Sheila, in a restaurant, those are called hightops and they started out as seating in the bar area. They are convenient to servers because there is no bending to serve at the table, and some restaurants like them because they take up slightly less room than a table of the same size. Why? because you sit on a stool, which is slightly smaller and your legs hang down slightly and take up a bit less room than with your feet flat on the floor, And in a restaurant, 12 tables instead of 10 can make a big difference. For home use they are an outgrowth of counter height seating at an island. It's kind of like having island seating but more flexible and smaller than an island so it may satisfy some people who don't have an island with seating. I don't find them particularly practical or useful in kitchens, but I have used them in gamerooms. In the kitchen I prefer to sit with my feet on the floor.

Interesting mix. Amar Bose, my classic music collection really appreciates him. Rose Bird's quotes I really appreciate, especially "My role isn't to be politically smart. My role is to do what's right under the constitution. And if that's politically unpopular, so be it". Could have done without Mallone.

Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment. Claude Monet I get this. An obsession usually equals torment. The obsession and joy with color is such that you can't look away and examine and reexamine shades and tints of a hue. Color can be hypnotizing. When driving in the mountains of Colorado during a snowstorm, I, as a passenger, watched a snow plow right ahead with a flashing blue light. I think time passed in an odd way; and I couldn't look away from the flashing blue.

Laurence Sterne Quotes Irish - Novelist November 24, 1713 - March 18, 1768 Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners. Laurence Sterne In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself. Laurence Sterne Pain and pleasure, like light and darkness, succeed each other. Laurence Sterne Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at. Laurence Sterne Of all the cants which are canted in this canting world, - though the cant of hypocrites may be the worst, - the cant of criticism is the most tormenting! Laurence Sterne God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb. Laurence Sterne Men tire themselves in pursuit of rest. Laurence Sterne So much of motion, is so much of life, and so much of joy, and to stand still, or get on but slowly, is death and the devil. Laurence Sterne Our passion and principals are constantly in a frenzy, but begin to shift and waver, as we return to reason. Laurence Sterne Sciences may be learned by rote, but wisdom not. Laurence Sterne Only the brave know how to forgive... a coward never forgave; it is not in his nature. Laurence Sterne The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it. Laurence Sterne Courtship consists in a number of quiet attentions, not so pointed as to alarm, nor so vague as not to be understood. Laurence Sterne I once asked a hermit in Italy how he could venture to live alone, in a single cottage, on the top of a mountain, a mile from any habitation? He replied, that Providence was his next-door neighbor. Laurence Sterne 'Tis known by the name of perseverance in a good cause, and of obstinacy in a bad one. Laurence Sterne An English man does not travel to see English men. Laurence Sterne Titles of honor are like the impressions on coins, which add no value to gold or silver, but only render brass current. Laurence Sterne I take a simple view of life. It is keep your eyes open and get on with it. Laurence Sterne An actor should be able to create the universe in the palm of his hand. Laurence Sterne Of all duties, prayer certainly is the sweetest and most easy. Laurence Sterne People who are always taking care of their health are like misers, who are hoarding a treasure which they have never spirit enough to enjoy. Laurence Sterne Alas! if the principles of contentment are not within us, the height of station and worldly grandeur will as soon add a cubit to a man's stature as to his happiness. Laurence Sterne People who overly take care of their health are like misers. They hoard up a treasure which they never enjoy. Laurence Sterne But this is neither here nor there why do I mention it? Ask my pen, it governs me, I govern not it. Laurence Sterne One may as well be asleep as to read for anything but to improve his mind and morals, and regulate his conduct. Laurence Sterne Nothing is so perfectly amusing as a total change of ideas. Laurence Sterne Lessons of wisdom have the most power over us when they capture the heart through the groundwork of a story, which engages the passions. Laurence Sterne I am persuaded that every time a man smiles - but much more so when he laughs - it adds something to this fragment of life. Laurence Sterne The most accomplished way of using books is to serve them as some people do lords; learn their titles and then brag of their acquaintance. Laurence Sterne Keyholes are the occasions of more sin and wickedness, than all other holes in this world put together. Laurence Sterne It is a great pity but tis certain from every day's observation of man, that he may be set on fire like a candle, at either end provided there is a sufficient wick standing out. Laurence Sterne Writing, when properly managed, (as you may be sure I think mine is) is but a different name for conversation. Laurence Sterne A dwarf who brings a standard along with him to measure his own size, take my word, is a dwarf in more articles than one. Laurence Sterne What is the life of man! Is it not to shift from side to side? From sorrow to sorrow? To button up one cause of vexation! And unbutton another! Laurence Sterne I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally bound to it, had minded what they were about when they begot me. Laurence Sterne For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies. Laurence Sterne When a man is discontented with himself, it has one advantage - that it puts him into an excellent frame of mind for making a bargain. Laurence Sterne When the heart flies out before the understanding, it saves the judgment a world of pains. Laurence Sterne Religion which lays so many restraints upon us, is a troublesome companion to those who will lay no restraints upon themselves. Laurence Sterne In all unmerciful actions, the worst of men pay this compliment at least to humanity, as to endeavour to wear as much of the appearance of it, as the case will well let them. Laurence Sterne There have been no sects in the Christian world, however absurd, which have not endeavoured to support their opinions by arguments drawn from Scripture. Laurence Sterne Alphonse Karr Quotes French - Critic November 24, 1808 - September 29, 1890 Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses. Alphonse Karr The more things change, the more they are the same. Alphonse Karr We can invent only with memory. Alphonse Karr If we are to abolish the death penalty, I should like to see the first step taken by my friends the murderers. Alphonse Karr Uncertainty is the worst of all evils until the moment when reality makes us regret uncertainty. Alphonse Karr Happiness is composed of misfortunes avoided. Alphonse Karr If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more audacious. Alphonse Karr Every man has three characters - that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has. Alphonse Karr Love is the most terrible, and also the most generous of the passions; it is the only one which includes in its dreams the happiness of someone else. Alphonse Karr I gather from a lawyer that there was a rehearsal yesterday. We haven't a hope. I know the presiding judge too: I've had the misfortune to sleep with his wife. He was specially picked. Alphonse Karr Many people think that virtue consists of severity towards others. Alphonse Karr Love in marriage should be the accomplishment of a beautiful dream, and not, as it too often is, the end. Alphonse Karr Carlo Collodi Quotes Italian - Writer November 24, 1826 - October 26, 1890 Once upon a time there was a piece of wood. It was not an expensive piece of wood. Far from it. Just a common block of firewood, one of those thick, solid logs that are put on the fire in winter to make cold rooms cozy and warm. Carlo Collodi How it happened that Mastro Cherry, carpenter, found a piece of wood that wept and laughed like a child. Carlo Collodi At such a loving invitation, Pinocchio, with one leap from the back of the orchestra, found himself in the front rows. With another leap, he was on the orchestra leader's head. With a third, he landed on the stage. Carlo Collodi A boy's appetite grows very fast, and in a few moments the queer, empty feeling had become hunger, and the hunger grew bigger and bigger, until soon he was as ravenous as a bear. Carlo Collodi When poverty shows itself, even mischievous boys understand what it means. Carlo Collodi Fancy the happiness of Pinocchio on finding himself free! Without saying yes or no, he fled from the city and set out on the road that was to take him back to the house of the lovely Fairy. Carlo Collodi How ridiculous I was as a Marionette! And how happy I am, now that I have become a real boy! Carlo Collodi A thousand woodpeckers flew in through the window and settled themselves on Pinocchio's nose. Carlo Collodi Pinocchio, spurred on by the hope of finding his father and of being in time to save him, swam all night long. Carlo Collodi Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Quotes French - Artist November 24, 1864 - September 9, 1901 The body of a beautiful woman is not made for love; it is too exquisite. Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec My dear Mama, you are definitely the hen who hatched a famous duck. Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Love is when the desire to be desired takes you so badly that you feel you could die of it. Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec I have tried to do what is true and not ideal. Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec I paint things as they are. I don't comment. Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec I have always been a pencil. Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Of course one should not drink much, but often. Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec The cafes bore me; going downstairs is a nuisance. Painting and sleeping - that's all there is. Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Never be tempted by water. The water tap should be sealed at lunchtime. If, for example, a sauce goes wrong, adding water doesn't help at all; one only achieves a taste of dishwater. Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec The harmony of the luncheon is achieved by a combination of the two main courses which are the focus of the menu. Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Philandering impedes, as everyone knows, the ability to concentrate. Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Margaret Anderson Quotes American - Editor November 24, 1886 - October 18, 1973 In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love you want the other person. Margaret Anderson Self-preservation is the first responsibility. Margaret Anderson Intellectuals are too sentimental for me. Margaret Anderson I have always fought for ideas - until I learned that it isn't ideas but grief, struggle, and flashes of vision which enlighten. Margaret Anderson Life for me has been exactly what I thought it would be, a cake, which I have eaten and had too. Margaret Anderson My greatest enemy is reality. I have fought it successfully for thirty years. Margaret Anderson It is rarely that you see an American writer who is not hopelessly sane. Margaret Anderson I was as repelled by the French as I was attracted by their country. Margaret Anderson I defied nothing at all. I ignored the law because I didn't know it existed. It didn't occur to me that anyone would want to curb my inspiration. Margaret Anderson