Platter Quotes

41 quotes by 38 authors

Rock gives children, on a silver platter, with all the public authority of the entertainment industry, everything their parents always used to tell them they… — Allan Bloom
Life is --the way God has given it to me was just a platter-- a golden platter of life laid out there for me. Its… — Johnny Cash
Let no one ever shy away from the claim that Jews have power, that Jews have influence. We have learned the terrible lesson of history;… — Alan Dershowitz
We need to know why NHTSA, which has officials who are paid to do nothing else but monitor accidents, have been asleep at the wheel… — Fred Upton
All the white meat is gone. There's nothin' but necks on the platter. — Darrell Royal
The great piano virtuoso Paderewski was once playing before an audience of the rich and the royal. After a brilliant performance, an elegant lady waxed… — Eric Butterworth
Bring me Longstreet's head on a platter and the war will be over — Abraham Lincoln
I don't believe in nirvana. If nirvana was handed to us on a silver platter, this would be the first day of our struggle to… — Holly Near
You might say he was one taco short of a combination platter. — Robin Williams
Leadership is never given on a silver platter, one has to earn it. — Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
It is television's primary damage that it provides ten million children with the same fantasy, ready-made and on a platter. — Marya Mannes
It seems the best approach for any venture is a combo platter - Japan's quality-consciousness paired with America's willingness to experiment and (sometimes) fail. — Daniel H. Pink
You have to earn money the hard way. Because no-one will serve it up to you on a silver platter. — Gordon Wu
Almost nothing is presented to you on a silver platter. You have to really work for it. — Katarina Witt
Nobody hands you excellence on a silver platter. You earn it through planning, preparing, and persisting in the face of all obstacles. — Terry Orlick
Food from the platter / Water from the rain / The subject and the matter / I'm going home again / Can't sell a leaf… — Lemn Sissay
It used to be said of a man who had suffered a catastrophic setback in his line of work that he had been handed his… — Kurt Vonnegut
Say there's a white kid who lives in a nice home, goes to an all-white school, and is pretty much having everything handed to him… — Eminem
My mother's a genius. She just kept feeding me art on whatever we had; paper plates, silver platter, didn't matter. You know, she just kept… — Jill Scott
The best gift I was ever given was the arts. My mum gave me those on a silver platter. Growing up, her and my grandmother… — Jill Scott

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