Famous quotes containing the words flat and/or plate:
“Castaway, your time is a flat sea that doesnt stop,
with no new land to make for and no new stories to swap.”
—Anne Sexton (19281974)
“Then he rang the bell and ordered a ham sandwich. When the maid placed the plate on the table, he deliberately looked away but as soon as the door had shut, he grabbed the sandwich with both hands, immediately soiled his fingers and chin with the hanging margin of fat and, grunting greedily, began to much.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (18991977)