#table

Democracy was supposed to champion freedom of speech, and yet the simple rules of table decorum could clamp down on the rights their forefathers had fought and died for. ↗

— E.A. Bucchianeri

#democracy #ettiquette #freedom #freedom-of-speech #funny

Writing this record let me recapture who I am. It is summed up in the title Be Not Nobody. You need to feel comfortable in your skin and do whatever you need to do for yourself, to heal or to grow. ↗

— Vanessa Carlton

#comfortable #feel #grow #heal #i

I think a lot of writers, male and female, write as if their parents were killed in a car accident when they were 2, and they have no one to hold accountable. And unfortunately, I don't have that. I have parents who I care about what they think. ↗

— Mindy Kaling

#accident #accountable #car #car accident #care

In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table. ↗

— H. G. Wells

#best way #cards #enough #face #lay

I have no ambitions beyond being comfortable in what I do for a living - and earning a living. ↗

— Craig Ferguson

#beyond #comfortable #earning #i #i do

No, it's not comfortable; I hate watching myself. You don't like when you hear your voice on your voicemail; imagine having to see yourself 30 feet wide and 30 feet big. ↗

— Don Cheadle

#comfortable #feet #hate #having #hear

All Asian parents are into your children having a respectable, decent stable job. Acting was unimaginable to my parents. ↗

— Joan Chen

#asian #children #decent #having #into

I do follow a version of the Dukan diet, but I don't follow it to the extreme so a lot of fish and vegetables. If I want chocolate I'll let myself have a bit of chocolate in moderation. ↗

— Katherine Jenkins

#chocolate #diet #extreme #fish #follow

In the end we are all sacked and it's always awful. It is as inevitable as death following life. If you are elevated there comes a day when you are demoted. Even Prime Ministers. ↗

— Alan Clark

#awful #comes #day #death #demoted

I think it's inevitable that New Zealand will become a republic and that would reflect the reality that New Zealand is a totally sovereign-independent 21st century nation 12,000 miles from the United Kingdom. ↗

— Helen Clark

#become #century #i #i think #inevitable