Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dusty Baker

He can't put any weight on it right now,

William S. Burroughs

Fear of death is form of stasis horrors. The dead weight of time.

Rob Bell

The ancient Hebrews had a word for this awareness of the importance of things. They called it kavod. Kavod originally was a business term, referring to the heaviness of something, which was crucial in weights and measures and the maintaining of fairness in transactions. Over time the word began to take on a more figurative meaning, referring to the importance and significance of something.

Robin Gibb

It's hard for me to put on weight.

Warren Buffett

I put heavy weight on certainty. It's not risky to buy securities at a fraction of what they're worth.

Zadie Smith

13.5 Mrs. Wolfe asks whether Mr. Iqbal expects her Susan to undertake compulsory headstands. 13.6 Mr. Iqbal infers that, considering Susan's academic performance and weight problems, a headstand regime might be desirable.

I need to get in the weight room. She is good.

Milan Kundera

Necessity, weight, and value are three concepts inextricably bound: only necessity is heavy, and only what is heavy has value.

Harvey Keitel

They have equal weight and you do the same work you'd do if you were playing a dramatic role.

Zach Parise

You want to get the first one out of the way, ... It's awesome. It was kind of a blur, but it's also a weight off your shoulders.

Bill Gates

You've got the weight on me, I'll give you that.

Eric Bana

I used to lift very heavy weights in my mid-twenties - I used to bench press over 300lb. The most I ever lifted was 330lb; I couldn't do that today, no way.

Michael Strahan

I wanted to take some weight off my joints,

Joely Richardson

And whatever my weight, I've always been skinny from the waist up.

Mike Ditka

I do some weights and I do a lot of stretching.

Kathy Bates

I have always had a problem with my weight.

Mary Roach

The human head is of the same approximate size and weight as a roaster chicken. I have never before had occasion to make the comparison, for never before today have I seen a head in a roasting pan.

Kingsley Amis

The first, indeed the only, requirement of a diet is that it should lose you weight without reducing your alcoholic intake by the smallest degree.

Ashlee Simpson

Does the weight of consequence drag you down until it pulls you under?

Philippa Gregory

Words have weight, something once said cannot be unsaid. Meaning is like a stone dropped into a pool; the ripples will spread and you cannot know what back they wash against.

Teresa Heinz

As a young woman, I attended Witwatersrand University in Johannesburg, South Africa, which was then not segregated. But I witnessed the weight of apartheid everywhere around me.

Sean Kingston

It's easy to gain weight when you're in the studio.

Scarlett Pomers

Weight was the thing I hyperfocused on. It went from me losing a few pounds to slowly over time losing more and more weight and becoming more and more focused on it.

Kate Smith

It became obvious in 1957 that I was endangering my health by carrying so much weight.

Leona Lewis

I've always been conscious of my weight.

Keith Emerson

We can all put weight on or lose weight.

Lawrence Hargrave

Bent metal is worse than bent wood and weight for weight is more flexible.

Karl Lagerfeld

I have now exactly the same weight I had when I was 18, 20.

Kate Hudson

I gained 60 pounds, and I'm proud of it. Why do I need to watch my weight when I'm pregnant? I could eat whatever the hell I want to eat.

George Kotsiopoulos

The weight of a fabric is inconsequential, since seasonal dressing is all about layering.

Manu Bennett

Food is the essential thing to gaining weight. Protein, you know, that's basically it - protein.

Joel Fuhrman

Anything you adopt temporarily only begets temporary results, and fluctuating your weight up and down is not lifespan favorable.

John Knox

The Scriptures of God are my only foundation and substance in all matters of weight and importance.