Name Plate Quotes

#1. She had an unusual name. She knew that much. It wasn't the kind of name that you found on ceramic coffee mugs at airport gift shops or emblazoned on mini-license plate souvenirs you could hang on your bedroom door after you returned from Disneyland. Her name was pretty and unusual and had meaning.

Melissa De La Cruz

#2. As a writer, as much as I try, I can't stop writing female characters. They have so much more to offer; they have to wear so many different hats. There's so much wonderful gray matter in a female's life that it just makes for a stronger character.

Tate Taylor

#3. I got a response from the front office of the division, 'Risky. Dangerous. Won't work.

David E. Hoffman

#4. An overly pragmatic attitude is not productive on the long run.

Carlo Rovelli

#5. In the future, I'd like to make jewelry and sell it under my own name. But right now, I've got enough on my plate!

L'Wren Scott

#6. The best thing about Ikea - I'm going to do a quiz here - the names. Do you know what a Floria Fin (ph) is? It's a candle. A Pogestra (ph) - table. A Bar Grick (ph) is a plate, an Eterleeg (ph) is a wine glass and a Scuggle (ph) is the name of my third nipple.

Greg Gutfeld

#7. The nostalgic is looking for a spiritual addressee. Encountering silence, he looks for memorable signs, desperately misreading them.

Svetlana Boym

#8. Glance at the night sky and what you see is history and lots of it - not the stars as they are now but as they were when their light left them.

Bill Bryson

#9. If we didn't execute bankers and rogue traders found guilty of financial mischief, it might give them the clear signal that it's actually okay, and then where would we be?

Jasper Fforde

#10. I'm not looking for people to bow down to me or do things in my name or even pass around a collection plate for me. I say that I'd like to be God for a while because He really can get away with anything. I mean, ANYTHING.

Paul Feig

#11. There was a brass plate mounted on the door at eye level, so old that the lettering that had once been engraved there had been reduced to a spidery, unreadable code, the name of some long dead function or functionary, polished into oblivion.

William Gibson

#12. Laying in the dark, she wondered what the day would bring. Some days were trumpet-proud. They heralded like thunder. Some were courteous, careful as a lettered card upon a silver plate.
But some days were shy. They did not name themselves. They waited for a careful girl to find them.

Patrick Rothfuss

#13. The outer world, with all its phenomena, is filled with divine splendour, but we must have experienced the divine within ourselves, before we can discover it in our environment

Rudolf Steiner

#14. Teach by doing whenever you can, and only fall back upon words when doing it is out of the question.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#15. So you're the Pigeon, huh?"
"No," I snapped. "I have a name."
He seemed amused at the way I regarded him, which only served to make me angrier.
"Well? What is it?" he asked.
I took a bite of the last apple spear on my plate, ignoring him.
"Pigeon it is, then," he shrugged.

Jamie McGuire

#16. The world is like an eye, a beard, a spot of beauty and eyebrow, Where each thing is neatly in place.

Hafez

#17. We bask in the scent of cinnamon before
Mom puts a scone her plate.
'His name is Rich,' she says.
I select a scone too.
'I like a man with an adjective for a name.

Kelly Bingham