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

  Jeanette Winterson

  Thinking, Glasses, Bricks

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• 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?

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Prayer, Past, Eight

  Edna St. Vincent Millay (1991). “Edna St. Vincent Millay: selected poems : the centenary edition”, Harpercollins

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• 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.

  Stephen King

  Believe, Thinking, Afterlife

  Stephen King (2016). “The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger”, p.34, Simon and Schuster

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• Believe me, I would much rather get three outs on three pitches than three outs on nine pitches, because that's going to make me that much stronger at the end of the game. My pitching philosophy is simpe. I believe in getting the ball over the plate and not walking a lot of men.

  Bob Gibson

  Baseball, Philosophy, Believe

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

  Red Smith

  Sports, Baseball, Home

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

  Ron Atkinson

  Athlete, Balls

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Do you have spies in Clan Heavy?” “I have spies everywhere.” I looked at Andrea, who was hoarding bacon on her plate. “She had tea with Mahon’s wife.” Andrea said. Aunt B looked at her. “You and I need to work on your air of mystery.

  Ilona Andrews

  Aunt, Air, Wife

  Ilona Andrews (2013). “Magic Rises: A Kate Daniels Novel”, p.27, Penguin

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

  John Dryden

  Time, Writing, Brass

  John Dryden, Joseph Warton, John Warton (1811). “The Poetical Works of John Dryden: Containing Original Poems, Tales, and Translations”, p.77

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

  Sanford Meisner

  Broken, Acting, Concentration

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• When a child is born, a father is born. A mother is born, too of course, but at least for her it's a gradual process. Body and soul, she has nine months to get used to what's happening. She becomes what's happening. But for even the best-prepared father, it happens all at once. On the other side of a plate-glass window, a nurse is holding up something roughly the size of a loaf of bread for him to see for the first time.

  Frederick Buechner

  Mother, Daughter, Dad

  Frederick Buechner (1988). “Whistling in the dark: an ABC theologized”, Harpercollins

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

  Duke Snider

  Baseball, Looks, Pitching

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• Spread the diaper in the position of the diamond with you at bat. Then fold second base down to home and set the baby on the pitcher's mound. Put first base and third together, bring up home plate and pin the three together. Of course, in case of rain, you gotta call the game and start all over again.

  Jimmy Piersall

  Inspirational, Baseball, Fathers Day

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• 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.

  Sammy Sosa

  Baseball, Thinking, Telling The Truth

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• It's a Little Leaguers game that major leaguers play extraordinarily well, a game that excites us throughout adulthood. The crack of the bat and the scent of the horsehide on leather bring back our own memories that have been washed away with the sweat and tears of summers long gone...even as the setting sun pushes the shadows past home plate.

  Mario Cuomo

  Summer, Baseball, Memories

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

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Dog, Culture, Bones

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• If I have my daughter in the car and they are making me nervous, I'll do whatever I have to do. I keep a whole log. I take pictures of their cars, write down license plate numbers, everything. If they do it again, I can go to the police. I know my rights and, believe me, I will have them arrested. I will stop at nothing.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Daughter, Mother, Believe

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It would not do for the consumer to know that the hamburger she is eating came from a steer who spent much of his life standing deep in his own excrement in a feedlot, helping to pollute the local streams. Or that the calf that yielded the veal cutlet on her plate spent its life in a box in which it did not have room to turn around.

  Wendell Berry

  Animal, Rooms, Hamburgers

  Wendell Berry (2010). “What Are People For?: Essays”, p.148, Counterpoint

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• Holy is the dish and drain, the soap and sink, and the cup and plate and the warm wool socks, and the cold white tile, showerheads and good dry towelsand frying eggs sound like psalms, with bits of salt measured in my palm. It's all a part of a sacrament, as holy as a day is spent.

  Carrie Newcomer

  Faith, Inspiration, Eggs

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

  Erma Bombeck

  Funny, Family, Mom

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• 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.

  Richard Asher

  Science, Nurse, Bed

  British Medical Journal 2: 697 (1947)

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• 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.

  Christian Friedrich Hebbel

  Fall, Simple, Hair

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• 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

  Stupid, Wings, Long

  Charles Willeford (2013). “The Woman Chaser”, p.129, The Overlook Press

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• I personally chose to go vegan because I educated myself on factory farming and cruelty to animals, and I suddenly realized that what was on my plate were living things, with feelings. And I just couldn't disconnect myself from it any longer. I read books like 'Diet for a New America' and saw documentaries like 'Earthlings' and 'Meet your Meat,' and it became an easy choice for me.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Book, Animal, America

  "Why Ellen Went Vegan". www.peta.org. November 09, 2009.

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• I like doing arts and crafts, so I would probably go to one of those fun little ceramic places and go paint some plates and do something fun like that

  Christina Milian

  Art, Fun, Ceramics

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• Editions made sense when people worked with engravings where the plate wore down as prints were made. An early number of the edition had slightly better quality. But that's not the case with photography. To me, it's a false way of creating value.

  Jerry Uelsmann

  Photography, Creating Value, Numbers

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