Plates Quotes - Page 10

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

  Thornton Wilder

  Happiness, Laughter, Acceptance

  1942 The Skin of Our Teeth, act 1.

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• The way a musical can make us feel is unlike anything else, in song and particularly in dance. I think people fly through plate-glass windows when they get shot because movies don't have dance scenes any more. This is what we do instead.

  Joss Whedon

  Song, Thinking, Glasses

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

  Bill Vaughan

  Political, Vices, Doe

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• 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.

  Bob Uecker

  Brother, Home, Weekend

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• 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.

  Josh Turner

  Dream, Cowboy, Sight

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• My main camera is a Nikon D3. I use a French camera from the 1800s for wet plate photography, I use a Hasselblad sometimes. But to me the camera really doesn't matter that much. I don't have a preference for film or digital.

  Nikki Sixx

  Photography, Cameras, Use

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• 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.

  Sherri Shepherd

  Husband, Son, Spinning Plates

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• With the inevitability of a tongue returning to probe a painful tooth, we come back and back and back again to our fears, sitting to talk them over with the eagerness of a hungry man before a full and steaming plate.

  Clive Barker

  Men, Teeth, Sitting

  FaceBook post by Clive Barker from Aug 23, 2013

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• Didn't the people who made those license plates care about little girls named Ramona?

  Beverly Cleary

  Girl, People, Care

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• Instead of things I'm good at, it might be faster to list the things I can't do. I can't cook or clean the house. My room's a mess, and I'm always losing things. I love music, but I can't sing a note. I'm clumsy and can barely sew a stitch. My sense of direction is the pits, and I can't tell left from right half the time. When I get angry, I tend to break things. Plates and pencils, alarm clocks. Later on I regret it, but at the time I can't help myself. I have no money in the bank. I'm bashful for no reason, and I have hardly any friends to speak of.

  Haruki Murakami

  Regret, House, Half

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

  Stephen Hawking

  Giants, World, Rubbish

  Stephen Hawking (2009). “A Brief History Of Time: From Big Bang To Black Holes”, p.7, Random House

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• Open the fridge and put My heart on a plate. I'm just as you left me, and I taste even better leftover.

  Cecily von Ziegesar

  Heart, Taste, You Left Me

  Cecily von Ziegesar (2008). “Gossip Girl 11: Don't You Forget About Me”, p.210, A&C Black

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• I split the omelet between the plates and stopped when Curran's arms closed about me. He pulled me against him, pressing my back against his chest. I heard him inhale my scent. His lips grazed my temple. Here we were, alone, in my kitchen, holding each other while breakfast cooled on the table. This was some sort of alternate universe, with a different Kate, who wasn't hunted like a wild animal and who could have these sorts of things. "What's up?" I asked softly. "Just making sure you know you're caught.

  Ilona Andrews

  Animal, Kitchen, Breakfast

  Ilona Andrews (2010). “Magic Bleeds”, p.159, Penguin

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

  Stephen King

  Baby, Shoes, America

  "Carrie". Book by Stephen King, April 5, 1974.

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• Dain kept his gaze on his plate and concentrated on swallowing the morsel he'd just very nearly choked on. She was possessive... about him. The beautiful, mad creature - or blind and deaf creature, or whatever she was - coolly announced it as one might say, "Pass the salt cellar," without the smallest awareness that the earth had just tilted on its axis.

  Loretta Chase

  Beautiful, Axes, Mad

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• Jesus Christ.” The fury on Nick’s face was enough to send me reeling and he hit the table hard enough with his hand that it made the plates and the silverware on the table bounce and clatter. “You give me the names and approximate location of those men who gave you that ultimatum and I’ll kill every goddamned one of them.” I sighed before I said quietly. “I already did.

  Cheyenne McCray

  Jesus, Men, Hands

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• 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.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Thinking, White, Black

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• One of the greatest opportunities to live our values-or betray them-lies in the food we put on our plates.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Lying, Opportunity, Betray

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2010). “Eating Animals”, p.212, Penguin UK

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• I was the shadow of the waxwing slain By the false azure in the windowpane; I was the smudge of ashen fluff -and I Lived on, flew on, in the reflected sky. And from the inside, too, I'd duplicate Myself, my lamp, an apple on a plate: Uncurtaining the night, I'd let dark glass Hang all the furniture above the grass, And how delightful when a fall of snow Covered my glimpse of lawn and reached up so As to make chair and bed exactly stand Upon that snow, out in that crystal land!

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Fall, Dark, Night

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• I love all things, not only the grand but the infinitely small: thimble, spurs, plates, flower vases.

  Pablo Neruda

  Flower, Spurs, Vases

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• Her definition of romance was absentminded intimacy, the way someone else's hand stray to your plate of food. I replied: no, that's just friendship; romance is always knowing exactly where that someone else's hands are. She smiled and said, there was a time I thought that way, too. But at the heart of the romance is the knowledge that those hands may wander off elsewhere, but somehow through luck or destiny or plain blind groping they'll find a way back to you, and maybe you'll be smart enough then to be grateful for everything that's still possible, in spit of your own weaknesses- and his.

  Kamila Shamsie

  Smart, Grateful, Heart

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• Youth is like having a big plate of candy. Sentimentalists think they want to be in the pure, simple state they were in before they ate the candy. They don't. They just want the fun of eating it all over again.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Fun, Simple, Thinking

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.287, e-artnow

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• She would walk through the kitchen at any hour, whenever she was hungry, and put her fork in the pots and eat a little of everything without placing anything on a plate, standing in front of the stove, talking to the serving women, who were the only ones with whom she felt comfortable, the ones she got along with best.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Talking, Kitchen, Littles

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

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Broken, Desire, Moments

  Sue Monk Kidd (2006). “The Mermaid Chair”, p.148, Penguin

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

  Robin McKinley

  Food, Anxiety, Potatoes

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