Famous quotes containing the words plates and/or started:
“Realms and islands were
As plates dropped from his pocket.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“According to Father’s lexicon people who started on a job and didn’t stay at it for 50 years were “quitters.” If you stayed 20 years and then shifted to more congenial work you were a “drifter.””
—Richard Bissell (1913–1977)