Plates Quotes

Transfer the point of concentration to some object outside of yourself - another person, a puzzle, a broken plate that you are gluing.

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

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

Steak on the plate went up. Steak on the hoof went down.

Whatever is on your plate got there because you said yes to it.

I see the hitter when he's moved in the box, like when he's moved closer to the plate or changed his stance. I see when the batter has moved his feet, and then I make my own adjustment.

I'm a bagel on a plate full of onion rolls!

When you go to home plate with a lot of confidence, you feel that you can hit any pitch.

I got quite good results from protein plates.

Change your plate. Change your fate.

I had Courtney Love's left bosom out of her dress on my plate in front of me. It was extraordinary. I didn't know where to look.

I enjoy being a hyphenate. I've always thought of my career as a plate spinner in the circus.

The best cure for procrastination is to have so much on your plate that procrastination is no longer an option.

One of the greatest opportunities to live our values-or betray them-lies in the food we put on our plates.

People say I stole a lot of bases. I stole the bases for a reason. I crossed the plate.

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.

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

You can't cure a chipped plate. All you can do is live with it or throw it out.

She looked like a head-on collision between a fashion plate and a nightmare.

I throw the ball as hard as ever, but it just takes longer to get to the plate.

The fish is the star of the plate.

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].

Lovers of print are simply confusing the plate for the food.

When I was up there at the plate, my purpose was to get on base anyway I could, whether by hitting or by getting hit.

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

To eat off another man's plate. [To live an another's expense.]

Feast or famine. My plate is suddenly full.

Always pass a plate of forgiveness before each verbal feast.

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

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

Bring me the head of Elton John . . . which is one instance in which meat would not be murder, if it were served on a plate.

The food could taste amazing; however, if you present a plate of misfortunate looking food...you would really question yourself about whether or not you should eat it.

Whenever I eat a meal, I always leave the last bite on my plate. I don't know why, it's just a thing with me.

This is women's moment to shift the tectonic plates of power on both the personal life and the leadership levels.

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

Joe Torre would tell you to make sure you can hit the ball on the outside part of the plate

I have vague memories, like impressions on glass plates.

Patience is very important, especially at the plate.

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

Because I have so much life on my pitches, I can get away with getting too much of the plate every now and then.

What kind of a maniac needed over five thousand plates?

I never pile a plate to the point where it overflows. I'd rather have a small plate with small portions and then get up for more if I'm still hungry.

And as many of the plates as Joseph Smith translated I handled with my hands, plate after plate.

The less the consumer knows about what's happening before the meat hits the plate, the better.

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

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

Emerson is a person who lives instinctively on ambrosia - and leaves everything indigestible on his plate.

Of course things you don't know about are always nicer'n things you do, same as the pertater on 'tother side of the plate is always the biggest.

I don't want to take food off of somebody's plate.

HUSBAND, n. One who, having dined, is charged with the care of the plate.