I told the umpires to walk back at least thirty-five feet from home plate. That reduced the arguements.
Our hitting coaches have done a great job of understanding when I don’t look right at the plate and getting me back on track.
I was clipped from behind, and my leg got caught between my opponent’s legs. As we fell, my leg snapped. It was a spiral fracture. They had to put in a plate and five screws. It was a devastating moment: one minute I was on cloud nine, and then I was out for the season.
We earned our dollars in a hard way;, nobody gave us a feast or gave it on a plate. We worked hard and we have innovated; we have made things in a better way at a cheaper rate and gave it to the people of India.
I think, when I was younger, I was cooking to impress. Sometimes the dish would have 15 things on the plate. That’s cooking only for yourself. As you get more mature, you take all the superfluous things away, and you get the essential flavor. Now I cook for people, not for myself.
If you start any large theory, such as quantum mechanics, plate tectonics, evolution, it takes about 40 years for mainstream science to come around. Gaia has been going for only 30 years or so.
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.
If you’ve ever made change in the offering plate, you might be a redneck.
At home, I never plate. Things go in the middle of the table, and you serve yourself. In the restaurant, every day I plate things, but at home, I want to enjoy my company.
With a lot of the old school veggie recipes, and in the Seventies and Eighties, you’d go to a veggie restaurant and you got this sense of worthiness. You were presented with a plate of brown, and three forkfuls in, you might feel self-righteous, but you were bored with it.
I like my music to be like a buffet. If you don’t like this plate, there’s another one for you.
I’ve always been the person that, when it’s time to step to the plate under a big situation, that’s when I perform my best.
My license plate I did get registered, and it is S-I-T-C-H… so that’s pretty cool.
My idea of heaven used to be relaxing at home with a cheese plate and champagne.
The food pyramid is very complicated. It doesn’t give you as much info in a quick glance as the plate does.
I would argue that the culture is not the frosting on the cake: the culture is the plate the cake sits on.
My job involves sharing food and the stories behind the plate, in part, via social media.
No electricity, no hot water, no heat – at times, we struggled. We’d wake up in the morning and wash with water we heated on a hot plate. And we’d go to bed at night wearing skull caps, sweat shirts, and gloves.
I showed up pretty much at the exact right moment to end up with a lot of work on my plate very quickly, because I was young and foolish, and so I wrote very quickly.
It seemed like I always did some great hitting in Brooklyn. The field there was close to the stands. Every time I started walking to the plate, I could hear the fans say, ‘Here comes that man again. Here comes that man.’
He sliced the ball when he had it on a plate.
In my bachelor days, I had a small upright piano in my kitchen. It cost £10 from eBay plus £70 delivery. It was because I’d seen an old photo of Tom Waits – with dirty dishes, empty bottles, a hot plate, a coffee machine and a piano strewn with lyric sheets – and fallen in love with it.
When you are starved and something is dropped on your plate you are going to relish every bite.
When it’s your chance to step up to the plate, just hit it out of the park, and everybody will forget about everything that came before.
Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.
I say peace begins on your plate.
I think that once I started connecting dots of where my food was coming from and the reality of that, as opposed to maybe what you think it is as a little kid, and the realities of how my food was getting to my plate and what the real effects of that are. When I started connecting those dots, I couldn’t disconnect them.
Let me tell you, sisters, seeing dried egg on a plate in the morning is a lot dirtier than anything I’ve had to deal with in politics.
Let’s be honest, we all love a roast, but Sunday lunch could be a huge plate of salade nicoise; it could be eggs benedict; it could be a barbecue. The important thing is you’re making an effort, and you’re all together.
You’re thinking about a dish, you’re thinking about an ingredient, and in many ways, you end up becoming a naked chef in front of the customer, because what you put on the plate is you. It’s who you are and where you’ve been.
I’ve found that grilled chicken is one of the fastest, easiest ways of getting protein on my family’s plate, but it needs a massively flavorful sauce to finish it during the final minutes of cooking.
Sandwiches are wonderful. You don’t need a spoon or a plate!
Every meal is a conscious effort to stay disciplined and understand what’s on your plate.
The thing about innovation is, where do you stop? There are movements across the world where people are asking restaurateurs to bring back the regular plate. So, yes, we are fed up of drinking out of shoes and eating out of hats.
I was raised by a gaggle of women who all loved to bake. Dessert always existed after any savory meal. I was raised with cookies on the plate, brownies in a Tupperware container, and so on.
I try to be as quiet as I can at the plate, but still aggressive.
A chef and a restaurateur are different jobs: One is about pleasing people with what’s on the plate; the other is about understanding the market. I’m a chef, but I think I’m a savvy businessperson, too.
Hitting is business. With two strikes you really protect that plate.
The Vice-Presidency is sort of like the last cookie on the plate. Everybody insists he won’t take it, but somebody always does.
The Metrodome was built for football. Fans seated down the third-base line at a baseball game faced centerfield, so that they had to turn and look over their right shoulders to see home plate.
Make your plate colorful. A lot of Asian countries make it a point of having five colors present on every dish, which leads to eating nutrient-rich foods.
I think at Le Cirque I learned how to make real food, which is what people crave, not just gimmicky things on a plate.
A plate of food has to have balance. For example, a mild fish like skate mustn’t be overwhelmed by the side dishes. They should have personality and color, but they also have to be subtle.
I’m an accountant. I’m a manufacturer from Oshkosh, Wisconsin, who stepped up to the plate, and now I’m a U.S. senator.
There’s a large oak tree in the Newton Centre park playground that is legendary because only a few humans have hit it with a baseball from home plate, and B.J. Novak is among them. And I was there that day.
Pitching is what you have best on the day you work, and if you can’t get your fastball over the plate, then maybe you can win with your curve.
I broke my shoulder, or my collarbone, I shouldn’t say my shoulder, and I had surgery, six screws and a plate in here.
You reach a point when you say to yourself, ‘Do I want to keep doing this?’ There are other things on my plate I want to do – I’ve been writing a play; I’ve been neglecting my standup.
Of course, with well-masticated food playing the role of social glue, it’s absolutely essential that everyone clear their plate. Sod the starving kiddies in Africa – it’s the overfed ones here we need to worry about.
If you’re working 12-hour days, then you come home to do three hours’ homework, it’s quite a lot on your plate.
