Plates Quotes

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

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

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

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

These people live again in print as intensely as when their images were captured on old dry plates of sixty years ago... I am walking in their alleys, standing in their rooms and sheds and workshops, looking in and out of their windows. Any they in turn seem to be aware of me.

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

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.

If flatness were funny, a dinner plate would be hilarious.

Change your plate. Change your fate.

I got quite good results from protein plates.

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.

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

I am much less autistic now, compared to when I was young. I remember some behaviors like picking carpet fuzz and watching spinning plates for hours. I didn't want to be touched. I couldn't shut out background noise. I didn't talk until I was about 4 years old. I screamed. I hummed. But as I grew up, I improved.

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

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

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

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.

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

Most men's awareness doesn't extend past their dinner plates.

You know the circus performer who spins the plates in the air you know, and he'll spin six or seven plates in the air? Acting sometimes is kind of that guy spinning all those plates in the air but in your head and in your body.

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.

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.