Because I have so much life on my pitches, I can get away with getting too much of the plate every now and then.
To eat off another man's plate. [To live an another's expense. ]
You could do anything in your room at college. You could smoke pot, live in a coed dorm, have a girl. But you couldn't have a. . . hot plate!
I was pitching on all adrenaline and challenging them. I was throwing the ball right down the heart of the plate.
Somebody once asked me if I ever went up to the plate trying to hit a home run. I said, 'Sure, every time. '
I feel most miserable When I can't step "step up to the plate" You know? People often say Regret from doing it is better than regret for not doing it
The best thing you can do for someone is make them a beautiful plate of food. How else can you invade someone's body without actually touching them?
I got half-a-dozen paintings from that shattered plate.
I told the umpires to walk back at least thirty-five feet from home plate. That reduced the arguements.
Friar Hugo, old friend, brace yourself. I am the bearer of tragic news!" Alarm spread across Hugo's pudgy features. "Tell me, Jess. What dreadful thing has happened?" Jess spoke haltingly in a broken voice. "I fear that Cluny has tore up one of your oldest and most venerable dishrags. Alas, Redwall will never see it wipe another plate.
God gets you to the plate, but once you're there you're on your own.
My dad was the first one who said, 'You're going to end up behind the plate because you've got a very good arm and you're very smart when it comes to calling a game. '
I hated cranberry sauce, but for some reason my mom persisted in her lifelong belief that it was my very favorite food, even though every single Thanksgiving I politely declined to include it on my plate.
Then a miracle occurred in the form of a plate of sandwiches. Geryon took three and buried his mouth in a delicious block of white bread filled with tomatoes and butter and salt. He thought about how delicious it was, how he liked slippery foods, how slipperiness can be of different kinds. I am a philosopher of sandwiches, he decided. Things good on the inside.
Joe Torre would tell you to make sure you can hit the ball on the outside part 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].
By the Angel, Bridget’s depressing,” said Henry, setting down his newspaper directly on his plate and causing the edge to soak through with egg yolk. Charlotte opened her mouth as if to object, and closed it again. “It’s all heartbreak, death and unrequited love. ” “Well, that is what most songs are about,” said Will. “Requited love is nice, but it doesn’t make much of a ballad.
We also have a team that works really well together, that knows whose turn it is to pick up what someone else can't continue-the five of us work really well together and if someone says, "My plate is too full, I can't handle this," then someone else will always grab onto it.
Just take the ball and throw it where you want to. Throw strikes. Home plate don't move.
I have loved badly, loved the great Too soon, withdrawn my words too late; And eaten in an echoing hall Alone and from a chipped plate The words that I withdrew too late.