“We have to discard the past / and, as one builds / floor by floor, window by window, / and the building rises, / so do we keep shedding - first, broken tiles, / then proud doors... and each new day / gleams / like an empty / plate.” FirstsPastDoorsBuildingBrokenProudWindowEmptyPlatesRenewalNew DayGleamTilesEach New Day Book:I explain a few things: selected poems Source: I explain a few things: selected poems
“The very common error of young or unconfident cooks is to keep putting more of their own personal ideology into a plate until there's so much noise that you really can't even hear a tune. You can say more in an empty space than you can in a crowded one.” YoungSpaceCommonEmptyCookingErrorsNoiseIdeologyCooksTunesPlatesCrowdedEmpty Space Author:Mario Batali
“Reward is a happy customer - and an empty plate.” FoodEmptyCookingRewardsCustomersCulinaryPlates Author:Jacques Torres
“Sometimes it's like you're a big pie settin' on the table, and everybody runs up and gets their piece of you. When it's over' the plate's empty.” SometimesBigsRunningPiecesSadnessLike YouSadEmptyTablesPlatesPie Author:Loretta Lynn
“Archie was an expert at dividing the affairs of life into men's business and women's business. An empty cupboard and a full plate were the man's business, a full cupboard and an empty plate the concern of the woman.” MenConcernEmptyAffairExpertsPlatesDishesDividingCupboards Book:The Shipping News: A Novel Source: The Shipping News: A Novel
“People give me money and I don't know why, my real collection plate is an empty cup held by a homeless guy.” PeopleKnowsGivingRealGuyEmptyGive MeCupsCollectionsPlatesHomelessEmpty Cup Author:Bo Burnham
“A lot of writers and artists are like chefs who eat their own cooking in the kitchen and then deliver an empty plate with assurances that it's great.” ArtistEmptyCookingKitchenPlatesChefAssurance Author:Peter Schjeldahl
“A lot of writers and artists are like chefs who eat their own cooking in the kitchen and then deliver an empty plate with assurances that it's great. Whereas the chef makes cake and sometimes tastes it with a finger, but that's it - the rest is for the people.” PeopleSometimesArtistTasteEmptyCookingFingersKitchenCakePlatesChefAssurance Author:Jonathan Santlofer
“It baffles me that people think that obliterating the past will save them from its consequences, as if throwing away the empty cake plate would help you lose weight.” PeopleIfsThinkingHelpingPastLosesConsequenceEmptyWeightCakeThrowingPlatesLose WeightThrowing Away Author:Timothy B. Tyson
“He who sups with the devil had better have a long spoon. The devilry of modernity has its own magic: The [believer] who sups with it will find his spoon getting shorter and shorter--until that last supper in which he is left alone at the table, with no spoon at all and with an empty plate. The devil, one may guess, will by then have gone away to more interesting company.” MayLongLastsLeftInterestingCompanyGoneMagicDevilEmptyTablesBelieverPlatesModernitySpoonsLeft AloneSupperGone AwayLast Supper Author:Peter L. Berger