If you look around the table and you can't tell who the sucker is, it's you.
Paul Scofield
It used to be twelve people crowded around a sewing table; now it's ten.
Ben Shahn
You should never take military intervention off the table. When you do so, you give an out to a rogue nation or rogue actors.
Kyrsten Sinema
You can't go to a negotiating table pointing a gun, but you've got to keep it over your shoulder.
Joe Slovo
You know, you really can't beat a household commodity - the ketchup bottle on the kitchen table.
Adlai E. Stevenson
By the time you have your protagonist attempting to assassinate the Pope, you've sort of signaled that everything is on the table.
Brian K. Vaughan
It is critical that the American people, and not just their financial institutions, be represented at the negotiating table.
Elizabeth Warren
I think to be oversensitive about cliches is like being oversensitive about table manners.
Evelyn Waugh
Many casting directors won't hire aspiring actors because you might be burning some chick's headshot under the table so she doesn't get... →
Olivia Wilde
An SF author who reads only SF will have little new to contribute, but someone with a broader experience will bring more to the table.
Walter Jon Williams