Plates Quotes - Page 17

• When I was your age, I used to treat the crust like it was just there to hold the good stuff in. I used to leave the whole back end of it on the plate. As I got older, I learned to appreciate the crust.

  Mandy Patinkin

  Appreciate, Age, Stuff

  "Fictional character: Rube Sofer". TV Series "Dead Like Me" ("Ghost Story", 2004), 2003-2004.

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• I got killed against Morimoto. I brought out white plates with food; I thought that was really nice. He brings out sculptures of ice, Noah's ark made of balsa wood that he carved at his restaurant downstairs, smoking trees ... When I saw that, I looked at my sous chef and I'm like, we're toast.

  Geoffrey Zakarian

  Nice, White, Smoking

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• I wish that restaurateurs would choose simpler and smaller glassware. The tables on restaurants these days are way too crowded, and mostly because the plates are too odd looking and big, and the wine glasses are so gigantic that it takes up the whole surface area and you can't move. I prefer smaller glassware.

  Geoffrey Zakarian

  Moving, Wine, Glasses

  "Geoffrey Zakarian on Winning The Next Iron Chef: Super Chefs". Interview with Susannah Chen, www.popsugar.com. December 20, 201.

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• And.. are you willing to go all the way? To understand that food is only a stand-in for love and possibility and spirit? Because if you aren't, you will get caught up in gaining and losing weight for the rest of your life. But if you are willing, then the portal to what you say you want is truly on your plate.

  Geneen Roth

  Weight, Want, Way

  FaceBook post by Geneen Roth from Oct 10, 2012

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• My parents were hippies, and the story is that they went through a dictionary looking for a beautiful word to name me. They nearly called me Banyan, but flipped a few pages on and reached "China," thankfully. The other reason they liked it is that "china" is Cockney rhyming slang for "mate." People say "my old china," meaning "my old mate," because "china plate" rhymes with "mate.

  China Mieville

  Beautiful, Hippie, Names

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• We're not giving what we're called to give, unless that giving affects how we live - affects what we put on our plate and where we make our home and hang our hat and what kind of threads we've got to have on our back. Surplus Giving is the leftover you can afford to give; Sacrificial Giving is the love gift that changes how you live - because the love of Christ has changed you. God doesn't want your leftovers. God wants your love overtures, your first-overs, because He is your first love.

  Ann Voskamp

  Home, First Love, Giving

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• Investing is the greatest business in the world because you never have to swing. You stand at the plate; the pitcher throws you General Motors at 47! U.S. Steel at 39! And nobody calls a strike on you. There's no penalty except opportunity. All day you wait for the pitch you like; then, when the fielders are asleep, you step up and hit it.

  Warren Buffett

  Opportunity, Swings, Waiting

  Forbes magazine Interview, November 01, 1974.

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• There is only one way to pitch to Musial - under the plate.

  Leo Durocher

  Way, One Way

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• From that moment onwards, our loathsome society rushed, like Narcissus, to contemplate its trivial image on a metallic plate. A form of lunacy, an extraordinary fanaticism took hold of these new sun-worshippers.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Sun, Moments, That Moment

  Charles Baudelaire (1981). “Baudelaire: Selected Writings on Art and Artists”, p.295, CUP Archive

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• There will always be times when you feel discouraged. I too, have felt despair many times in my life, but I do not keep a chair for it; I will not entertain it. It is not allowed to eat from my plate.

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  Despair, Discouraged, Chairs

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• He stopped everything behind the plate and hit everything in front of it.

  Mel Ott

  Yankees, Behinds, Fronts

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• Are you getting a big kick out of the Enron scandal? I find this interesting that whenever a big crisis starts, people start showing up in church. So, Ken Lay shows up in church this weekend. Church officials are still looking for the collection plates.

  David Letterman

  Weekend, Enron Scandal, People

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• I have late onset ADHD. I take on too much and end up spinning plates, but its entertaining, and it helps you make quick connections if youre a comedian, if you have a brain that can dance around too much.

  Rory Bremner

  Spinning Plates, Comedian, Brain

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• Mr. Kaplan is the first traveler to take us on a journey to the jagged places where these tectonic plates meet, and his argument--that our future is being shaped far away 'at the ends of the earth'--makes his travelogue pertinent and compelling reading.

  Michael Ignatieff

  Reading, Journey, Earth

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• Since the pleasure of most foods is in the first few bites, eat one thing on your plate at a time, at least at the start of the meal when you can concentrate and enjoy the full flavors.

  Mireille Guiliano

  Meals, Flavor, Firsts

  Mireille Guiliano (2013). “French Women Don't Get Fat”, p.38, Random House

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• The scale of light can be described by numbers called the frequency and as the numbers get higher, the light goes from red to blue to ultraviolet. We can't see ultraviolet light, but it can affect photographic plates. It's still light only the number is different.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Light, Blue, Numbers

  Richard P. Feynman (2014). “QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter”, p.13, Princeton University Press

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• The only exercise I got as a kid was fork to mouth. Food was equated with love in my household. I thought you left the table when the zipper was down and you'd explode if you took another bite. I'd eat my plate and then everyone else's leftovers.

  Paul Stanley

  Kids, Exercise, Zippers

  "Paul Stanley, from 'chunky' kid to fit KISS rocker". Interview with James S. Fell, beta.latimes.com. April 20, 2013.

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• The Book of Mormon is no fake. I know what I know. I have seen what I have seen and I have heard what I have heard. I have seen the gold plates from which the Book of Mormon is written. An angel appeared to me and others and testified to the truthfulness of the record, and had I been willing to have perjured myself and sworn falsely to the testimony I now bear I could have been a rich man, but I could not have testified other than I have done and am now doing for these things are true.

  Martin Harris

  Book, Angel, Men

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

  Tom Stoppard

  Fighting, Left, Ifs

  "Squaring the Circle". Book by Tom Stoppard, 1984.

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• If you get up in the morning and wear a pair of shorts and a t-shirt and some flip-flops, it's a signal that you might be going to the beach. If you get up in the morning and you wear a breast plate and a back plate and a cape and a pair of golden Satanic horns on your head, it's quite clear that you're doing something else.

  Tom Hiddleston

  Beach, Morning, Capes

  "Chris Hemsworth, Tom Hiddleston and Anthony Hopkins Interview THOR". Press Conference, collider.com. May 3, 2011.

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• Losing a parent is something like driving through a plate-glass window. You didn't know it was there until it shattered, and then for years to come you're picking up the pieces -- down to the last glassy splinter.

  Saul Bellow

  Glasses, Years, Parent

  Saul Bellow (2010). “Saul Bellow: Letters”, p.492, Penguin

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• Conversation should be like juggling; up go the balls and the plates, up and over, in and out, good solid objects that glitter in the footlights and fall with a bang if you miss them. But when dear Sebastian speaks it is like a little sphere of soapsud drifting off the end of an old clay pipe, anywhere, full of rainbow light for a second and then - phut! vanished, with nothing left at all, nothing.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Fall, Light, Drifting Off

  "Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder". Book by Evelyn Waugh, 1945.

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• The nature of catastrophe is, after all, reasonably unvarying in the way it ruins, destroys, wounds and devastates. But if something can be learned from the event - not least something as profound as the theory of plate tectonics - then it somehow puts the ruination into a much more positive light.

  Simon Winchester

  Light, Profound, Events

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• From fried witchetty grubs to gold-plated turnips, when you're a writer you never know what's going to appear on your plate next. It keeps a woman alert, it does.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Gold, Doe, Next

  "The Vorkosigan Companion". Book by John Helfers and Lillian Stewart Carl, 2008.

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• Not playing by the rules, not seeing things conventionally, that's the heart of who he [ Steve Jobs] is, and he does it in small ways of everyday rebellion just almost to assert who he is, like not putting a license plate on his car.

  Walter Isaacson

  Jobs, Heart, Car

  "Steve Jobs Biography Examines How Rule-Breaker Tied 'Artistry to Engineering'". Interview with Jefferey Brown, www.pbs.org. October 27, 2011.

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