Browsing Topic Best Napkins Quotes

Keeping even the most humble talent wrapped in a napkin becomes the more reprehensible the greater the emergency.

What I’ve always wished I’d invented was paper underwear, even knowing that the idea never took off when they did come out with it. I still think it’s a good idea, and I don’t know why people resist it when they’ve accepted paper napkins and paper plates and paper curtains and paper towels-it would make more sense not to have to wash out underwear than not to have to wash out towels.

I want to show you something, I say. What? He dabs at his lips with the napkin, and for a moment I’m wishing so hard that I am that napkin that I can almost feel myself changing, becoming thin and papery and white. Cal? I sit back and feel myself blushing, feel it from the tips of my toes all the way to the heat at the backs of my ears.

As we’re leaving the King’s Arms Hotel after Sunday lunch, I watch a beautiful white dove walking down the wet road. A car approaches and the bird accidentally turns into the wheel rather than away from it. A gentle crunch. The car passes. A shape like a discarded napkin left in the road. Still perfectly white, no red stains, but bearing no relation anymore to the shape of a bird. A trail of white feathers flutter down the road after the car. The suddeness is very upsetting. That gentle crunch.

So precious a talent as intellect never was given to be wrapt in a napkin and buried in the earth.

My mom would take me to restaurants, and the first thing I’d ask for would be a pen and a napkin, and I’d sketch shoes and shoes and shoes.

With a stretch belt, anything can be a dress – a dinner napkin, a tablecloth, even a towel. Just wrap and snap, and away you go in an incredible outfit. Another plus is that the belt will pull all eyes to your lovely curves, and they even look good around a coat or a jacket.

Never trust the food in a restaurant on top of the tallest building in town that spends a lot of time folding napkins.

I was at the New York Film Critics Circle Awards one year – they called me up when somebody canceled two days before the thing, and asked me to present some awards. So I went, and one of the funniest film moments I’ve ever had was when they introduced the New York film critics. They all stood up – motley isn’t the word for that group. Everybody had some sort of vision problem, some sort of damage – I had to bury myself in my napkin.

XML is not a language in the sense of a programming language any more than sketches on a napkin are a language.

Herman Cain said he wants people to know that there’s more between his ears than pepperoni and pizza sauce. He says there’s also a few napkins and crazy bread.

My mother would organize huge parties for my elementary school classmates. To prepare, she would go back to the bakery in her old neighborhood of Inwood and get special shamrock cookies. Hawaiian Punch was served and we had shamrock napkins. It was a lot of fun.

I’m afraid that my wife picked up a number of colorful expressions from the Yanks and such, Frank offered, with a nervous smile. True, I said, gritting my teeth as I wrapped a water-soaked napkin about my hand. Men tend to be very colorful when you’re picking shrapnel out of them.

The most exciting business ideas fit on the back of an airplane napkin.

I find that a shirt is most similar to a napkin when I don’t have a napkin.

I still like paper books. Like, book is a flammable object. After you read it, you could use it to get warm. Or it could become a pile of napkins.

When you start a show, the plans are not set in stone. They’re really mutable, cocktail napkin sketches.

Mr Earbrass stands on the terrace at twilight. It is bleak; it is cold; and the virtue has gone out of everything. Words drift through his mind: anguish turnips conjunctions illness defeat string parties no parties urns desuetude disaffection claws loss Trebizond napkins shame stones distance fever Antipodes mush glaciers incoherence labels miasma amputation tides deceit mourning elsewards.

What we want, we have for our painsThe promise that if we but waitTill the want has burned out of our brains,Every means shall be present to state;While we send for the napkin the soup gets cold,While the bonnet is trimming the face grows old,When we’ve matched our buttons the pattern is sold,And everything comes too late-too late.

I never use a napkin on my lap at a restaurant…because I believe in myself.

The big success stories – Facebook, Zynga and Twitter – are leading to investing in ideas on a napkin, because no one wants to miss out on the next big thing.

Whenever I eat at a restaurant I never put the napkin in my lap. People say, ‘Hannibal, why don’t you put the napkin in your lap?’ Because I believe in myself. I believe in my ability to not spill food in my pants ’cause I’m a goddamn adult. And I’ve mastered the art of getting food from my plate to my mouth without messing up my jeans. You need to believe in yourself, too and get your life together, that’s for babies. Have some confidence in your eating abilities and hand/eye coordination.

I know I exaggerated things, now I got it like that. Tuck my napkin in my shirt cause I’m just mobbin like that.

Good? Cam said. Right? I took another bite and nodded. Well, I have a whole ton of them at home. He stretched as he rolled up his napkin. Just saying.

Crumb, he said. What? A slight grin appeared on his face and then he reached out, without the napkin, and before I knew what he was doing, he smoothed his thumb over my bottom lip. Every single muscle in my body locked up and became painfully tense. My eyes widened and the air caught in my throat. The touch was slight, barely anything, but I felt it in several parts of my body. Got it. His grin spread.

Luxury lives in the finer details. It’s a cloth napkin at a dinner table. It’s a mint on your pillow before bed.

Nothing is more pleasant than to see a pretty woman, her napkin well placed under her arms, one of her hands on the table, while the other carries to her mouth, the choice piece so elegantly carved.

Um, there’s a girl meeting her friend,’ he went on. ‘Her friend is giving her an ice-cream cone. Oh-it’s dripping. Huh. It, uh, dripped on her…chest.’ Iggy drew in a hissing breath. It’s gonna stain for sure,’ the Gasman said. ‘That’s chocolate.’ Hmm,’ Fang said, watching, the girl dab at her chest with a paper napkin.

The Department of Agriculture announced that it will ban six new strains of E. coli. Which explains why the hot dog vendor outside my building is now just selling napkins.

The odour of Burgundy, and the smell of French sauces, and the sight of clean napkins and long loaves, knocked as a very welcome visitor at the door of our inner man.

Our good time is sitting in a coffee shop with a newspaper, writing a line on the back of a napkin. That is the most fun comedians ever have

All that changing of plates and flapping of napkins while you wait 40 minutes for your food.

Fletch then kisses me on the forehead before opening the cabinet under the coffeemaker to grab placemats and napkins. Retrieving these items is his job because I kind of don’t like to bend. I also refuse to carry anything heavier than my purse.

Imagine censors that wouldn’t let you sit in a man’s lap. I’ve been in more laps than a napkin!

The censors wouldn’t even let me sit on a guy’s lap, and I’ve been on more laps than a table-napkin.