Rande Gerber

Oh, the secret of a great club is all in the detail. When I walk into one of my bars, I have to have all my napkins a certain way and all the pourers in the bottles facing a certain way. It drives some people crazy, but I figure if I notice something's off, then other people will notice it, too.

American Businessman

Robert Krulwich

If you want to be a poet, you can just write it on a napkin, and it's the length of the napkin, I guess. But usually you decide you'll rhyme it, or you'll have a formula. In radio, that's something called, 'Close your eyes and listen.

American Journalist

Roseanne Barr

Ever since I was a girl, I have written about one to five pages every day - on napkins, on scrap paper, in notebooks and tablets, on the walls in my room as a teenager, and in orange paint on the cheap white plastic blinds in my room.

American Actress

Rachel Nichols

Sometimes, when full and in fear that I will continue to eat unwanted food just because it's staring at me, I will place my napkin over the remaining portion. This is what I frequently refer to as a 'food funeral.

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

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.

French Lawyer

Tom Colicchio

Don't touch my napkin. I do not want the server to pick up the napkin and put it on my lap. I know it belongs there; maybe I don't choose to put it there.

American Chef

Iggy Azalea

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

Australian Musician

Chuck Berry

I've written songs on everything. Menus. Napkins. Little pieces of paper.

American Musician

Walter Winchell

Mae West

Napkins are associated with politeness and cleanliness during meals.

Mealtime Manners

The term 'napkin' can refer to both reusable cloth and disposable paper types.

Material Matters

In formal dining, napkins are usually folded elegantly and placed on the plate.

Setting Tables

In the UK, a napkin refers to what babies wear for bathroom needs.

Baby Care

Parents typically have to change a baby's napkin several times a day.

Changing Time

In the USA, 'napkin' can also mean a sanitary pad for menstrual periods.

Feminine Hygiene

You can request 'napkins' at a US drugstore when needing sanitary pads.

Drugstore Item

 Lastly, the napkin traditionally goes to the left of the forks, though it's okay to put it underneath them, too. For a fancier meal like this one that takes up a lot of space, we'll put it in the middle. Now we're ready to eat. Hopefully these tips will be helpful the next time you're asked to help set the table

How to set the table -...

 He said human beings act differently when they know they're alone than when they know somebody else is around. So if I'm eating spaghetti, and I know I'm alone, I can eat like a backhoe. I can wipe my mouth on my sleeve, napkin on the table, chew with my mouth open, make little noises, scratch wherever I want.

Dan Phillips: Creative...

 And she drew a map on a napkin, and she said, 'Just follow this map and you'll find him.' - - I said, 'Okay.' So, I drove about an hour to rail-- railroad tracks, it was like the main marker on the map. I drove to the railroad tracks and put on my backpack. And, parked the car and put on my backpack

Erika Larsen: The...

 and it's still a thin structure. It's about the thickness of a table napkin. But it has so many convolutions and ridges it's now 80 percent of our brain, and that's where we do our thinking, and it's the great sublimator. We still have that old brain that provides our basic drives and motivations,

Ray Kurzweil: Get ready...

 Then I spend another four years to create my own machine tools, a simple machine tool like this. In this machine, any rural woman can apply the same raw materials that they are processing in the multinational plant, anyone can make a world-class napkin at your dining hall. That is my invention.

Arunachalam Muruganantham...

 help out at the restaurants making Thai iced tea in the kitchen or folding napkins or bringing people to their table my dad loved growing the business but what he loved most was connecting people to Thai culture and giving them new and wonderful experiences my mother

How design can help make...

 simple laws give rise to that kind of complexity but indeed the laws of quantum mechanics can be written down on a napkin and yet they govern all of chemistry all of life all of history if we obey these laws we can do amazing things so an origami to obey these laws

Folding way-new origami...

 on the real world that resumes only when the final squiggle is reached? I'm not sure anyone knows the answer to that question, yet fantastical, fictional worlds are created everyday in our minds, on computers, even on napkins at the restaurant down the street.

How to build a fictional...

 But indeed, the laws of quantum mechanics can be written down on a napkin, and yet they govern all of chemistry, all of life, all of history. If we obey these laws, we can do amazing things. So in origami, to obey these laws, we can take simple patterns --

The math and magic of...

 and you are all capable of creating these cognitive maps yourselves. So next time, when you want to tell your friend how to get to your place, you grab a beermat, grab a napkin, and you just observe yourself