Plates Quotes - Page 15

• 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.

  John Muir

  Book, Soul, One Day

  John Muir, Edwin Way Teale, Henry Bugbee Kane (2001). “The Wilderness World of John Muir”, p.318, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Snow, Important, Steel

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• Get in some pasta or brown rice with your vegetables like a sweet potato and some meat. You need a little bit of everything on your plate to make sure your energy levels are right for the match.

  Jozy Altidore

  Sweet, Vegetables, Energy

  Source: www.askmen.com

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

  Ted Williams

  Sports, Athlete

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• 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.

  Mariah Nelson

  Baseball, Memories, Men

  Mariah Burton Nelson (1991). “Are We Winning Yet?: How Women are Changing Sports and Sports are Changing Women”, Random House Incorporated

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

  Carlos Gonzalez

  Keys, Focused

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• 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.

  Jennie Finch

  Jobs, Team, Helping

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• 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.

  Vladimir Guerrero

  Inches, Middle, Wanted

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

  Oprah Winfrey

  Thinking, Way, Eating

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• 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.

  Tobe Hooper

  Glasses, Spiders, Window

  Interview with Kate and Laura Mulleavy, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 14, 2014.

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• 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.

  Joe Mauer

  Team, Long, Want

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

  Jorge Posada

  Games, Calling, Aggressive

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

  Jacoby Ellsbury

  Simple, Trying, Quality

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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 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].

  Chase Utley

  Thinking, Goal, Streaks

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• I don't feel any pressure when I'm up there at the plate. I feel it when I'm in the on-deck circle, but when I'm in the box, it's just me and the pitcher, and I get zoned in.

  Troy Glaus

  Circles, Pressure, Boxes

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• 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.

  Billy Graham

  Home, Heart, World

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• 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.

  Jeff Francoeur

  Trying, Different, Certain

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

  Johnny Damon

  Trying, Too Much, Relaxed

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

  Mark Hoppus

  Vegetables, Space, Waste

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• 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.

  Margaret Benson

  Nice, Cat, Meat

  Margaret Benson (1901). “The soul of a cat: and other stories”

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• The place didn't look the same but it felt the same; sensations clutched and transformed me. I stood outside some concrete and plate-glass tower-block, picked a handful of eucalyptus leaves from a branch, crushed them in my hand, smelt, and tears came to my eyes. Sixty-seven-year-old Claudia, on a pavement awash with packaged American matrons, crying not in grief but in wonder that nothing is ever lost, that everything can be retrieved, that a lifetime is not linear but instant. That, inside the head, everything happens at once.

  Penelope Lively

  Block, Grief, Eye

  Penelope Lively (2007). “Moon Tiger”, p.58, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I had a recent delivery of new fashion plates from Paris, and you hardly glanced at the hairstyles. My husband tells me you are still having difficulty controlling the change. And your cravat has been tied very simply of late, even for evening events.

  Gail Carriger

  Fashion, Husband, Paris

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• I tend to vacillate between belief systems. Right now I'm kind of checking out the whole buffet, you know, and maybe in a little while I'll decide on what I want to put on my plate and chow down on.

  Kevin Hearne

  Want, Littles, Buffets

  Kevin Hearne (2014). “The Iron Druid Chronicles 6-Book Bundle: Hounded, Hexed, Hammered, Tricked, Trapped, Hunted”, p.412, Del Rey

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