Plates Quotes

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.

My priority is my son and my husband, and I have a lot of spinning plates, so I try to make sure they're not one of them.

I look at comic books, and I do very eclectic mood boards with ideas and images that have to do with a character or story point. It's a bit like spinning plates. You gradually just steal your ideas.

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.

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

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

I have vague memories, like impressions on glass plates.

It’s the method of consumption, not what’s on the plate.

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

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

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

I love to make stories out of license plates on cars about the initials and the numbers - my mum used to do that with me.

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.

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

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.

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

I always imagined my little cartoons on plates for some reason.

When had my fear of broken plates gotten so grandiose? My desire for extravagant moments so small?

Do you girls have hope chests?' Lloyd asked. We certainly do.' I don't,' said Betsy. 'My husband and I are going to use paper plates and napkins.' Poor Joe!' Lucky Larry!

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

Do not put chewed bones back on plates. Instead, throw them on the floor for the dog.

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.

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.

Images also help me find and realise ideas. I look at hundreds of very different, contrasting images and I pinch details from them, rather like people who eat from other people's plates.

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

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

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.

This is women's moment to shift the tectonic plates of power on both the personal life and the leadership levels.

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

Chip the glasses and crack the plates! / Blunt the knives and bend the forks! / That's what Bilbo Baggins hates.

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

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.

Sophisticated people invest their money in stock portfolios. Rednecks invest their money in commemorative plates.

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.

One day's exposure to mountains is better than cartloads of books. See how willingly Nature poses herself upon photographers' plates. No earthly chemicals are so sensitive as those of the human soul.

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

Patience is very important, especially at the plate.

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.

What's that plate that's above a saucer but below a plate?

We share plates [with Jordan Peele], and we also very often will sit in the corner and kind of speak in our own language.

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

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

What kind of a maniac needed over five thousand plates?

Elsie eyed him puzzledly, and then offered, "Would you like to see my plate?