Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Mary Boykin Chesnut

The weight that hangs upon our eyelids - is of lead.

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.

Elizabeth Hardwick

The famous carry about with them a great weight of patriarchal baggage-the footnotes of their lives.

Ashlee Simpson

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

Arabella Weir

Statistically, if you have ever dieted you are extremely likely not only to regain any weight you lose, but to go on to gain even more. Dieting makes you fat.

Apolo Ohno

With speed skating, it's like doing one-legged squats over and over again, with that one leg absorbing more than 80 percent of your weight. It takes an enormous amount of strength, and you're in such a weird position.

Dusty Baker

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

Janet Jackson

When I gained weight in 2005, my nutritionist was very worried. I was close to having diabetes.

Ellen G. White

High and eternal things have little weight with the youth.

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

Michael Strahan

I wanted to take some weight off my joints,

Neal Barnard

In China, because China is gaining wealth, rice consumption is way down. Rice is a poor person's food, and they're eating less of it. To wait in line at a fast food chain is cool. And they haven't historically had weight problems. So they don't have this culture of, "I need to lose weight."

Milan Kundera

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

Jordin Sparks

I looked massive next to Ryan Seacrest! But I was lucky that I've never had anyone say, 'Jordin, you need to lose weight.'

Jonathan Swift

An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before.

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.

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.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I was oppressed with the sensations I then felt; I sunk under the weight of them.

John Knox

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

Jimmy Carr

The first few weeks of joining Weight Watchers, you're just finding your feet.

Daley Thompson

When you're walking into the stadium, you just say to yourself, 'the 100m is the same anywhere, the shot put is the same weight anywhere.'

Colin Chapman

Adding power makes you faster on the straights. Subtracting weight makes you faster everywhere.

Courtney Love

So, I gained a little..weight, .. Big deal. Clean and sober.

Allison Tolman

I was getting a lot of really nasty feedback about my weight during 'Fargo,' which is unfortunate because I am statistically a completely average-size woman.