#table

Much ingenuity with a little money is vastly more profitable and amusing than much money without ingenuity. ↗

— Arnold Bennett

#ingenuity #little #little money #money #more

I am lactose intolerant, and I always thought it was really funny how people who are lactose intolerant continue to eat dairy, because they like it so much. And I find it not acceptable. ↗

— Lake Bell

#always #am #because #continue #dairy

Open your newspaper - any day of the week - and you will find a report from somewhere in the world of someone being imprisoned, tortured or executed because his opinions or religion are unacceptable to his government. ↗

— Peter Benenson

#because #being #day #executed #find

Respectable people do not write music or make love as a career. ↗

— Alexander Borodin

#love #make #music #people #respectable

I am invariably of the politics of the people at whose table I sit, or beneath whose roof I sleep. ↗

— George Borrow

#beneath #i #i am #invariably #people

We learned to be patient observers like the owl. We learned cleverness from the crow, and courage from the jay, who will attack an owl ten times its size to drive it off its territory. But above all of them ranked the chickadee because of its indomitable spirit. ↗

— Tom Brown, Jr.

#attack #be patient #because #cleverness #courage

I've never believed that the only way to make a dent is to be a table thumper. ↗

— David Brudnoy

#dent #i #make #never #only

You have to take a huge loss financially to do a play. You have to put aside the commercials and the speeches and the other things that put money on the table, and really save up to do it. And that's what I've done here. But it's worth it to me to be in a really good play. ↗

— Dixie Carter

#commercials #done #financially #good #here

I was wearing black clothes almost from the beginning. I feel comfortable in black. I felt like black looked good onstage, that it was attractive, so I started wearing it all the time. ↗

— Johnny Cash

#attractive #beginning #black #clothes #comfortable

As you get older and ease your way into being a character actor you have to be comfortable with where you are in life and career, and I'm very comfortable with what I'm doing - working on projects I'm proud of. ↗

— George Clooney

#being #career #character #character actor #comfortable