Quotes About Plates

#1. I hope that when people are happy together, it feels as though someone keeps piling seconds and thirds on their plates.

Nick Hornby

#2. I have different hats; I'm a mother, I'm a woman, I'm a human being, I'm an artist and hopefully I'm an advocate. All of those plates are things I spin all the time.

Annie Lennox

#3. huff. "I need to renew my plates," he said. Irritation

Denise Grover Swank

#4. Mr. Kaplan is the first traveler to take us on a journey to the jagged places where these tectonic plates meet, and his argument
that our future is being shaped far away 'at the ends of the earth'
makes his travelogue pertinent and compelling reading.

Michael Ignatieff

#5. I'm trying to build a brand, so I can sell Keyshawn Johnson products in stores. You know, paint, rugs, carpet, drapery, fabrics, blankets, towels, hardware, plates.

Keyshawn Johnson

#6. Chyna's dumb ass messed up by trying to run Blaize over. How could she be so stupid to think that no one would see the plates?

Myiesha

#7. Bring me the head of Elton John ... which is one instance in which meat would not be murder, if it were served on a plate.

Steven Morrissey

#8. I am one who leaves the table like a man, without putting back the chair or picking up the plate

Sandra Cisneros

#9. According to all the experts, it's time for me to talk about what I'm going through ... I can't. I'd need a new alphabet, one made of falling, of tectonic plates shifting, of the deep devouring dark.

Jandy Nelson

#10. The chicken Marsala I made looks ... unique now that it's actually out of the oven and on our plates.
Okay it's fucking frightening. I admit it.

Emma Chase

#11. If there are segregated plates of fruit, I suggest a four-to-one ratio of non-watermelon to watermelon. Look, they know you want it. YOU know you want it. So if you conspicuously avoid it, that's an admission right there: guilt by omission.

Baratunde R. Thurston

#12. Cole stood in a living room of chicken hell. Wallpaper with chickens on it. Chicken clock. Chicken pillows. Framed plates with chickens on it.

Alessandra Torre

#13. Duchess's knee, while plates and dishes crashed around it
once more the shriek of the Gryphon, the squeaking of the Lizard's slate-pencil, and the choking of the suppressed guinea-pigs, filled the air, mixed up with the

Lewis Carroll

#14. Your mind's always juggling, isn't it?-mirrors, torches, plates.

Ray Bradbury

#15. SATIETY, n. The feeling that one has for the plate after he has eaten its contents, madam.

Ambrose Bierce

#16. I want to promise you / permanence, my constant orbit, but even continents / are revisions. I am only your diving bell in water / hemmed by shifting plates.

Robin Beth Schaer

#17. As your older brother, it's my sacred duty to save you from yourself."
She brings her fists down on the table, making all the dinner plates jump. "The ONLY reason you're fifteen minutes older than me is because you cut in front of the line, as usual!

Neal Shusterman

#18. If there was one thing Brenda Dyerson was good at, she knew it, was cooking up the scraps destiny had laid out on its plates for her.

Tiffany Baker

#19. And that summer, as Hurricane Ella made its way toward the city, an emergency crew worked at night under veil of secrecy to weld two-inch-thick steel plates around the two hundred critical bolts, and the building was secured. The Citicorp tower has stood solidly ever since. The

Atul Gawande

#20. When I found the book was condemned as soon as the book was printed, or rather as soon as it was set up ready to print, I held it in plates for a year nearly, waiting to see what would come out of all this discussion.

John Harvey Kellogg

#21. For holidays, I like doing special cheery touches around the table, like color-coordinating the plates and napkins to fit the theme.

Debi Mazar

#22. The best cure for procrastination is to have so much on your plate that procrastination is no longer an option.

Tavi Gevinson

#23. There is only one way to pitch to Musial - under the plate.

Leo Durocher

#24. I recalled telling my daughter on many occasions that if she did not pick up her dirty clothes, they would walk to the wash basket themselves. I had not counted on dinner plates taking on a life of their own as well.

Caroline Mitchell

#25. I have vague memories, like impressions on glass plates ...

Patti Smith

#26. The world's most bada** Viking yard gnome is on the counter by the cash register using a dinner plates as a shield and a steak knife as a sword

Libba Bray

#27. You know the circus performer who spins the plates in the air you know, and he'll spin six or seven plates in the air? Acting sometimes is kind of that guy spinning all those plates in the air but in your head and in your body.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

#28. The next morning, Mom set two plates of scrambled eggs in front of me and Georgia and then sat down to watch us eat. She loves to watch us eat, which I totally don't get. I mean, she works at a diner. She watches people eat all day long.

James Patterson

#29. Just be careful, hon," Rosanna said.
"Oh, are the plates hot?" I flinched back just before my hands made contact.
Rosanna laughed. "No, but hot boys can burn you just as easily.

C.J. Duggan

#30. Patience is very important, especially at the plate.

Jose Reyes

#31. Life is too short to try and glue together broken plates that were cheap in the first place.

Cory Basil

#32. Emerson is a person who lives instinctively on ambrosia - and leaves everything indigestible on his plate.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#33. You should own stuff, but make sure they are indispensable stuff. A family of three can simplify to the point of owning just three beds, two couches, three dressers, one table, few chairs, one desk, eight plates, eight glasses, eight bowls and some toys and books for the kids.

George Lucas

#34. The two of you stood there, side by side, and the tectonic plates of your lives began to shift and resettle, continents separating.

Dan Chaon

#35. The issue of who will throw the garbage won't be so trivial when no one is throwing it away, and it starts to stink. When the plates pile up in the kitchen sink, or when the bathroom is grimy and the shampoo ran out. No, it won't be funny then.

Eeva Lancaster

#36. Most men's awareness doesn't extend past their dinner plates.

Scott Westerfeld

#37. I had a recent delivery of new fashion plates from Paris, and you hardly glanced at the hairstyles. My husband tells me you are still having difficulty controlling the change. And your cravat has been tied very simply of late, even for evening events.

Gail Carriger

#38. It's the method of consumption, not what's on the plate.

Patton Oswalt

#39. If I'm doing an event, if it's a charity event, where it's a walk-around event, where I gotta put a thousand small plates out in the course of a four-hour event, I gotta make sure I can do something that I know I can produce, that's going to be consistent and good all night long.

Tom Colicchio

#40. Them that has china plates themsel's is the maist careful not to break the china plates of others

James M. Barrie

#41. The police pull up in back of my car and run my plates - they don't see you as you are; they see you through a racialized negative gaze. I think the best thing is not to internalize it too much, or it'll make you crazy because you know it's going to happen again.

Mark Bradford

#42. Sometimes these cars have Idaho plates. And I think, What the hell is a car from Idaho doing here? Then I remember, That's right, we neighbor Idaho. I've moved to a state that neighbors Idaho. And any life that might still be left in me kind of goes poof.

Maria Semple

#43. When my children wake up in the morning they know they will eat breakfast, get hugs from their parents, go to a good, safe school. Plates are full and store windows are glittering. But at the same time the great majority of the world's children and women stand - no - shiver on the precipice

Susan Sarandon

#44. I'm a working musician, so it's what I do. I kind of always have lots of plates spinning, and it's the ones that keep spinning the longest that I end up doing.

Damon Albarn

#45. There is - you know, there's receipts for rented cars and license plates and guns and hand prints and palm prints and fingerprints. You know, I want to wait until I'm in a court.

Patty Hearst

#46. The only extra plates ever permitted are the bread and butter plates which are put on at breakfast and lunch and supper above and to the left of the forks, but never at dinner.

Emily Post

#47. Stories are wonderful, enjoyable, and scrumptious things. In the old days, they were served on thin plates called pages. You ate them with your eyes. And they didn't go down to your tummy, like normal food. No, they went into a dream machine inside your head.

Nury Vittachi

#48. So, I'm 34. I'm kind of becoming an adult - kind of, I guess. But I know that I am because, the other day, I said to somebody, 'Dude, dude, don't - those are the good plates.

Greg Behrendt

#49. The rattle of plates and cutlery was the sound of empires falling.

Robert Charles Wilson

#50. I never joined, but I used to go to church now and then. I liked it, because they always passed out plates of money at the end.

A. Whitney Brown

#51. Most men are scantily nourished on a modicum of happiness and a number of empty thoughts which life lays on their plates. They are kept in the road of life through stern necessity by elemental duties which they cannot avoid.

Albert Schweitzer

#52. I'm not going to ruin my movie because of some stupid ruling that it has to be ninety minutes long. That's just like adding three more plates to the last supper, or an extra wing to the Pentagon.

Charles Willeford

#53. Since 1873, I have been back four or five times. I have used the best cameras and the most sensitive emulsions on the market. I have snapped my shutter, morning, noon and afternoon. I have never come close to matching those first plates. (On photographing The Mountain of the Holy Cross)

William Henry Jackson

#54. As life speeds up & the political becomes ever more personal democracy continues to foster change as fast as the movement of tectonic plates

Dean Cavanagh

#55. What kind of a maniac needed over five thousand plates?

J.D. Robb

#56. I never saw the gold plates, only in a visionary or entranced state.

Martin Harris

#57. I thought I'd better check this third plate, which is another date, see if there's an image there in the right place that would be consistent with the images on the other plates. That was the final proof.

Clyde Tombaugh

#58. After I broke the Australian record in 2014, Audi Centre in Canberra gave me a beautiful black A1 with the number plates AI 1111, because the record I broke was 11.11 in the 100.

Melissa Breen

#59. And write whatever Time shall bring to pass
With pens of adamant on plates of brass.

John Dryden

#60. These people live again in print as intensely as when their images were captured on old dry plates of sixty years ago ... I am walking in their alleys, standing in their rooms and sheds and workshops, looking in and out of their windows. Any they in turn seem to be aware of me.

Ansel Adams

#61. Every now and then one stands up and orates at length to the unfortunate crowd, after which he bows to their scattered applause. Personally, I think they'd be better served by plates broken over their heads than by hand-claps.

Cat Hellisen

#62. To eat off another man's plate. [To live an another's expense.]

Juvenal

#63. I don't see anything," Miller said. "What's it look like?"
"The eye of an angry God?" Elvi said.
"Oh," Miller said. The heavy plates of his robotic body clicked and hissed against each other as he shifted. "Yeah, well that's probably it, then. Good work.

James S.A. Corey

#64. LAP, n. One of the most important organs of the female system - an admirable provision of nature for the repose of infancy, but chiefly useful in rural festivities to support plates of cold chicken and heads of adult males.

Ambrose Bierce

#65. And onto the screen pops a couple of housewives who start having a poop fit when they see how clean their new dish soap got the dinner plates

David James Duncan

#66. McDonald's revolutionized fast food. They introduced a way to eat food without knives, forks or plates. Most fast foods can be eaten while steering the wheel of a car and the restaurants are usually drive through.

Eric Schlosser

#67. I drove through the stockyards of Texas on a motorcycle. It doesn't let you escape what surrounds you and what it smells like and feels like - and what hit me was the realization that something that was alive and had feelings will suffer before a piece of it is placed on our plates.

James Cromwell

#68. She had hauled out Grandma O'Donnell's crystal plates, the ones Gram claimed were hand-cut by our distant relatives in County Kerry during the potato famine. She also said Big Foot crashed her eighteenth birthday party.

Susan Kaye Quinn

#69. Kids in aprons appeared, putting tureens of vegetable soup on the tables and plates of boiled eggs, potatoes and lentils, bowls of endive-and-radish salad, small rounds of cheese and loaves of brown bread, all looking quite delicious, in Zoe's opinion.

Christine Brodien-Jones

#70. Always pass a plate of forgiveness before each verbal feast.

Anabel Jensen

#71. The plates of the continental shelf - the world itself - had shifted, and their first concern was putting things back in place. He could have told them it was no use, though his whole life he'd done the same.

Stewart O'Nan

#72. Horse: What do you think? Gotta go, church in a few
Me: Church?!?? Didn't peg you for a church kind of guy
Horse: What we call a club meeting. I try to stay away from collection plates
Me: Don't get holy water in your beer!

Joanna Wylde

#73. If you could drive straight down, into a tunnel bored through the crust of the planet, you'd hit this molten mess in about an hour. It's called the asthenosphere - a sluggish sea, several hundred miles thick, on which floats the Earth's cool epidermis - the so-called tectonic plates.

Seth Shostak

#74. We sat around the kitchen table picking off of foil-covered plates. Conrad kept sneaking looks at me, and every time I looked back, he looked away. I'm right here, I wanted to tell him. I'm still here.

Jenny Han

#75. Broken bottles, broken plates, broken switches, broken gates. Broken dishes, broken parts, streets are filled with broken hearts.

Bob Dylan

#76. Conversation should be like juggling; up go the balls and plates, up and over, in and out, good solid objects that glitter in the footlights and fall with a bang if you miss them.

Evelyn Waugh

#77. The 2008 election settled nothing, not even for a while. Our national politics are reflecting what appears to be going on geologically, on the bottom of the oceans and beneath the crust of the Earth: the tectonic plates are moving.

Peggy Noonan

#78. Charlotte's dirty dishes haunted her dreams that night. She was running down a dark tunnel and close behind her plates, cups, bowls and crumbs made threatening noises.

Jennifer Lott

#79. The din of loud voices and the clatter of cutlery on plates echoed from out of the double doors to the Great Hall. It seemed incredible to Harry that twenty feet away were people who were enjoying dinner, celebrating the end of exams, not a care in the world... p. 751

J.K. Rowling

#80. The fish is the star of the plate.

Eric Ripert

#81. I don't feel any pressure when I'm up there at the plate. I feel it when I'm in the on-deck circle, but when I'm in the box, it's just me and the pitcher, and I get zoned in.

Troy Glaus

#82. We are all overdressed in our little flashy frocks, our slasher heels, and we all eat small plates of food bites that are as decorative and unsubstantial as we are.

Gillian Flynn

#83. I work barefooted on balance plates. I do explosive squats on balance surfaces that your body has to use muscles it's not used to. It's all kinds of exercises that your body isn't really used to, and it tricks your body into getting stronger every time.

Troy Polamalu

#84. to add more to their plates?" she asked, knowing the answer already. "The boys are ready for love and

Melody Anne

#85. I'm more focused at the plate- that's the key.

Carlos Gonzalez

#86. Ketchup left overnight on dinner plates has a longer half-life than radioactive waste.

Wes Smith

#87. Arizonans should not be judged disdainfully and from a distance by people whose closest contacts with Hispanics are with fine men and women who trim their lawns and put plates in front of them at restaurants, not with illegal immigrants passing through their backyards at 3 A.M.

George Will

#88. The White House says they will release the Osama bin Laden death photo. Better yet, they're doing it on a set of limited edition commemorative plates.

Conan O'Brien

#89. I don't just want the belt, I want every one of their heads on a plate.

Conor McGregor

#90. I loved the cooking; that was what I was passionate about, but getting to watch the guests eat - because you could see everything from the kitchen - just watching people eat and looking at the plates when they came back, just understanding, this is such an amazing job.

Michael Mina

#91. He didn't like to see either of the women in his family disappointed; it ruined perfectly good meals.

Maggie Stiefvater

#92. Our food is a sign of what we've lost in general. I think if we could start slowing down for food, and rebuilding the quality of our plates, we could start rebuilding what we've lost in our culture. As my boss says, culture starts in the kitchen, not in the opera house.

Rod Dreher

#93. I'll do the dishes." He replied, "Later."
Sin number one.
Everyone knew you cleaned the kitchen right away. If you didn't, the gunk would solidify on the plates and skillets and it would take ages to soak it away

Kristen Ashley

#94. If you were handed power on a plate you'd be left fighting over a plate.

Tom Stoppard

#95. America's put American Black Folks in such a bad position, empty plates and glasses now get us full.

Darnell Lamont Walker

#96. When and if Violet ever fell in love, lightning would split the heavens, tectonic plates would shift, continents would reorder themselves.
Because she might be willful and spoiled and impetuous, but no one loved with the force of his sister. Her love story would be epic.

Julie Anne Long

#97. For 'Around the World in 80 Plates' we got to travel all over, having what was like a cross between a culinary competition and races. And in each country we had a chef Ambassador. We went to London, Barcelona, Bologna, Hong Kong, Thailand, Morocco ... It was amazing.

Curtis Stone

#98. I need to be performing. I need to be acting. I need to be designing a condo and ripping down walls and buying new plates and looking at fashion magazines. There always has to be some movement in the artistic department for me to not get really, really low.

Alanis Morissette

#99. My life is never stable. It' as if I balance on a series of tectonic plates like the ones under the Pacific Ring of Fire.

Mary Jennifer Payne

#100. I started to crouch because that way I could guard the plate better, and I always wanted to hit .300 in the big leagues.

Stan Musial