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“I've weaned myself down to about, on a great day, on a really great day, three cigarettes. For a nicotine junkie the essential cigs are three: the first-of-the-day cigarette smoked after lunch, the after-dinner cigarette and then the one taken whenever you want - the luxury-wild-card smoke. It used to be quite a bit more. It used to be, I'd smoke the table. I'd smoke the patch. I'd smoke the gum. So I feel good about it.”

“[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.”

Two Three Hours Laughing Failing Subjects Argument Tables Endless Phrases Fists Noticing Banging Wranglers

Author:Anton Chekhov

“I was sitting on my own in a restaurant, when I saw a beautiful woman at another table. I sent her a bottle of the most expensive wine on the menu. She sent me a note: "I will not touch a drop of this wine unless you can assure me that you have seven inches in your pants." So I wrote back: "Give me the wine. As gorgeous as you are, I'm not cutting off three inches for anyone.”

Giving Beautiful Three My Own Saws Cutting Sitting Give Me Tables Wine Notes Seven Restaurants Expensive Bottles Pants Inches Gorgeous Beautiful Women Menus Cutting Off

Author:Akhil

“I remember a table in BarchesterTowers that had more character than the combined heroes of three recent novels I've read.”

Character Remember Three Novel Hero Tables

Author:Anatole Broyard

“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.”

People Should Done Guy Three Games Winning Mistake Saws Basketball Should Have Tables Ugly Shooting Fortunate Nba Turnover Ugly People

Author:Shaquille O'Neal

“It is far easier to explain to a three-year-old how babies are made than to explain the processes whereby bread or sugar appear on the table.”

Years Made Three Process Baby Easier Tables Bread Three Years Sugar Three Year Olds

Author:Dervla Murphy

“My home kitchen is airy, with a gas stove, a stainless-steel island table in the center and granite countertops. It's very modest but there's tons of counter space, so you can slap down three or four cutting boards.”

Home Three Space Four Cutting Tables Boards Islands Kitchen Gas Modest Steel Slap Stoves Airy Granite

Author:Grant Achatz

“I often saw weary little women coming to the table after most exhausting labors, and large, bumptious husbands spreading out their hands and thanking the Lord for the meals that the dear women had prepared, as if the whole came down like manna from heaven. So I preached a sermon in the blessing I gave. You will notice that it has three heresies in it: Heavenly Father and Mother, make us thankful for all the blessings of this life, and make us ever mindful of the patient hands that oft in weariness spread our tables and prepare our daily food. For humanity's sake, Amen.”

“Probably those three things affect the most people: reproductive freedom, freedom from violence, and democratic families. But there may well be someone sitting at this table who has a great idea to do something else that wouldn't come under those umbrellas and that would really be great, and make all kinds of change.”

People Wells Kind May Ideas Three Violence Sitting Tables Democratic All Kinds Three Things Great Idea Umbrella

Author:Gloria Steinem

“With one more talent one frequently stands with greater instability than with one less, as a table stands better on three legs than on four.”

Three Greater Four Talent Tables Legs Instability Three Legs

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“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.”

Thinking Humans Book Three Asks Minutes Subjects Ignorance Conversation Tables Boredom Thoughtful Dull Speakers Shocking Emphasis Human Thought Table Of Contents

Author:Stendhal

“A child is nothing like a racing car. . . . Souping up babies doesn't work that way. The child is what she is. There is a certainirreducible if elusive core. Pushing, pulling, stretching, and shrinking will not really change it. There may be spectacular interim results. The baby may say the alphabet before she walks, master two-times or even ten-times table at three. In the long run, however, this forced precocity tends to be irrelevant. . . . Whatever gains there are become unimportant. The losses can be irrevocable.”

“The most conventional customs cling to the table. Farmers who wouldn't drive a horse too hard expect pie three times a day.”

Hard Three Horse Tables Customs Farmers Conventional Pie Three Times Housework

Author:Ellen Swallow Richards

“America's cultural table is set by the people living in the three bubbles - New York Washington D.C. and Hollywood.”

People Christian America Three Leadership Church New York Hollywood Tables Bubbles

Author:Mike Huckabee

“Tea at college was served on long tables with an urn at the end of each. Long baguettes of bread, three to a table, were set out with meagre portions of butter and jam; the china was coarse to withstand the schoolboy-clutch and the tea strong. At the Hôtel de Paris I was astonished at the fragility of the cups, the silver teapot, the little triangular savoury sandwiches, the éclairs stuffed with cream.”

Littles Long Ends Three Strong Food College Tables Cooking China Bread Cups Tea Paris Silver Culinary Portions Cream Sandwiches Jam Fragility Clutch Coarse Teapots Baguettes

Book:The Comedians

Source: The Comedians

“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.”

Want Trying Said Guy Three Reading Four Terrible Tables Scripts I Want You Organize Going To Work Freshness

Author:Jeff Bridges

“The money's always been on the table. We could have took that money any time we wanted - every year, two, three times a year we've had offers, all the way down the line.”

Way Years Two Wanted Three Lines Offers Tables Three Times

Author:Ian Brown

“Three qualities of greatness stood out in Woodrow Wilson. He was a man of staunch morals. He was more than just an idealist; he was the personification of the heritage of idealism of the American people. He brought spiritual concepts to the peace table. He was a born crusader.”

People Men Spiritual Three Born Quality Moral Greatness Concepts Tables Heritage Idealism Idealist Wilson Personification

Book:The Ordeal of Woodrow Wilson

Source: The Ordeal of Woodrow Wilson

“I was at the table with three Europeans, and we were having lunch. And they were talking about their role as lead authors. And they were talking about how they were trying to make the report so dramatic that the United States would just have to sign that Kyoto Protocol.”

Trying States Three United Talking Roles United States Tables Dramatic Reports Lunch Protocol Kyoto Kyoto Protocol

Author:John Christy

“There are times where I would keep three typewriters on a table, and I'd have three complete thoughts going. With computers, you make folders, files - I don't know about those things. I have sheaves of paper polluted with words and paragraphs. I found it a good tool for me. And it keeps your hands strong for guitar playing.”

Knows Hands Three Found Strong Paper Computer Tools Tables Guitar Files Paragraph Typewriters Guitar Playing Folders

Author:Eddie Vedder

“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.”

Real Moments Guy Three Actors Fun Heaven Normal Tables Focused Spending Performers Relaxed Nicholson

Author:Peter Jacobson

“There are so many people who are clever. There are 8000 people at Princeton who are more clever than the three of us at this table. BUT, we have the ability to give something that they don't have...which is us.”

People Giving Three Ability Tables Clever Princeton

Author:Mike Birbiglia

“The only thing is that ordinarily when I do dance with [women] they think I am suddenly going to throw them over a table or twist them all around. All I want to do is one-two, one-two-three - a simple fox trot. But they're shaking with anticipation at the thought that I'm about to whip them around and then toss them on the roof.”

Thinking Want Two Three Simple Tables Anticipation Roof Foxes Twists Shaking Whips Toss

Author:Gene Kelly

“[My mother] worked at thrift stores and she didn't have a high school education. She sacrificed everything she had for me and my brothers. I never went without. She showed me that she could put food on the table, buy us Jordans, we had the best clothes and she worked two-three odd jobs.”

Two School Jobs Mother Three Brother Clothes High School Tables Stores Odd My Brother Jordan Thrift School Education Odd Jobs

Author:Cory Hardrict

“When we come to the table, we shouldn't negotiate right away. We should spend time walking together, eating together, making acquaintance, telling each other about our own suffering, without blame or condemnation. It takes maybe one, two, three weeks to do that. And if communication and understanding are possible, negotiation will be easier. So if I am to organize a peace negotiation, I will organize it in that way.”

“Don't get fancy. Have you cooked an apple pie? You don't know what you did wrong? Do this: Take two or three apples. Put them on a table. Study them.”

Knows Two Three Study Tables Fancy Apples Pie Apple Pie

Author:Paul Prudhomme

“I like to have a martini/Two at the very most/After three I'm under the table/After four I'm under my host.”

Two Three Four Drink Tables Drinking Alcohol Host Drinking Alcohol Gin Funny Drinking Great Drinking Funny Alcohol Alcohol Drinking Drinking Funny Martini Short Drinking Algonquins

Author:Dorothy Parker

“The decor bowled me over. Everywhere I looked, there was something more to see. Botanical prints, a cross section of pomegranates, a passionflower vine and its fruit. Stacks of thick books on art and design and a collection of glass paperweights filled the coffee table. It was enormously beautiful, a sensibility I'd never encountered anywhere, a relaxed luxury. I could feel my mother's contemptuous gaze falling on the cluttered surfaces, but I was tired of three white flowers in a glass vase. There was more to life than that.”

“There was a still life on Billy's bedside table-two pills, an ashtray with three lipstick-stained cigarettes in it, one cigarette still burning, and a glass of water. The water was dead. So it goes. Air was trying to get out of the dead water. Bubbles were clinging to the walls of the glass, too weak to climb out.”

Trying Stills Two Three Water Air Wall Weak Tables Glasses Burning Climbs Bubbles Cigarette Pills Lipstick Clinging Still Life Ashtrays

Book:SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE

Source: SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE

“Thirty years ago my older brother, who was ten years old at the time, was trying to get a report written on birds that he'd had three months to write, which was due the next day. We were out at our family cabin in Bolinas, and he was at the kitchen table close to tears, surrounded by binder paper and pencils and unopened books about birds, immobilized by the hugeness of the task ahead. Then my father sat down beside him put his arm around my brother's shoulder, and said, "Bird by bird, buddy. Just take it bird by bird.”

Source: Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

“Now-what’s our game plan?” Coach Hedge belched. He’d already had three espressos and a plate of doughnuts, along with two napkins and another flower from the vase on the table. He would’ve eaten the silverware, except Piper had slapped his hand. “Climb the mountain,” Hedge said. “Kill everything except Piper’s dad. Leave.” “Thank you General Eisenhower,” Jason grumbles.”

Said Two Hands Three Games Plans Flower Dad Mountain Tables Coaches Climbs Plates Jason Vases Doughnut Pipers Napkins Espresso Game Plan Coach Hedge

Author:Rick Riordan

“Basil Stag Hare tut-tutted severely as he remarked to Ambrose Spike, 'Tch, tch. Dreadful table manners. Just look at those three wallahs, kicking up a hullaballoo like that! Eating's a serious business.”

Looks Three Serious Eating Tables Manners Kicking Hares Serious Business Table Manners Basil Stags

Book:Redwall

Source: Redwall

“The Americans as a nation are killing themselves with their vices and high living. As much as a man ought to eat in half an hour they swallow in three minutes gulping down their food like the [dog] under the table which when a chunk of meat is thrown down to it swallows it before you can say 'twice.' If you want a reform carry out the advice I have just given you. Dispense with your multitudinous dishes, and, depend upon it, you will do much towards preserving your families from sickness, disease and death.”

Ifs Men Want Three Given Nations Hours Half Minutes Advice Dog Depends Ought Disease Tables Killing Vices Reform Meat Sickness Thrown Dishes Chunks Disease And Death

Author:Brigham Young

“It seemed a place where heroes could fitly feast after victory, where weary harvesters could line up in scores along the table and keep their Harvest Home with mirth and song, or where two or three friends of simple tastes could sit about as they pleased and eat and smoke and talk in comfort and contentment.”

Two Home Song Three Lines Simple Hero Victory Comfort Taste Tables Smoke Score Contentment Weary Harvest Mirth Three Friends

Book:The Wind in the Willows: An Annotated Edition

Source: The Wind in the Willows: An Annotated Edition

“Just because I'm Native American doesn't mean I can track furniture through the wilderness." She deepened her voice: "'Yes, kemosabe. A three-legged table passed this way an hour ago.' Heck, I don’t know.”

Knows Way Mean I Can Three Voice Hours Tables Track Native Wilderness Native American Furniture

Author:Rick Riordan

“Some morning while your eating breakfast and you need something new to think about, though, you might want to ponder the fact that you see your kids across the table not as they are but as they once were, about three nanoseconds ago.”

Thinking Want Needs Facts Might Kids Three Morning Eating Tables Something New Breakfast Pondering Mind Blowing Eating Breakfast

Book:Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries

Source: Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries

“As soon as I arrived I made an attempt to find my host but the two or three people of whom I asked his whereabouts stared at me in such an amazed way and denied so vehemently an knowledge of his movements that I slunk off in the direction of the cocktail table--the only place in the garden where a single man could linger without looking purposeless and alone.”

People Men Way Made Two Three Movement Garden Tables Uncomfortable Host Denied Amazed Cocktails Single Man Whereabouts

Book:O Grande Gatsby: The Great Gatsby: Edição bilíngue português - inglês

Source: O Grande Gatsby: The Great Gatsby: Edição bilíngue português - inglês

“I've played hockey most my life and I've never been badly injured...Three weeks into curling I've got bone chips in both my elbows. I still can't lean on a table. I've even got curling injuries, believe it or not, just from falling on my arse.”

Believe Stills Fall Three Sports Week Tables Bones Injury Hockey Chips Injured Elbows Arses

Author:James Allodi

“There are three difficulties in authorship;-to write any thing worth the publishing-to find honest men to publish it -and to get sensible men to read it. Literature has now become a game; in which the Booksellers are the Kings; The Critics the Knaves; the Public, the Pack; and the poor Author, the mere table, or the Thing played upon.”

Men Writing Three Literature Games Poor Honest Kings Difficulty Tables Mere Critics Sensible Publishing Packs Publish Honest Man Authorship Knaves Booksellers

Author:Charles Caleb Colton

“Oh, dear God, thank you, you are such a good God to us. A kind and gentle and accommodating God, and we thank You oh sweet, sweet Lord of hosts for the smörgåsbord You have so aptly laid at our table this day, and each day, by day, day by day, by day oh dear Lord three things we pray to love Thee more dearly, to see Thee more clearly, to follow Thee more nearly, day, by day, by day. Amen.”

Kind Three Lord Sweet Praying Tables Dear Thee Gentle Each Day This Day Host Three Things Amen Good God Dear God Dear Lord Sms

Author:Ben Stiller

“I serve dinner in three phases: serve the food, clear the table, bury the dead.”

Three Clear Tables Dinner Phases

Author:Phyllis Diller

“Ideally, I would create a book so interdependent and self-sustaining in its parts, so wondrously connected word by word and paragraph by paragraph, so charged with the joy of language, that it would actually float three or four inches above any table where you try to set it down.”

Trying Book Self Joy Three Language Four Tables Connected Inches Floats Paragraph Sustaining

Author:Peter Straub

“According to the celestial multiplication table, once one is three, and three times one is one, and according to heavenly subtraction if we take two from three, three are left. The addition is equally peculiar, if we add two to one we have but one. Each one is equal to himself and the other two.”

Ifs Two Religion Three Left Equal Tables Add Absurd Heavenly Peculiar Dogma Three Times Celestial Trinity Idiotic Multiplication Subtraction

Author:Robert Green Ingersoll

“To my three sons, Peter, Scott, and Alexander who pulled me from the 18th Century and back into the present on a regular basis and therefore made me a better person, thank you. And to my wife, who sits at the table there. Who is right about almost everything.”

Persons Made Three Wife Century Son Bases Tables My Wife Peter Thank You Better Person 18th Century Three Sons

Author:Joseph J. Ellis

“In any new situation, whether it involves an elevator or a rocket ship, you will almost certainly be viewed in one of three ways. As a minus one: actively harmful, someone who creates problems. Or as a zero: your impact is neutral and doesn't tip the balance one way or the other. Or you'll be seen as a plus one: someone who actively adds value. Everyone wants to be a plus one, of course. But proclaiming your plus-oneness at the outset almost guarantees you'll be perceived as a minus one, regardless of the skills you bring to the table or how you actually perform.”

Way Want Problem Values Three Courses Situation Balance Skills Tables Impact Add Ships Oneness One Way Guarantees Plus Zero Rockets Elevators Minus Proclaiming Three Ways New Situations

Author:Chris Hadfield

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