Plate Quotes

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)
It is a scientific fact that your body will not absorb cholesterol if you take it from another person's plate. View quote
Dave Barry
If you want to get rid of counterfeit money, put it in the collection plate at church. View quote
George Carlin
I have always been an animal lover. I had a hard time disassociating the animals I cuddled with - dogs and cats, for example - from the animals on my plate, and I never really cared for the taste of meat. I always loved my Brussels sprouts. View quote
Kristen Bell
It's so beautifully arranged on the plate - you know someone's fingers have been all over it. View quote
Julia Child
In my own life, I decided to leave meat off my plate in medical school, but was a bit slow to realise that dairy products and eggs are not health foods either. View quote
Neal Barnard
My palate is simpler than it used to be. A young chef adds and adds and adds to the plate. As you get older, you start to take away. View quote
Jacques Pepin
Somebody once asked me if I ever went up to the plate trying to hit a home run. I said, 'Sure, every time.' View quote
Mickey Mantle
Sandwiches are wonderful. You don't need a spoon or a plate! View quote
Paul Lynde
Harry Dresden: But there were some things I believed in. Some things I had faith in. And faith isn't about perfect attendance to services, or how much money you put on the little plate. It isn't about going skyclad to the Holy Rites, or meditating each day upon the divine. Faith is about what you do. It's about aspiring to be better and nobler and kinder than you are. It's about making sacrifices for the good of others-even when there's not going to be anyone telling you what a hero you are. View quote
Jim Butcher
We must not depict socialism as if socialists will bring it to us on a plate all nicely dressed. That will never happen. Not a single problem of the class struggle has ever been solved in history except by violence. When violence is exercised by the working people, by the mass of exploited against the exploiters - then we are for it! (Vladimir Lenin)
I feel most miserable When I can't step "step up to the plate" You know? People often say Regret from doing it is better than regret for not doing it. View quote
Ayumi Hamasaki
Then I became an altar boy because of the solemn face, but I got thrown out at fourteen for laughing, because the priest used to mumble everything except the church plate takings. View quote
Elvis Costello
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. View quote
Zora Neale Hurston
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. View quote
Lois McMaster Bujold
It's incredible. Nine? Wow. I just remember winning my first one, getting the medal and the plate, the pin with the diamond for first place. My ninth title, I have no answer for that because I never thought it would be possible. View quote
Michelle Kwan
There are things and there are faces which, when felt or seen for the first time, stamp themselves upon the mind like a sun image on a sensitized plate and there remain unalterably fixed. View quote
H. Rider Haggard
Doubts about the fundamentals of the gospel exist in certain churches, I am told, to a large extent. My dear friends, where there is a warm-hearted church, you do not hear of them. I never saw a fly light on a red-hot plate. View quote
Charles Spurgeon
You see the button with the picture of the guy with the plate, and you push it, AND HE ARRIVES WITH A SANDWICH! ...And you think: "Yes! Yes! I control sandwich monkey! I live in magic land, magic land, magic land. It's my Wizard-Of-Oz phone." View quote
Dylan Moran
For a moment, or a second, the pinched expressions of the cynical, world-weary, throat-cutting, miserable bastards we've all had to become disappears, when we're confronted with something as simple as a plate of food. View quote
Anthony Bourdain
Sitting at the table doesn't make you a diner, unless you eat some of what's on that plate. Being here in America doesn't make you an American. Being born here in America doesn't make you an American. (Malcolm X)
Fame is a fickle food Upon a shifting plate, Whose table once a Guest, but not The second time, is set. Whose crumbs the crows inspect, And with ironic caw Flap past it to the Farmer's corn; Men eat of it and die. View quote
Emily Dickinson
Just take the ball and throw it where you want to. Throw strikes. Home plate don't move. View quote
Satchel Paige
I have been following a vegan diet now since the 1980s, and find it not only healthier, but also much more attractive than the chunks of meat that were on my plate as a child. View quote
Neal Barnard
Open the fridge and put My heart on a plate. I'm just as you left me, and I taste even better leftover. View quote
Cecily von Ziegesar