Platters Quotes

#1. No furniture is so charming as books.

Sydney Smith

#2. Must look into the botanical background of substance known as hashish, I jotted in my journal, writing by the light of candles that grew incessantly jewel-like even as protean wafts of incense approached my snout like platters of ripe fruits borne on the back of Nubian pages.

Tom Robbins

#3. Explanations take the mystery out of things, right?

Sarah Ockler

#4. Many are the thyrsus-bearers, but few are the mystics.

Plato

#5. She was handed more personality than other mortals, and chemically fertilized in a glasshouse - now her bionic strength allows her to teleport platters of watercress sandwiches from the kitchen to the library, where she's beating her friends at backgammon.

Jardine Libaire

#6. For days or even weeks. It isn't rare to find destructive, even criminal behavior. There's such a big change, in fact, that two or three hundred years ago people with temporal lobe disorders were often considered to be possessed by

William Peter Blatty

#7. All along the line, physically, mentally, morally, alcohol is a weakening and deadening force ...

Beatrice Webb

#8. Weetzie and My Secret Agent Lover Man and Dirk and Duck and Cherokee and Witch Baby and Slinkster Dog and Go-Go Girl and the puppies Pee Wee, Wee Wee, Teenie Wee, Tiki Tee, and Tee Pee were driving down Hollywood Boulevard on their way to the Tick Tock Tea Room for turkey platters.

Francesca Lia Block

#9. While you can think in terms of efficiency in dealing with time, a principle-centered person thinks in terms of effectiveness in dealing with people.

Stephen Covey

#10. I was in the New Zealand army for like four years, the exact period of when it was on the air, so I never saw it.

Rhys Darby

#11. The story drove the book. That had a very seminal effect on the way I saw writing and storytelling. If you can set a character in a story that is compelling and has a backbone, you draw people in.

Dick Wolf

#12. America, it has been observed, is not really a melting pot. It is actually a huge potluck dinner, in which platters of roasted chicken beckon beside casseroles of pasta, mounds of tortillas, stew pots of gumbo, and skillets filled with pilafs of every imaginable color.

Andrea Chesman

#13. The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests.

Gail Sheehy

#14. Good-looking people with strong, fluoridated teeth get things handed to them on platters.

Douglas Coupland

#15. He started as a maker of Cartesian devils - imps of bottle glass bobbing up and down in methylate-filled tubes hawked during Catkin Week on the boulevards. He

Vladimir Nabokov

#16. I had four C-sections and my stomach looked like the map of the world. My breasts were hanging down to here from breastfeeding those babies, and my nipples were like platters. I wanted to fit into the gowns that I finally got to wear.

Patricia Heaton

#17. I walk into the kitchen, look at the typer down there on the floor. It's a dirty floor. It's a dirty typer that types dirty stories

Charles Bukowski

#18. There is always room for losers in the football business. They are the mother's milk of gambling, and why not? Somebody has to do it, or there won't be any winners.

Hunter S. Thompson

#19. I saw a boy of the crew purchasing javelins of them with bits of platters and broken glass.

Christopher Columbus

#20. George H. W. Bush may be a World War II hero and New England Yankee blue blood, but he has the tear ducts of a Sicilian grandmother.

Christopher Buckley

#21. I never look for music by genre. I look for an artist who puts a dependable trademark on things. Like Elvis Costello - he's a great songwriter who presents his songs in a number of contexts. I feel the same about my own music.

Todd Rundgren

#22. When you can carry five full dinner platters on your left arm, you should be able to vote, even if you're not eighteen.

Joan Bauer

#23. I don't believe in sex before marriage. I go out with boys, and we kiss, but that's it.

Britney Spears

#24. Two platters of cashew chicken double delight, egg rolls, lumpia dogs, dessert, coffee" - she paused - "and this.

William Bernhardt

#25. We both look mournfully in the window as we pass, though I'd sworn to myself that I wouldn't. Nothing says orphans like two kids breaking their necks looking at trays of November cakes and platters of shaped cookies and lovely soft loaves of bread still steaming the window they're next to.

Maggie Stiefvater