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  • She came awake, stomach rumbling, and opened her eyes to see a plate being held right under her nose. When she reached for it, Shane snatched it back. "Nuh-uh. Mine." "Share!" she demanded. "Man, you are one grabby girlfriend." She grinned. It always made her feel so fiercly warm inside to hear him say that- the girlfriend part, not the grabby part. "If you love me, you'll give me a taco." "Seriously? That's all you got? What about you'll do sexy, illegal things to me for a taco?" "Not for a taco," she said. "I'm not cheap." "They're brisket tacos." "Now you're talking.

    Sexy   Girlfriend   Eye  
  • I don't know if you've ever fallen asleep whilst eating a plate of cauliflower, and then woken up, and thought you were in the clouds.

    Funny   Humor   Clouds  
  • I like to have my hand on every single plate that goes out. It's really a good feeling when someone compliments your meal, and you had everything to do with making it. It's very rewarding.

    Hands   Feelings   Meals  
  • I sometimes have the sense that I live my life as a writer with my nose pressed against the wide, shiny plate glass window of the"mainstream" culture. The world seems full of straight, large-circulation, slick periodicals which wouldn't think of reviewing my book and bookstores which will never order it.

    Book   Thinking   Order  
    Jan Clausen (1989). “Books & Life”
  • With the inevitability of a tongue returning to probe a painful tooth, we come back and back and back again to our fears, sitting to talk them over with the eagerness of a hungry man before a full and steaming plate.

    Men   Teeth   Sitting  
    FaceBook post by Clive Barker from Aug 23, 2013
  • 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.

    Meals   Flavor   Firsts  
    Mireille Guiliano (2013). “French Women Don't Get Fat”, p.38, Random House
  • The pressure on young chefs today is far greater than ever before in terms of social skills, marketing skills, cooking skills, personality and, more importantly, delivering on the plate. So you need to be strong. Physically fit. So my chefs get weighed every time they come into the kitchen.

    "Star Chef on Passion, Pressure and Perfection" by Sarah Rosenberg and Katie Escherich, abcnews.go.com. June 19, 2008.
  • And there is quite a different sort of conversation around a fire than there is in the shadow of a beech tree.... Four dry logs have in them all the circumstance necessary to a conversation of four or five hours, with chestnuts on the plate and a jug of wine between the legs. Yes, let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius.

    Spring   Wine   Winter  
    Pietro Aretino (1926). “The Works of Aretino: Biography: de Sanctis. The letters. The sonnets. Appendix”
  • 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.

    Plot   Steps   Realizing  
  • If I have my daughter in the car and they are making me nervous, I'll do whatever I have to do. I keep a whole log. I take pictures of their cars, write down license plate numbers, everything. If they do it again, I can go to the police. I know my rights and, believe me, I will have them arrested. I will stop at nothing.

    Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
  • This is women's moment to shift the tectonic plates of power on both the personal life and the leadership levels.

    Levels   Moments   Plates  
    Gloria Feldt (2012). “No Excuses: Nine Ways Women Can Change How We Think About Power”, p.66, Seal Press
  • 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.

    Jobs   Heart   Car  
    "Steve Jobs Biography Examines How Rule-Breaker Tied 'Artistry to Engineering'". Interview with Jefferey Brown, www.pbs.org. October 27, 2011.
  • I cannot bear the language TV chefs use - they don't seem able to look at a plate of vegetables without accusing it of sexual activity.

    Vegetables   Looks   Use  
  • I lived through a classic publishing story. My editor was fired a month before the book came out. The editor who took it over already had a full plate. It was never advertised. We didn't get reviewed in any major outlets.

    Book   Editors   Stories  
  • 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.

    Lying   Water   Toasters  
  • I don't just want the belt, I want every one of their heads on a plate.

    Mma   Want   Belts  
  • I'm not going to ruin my movie because of some stupid ruling that it has to be ninety minutes long. That's just like adding three more plates to the last supper, or an extra wing to the Pentagon.

    Stupid   Wings   Long  
    Charles Willeford (2013). “The Woman Chaser”, p.129, The Overlook Press
  • All that changing of plates and flapping of napkins while you wait 40 minutes for your food.

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

    Fighting   Plates   Left  
    "Squaring the Circle". Book by Tom Stoppard, 1984.
  • Fix your eye on the ball from the moment the pitcher holds it in his glove. Follow it as he throws to the plate and stay with it until the play is completed. Action takes place only where the ball goes.

    Baseball   Eye   Play  
  • I got half-a-dozen paintings from that shattered plate.

  • Change your plate. Change your fate.

    Fate   Plates  
    FaceBook post by Kris Carr from Dec 04, 2016
  • I do not think I exaggerate when I say that some of us put our offering in the plate with a kind of triumphant bounce as much as to say: "There - now God will feel better!" I am obliged to tell you that God does not need anything you have. He does not need a dime of your money. It is your own spiritual welfare at stake in such matters as these. You have the right to keep what you have all to yourself - but it will rust and decay, and ultimately ruin you.

  • Ketchup left overnight on dinner plates has a longer half-life than radioactive waste.

    Food   Cooking   Half  
  • I do the meatball recipe a lot. I think the army stew probably too. It's the most useful dish because it was born out of necessity and poverty and any idiot can make it in 20 minutes on a hot plate. It's cheap and uses readily available commercial ingredients. And it's delicious. It should be the great American dish - perfect late-night stoner dorm food for college kids on a budget.

    Kids   Army   Night  
    Source: www.chicagotribune.com
  • 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.

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

    Hate   Hats   Looks  
  • I go to the gym every morning for a couple of hours, then I come to work, whatever is on the plate for the day, I do it. I don't ask many questions, I go where I am told to.

    Morning   Couple   Hours  
  • 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.

    "The Ballot or the Bullet". Malcolm X's Speech at Cory Methodist Church, Cleveland, Ohio, teachingamericanhistory.org. April 3, 1964.
  • Choose Life over the other stuff. Get out of your head. Live. Dress up. Eat. Touch people. Help out. Give up. Love people. Give your best away. There’s more. What’s the problem? Relax. You’re going to die. Throw a party. Eat off my plate. Sing to me. Meet me in the bedroom. Get a massage. Give one. Let your amazement out into the room. Pry open the box you hide your joy in. Be a poem.

    Love   Life   Giving Up  
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