Plateful Quotes

#1. Is there anything sadder than the foods of the 1950s? Canned, frozen, packaged concoctions, served up by the plateful, three meals per day, in an era in which the supermarket was king, the farmer's market was, well, for farmers, and the word 'locavore' sounded vaguely like a mythical beast.

Jeffrey Kluger

#2. There's a right thing to do," Holden said.
"You don't have a right thing, friend," Miller said. "You've got a whole plateful of maybe a little less wrong.

James S.A. Corey

#3. I wore a groove in the kitchen floor with endless trips to the fridge, hoping against hope that I had somehow missed a plateful of cold sausages on the previous 4,000 excursions. Then, for no obvious reason, I decided to buy a footstool.

Jeremy Clarkson

#4. could murder a plateful of eggs.

Diana Gabaldon

#5. A woman's life isn't worth a plateful of cabbage if she hasn't felt life stir under her heart. Taking a little one to nurse, watching him grow to manhood, that's what love is.

Carol Shields

#6. We dug the asparagus, and tonight Aunt Charlotte cooked it for me herself with butter and melted cheese. I ate a whole plateful and drank half the brown jug of sweet milk. Then I had two slices of the thick coarse-grain bread that Aunt and the nuns make fresh every day.

Kathryn Lasky

#7. And whowasit youwasit propped the pot in the yard and whatinthe nameofsen lukeareyou rubbinthe sideofthe flureofthe lobbywith Shite! will you have a plateful? Tak.

James Joyce

#8. I turned down dates because I dreaded sitting in front of a plateful of food.

Markie Post

#9. When Keats says: 'Axioms in philosophy are not axioms until they are proved upon our pulses', what he means is that we don't necessarily believe what a poem is saying if it comes out and tells us in an absolutely head-on, in-your-face way; we only believe it to be true if we feel it to be true.

Andrew Motion

#10. It would be next to impossible to discover a handsome woman who was not also a vain woman.

Joseph Joubert

#11. Shawn Michaels is and always will be a WWE Guy. HBK was birthed in the WWE, and that is where he will remain.

Shawn Michaels

#12. Curious that it is impossible for a man to be original without attracting around him a set of unoriginal minds, as though he were a honey-pot and they the flies!

Marie Corelli

#13. ) To win the war is to control the milieu.(

Anonymous

#14. They were relieved that I was chosen by a human being," she'd said to Angelica in her dry voice. "They were braced for an interspecies liaison.

Edith Pearlman

#15. You would do well to guard your tongue, lest it be stricken from you.

Nenia Campbell

#16. First comes love, then comes stalking.
- Jeff Metcho

Rachel Fershleiser