Full Plate Quotes

#1. I do screen work, adult books, kids books and comic stuff, which gives me a pretty full plate. The problem is usually choosing which one I want to work on next.

Chris Wooding

#2. I've got a full plate, yes I do. That iPod, that's nice. A phone recorder? Nicely done. All right I'm a bit of a tech geek. I have a subscription to Popular Science and I keep up on all this stuff.

Nathan Fillion

#3. The experience of both acting and producing has been wonderful. It certainly has created a full plate. But it is very exciting and rewarding to have creative input on the show. 'Reed' is about love and family and for me, playing a hand in shaping it has been deeply gratifying.

Tracee Ellis Ross

#4. Perhaps it was the demands of having to take on me and the farm that left so little time for the gentler things. Such small things: a kiss goodnight, a word of affection ... a child can starve with a full plate.

Nora Roberts

#5. I lived through a classic publishing story. My editor was fired a month before the book came out. The editor who took it over already had a full plate. It was never advertised. We didn't get reviewed in any major outlets.

Anita Diament

#6. 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

#7. Feast or famine. My plate is suddenly full.

David Wong Louie

#8. It's these darn barbecues. It's so hard to stand and hold on to a plate full of food, a drink and your dignity at the same time

Emma Goldrick

#9. As an athlete, you're brought up with that mentality that you finish everything you start. If you're going to start a meal, you're going to finish it until the plate is clean. I had to change that mentality to one of where, 'I eat until I'm full and leave the rest.'

Michael Strahan

#10. I make time to exercise at least four times a week. I mix up running, yoga, barre classes, and rock-climbing to get a full workout. I also follow my mum and dad's nutritional advice and eat a variety of colors on my plate. Plenty of fruit and vegetables.

Rose McIver

#11. Considering one's plate is full with circumstance, how senseless is it to assume one is able to digest someone else's hopelessness?

T.F. Hodge

#12. I expect you (William Whitelaw) were as impressed as I was to read of the recent electrocution in Florida of a character called John Spenkelink in the electric chair. It seems that a full six minutes passed before Spenkelink was dead, during which time he hopped about like a prawn on a hot plate.

William Donaldson

#13. With the inevitability of a tongue returning to probe a painful tooth, we come back and back and back again to our fears, sitting to talk them over with the eagerness of a hungry man before a full and steaming plate.

Clive Barker

#14. I was a terribly simple girl when it came to problems and my plate was so full the vegetables were falling off.

Kory M. Shrum

#15. You want to know what happened, right? No, you don't. Just no. Big whopping no. A plate full of no with a side of no. I

Jake Bible

#16. No matter how busy I get or how much pressure is on my shoulders, a good workout makes me feel at ease. I come off the treadmill feeling relaxed, full of joy and with a sense of perspective over the issues on my plate.

Robin S. Sharma

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

Agatha Christie

#18. There is a lady dancing on a cracked plate. A withered spider on the carpet. A piano with a full set of yellowed teeth.

Conchitina Cruz

#19. On the delivery plate of the Nutri-Matic Drink Synthesizer was a small tray, on which say three bone china cups and saucers, a bone china jug of milk, a silver teapot full of the best tea Arthur had ever tasted and a small printed note saying Wait.

Douglas Adams

#20. And Sam Vimes thought: Why is Young Sam's nursery full of farmyard animals anyway? Why are his books full of moo-cows and baa-lambs? He is growing up in the city. He will only see them on a plate! They go sizzle!

Terry Pratchett

#21. My plate is full with just acting. I want to focus on that, and then maybe direct in the future.

Penelope Cruz

#22. I'm a bagel on a plate full of onion rolls!

Fanny Brice

#23. He wondered if there was a rule that you had to love all of someone, or whether you could pick out only the best parts, like piling your plate full of desserts at a buffet table and leaving the vegetables to go cold in their little metal bins.

Jennifer E. Smith

#24. Love is giving someone everything on your plate; saying to them that you are full when you aren't. I could be better at that. I'm pretty good at giving, but I don't say, "I'm full." My wife does that all the time with many things, and it's why I love her.

Chad Urmston

#25. His plate was full but his fists sat motionless like two dark quartz stones on either side of it.

Flannery O'Connor

#26. My plate is full; I dig that. And I can't be everywhere all the time, but my mind, heart and spirit has no bounds.

T.F. Hodge

#27. Since the pleasure of most foods is in the first few bites, eat one thing on your plate at a time, at least at the start of the meal when you can concentrate and enjoy the full flavors.

Mireille Guiliano

#28. You know marriage is like hunger. You yearn for it till you don't get the food. Once the stomach is full, you don't want more on your plate. But then hunger can subside only temporarily. It keeps coming back and that's how exactly a happy married life keeps going on, with all ups and downs.

Shikha Kaul

#29. I've so got my plate full with Resident Evil and then The Three Musketeers, I'm just not involved with Castlevania. I'm not personally involved with the movie at all. I'm not producing that. After these two films, then I'm having a holiday.

Paul W. S. Anderson

#30. Our plate is full. We have a lot to do building our company organically and that is our key focus.

Jamie Dimon