God gets you to the plate, but once you're there you're on your own.
When I was 16 I got a school holiday job at Minton's pottery factory in Staffordshire, packing plates. For a month's work, I was paid £44. Everything I now know about the birds and the bees, I learnt there.
When you go to home plate with a lot of confidence, you feel that you can hit any pitch.
It strikes me that whatever advantages there are to being a boy--getting to stay out late and having other people wash your clothes and bring you plates of stuff--get undercut by having to play football.
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 sliced the ball when he had it on a 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].
I had a brief experience in the food industry. I was a bus boy in a Mexican restaurant in Arizona, scraping re-fried beans off people's plates. It teaches you a bit of humility and the importance of a good deodorant.
The less the consumer knows about what's happening before the meat hits the plate, the better.
People say I stole a lot of bases. I stole the bases for a reason. I crossed the plate.
Lovers of print are simply confusing the plate for the food.
Conversation should be like juggling; up go the balls and the plates, up and over, in and out, good solid objects that glitter in the footlights and fall with a bang if you miss them. But when dear Sebastian speaks it is like a little sphere of soapsud drifting off the end of an old clay pipe, anywhere, full of rainbow light for a second and then - phut! vanished, with nothing left at all, nothing.
Emerson is a person who lives instinctively on ambrosia - and leaves everything indigestible on his plate.
People think with climate change what's going to happen is things are just going to get hotter. But that isn't really the whole story at all. One of the things that has happened in the past when the climate has changed a lot is that the glaciers melt, and so the weight on the tectonic crust is different, and that's the definition of an earthquake. If the tectonic plates are springing up or being pressed down, that's when earthquakes and volcanic eruptions happen. So every scientist I spoke to who had studied this thinks that we're in for a wild time.
I definitely have to keep stepping up to the plate and be aggressive when he does that.
I have late onset ADHD. I take on too much and end up spinning plates, but its entertaining, and it helps you make quick connections if youre a comedian, if you have a brain that can dance around too much.
We share plates [with Jordan Peele], and we also very often will sit in the corner and kind of speak in our own language.
And as many of the plates as Joseph Smith translated I handled with my hands, plate after plate.
It’s the method of consumption, not what’s on the plate.
I'm more focused at the plate- that's the key.
