Plate Quotes

New ideas should confront old ideas. We must refer to the example of Europe. People have fought to make Europe what it is today. Freedom is not something that is served up on a plate.

I try to be as quiet as I can at the plate, but still aggressive.

Sometimes I've looked at a plate of food and wondered if it wouldn't look better as a hat.

The last person I'd date is some rich kid who's had everything handed to her on a plate. Give me a normal girl any day.

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

I don't like to sound egotistical, but every time I stepped up to the plate with a bat in my hands, I couldn't help but feel sorry for the pitcher.

If you see how a plant grows and you taste it in situ you have a perfect example of how it should taste on the plate.

Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

One of the reasons I don't see eye to eye with Women's Lib is that women have it all on a plate if only they knew it. They don't have to be pretty either.

Employee fathers need to step up to the plate and put their family needs on the table.

I'm not a headline guy. I know that as long as I was following Ruth to the plate I could have stood on my head and no one would have known the difference.

There's only one way to become a hitter. Go up to the plate and get mad. Get mad at yourself and mad at the pitcher.

I have a metal plate in my head, and can pop my shoulder and pop it back.

I was well warned about English food, so it did not surprise me, but I do wonder sometimes, how they ever manage to prise it up long enough to get a plate under it.

Mail armor continued in general use till about the year 1300, when it was gradually supplanted by plate armor, or suits consisting of pieces or plates of solid iron, adapted to the different parts of the body.

If you've ever made change in the offering plate, you might be a redneck.

The plate tectonics of media have shifted where NBC had to become a new media company from an old media company.

It's very liberating for me to realize that I don't have to step up to the plate with a plot that involves the U.N. Security Council.

There are a couple of projects that are sort of on the plate; I haven't closed any of them yet. I'm trying to figure out which one is going to be the best one for me.

Certain guys, they can see a guy do a certain thing with their glove and know what pitch is coming. I couldn't do that. But I can get on first base and I can tell you by his move if that pitcher is going to first base or home plate every time.

Unfortunately, we haven't found many very old rocks on Earth because our planet's surface is constantly renewed by plate tectonics, coupled with erosion.

I wouldn't know how to handle serenity if somebody handed it to me on a plate.

The plate at each point only sends back to the eye the simple colour imprinted. The other colours are destroyed by interference. The eye thus perceives at each point the constituent colour of the image.

In the future, I'd like to make jewelry and sell it under my own name. But right now, I've got enough on my plate!

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.'

I have avoided becoming stale by putting a little water on the plate, lying on the plate, and having myself refreshed in a toaster oven for 23 minutes once every month.

The reader really has to step up to the plate and read a short story.

'Shkoff' is to eat. 'Shkiaff' is to slap. Like, 'Gettouttahere I'm gonna give you a couple of shkiaffs,' or, 'Forget presentation, just shkiaff the food onto the plate.'

He hits from both sides of the plate. He's amphibious.

I told the umpires to walk back at least thirty-five feet from home plate. That reduced the arguements.