Empty Plate Quotes

#1. For Archie was an expert in dividing the affairs of life into men's business and women's business. An empty cupboard and a full plate were the man's business, a full cupboard and an empty plate the concern of the woman.

Annie Proulx

#2. A lot of writers and artists are like chefs who eat their own cooking in the kitchen and then deliver an empty plate with assurances that it's great.

Peter Schjeldahl

#3. The no-kiss rule starts when we're home and I've found you a class,' Sky said smugly. 'Read the small print.'
Zed folded his arms and pushed back his empty plate. 'She won't last.

Joss Stirling

#4. You can't know who you really are until you've tasted all the things life has to offer...otherwise you'll just be standing there with an empty plate and no stories to tell

Amber Mosby

#5. She removed my empty plate, replaced it with a bowl containing a steaming slice of spotted dick with thick yellow custard drizzled all over it.

Neil Gaiman

#6. We have to discard the past / and, as one builds / floor by floor, window by window, / and the building rises, / so do we keep shedding - first, broken tiles, / then proud doors ... and each new day / gleams / like an empty / plate.

Pablo Neruda

#7. Reward is a happy customer - and an empty plate.

Jacques Torres

#8. In my bachelor days, I had a small upright piano in my kitchen. It cost £10 from eBay plus £70 delivery. It was because I'd seen an old photo of Tom Waits - with dirty dishes, empty bottles, a hot plate, a coffee machine and a piano strewn with lyric sheets - and fallen in love with it.

Jamie Cullum

#9. Nineteen, twenty, my plate's empty.' But the reader's plate is full

Agatha Christie

#10. The wild swan's death-hymn took the soul Of that waste place with joy Hidden in sorrow: at first to the ear The warble was low, and full and clear.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

#11. Scrimgeour: "It's time you learned some respect!"
Harry: "It's time you earned it.

J.K. Rowling

#12. Sometimes it's like you're a big pie settin' on the table, and everybody runs up and gets their piece of you. When it's over' the plate's empty.

Loretta Lynn

#13. I had a blast on tour with Little Big Town. We got to play some beautiful rooms around the country - some really amazing old theaters. And it was just cool to see a band that's been together for so long.

Kacey Musgraves

#14. As with all commandments, gratitude is a description of a successful mode of living. The thankful heart opens our eyes to a multitude of blessings that continually surround us.

James E. Faust

#15. Bloody dogs," Dad said, kicking indiscriminately under the table. He put his revolver next to his side-plate. Mum put her Uzi on an empty chair beside her. "Safety on?" Dad always asked. "Those things are liable to go off at the touch of a gnat's testicle.

Alexandra Fuller

#16. Long live all us crazy soldiers
Who were born under calico skies
May we never be called to handle
All the weapons of war we despise

Paul McCartney

#17. The Durhannians' countenance lifted as is the way of Hope. There was a village elder whose eyes flickered with the light of Understanding. We knew he would soon be able to illuminate paths in the darkness.

Laurie Green Westlake

#18. The very common error of young or unconfident cooks is to keep putting more of their own personal ideology into a plate until there's so much noise that you really can't even hear a tune. You can say more in an empty space than you can in a crowded one.

Mario Batali

#19. If I eat mindlessly while watching television, reading, or talking with someone else, I can go through an entire meal without tasting the food, without even noticing that I've been eating. The plate is empty but I didn't enjoy the food - I had all of the calories and little of the pleasure.

Dean Ornish

#20. The real tragedy of the poor is the poverty of their aspirations.

Adam Smith

#21. Mal shouted. I heard scuffling behind me and knew Tolya had taken hold of him. "Alina!" His voice was raw white wood, torn from the heart of a tree. I did not turn.

Leigh Bardugo

#22. They call her love, love, love, love, love. She is love, and she is all I need.

Parachute Band

#23. People give me money and I don't know why, my real collection plate is an empty cup held by a homeless guy.

Bo Burnham

#24. Not a single rumor whispered on the wind here. He was too high up for such lowly experiences, too removed from the mundane and the pain. For these few blessed moments the rushing sensations blew away his controversial existence. And he smiled.

Jesikah Sundin

#25. What does old look like? Sometimes I am wrinkled, sometimes not.

Maxine Hong Kingston

#26. It baffles me that people think that obliterating the past will save them from its consequences, as if throwing away the empty cake plate would help you lose weight.

Timothy B. Tyson

#27. Maybe there's a god above but the only thing I learned from love was how to shoot at somebody who outdrew you.

Leonard Cohen