[T]hey stretch you on a table. Then they bid you close your eyelids, And they mask you with a napkin, And the anæsthetic reaches Hot and subtle through your being.
Why not collect and clean chicken wishbones in the run-up to Christmas, spray them silver and use each to pinch together a white hem-stitch napkin?
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.
I find that a shirt is most similar to a napkin when I don't have a napkin.
When planning your wedding you make so many decisions: 'Do I want this fork or that fork?' But in the end people aren't going to remember what napkin holder you choose.
Never buy anything that you can't illustrate on the back of a napkin.
I never use a napkin on my lap at a restaurant. . . because I believe in myself.
There are two good reasons to put your napkin in your lap. One is that food might spill in your lap, and it is better to stain the napkin than your clothing. The other is that it can serve as a perfect hiding place. Practically nobody is nosey enough to take the napkin off a lap to see what is hidden there.
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.
It needs to be said that sometimes my mom forgets important details when she talks. Like the time she told us she was considering leather (couches, it turns out), or when I was little and she said, "Here's a napkin to put your balls in" (the Atomic Fireballs that I was eating, she meant).
Bring mine unopened, with a napkin and an opener. (Blaine) What? Afraid I’m going to spit in it, big boy? (Aimee)
She's been on more laps than a napkin.
I know I exaggerated things, now I got it like that. Tuck my napkin in my shirt cause I'm just mobbin like that.
We don't choose our talents; but we needn't hide them in a napkin because they are not just what we want.
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.
When you start a show, the plans are not set in stone. They're really mutable, cocktail napkin sketches.
I've been in more laps than a napkin.
