Plates Quotes - Page 14

• 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.'

  Bryan Volpenhein

  Perfect, Goal, Focus

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• You decide you'll wait for your pitch. As the ball starts toward the plate, you think about your stance. And then you think about your swing. Then you realize that the ball that went by you for a strike was your pitch.

  Bobby Murcer

  Thinking, Swings, Focus

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• The breezes taste Of apple peel. The air is full Of smells to feel- Ripe fruit, old footballs, Burning brush, New books, erasers, Chalk, and such. The bee, his hive, Well-honeyed hum, And Mother cuts Chrysanthemums. Like plates washed clean With suds, the days Are polished with A morning haze.

  John Updike

  Football, Mother, Morning

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• Next time you bump your head, try to imagine being a monkey and getting a steel plate smashed into your skull at 50 miles per hour. Then, only then should you feel compelled to tell me that I'm wrong about my opinions. For all these things have happened in the name of science. They continue in abundance till this day.

  Rikki Rockett

  Names, Skulls, Trying

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• You think like a boxer and behave like a boxer, and you try to live your life that way, being in the gym all the time and being careful to push the plate away at the dinner table. You don't need dessert. When you're out having fun, you ask for agua instead of vodka. It's very important.

  Holt McCallany

  Fun, Thinking, Live Your Life

  Source: collider.com

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• When I put the plate down, you don't hear a sound. When I pick up a glass, I want it to be just right. When someone says, "How come you're just a waitress?" I say, "Don't you think you deserve being served by me?"

  Studs Terkel

  Thinking, Glasses, Sound

  Studs Terkel (2013). “The Studs Terkel Reader: My American Century”, p.257, The New Press

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• There are generations of people who have never seen a big plate painting in person. And they don't know what the hell they look like, they don't know what it feels like to stand in a room with them.

  Julian Schnabel

  People, Generations, Looks

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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.

  Jim Evans

  Player, Umpires, Two

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• 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.

  Christopher Morley

  Marriage, Men, Wife

  Christopher Morley (2007). “Chimneysmoke”, p.58, Wildside Press LLC

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• I got quite good results from protein plates.

  Gabriel Lippmann

  Results, Protein

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• I was struggling with drugs, I had a lot on my plate, and you know, I was using unhealthy ways to kind of self-medicate and deal with a lot of heavy duty stuff in my life.

  Columbus Short

  Struggle, Self, Drug

  "A Sober, Drug-free Columbus Short Really Wants to Return to ‘Scandal’ – “I’m Still a Gladiator” by Tambay A. Obenson, www.indiewire.com. December 10, 2014.

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• You know, at this point, my focus still is acting, but I think at some point in time, I definitely want to do some directing, I'm just not sure when. But it's not on my plate big-time right now, just because I'm busy, and I'm having such a great time.

  Jackie Earle Haley

  Thinking, Focus, Acting

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• 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.

  Aldous Huxley

  Littles, Palaces, Furniture

  Aldous Huxley, Robert S. Baker, James Sexton (2002). “Complete Essays: 1956-1963, and supplement, 1920-1948”, Ivan R. Dee Publisher

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• I love bookshelves, and stacks of books, spines, typography, and the feel of pages between my fingertips. I love bookmarks, and old bindings, and stars in margins next to beautiful passages. I love exuberant underlinings that recall to me a swoon of language-love from a long-ago reading, something I hoped to remember. I love book plates, and inscriptions in gifts from loved ones, I love author signatures, and I love books sitting around reminding me of them, being present in my life, being. I love books.

  Laini Taylor

  Beautiful, Stars, Book

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

  Malcolm X

  What It Means To Be An American, Sitting, Diners

  "Malcolm X Speaks: Selected Speeches and Statements". Book by Malcolm X edited by George Breitman, 1965.

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• The press box at Wrigley Field in Chicago is an extended narrow shed, two rows deep, that is precariously bolted to the iron rafters just underneath the park's second deck. To gain access, one must climb a steeply angled ramp and clamber down a little starboard companionway, guarded at its foot by a uniformed minion and then proceed giddily along a catwalk that hangs directly above the tiered, circling rows of seats and spectators behind home plate.

  Roger Angell

  Home, Feet, Two

  Roger Angell (2013). “Season Ticket”, p.266, Open Road Media

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• One curve I'll always remember was when I was pitching for Pittsburgh. Terry Kennedy was a young player with St. Louis. I threw him an 0-2 curve and it snapped. Terry's reaction was to swing straight down, like he was chopping the plate with an axe. It was the last out of the inning. After I ran off the mound, I looked over at the St. Louis dugout. There were players rolling around on the floor, laughing. Poor Terry. I'll have to admit that was a hell of a curveball.

  Bert Blyleven

  Player, Curves, Swings

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

  Katie Uhlaender

  Two, Trying, Balls

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I'm looking forward to Phoenix. I ran well there last year in the Nationwide Series, and it was one of the tracks I made four Sprint Cup starts at last season. In the Cup race last year, I had a good run going for it being my first time there in a Cup car, and unfortunately got damage from an accident. It's not a restrictor plate race, so this will be the first time this season that I will run a lot of laps in practice. It's also the first race for the new qualifying format, so it will be interesting to see how that works out. Overall, I just want to have a solid run in the BRANDT Chevy.

  Justin Allgaier

  Running, Practice, Phoenix

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• When I think of my Latina side, I imagine family barbecues with carne asada, rice, beans, tortillas and a jalapeno on my plate along with 'Vicente Fernandez' blaring out the speakers. Spicy food. Salsa. Tamales. Family.

  Alicia Sixtos

  Thinking, Tamales, Jalapenos

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• You have to learn to say no not just to things you don't want to do, you have to say no to things that you want to do, things that are good to do. You have to realize that every time you say yes to one thing you've got to take something else off the plate. Critically, I think you have to realize that it's easier to say no than to say maybe.

  Debora Spar

  Thinking, Want, Realizing

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Daytona is a restrictor-plate race and, unlike Daytona, guys can't get in a line at Phoenix and go to the front. Daytona and Talladega (Ala.) have always just been two different forms of racing. With the draft being so important at those two tracks, it's more of a team deal than an individual deal. What happens at Phoenix and the races after that has to be done on your own. You can't help each other at Phoenix. You just have to go race.

  Tony Stewart

  Team, Race, Phoenix

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• I continue coupling a plate of silver with one of zinc, and always in the same order... and place between each of these couples a moistened disk. I continue to form a column. If the column contains about twenty of these couples of metal, it will be capable of giving to the fingers several small shocks.

  Alessandro Volta

  Couple, Zinc, Order

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• Vegetables....a waste of good plate space

  Mark Hoppus

  Vegetables, Space, Waste

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

  Ted Williams

  Sports, Athlete

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