Fats Quotes - Page 15

• Fat girl, terrestrial, my summer, my night,
  How is it I find you in difference, see you there
  In a moving contour, a change not quite completed?
  You are familiar yet an aberration.

  Wallace Stevens

  Girl, Summer, Moving

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play”, p.301, Vintage

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• Enclosing every thin man, there's a fat man demanding elbow-room.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Men, Elbows, Rooms

  Evelyn Waugh (1994). “The Sword of Honour Trilogy”

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• Please God, we're all right here. Please leave us alone.
  Don't send death in his fat red suit and his ho-ho baritone.

  Anne Sexton

  God, Contentment, Red

  Anne Sexton (1978). “Words for Dr. Y.: uncollected poems with three stories”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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• Pulling off the fat diamond engagement ring,
  pulling off the elopement wedding ring,
  and holding them, clicking them
  in thumb and forefinger,
  the indent of twenty-five years,
  like a tiny rip leaving its mark.

  Anne Sexton

  Rip, Divorce, Years

  Anne Sexton (1976). “45 Mercy Street”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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• Pride is a fault that great men blush not to own: it is the ennobled offspring of self-love; though, it must be confessed, grave and pompous vanity, Iike a fat plebeian in a rove of office, does very often assume its name.

  Joanna Baillie

  Pride, Men, Names

  Joanna Baillie (1851). “The Dramatic and Poetical Works of Joanna Baillie ; Complete in One Volume”, p.209

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• A wheat belly represents the accumulation of fat that results from years of consuming foods that trigger insulin, the hormone of fat storage.

  William Davis

  Years, Wheat, Triggers

  William Davis (2014). “Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight, and Find Your Path Back to Health”, p.4, Rodale

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• a fat Reichian wife screeching over potatoes Get a job!
  And five nose running brats in love with Batman

  Gregory Corso

  Running, Jobs, Wife

  Gregory Corso (1960). “The Happy Birthday of Death”, p.31, New Directions Publishing

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• A chest of gold coins or a fat wallet of bills is of no use
  whatsoever to a wrecked sailor alone on a raft.

  Alan Watts

  Gold, Use, Coins

  Alan W. Watts (2010). “Does It Matter?: Essays on Man s Relation to Materiality”, p.4, New World Library

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• I just think it should be illegal to call someone fat on TV... Because why is humiliating people funny?

  Jennifer Lawrence

  Thinking, People, Tvs

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• Maybe something is wrong with me but I just think I'm normal. I'm not super-skinny but I'm not super-fat. But I don't really care about what other people say.

  Marion Bartoli

  Thinking, People, Care

  "Wimbledon 2010: People's champion Marion Bartoli back to hold court". Interview with Anna Kessel, www.theguardian.com. June 26, 2010.

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• ...I will not be a sight gag for anybody. I will not do anything degrading to myself or other fat people.

  Darlene Cates

  Sight, People, Acting

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• I had to get a driver's license and drive to St. Louis to find the punk-rock scene that was happening there. And there was a punk-rock scene. It was sweet. It was real. It was like everywhere else in the county. It was a handful of people who were feeling the same pull, and, of course, it was like the Island of Misfit Toys in Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer [1964]. Just the freaks, the fags, the fat girls, the unbelievable eccentrics .

  Michael Stipe

  Girl, Sweet, Real

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Food is a big bargain in America, and you can go to these places, we all like them, and you get big portions, and they taste good. But they're higher in fat than ever before. And same thing has happened, by the way, though, to school menus. A lot of school lunch menus have more fat and more sugar than ever before.

  William J. Clinton

  School, Lunch, America

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Bear hunting? Come on up and we'll fix you up, you betcha. Just be sure you bring some hunting buddies with you, preferably fat ones who can't run as fast as you.

  Sarah Palin

  Running, Hunting, Bears

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• There is more to American politics than fat cats and their political friends. There are serious-minded liberals who fight the good fight on many issues, ecologically oriented politicians who remain true to their cause, and honest people of every political stripe who are not beholden to any wealthy people. But there are not enough of them, and they are often worn down by the constant pressure from lobbyists, lawyers and conventional politicians.

  G. William Domhoff

  Honesty, Cat, Fighting

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• It struck me that many Christians flash around their 'no trans fat' label, trying to convince everyone they are healthy and good. Yet they have no substantive or healthful elements to their faith. It's like the Laodiceans, who thought they had everything until Christ told them they were poor and wretched.

  Francis Chan

  Christian, Healthy, Trying

  Francis Chan (2013). “Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God”, p.93, David C Cook

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• Any guilt about food, shame about the body, or judgment about health are considered stressors by the brain and are immediately transduced into their electrochemical equivalents in the body. You could eat the healthiest meal on the planet, but if you’re thinking toxic thoughts the digestion of your food goes down and your fat storage metabolism can go up. Likewise, you could be eating a nutritionally challenged meal, but if your head and heart are in the right place, the nutritive power of your food will be increased.

  Marc David

  Heart, Thinking, Brain

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• The secret is contained in a three-part formula I learned in the gym: self confidence, a positive mental attitude, and honest hard work. Many people are aware of these principles, but very few can put them into practice. Every day I hear someone say, 'I'm to fat. I need to lose twenty-five pounds, but I can't. I never seem to improve.' I'd hate myself if I had that kind of attitude, if I were that weak. I can lose ten to forty pounds rapidly, easily, painlessly, by simply setting my mind to it.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Attitude, Hate, Hard Work

  Arnold Schwarzenegger (2012). “Arnold: The Education of a Bodybuilder”, p.30, Simon and Schuster

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• The civilized nations--Greece, Rome, England--have been sustained by the primitive forests which anciently rotted where they stand. They survive as long as the soil is not exhausted. Alas for human culture! little is to be expected of a nation, when the vegetable mould is exhausted, and it is compelled to make manure of the bones of its fathers. There the poet sustains himself merely by his own superfluous fat, and the philosopher comes down on his marrow-bones.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Nature, Father, Rome

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Selected Essays of Henry David Thoreau”, p.170, Simon and Schuster

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• Until I am ready to lose weight, I cannot see how fat I am.

  Mason Cooley

  Dieting, Weight, Lost

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• I am forbidden sugar, fat, and alcohol. So hooray, I guess, for oatmeal, lemon juice, and chicken soup.

  Mason Cooley

  Oatmeal, Alcohol, Dieting

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• Fat noses have no place in the Hindi film industry. But it is not so in the West - otherwise, Anthony Quinn would have never been an actor.

  Om Puri

  Noses, Actors, West

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• Scales lie! You lose thirty pounds of muscle and you gain thirty pounds of fat and you weigh the same, right?
  Take that tape measure out. That won't lie. Your waistline is your lifeline.
  It should be the same as it was when you were a young person.

  Jack LaLanne

  Lying, Gains, Pounds

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• There was a period when I was getting a lot of banana bread, because I mentioned someone cooked me banana bread, and then everyone cooked me baked stuff, and I would take it to the hotel, and it was making me fat.

  Marc Maron

  Stuff, Bread, Bananas

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• All major publishing houses have these big fat biographies sitting there, waiting for people to die. All you have to do is slap on the end and put in on the market. It's that kind of commoditization and completion of your life before you die - and this kind of imposition of a public idea of self that replaces the actual living self - that I find so frightening.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Ideas, Publishing House, Self

  "Chuck Palahniuk in conversation with Tom Spanbauer". Interview with Kathryn Borel, www.believermag.com. May 2014.

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