Quotes about Plate

Blue Plate Special' is the autobiography of my first half-century of life, with food as the subject. Votes: 3

No Man is richer for having his Estate all in Money, Plate, etc. lying by him, but on the contrary, he is for that reason the poorer. Votes: 3

Mountains aren't eternal: even the most imposing massifs are smoothed away by weathering in a few hundred million years or less. Plate tectonics makes new ones, and without it, our future would be flat. Votes: 3

Through tattered clothes great vices do appear; Robes and furred gowns hide all. Plate sin with gold and the strong lance of justice hurtless breaks. Arm it in rags, a pigmy's straw does pierce it. Votes: 3

Plate tectonics is not all havoc and destruction. The slow movement of continents and ocean floors recycles carbon dioxide dissolved in the oceans back into the atmosphere. Without this slow speed carbon cycle, Earth's temperatures would cool dozens of degrees below your comfort zone. Votes: 3

Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate. Votes: 1

He hits from both sides of the plate. He's amphibious. Votes: 1

He sliced the ball when he had it on a plate. Votes: 1

Sandwiches are wonderful. You don't need a spoon or a plate! Votes: 1

God gets you to the plate, but once your there your on your own. Votes: 1

Just take the ball and throw it where you want to. Throw strikes. Home plate don't move. Votes: 1

It is a scientific fact that your body will not absorb cholesterol if you take it from another person's plate. Votes: 1

The Vice-Presidency is sort of like the last cookie on the plate. Everybody insists he won't take it, but somebody always does. Votes: 1

My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate. Votes: 1

Somebody once asked me if I ever went up to the plate trying to hit a home run. I said, 'Sure, every time.' Votes: 1

Thank you, hard taco shells, for surviving the long journey from factory, to supermarket, to my plate and then breaking the moment I put something inside you. Thank you. Votes: 1

Sitting at the table doesn't make you a diner. You must be eating some of what's on that plate. Being here in America doesn't make you an American. Being born here in America doesn't make you an American. Votes: 1

I still enjoy watching a batter successfully cross home plate, but nothing thrills me more than seeing the Holy Spirit at work in hearts as the Gospel is carried into stadiums, across the airwaves, and around the world. Votes: 1

You reach a point when you say to yourself, 'Do I want to keep doing this?' There are other things on my plate I want to do - I've been writing a play; I've been neglecting my standup. Votes: 1

In rowing, you're always striving for that perfect stroke, that repetition, each one being as good as the last. Same thing with cooking. You can't say, 'Oh, I don't feel well, so I'm going to put out a crappy plate.' Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

If you're trying to cut down the distance travelled from the farm to your plate, it makes sense to do the same for your pet. If we all shifted our bias towards sustainable pet food, we would be helping more than just our faithful friends. Votes: 1

You can't sit on a lead and run a few plays into the line and just kill the clock. You've got to throw the ball over the damn plate and five the other man his chance. That's why baseball is the greatest game of them all. Votes: 1

The pressure on young chefs today is far greater than ever before in terms of social skills, marketing skills, cooking skills, personality and, more importantly, delivering on the plate. So you need to be strong. Physically fit. So my chefs get weighed every time they come into the kitchen. Votes: 1

Obviously, you would give your life for your children, or give them the last biscuit on the plate. But to me, the trick in life is to take that sense of generosity between kin, make it apply to the extended family and to your neighbour, your village and beyond. Votes: 1

As a soccer player, I wanted an FA Cup winner's medal. As an actor you want an Oscar. As a chef it's three-Michelin's stars, there's no greater than that. So pushing yourself to the extreme creates a lot of pressure and a lot of excitement, and more importantly, it shows on the plate. Votes: 1

I watched the guy that hits a home run, and he comes across the plate and he points skyward, like thanking for the help from the Almighty to hit the home run. And as he does that, I say to myself, 'God screwed the pitcher.' And I don't know how else you look at it. Votes: 1

The only big things I've purchased are my dad's heart valve and a Rolls-Royce for my parents, for their anniversary. And that was only because my dad had a Lady Gaga license plate on our old car and it was making me crazy because he was getting followed everywhere, so I bought him a new car. Votes: 1

Laughter is binary: It either happens or it doesn't. As each joke arrives in the course of a film, the cavernous space of the theater is either filled with joy and laughter or with the quiet of cringing embarrassment. Every time you step to the plate to make a joke, you're going to experience one or the other. Votes: 1

I try to keep in my mind the simple question: Am I trying to do good or make myself look good? Too many of our responsibilities get added to our plate when we are trying to please people, impress people, prove ourselves, acquire power, increase our prestige. All those motivations are about looking good more than doing good. Votes: 1

My dream was to go to Nashville. I had my sights set on my dream. I used to have an '89 Toyota Ford truck. On the front of the truck, I had this license plate with cowboy boots and a guitar that I had airbrushed at Wal-Mart. It said 'Chasin' A Dream.' That was kind of my motto. Votes: 1

Throw strikes. Home plate don't move. Votes: 0

Change your plate. Change your fate. Votes: 0

Vegetables....a waste of good plate space Votes: 0

Home-plate collisions are something you cannot ignore. Votes: 0

The fish is the star of the plate. Votes: 0

Feast or famine. My plate is suddenly full. Votes: 0

Patience is very important, especially at the plate. Votes: 0

I got half-a-dozen paintings from that shattered plate. Votes: 0

Sickness sensitizes man for observation, like a photographic plate. Votes: 0

The sheen of ocean gleams on the blue fish-plate. Votes: 0

I'm more focused at the plate- that's the key. Votes: 0

Enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate. Votes: 0

Reward is a happy customer - and an empty plate. Votes: 0

His smile is like the silver plate on a coffin. Votes: 0

I don't want to take food off of somebody's plate. Votes: 0

Fame is a fickle food - Upon a shifting plate Votes: 0

I'm a bagel on a plate full of onion rolls! Votes: 0

The selection of a book-plate is such a serious matter. Votes: 0

If flatness were funny, a dinner plate would be hilarious. Votes: 0

It's the method of consumption, not what's on the plate. Votes: 0

Always pass a plate of forgiveness before each verbal feast. Votes: 0

There's enough Ferraris here to eat a plate of spaghetti. Votes: 0

To eat off another man's plate. [To live an another's expense.] Votes: 0

Lovers of print are simply confusing the plate for the food. Votes: 0

What's that plate that's above a saucer but below a plate? Votes: 0

I am a better person when I have less on my plate. Votes: 0

Steak on the plate went up. Steak on the hoof went down. Votes: 0

I have a plate on my neck. I had my neck fused. Votes: 0

Tourists moved over the piazza like drugged insects on a painted plate ... Votes: 0

I'm relaxed at the plate. I'm not trying to do too much. Votes: 0

Racing is licking your opponent's plate clean before starting on your own Votes: 0

Even apocalypse looks less dire when viewed over a plate of bacon. Votes: 0

She looked like a head-on collision between a fashion plate and a nightmare. Votes: 0

He stopped everything behind the plate and hit everything in front of it. Votes: 0

There is only one way to pitch to Musial - under the plate. Votes: 0

Whatever is on your plate got there because you said yes to it. Votes: 0

God gets you to the plate, but once you're there you're on your own. Votes: 0

If you've ever made change in the offering plate, you might be a redneck. Votes: 0

HUSBAND, n. One who, having dined, is charged with the care of the plate. Votes: 0

I used to think marriage was a plate-glass window just begging for a brick. Votes: 0

I use as sensitive a line as possible when I draw on the plate. Votes: 0

The reader really has to step up to the plate and read a short story. Votes: 0

Know how to behave at a buffet. Take a clean plate for a second helping. Votes: 0

If you were handed power on a plate you'd be left fighting over a plate. Votes: 0

I try to be as quiet as I can at the plate, but still aggressive. Votes: 0

Large men in black plate mail with red cloaks and plumes don't sneak worth a damn. Votes: 0

Culture is the possibility and impossibility that bacon and fruit can appear on the same plate. Votes: 0

Fill your plate with the colours of the rainbow. What pleases the eye, pleases the body. Votes: 0

Have a colourful plate. I make a spinach salad with things like blueberries, apples and carrots. Votes: 0

The less the consumer knows about what's happening before the meat hits the plate, the better. Votes: 0

Even the most left-wing politicians worship wealth creation - as the political-action-committee collection plate is passed. Votes: 0

My idea of heaven used to be relaxing at home with a cheese plate and champagne. Votes: 0

I wouldn't know how to handle serenity if somebody handed it to me on a plate. Votes: 0

I don't just want the belt, I want every one of their heads on a plate. Votes: 0

You have to step up to the plate, and then hit one out of the park. Votes: 0

You know you're pitching well when the batters look as bad as you do at the plate. Votes: 0

SATIETY, n. The feeling that one has for the plate after he has eaten its contents, madam. Votes: 0

A fashion plate, a rock star in his own mind, Megamind is more showman than deadly menace. Votes: 0

The so-called nouvelle cuisine usually means not enough on your plate and too much on your bill. Votes: 0

I have a metal plate in my head, and can pop my shoulder and pop it back. Votes: 0

I definitely have to keep stepping up to the plate and be aggressive when he does that. Votes: 0

It's so beautifully arranged on the plate - you know someone's fingers have been all over it. Votes: 0

Emerson is a person who lives instinctively on ambrosia - and leaves everything indigestible on his plate. Votes: 0

If you want to get rid of counterfeit money, put it in the collection plate at church. Votes: 0

Employee fathers need to step up to the plate and put their family needs on the table. Votes: 0

I'm very proud of my area around the plate. I don't want anyone messing with my dirt. Votes: 0

Magnus, you were trying to flirt with your own plate." "I'm a very open-minded sort of fellow! Votes: 0

And as many of the plates as Joseph Smith translated I handled with my hands, plate after plate. Votes: 0

I told the umpires to walk back at least thirty-five feet from home plate. That reduced the arguements. Votes: 0

Ninety feet between home plate and first base may be the closest man has ever come to perfection. Votes: 0

Sitting at the table doesn't make you a diner, unless you eat some of what's on that plate. Votes: 0

I enjoy being a hyphenate. I've always thought of my career as a plate spinner in the circus. Votes: 0

Sometimes I've looked at a plate of food and wondered if it wouldn't look better as a hat. Votes: 0

A plate of apples, an open fire, and a jolly good book are a fair substitute for heaven. Votes: 0

When an Italian tells me it's pasta on the plate, I check under the sauce to make sure. Votes: 0

I throw the ball as hard as ever, but it just takes longer to get to the plate. Votes: 0

You can't cure a chipped plate. All you can do is live with it or throw it out. Votes: 0

You might be a redneck if an expired license plate means another decoration for your living room wall. Votes: 0

I wanna open a Jamaican/Irish/Spanish small plate breakfast restaurant and call it Tapas the Morning to Ja. Votes: 0

Whenever anything happens in America, they have to gold-plate it, like baby shoes. That way you can forget it. Votes: 0

When you're aggressive behind the plate, calling a game, that's when you're at your best. You can't be tentative. Votes: 0

You might be a redneck if you consider your license plate personalized because your dad made it in prison. Votes: 0

Please clean your plate dear, the Lord above can see ya. Don't you know people are starving in Korea. Votes: 0

I wondered what you'd have on the side with a plate of Deep Fried Anxiety. Pickles? Coleslaw? Potato-strychnine mash? Votes: 0

I'm at the round table, where your seat at? Where your plate, where your lobster, where your sea bass? Votes: 0

Protein has been intensely over-represented on the plate. Now, the garden should be the main drag for main courses. Votes: 0

People say I stole a lot of bases. I stole the bases for a reason. I crossed the plate. Votes: 0

When you go to home plate with a lot of confidence, you feel that you can hit any pitch. Votes: 0

I can't cook, but I have a nice book of menus... and I can plate and set the table. Votes: 0

When you can throw 97 miles an hour and put the ball over the plate anytime you want, it's fun. Votes: 0

Open the fridge and putMy heart on a plate.I'm just as you leftme, and I taste even betterleftover. Votes: 0

Home plate is 17 inches wide, but I ignore the middle 12 inches. I pitch to the two-and-a-half inches on each side. Votes: 0

My mother is from Paris, so she was quite a fashion plate. I always had that French influence at home. Votes: 0

Our plate is full. We have a lot to do building our company organically and that is our key focus. Votes: 0

Who cares if a carrot has a slight bend? They're all the same when they end up on the plate. Votes: 0

Once you get to the plate, you have two options: You either quit, or you try to hit the ball. Votes: 0

Make your plate look like a Christmas tree,' I tell people, 'mostly green with splashes of other bright colors. Votes: 0

Joe Torre would tell you to make sure you can hit the ball on the outside part of the plate Votes: 0

Go vegetable heavy. Reverse the psychology of your plate by making meat the side dish and vegetables the main course. Votes: 0

My plate is full with just acting. I want to focus on that, and then maybe direct in the future. Votes: 0

Your new CD is a weed plate, nothin' but love songs, 100% pure garbage, just something to break up buds on. Votes: 0

I am one who leaves the table like a man, without putting back the chair or picking up the plate Votes: 0

The best cure for procrastination is to have so much on your plate that procrastination is no longer an option. Votes: 0

You get to the plate and nothing is going through your mind. You see the ball, you see the seams. Votes: 0

The plate tectonics of media have shifted where NBC had to become a new media company from an old media company. Votes: 0

If you're working 12-hour days, then you come home to do three hours' homework, it's quite a lot on your plate. Votes: 0

Make your plate look like a Christmas tree,' I tell people, 'mostly green with splashes of other bright colors.' Votes: 0

Considering one's plate is full with circumstance, how senseless is it to assume one is able to digest someone else's hopelessness? Votes: 0

Individual statistics, plate time and everything tend to come, but the most enjoyment I get out of baseball is actually winning. Votes: 0

Lost in this young world, I'm just trying to navigate See the pie sliced, I'm just trying to grab a plate. Votes: 0

I was pitching on all adrenaline and challenging them. I was throwing the ball right down the heart of the plate. Votes: 0

My pitching philosophy is simple. I believe in getting the ball over the plate and not walking a lot of men. Votes: 0

Life is so much more rewarding if you strive for something, rather than take what's given to you on a plate. Votes: 0

The food pyramid is very complicated. It doesn't give you as much info in a quick glance as the plate does. Votes: 0

James Finch has always had pretty stout cars for the restrictor-plate races and I know we'll be very competitive at Daytona. Votes: 0

A fish is more valuable swimming in the sea maintaining the integrity of oceanic eco-systems than it is on anyone's plate. Votes: 0

Eating more consciously now feels like a way of being. I actually think about how my food got to my plate. Votes: 0

I was a great base umpire, but I was the most mediocre plate umpire to ever come into the major leagues. Votes: 0

Banquet: a plate of cold, hairy chicken and artificially coloured green peas completely surrounded by dreary speeches and appeals for donations. Votes: 0

It seems there's just no room left for elegance in this paper-plate, blue-jean world. And I, for one, think it's a shame. Votes: 0

The scar on my forehead is from running through a plate-glass panel when I was 15. I had 27 stitches, which took two hours. Votes: 0

What you have told us is rubbish. The world is really a flat plate supported on the back of a giant tortoise. Votes: 0

It takes a strong man to accept somebody else's children and step up to the plate another man left on the table. Votes: 0

Religion and love don't have a price, don't have a gender, a skin color, nothing. We are all on the same plate. Votes: 0

People give me money and I don't know why, my real collection plate is an empty cup held by a homeless guy. Votes: 0

On a soft snow, even a sparrow leaves a trace; the important thing is to leave a trace on a steel plate! Votes: 0

rudeness to Mrs. Dosely was like dropping a pat of butter on to a hot plate - it slid and melted away. Votes: 0

Marry Ann; and at the end of a week you'll find no more inspiration in her than in a plate of muffins. Votes: 0

Illinois is the only state where the present governor rides around in a car whose license plate was made by a previous governor. Votes: 0

A good plate of sushi after an opening helps to soothe that post-opening blues - especially since you feel like raw meat yourself. Votes: 0

Transfer the point of concentration to some object outside of yourself - another person, a puzzle, a broken plate that you are gluing. Votes: 0

The phrase 'blue plate special' has always been one of the homiest, coziest, most sweetly nostalgic phrases in the English language for me. Votes: 0

How can people in California have problems with their feet?" asks Molly moving around Olive with a plate of sandwichesDon't they drive everywhere?" Votes: 0

It is to their crimes that most great men are indebted for their gardens, their tables, their fine old plate - their love Votes: 0

I started to crouch because that way I could guard the plate better, and I always wanted to hit .300 in the big leagues. Votes: 0

There is a word we haven't used yet: virginity... To make a photograph, the plate must be virgin, but your eye as well. Votes: 0

Family life got better and we got our car back - as soon as we put 'I love Mom' on the license plate. Votes: 0

Unfortunately, we haven't found many very old rocks on Earth because our planet's surface is constantly renewed by plate tectonics, coupled with erosion. Votes: 0

My biggest thing is to stay with my approach and take quality ABs to the plate. I'm just trying to keep it simple. Votes: 0

Somebody once asked me if I ever went up to the plate trying to hit a home run. I said "sure, every time". Votes: 0

The day I saw my mom eating the Santa cookies on the plate was one of the most horrific days of my life. Votes: 0

I don't often agree with the RSPCA as I believe it is an animal's duty to be on my plate at supper time. Votes: 0

I'm addied up, added up I just ate a plate for breakfast Put it in a cup, then I mix it up with Texas. Votes: 0

I definitely don't like anyone messing with my friends or loved ones. I'm quick to step up to the plate if there's a problem. Votes: 0

I didn't go up to the plate thinking, 'OK, my goal now is to get a hit'-I tried not to think about [the streak]. Votes: 0

Whenever I eat a meal, I always leave the last bite on my plate. I don't know why, it's just a thing with me. Votes: 0

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! Votes: 0

I wanted to show painting paintings first, then the plate paintings; now I can show that I've sort of freed myself from stylistic inhibitions. Votes: 0

He that but looketh on a plate of ham and eggs to lust after it hath already committed breakfast with it in his heart Votes: 0

It is no more expected of most producers to read a book than it is, say, of Ted Williams to dust off home plate. Votes: 0

Because I have so much life on my pitches, I can get away with getting too much of the plate every now and then. Votes: 0

If one is looking for cultural testosterone and raging off-the-wall competition in the world of communications, Manhattan was - and is - home plate. Votes: 0

Warmblood now a bloodborne death, Will rob your body of it's breath Mark your skin and seal your fate The Underland becomes a plate Votes: 0

I do my job on the mound and then do what I can at the plate, always working on helping the team anyway I can. Votes: 0

You can't get away, you can't escape. You'll jump through a plate-glass window several times and end up being right back in the spider's web. Votes: 0

...a young man, Jamaican, perhaps, his head circled in a scarf with sunbleached dreadlocks on piled on top, looking like a plate of soft-shell crabs. Votes: 0

With everything that I design, from a church to a plate to skyscraper to a spoon. I am always thinking about voluptuous volumes and spaces. Votes: 0

The last person I'd date is some rich kid who's had everything handed to her on a plate. Give me a normal girl any day. Votes: 0

In my seaside town, there is a plethora of benches, each one bearing a little brass plate commemorating a deceased occupant. You sit with ghosts. Votes: 0

I don't know if you've ever fallen asleep whilst eating a plate of cauliflower, and then woken up, and thought you were in the clouds. Votes: 0

When I was up there at the plate, my purpose was to get on base anyway I could, whether by hitting or by getting hit. Votes: 0

When I was up there at the plate, my purpose was to get on base anyway I could, whether by hitting or by getting hit. Votes: 0

As long as you remember what you love and why you love it, it will never be far from your heart - or your plate. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

There's only one way to become a hitter. Go up to the plate and get mad. Get mad at yourself and mad at the pitcher. Votes: 0

If you see how a plant grows and you taste it in situ you have a perfect example of how it should taste on the plate. Votes: 0

I cannot bear the language TV chefs use - they don't seem able to look at a plate of vegetables without accusing it of sexual activity. Votes: 0

I had Courtney Love's left bosom out of her dress on my plate in front of me. It was extraordinary. I didn't know where to look. Votes: 0

When it's your chance to step up to the plate, just hit it out of the park, and everybody will forget about everything that came before. Votes: 0

I always set myself huge goals each year, and I'm pretty good at manifesting them, which ends up meaning I take a lot on my plate. Votes: 0

Sister Mary chose that moment to come in with the tea. Satanist or not, she'd also found a plate and arranged some iced biscuits on it. Votes: 0

The man who never in his life Has washed the dishes with his wife Or polished up the silver plate - He still is largely celibate. Votes: 0

A mother's hardest to forgive. Life is the fruit she longs to hand you Ripe on a plate. And while you live, Relentlessly she understands you. Votes: 0

We have had bird's-eye views seen by mind's eye imperfectly. Now we will have nothing less than the tracings of nature itself, reflected on the plate. Votes: 0

Most kids will not volunteer to eat veggies. At times you must step up to the plate and enforce the rule of authority as a parent. Votes: 0

Now, see," Wes said, nodding at my plate, "this is going to blow your mind." I looked at him. "It's a waffle, not the second coming. Votes: 0

The sensitive plate, the gas which is ionised, the fluorescent screen, are in reality receivers, into another kind of energy, chemical energy, ionic energy... luminous energy. Votes: 0

Todd added bourbons to the custards creams on the plate, arranging them in two neat yellow and brown rows, his annoyance expressed through the symmetry of biscuits. Votes: 0

Of course things you don't know about are always nicer'n things you do, same as the pertater on 'tother side of the plate is always the biggest. Votes: 0

Too often a sister puts all her patients back to bed as a housewife puts all her plates back in the plate-rack-to make a generally tidy appearance. Votes: 0

Sometimes it's like you're a big pie settin' on the table, and everybody runs up and gets their piece of you. When it's over' the plate's empty. Votes: 0

I was thinking about New Mexico, and I rounded the corner in New York, and there was a New Mexico license plate: "New Mexico, land of enchantment." Votes: 0

The guy comes up to the plate, there's always a chance where he can get a grand slam and everybody forgets about all the times he missed. Votes: 0

The best thing you can do for someone is make them a beautiful plate of food. How else can you invade someone's body without actually touching them? Votes: 0

I have a lot on my plate. I'm not going to lie about it, I'm tired. I'm really tired but I'm also very happy with my life. Votes: 0

Comedy just pokes at problems, rarely confronts them squarely. Drama is like a plate of meat and potatoes, comedy is rather the dessert, a bit like meringue. Votes: 0

Let me tell you, sisters, seeing dried egg on a plate in the morning is a lot dirtier than anything I've had to deal with in politics. Votes: 0

It's very liberating for me to realize that I don't have to step up to the plate with a plot that involves the U.N. Security Council. Votes: 0

At this late hour a wagon has been procured, and I have had it filled with plate and the most valuable portable articles, belonging to the house. Votes: 0

Do you believe in an afterlife?" the gunslinger asked him as Brown dropped three ears of hot corn onto his plate. Brown nodded. "I think this is it. Votes: 0

A lot of writers and artists are like chefs who eat their own cooking in the kitchen and then deliver an empty plate with assurances that it's great. Votes: 0

I don't have to get a pitch down the middle. If I like the pitch-even if it's 15 inches off the plate, and that's the pitch I wanted-I'm swinging. Votes: 0

We all have to be dishes on a plate eventually, with the way we are marketed, but I have no intention of being a cheap Chinese all-you-can-eat buffet. Votes: 0

All disturbance and chaos folds up in the teeth of truth. Dont ever try to stop truth. Its the only thing that can go through 16-inch armor plate. Votes: 0

Who doesn't love digging into a plate of crab cakes or going after a chilled cracked crab with crab cracker, cocktail fork and a plastic bib for protection? Votes: 0

She yanked my plate away and took it to the sink. She rinsed some bones that looked like pork shoulder, which was weird since we'd had chicken tonight. Votes: 0

To tell the truth, I never think about a homer. I'm just thinking of the situation and what I've got to do when I go to the plate. Votes: 0

Don't even wait until you've lost a pound. The minute you can push the plate away with food still on it, give yourself a pat on the back. Votes: 0

I think no matter what the occasion may be, you can never go wrong by showing up at the dinner table with a hot plate of fried chicken. Votes: 0

You could do anything in your room at college. You could smoke pot, live in a coed dorm, have a girl. But you couldn't have a . . . hot plate! Votes: 0

The food could taste amazing; however, if you present a plate of misfortunate looking food...you would really question yourself about whether or not you should eat it. Votes: 0

God has presented this opportunity for us and we are stepping up to the plate. The pastor knows the area we work in and makes it much easier. Votes: 0

I'm beginning to see Brooks [Robinson] in my sleep. If I dropped a paper plate, he'd pick it up on one hop and throw me out at first. Votes: 0

Only one person can own any plate at a time. It belongs to the pitcher, or it belongs to the batter, Aiken, but not to both. You understand. Votes: 0

Better to be happy with the cod fish in your plate now, than to linger for the taste of a tuna that is still swimming in the sea. Votes: 0

It is easy to tell tourists from tarpon. Tarpon have a narrow, bony plate inside the mouth of their lower jaw. Tourists have both upper and lower plates. Votes: 0

He (Babe Ruth) was very brave at the plate. You rarely saw him fall away from a pitch. He stayed right in there. No one drove him out. Votes: 0

Better to be happy with the cod fish in your plate now, than to linger for the taste of a tuna that is still swimming in the sea. Votes: 0

Some kid asked what a dilemma is. And I replied: When a starving man has to choose between a plate of food, and, a roll of toilet paper. Votes: 0

Nothing mitigates the throes of depression like a steaming plate of spaghetti and meatballs with marinara sauce and grated parmasan cheese, with a good fresh bread to wipe up. Votes: 0

We begin life with loss. We are cast from the womb without an apartment, a charge plate, a job or a car. We are sucking, sobbing, clinging, helpless babies. Votes: 0

It baffles me that people think that obliterating the past will save them from its consequences, as if throwing away the empty cake plate would help you lose weight. Votes: 0

A lot of these catchers don't understand that they are blocking the plate and they don't have the ball. You're not allowed to block the plate without the ball. Votes: 0

The thing is, dressing up, going to church, dropping a twenty in the offering plate, those things are all well and good, but that doesn't make you a Christian. Votes: 0

My manager has season tix to the Dodgers, four seats to 40 games, and they're right behind the plate, I mean, they're amazing, food and waiter service, which is insane. Votes: 0

From fried witchetty grubs to gold-plated turnips, when you're a writer you never know what's going to appear on your plate next. It keeps a woman alert, it does. Votes: 0

The male clerk with his quill pen and copper-plate handwriting had gone for good. The female short-hand typist took his place. It was a decisive moment in women's emancipation. Votes: 0

Pitching is what you have best on the day you work, and if you can't get your fastball over the plate, then maybe you can win with your curve. Votes: 0

Pitching is what you have best on the day you work, and if you cant get your fastball over the plate, then maybe you can win with your curve. Votes: 0

I want to be back behind the plate as long as I can. I can help the team that way, and I like being in control and in charge. Votes: 0

My palate is simpler than it used to be. A young chef adds and adds and adds to the plate. As you get older, you start to take away. Votes: 0

A man stands alone at the plate. This is the time for what? For individual achievement. There he stands alone. But in the field, what? Part of a team. Votes: 0

A plate is distasteful to a cat, a newspaper still worse; they like to eat sticky pieces of meat sitting on a cushioned chair or a nice Persian rug. Votes: 0

For every man with a baseball story - a memory of a moment at the plate or in the field - there is a woman with a couldn't-play-baseball story. Votes: 0

Great is he who enjoys his earthenware as if it were plate, and not less great is the man to whom all his plate is no more that earthenware. Votes: 0

My tendency as an actor is, when there's a certain energy, I feel a challenge to match it, to come up to that plate and play on the same level. Votes: 0

I feel most miserable When I can't step "step up to the plate" You know? People often say Regret from doing it is better than regret for not doing it Votes: 0

I don't like to sound egotistical, but every time I stepped up to the plate with a bat in my hands, I couldn't help but feel sorry for the pitcher. Votes: 0

Shkoff' is to eat. 'Shkiaff' is to slap. Like, 'Gettouttahere I'm gonna give you a couple of shkiaffs,' or, 'Forget presentation, just shkiaff the food onto the plate.' Votes: 0

I never pile a plate to the point where it overflows. I'd rather have a small plate with small portions and then get up for more if I'm still hungry. Votes: 0

I have avoided becoming stale by putting a little water on the plate, lying on the plate, and having myself refreshed in a toaster oven for 23 minutes once every month. Votes: 0

As late as the seventeenth century, monarchs owned so little furniture that they had to travel from palace to palace with wagon-loads of plate and bedspreads, of carpets and tapestries. Votes: 0

Don't sit and wait - For the world on a plate - (It's not a stroke of luck or chance) - Just draw a bead on that sucker, and drive! Votes: 0

Whatever makes a child want to glue macaroni on a paper plate and paint the assemblage and see it on the refrigerator - that has always been strong in me. Votes: 0

I'll make a horrible housewife. It's not like I'm disgusting, but I'm pretty bad about having a drink or eating something and then leaving the plate and rushing to go. Votes: 0

Most chartreuse recipes call for one bird, a fat one, like a pigeon or a partridge, secreted inside the casing, a vegetable mold, which is then turned out onto a plate. Votes: 0

Planets that don't currently sport plate tectonics, such as Venus and Mars, are scarcely habitable. Tectonics might be a requirement of any world that aspires to a rich diversity of life. Votes: 0

Make it compulsory for a doctor using a brass plate to have inscribed on it, in addition to the letters indicating his qualifications, the words 'Remember that I too am mortal'. Votes: 0

Practice any faith you wish. Got a ball field up the island where you can practice. I'll give the Deity a fast one high and inside if he crowds the plate. Votes: 0

The vulnerability of opening your heart fully and deeply to another is terrifying, but at a point in my 50s, I realized that I had to step up to the plate. Votes: 0

I'm not going to sit at your table and watch you eat, with nothing on my plate, and call myself a diner. Sitting at the table doesn't make you a diner. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

There are persons who always find a hair in their plate of soup for the simple reason that, when they sit down before it, they shake their heads until one falls in. Votes: 0

If you start any large theory, such as quantum mechanics, plate tectonics, evolution, it takes about 40 years for mainstream science to come around. Gaia has been going for only 30 years or so. Votes: 0

I'm a different hitter than Chipper Jones. He goes up looking for certain pitches to hit. I go up there looking for something over the plate and try to hit it hard. Votes: 0

From that moment onwards, our loathsome society rushed, like Narcissus, to contemplate its trivial image on a metallic plate. A form of lunacy, an extraordinary fanaticism took hold of these new sun-worshippers. Votes: 0

In my own life, I decided to leave meat off my plate in medical school, but was a bit slow to realise that dairy products and eggs are not health foods either. Votes: 0

I have five pitches. Fast ball, change, curve, slider, screwball. I don't know any hitters. Catcher, he tells me what to do. I can get any pitch I want over the plate. Votes: 0

The night before the Olympics opening ceremony, my son, who is eight years old, gets very excited and likes to put out a plate of cookies and some milk for Bob Costas. Votes: 0

A field is the most just possession for men. For what nature requires it carefully bears: barley, oil, wine, figs, honey. Silver-plate and purple will do for the tragedians, not for life. Votes: 0

Then I became an altar boy because of the solemn face, but I got thrown out at fourteen for laughing, because the priest used to mumble everything except the church plate takings. Votes: 0

We live in a culture where people are self-centered and careerist and everybody seems to think they have too much on their plate or they just don't have time for other people's pain. Votes: 0

Phil Niekro and his brother were pitching against each other in Atlanta. Their parents were sitting right behind home plate. I saw their folks more that day than they did the whole weekend. Votes: 0

In 1961, when Maris broke Babe Ruth's record, he wasn't intentionally walked once. Mickey batted after Roger, and nobody was going to put a man on base with Mantle coming up to the plate. Votes: 0

I'm not a headline guy. I know that as long as I was following Ruth to the plate I could have stood on my head and no one would have known the difference. Votes: 0

I have loved badly, loved the great Too soon, withdrawn my words too late; And eaten in an echoing hall Alone and from a chipped plate The words that I withdrew too late. Votes: 0

I prefer kissing over dinner. Not that I prefer kissing to dinner, but I prefer kissing over the plate containing my dinner, especially if my dinner consists of something romantic like monkey brains. Votes: 0

Imagine being served a plate of sushi. But this plate also holds all of the animals that were killed for your serving of sushi. The plate might have to be five feet across. Votes: 0

A man who was fond of wine was offered some grapes at dessert after dinner. "Much obliged," said he, pushing the plate aside, "I am not accustomed to take my wine in pills." Votes: 0

One of the biggest problems with young chefs is too much addition to the plate. You put cilantro and then tarragon and then olive oil and then walnut oil or whatever. It's too much. Votes: 0

... Once I start a book I finish it. That was the way one was brought up. Books, bread and butter, mashed potato - one finishes what's on one's plate. That's always been my philosophy. Votes: 0

There are things and there are faces which, when felt or seen for the first time, stamp themselves upon the mind like a sun image on a sensitized plate and there remain unalterably fixed. Votes: 0

If we studied human beings which can include human genes, human blood samples, and human behavior, then you can leave the animals out of the labs and you can leave them off your plate. Votes: 0

For a moment, or a second, the pinched expressions of the cynical, world-weary, throat-cutting, miserable bastards we've all had to become disappears, when we're confronted with something as simple as a plate of food. Votes: 0

The fact is I am growing old too fast, alas! I feel it, and yet work I will, and may God grant me life to see the last plate of my mammoth work finished. Votes: 0

And I can't die easy thinking maybe the menfolks white or black is making a spit cup out of you. Have some sympathy for me. Put me down easy, Janie, I'm a cracked plate. Votes: 0

Add a task to a busy person's plate, and it will get done in short order. Add a task to the plate of someone with nothing to do, and it will never get done. Votes: 0

One of the reasons I don't see eye to eye with Women's Lib is that women have it all on a plate if only they knew it. They don't have to be pretty either. Votes: 0

There are other jobs I do besides rap. I was considering going back to school so there have been a few things on my plate that I thought about doing during my time off. Votes: 0

When you push a car off a cliff and blow it up, be sure to roll the windows down to avoid shrapnel. Also, strip the license plate so you're not billed for the cleanup. Votes: 0

When I go to the plate, I think about putting the ball in play. It's important to get on base and get some walks, but I don't go to the plate thinking of walking. Votes: 0

I was well warned about English food, so it did not surprise me, but I do wonder sometimes, how they ever manage to prise it up long enough to get a plate under it. Votes: 0

I've been on every diet in the world. I've been on Slim-Fast. For breakfast you have a shake. For lunch, you have a shake. For dinner, you kill anyone with food on their plate. Votes: 0

An electron is no more (and no less) hypothetical than a star. Nowadays we count electrons one by one in a Geiger counter, as we count the stars one by one on a photographic plate. Votes: 0

I like to have my hand on every single plate that goes out. It's really a good feeling when someone compliments your meal, and you had everything to do with making it. It's very rewarding. Votes: 0

We bask in the scent of cinnamon beforeMom 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. Votes: 0

The plate at each point only sends back to the eye the simple colour imprinted. The other colours are destroyed by interference. The eye thus perceives at each point the constituent colour of the image. Votes: 0

I try to eat healthily, but I love fried food and bad things. Give me a plate of bread, some oil and salt and I'm happy. But you can't eat like this all the time. Votes: 0

A Poem from Edna St. Vincent Millay: Grown-up Was it for this I uttered prayers, And sobbed and cursed and kicked the stairs, That now, domestic as a plate, I should retire at half-past eight? Votes: 0

Early bird Oh, if you're a bird, be an early bird And catch the worm for your breakfast plate. If you're a bird, be an early bird— But if you're a worm, sleep late. Votes: 0

The kind of crabbing my wife likes to do is to return from an afternoon's swim or sunbathing session, open the refrigerator door, and find a generous plate of crab cakes all ready to cook. Votes: 0

A plate of food has to have balance. For example, a mild fish like skate mustn't be overwhelmed by the side dishes. They should have personality and color, but they also have to be subtle. Votes: 0

I try to always step up to the plate, be professional, be good at what I'm doing and deliver on the character. In Hollywood, what more can you ask for. You want a consummate professional. Votes: 0

A plate of food has to have balance. For example, a mild fish like skate mustnt be overwhelmed by the side dishes. They should have personality and color, but they also have to be subtle. Votes: 0

My dad was the first one who said, 'You're going to end up behind the plate because you've got a very good arm and you're very smart when it comes to calling a game.' Votes: 0

I have a very pragmatic approach to diets. Ones you can't stick to don't do you any good. Some people say, 'Just eat half of what's on your plate,' but I can't do that! Votes: 0

When they come here, what we are looking for them to do is step up to the plate, take responsibility and get the big innings, the centuries - or take a lead with the ball. Votes: 0

New ideas should confront old ideas. We must refer to the example of Europe. People have fought to make Europe what it is today. Freedom is not something that is served up on a plate. Votes: 0

I have been following a vegan diet now since the 1980s, and find it not only healthier, but also much more attractive than the chunks of meat that were on my plate as a child. Votes: 0

Umpires, like players, are expected to show constant improvement each season and at each level. Inconsistent plate work and the inability to handle situations are probably the two biggest problems that minor league umpires face. Votes: 0