table with the guys and they would have learned some kind of valuable lesson, like not to judge people by how they look, or that being different is okay. And Lena would've learned that all jocks weren't stupid and shallow. It always seemed to work in movies, but this wasn't a movie. This was Gatlin, which severely limited what could happen.” PeopleIfsLooksKindDifferentHappensGuyStupidJudgingLessonsOkayTablesValuableSatShallowBeing DifferentJocksValuable Lessons Author:Kami Garcia
“Do they always flirt with biblical quotes?" Asil asked Tad. In long-suffering tones, Tad said, "They can flirt with the periodic table or a restaurant menu. We've learned to live with it. Get a room you guys."” LongSaidGuySufferingRoomsTablesToneRestaurantsBiblicalFlirtingMenusLong SufferingPeriodic Table Author:Patricia Briggs
“What brought me back here was my players, ... I know who Rashard (Lewis) is. I know who Nick (Collison) and Luke are, and I don't know what those other guys (on other teams) bring to the table. This is where I've made home and I didn't want anything different and I didn't need anything different.” KnowsWantNeedsMadeDifferentHomeGuyPlayerTeamTablesOther GuysLuke Author:Ray Allen