Weight Quotes - Page 31

• I've always had stamina. It's a genetic thing. Don't forget, I'm from the era where we played outside, so there was no issue with weight because we were out running around the fields and playing hide and seek.

  Tracie Bennett

  Running, Issues, Eras

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• I have obsessed about my weight in some sort of way all my life. I used to write in my journal what I weighed every day.

  Valerie Bertinelli

  Writing, Way, Obsessed

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• They've never written a love story for me since I've been on the show and I think there's just more weight to it when two people love each other.

  Crystal Chappell

  Thinking, Two, People

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• It's not just the light weights that give a long toned look with the Tracy Anderson Method, it's using the body in different rotations while contracting and releasing the muscle, causing it to stretch and lengthen.

  Tracy Anderson

  Light, Long, Giving

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• There are dedicated actors and there are people now who only stay famous for putting on weight, losing it, then putting it on again.

  Joe Dempsie

  People, Actors, Losing

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• As long as I have that support from my team, and I have that confidence in myself that I train really hard, I think there's no one out there who can defeat me in my weight class.

  Nonito Donaire

  Team, Thinking, Class

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• Think about how much it costs to incarcerate someone. Do we want them just sitting in prison, lifting weights, becoming violent and thinking about the next crime? Or do we want them having a little purpose in life and learning a skill?

  John Ensign

  Thinking, Lifting Weights, Skills

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• The demographic weight of countries such as China and India exercise a massive pressure on our wages and salaries. They have accomplished massive technological advances and the revolution in information technology has reduced the costs of transport.

  Laurent Fabius

  Country, Exercise, Technology

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• Everybody wants to be a better version of themselves - everybody. And I hope one day I can lose some weight. Maybe, who knows, I'll hire myself a trainer and a fancy cook. In five years, maybe I'll be an action hero. Then again, maybe I'll just be this guy. Who knows? But the fun part is embracing the human side of that.

  Billy Gardell

  Fun, Hero, Years

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• I have been a big guy all my life, I am not going to lose a bunch of weight, because then you're like that weird fat person that got skinny but still has a big head. I don't want to do that. So I'm just trying.

  Billy Gardell

  Guy, Trying, Want

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• I don't put weight on fame, and having people around me just because I am famous makes me feel really bad about myself.

  Jessica Alba

  People, Fame, Feels

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• When you're the spokeswoman for a weight-loss program, everything is witnessed. I weigh in once a week with a witness. I have to sign an affidavit saying I cannot have any surgeries.

  Kirstie Alley

  Loss, Week, Program

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• Being able to do lead roles in pictures or onstage or whatever it is that you're doing in acting is obviously what you strive for because you want to better yourself as an actor and you want to better yourself as a person as well. But that does come with a lot of responsibility and a great deal of weight.

  Jamie Campbell Bower

  Responsibility, Acting, Roles

  "Jamie Campbell Bower Is Our New Class' 'Next Johnny Depp'". Interview with Josh Horowitz, www.mtv.com. September 26, 2011.

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• For all the concern about bodies and weight, 'Baywatch' has three huge catering trucks on the set at all times. One for entrees, one appetizers and one for junk food.

  Nicole Eggert

  Junk, Three, Body

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• Velvet Elvis never puts on weight.

  Al Yankovic

  Velvet

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• Do I have to change my name, will it get me far? Should I lose some weight, am I gonna be a star?

  Madonna Ciccone

  Art, Stars, Media

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• It is, however, an argument of no weight to say that natural bodies are first generated or compounded out of those things into which they are at the last broken down or dissolved.

  William Harvey

  Science, Broken, Body

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• When the elements are arranged in vertical columns according to increasing atomic weight, so that the horizontal lines contain analogous elements again according to increasing atomic weight, an arrangement results from which several general conclusions may be drawn.

  Dmitri Mendeleev

  Science, Elements, Lines

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• That there is a Spring, or Elastical power in the Air we live in. By which ελατνρ [elater] or Spring of the Air, that which I mean is this: That our Air either consists of, or at least abounds with, parts of such a nature, that in case they be bent or compress'd by the weight of the incumbent part of the Atmosphere, or by any other Body, they do endeavour, as much as in them lies, to free themselves from that pressure, by bearing against the contiguous Bodies that keep them bent.

  Robert Boyle

  Lying, Spring, Mean

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• The difficulty lay with the mind accommodating itself to the notion of the plane, with all its weight, defying gravity, staying aloft. She understood the aerodynamics of flight, could comprehend the laws of physics that made flight possible, but her heart, at the moment, would have none of it. Her heart knew the plane could fall out of the sky.

  Anita Shreve

  Fall, Heart, Law

  Anita Shreve (1998). “The Pilot's Wife”, Little, Brown

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• I think there's something unfortunate about the attention that performers get in our media, but the weight of government propaganda is so heavy that anyone with a different point of view who has access to the media has a responsibility to use it.

  David Clennon

  Responsibility, Thinking, Views

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• There have been periods of my life when I was heavier, like right after high school I definitely gained that freshman 15. It was tough to lose. Ever since then, I know that I can gain weight, so I try to be careful.

  Camilla Luddington

  School, Trying, Gains

  "Camilla Luddington As Lara Croft" by James Fell, www.askmen.com.

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• Now that I'm feeling the responsibilities of adulthood, the choices we make become an incredible weight.

  Laura Marling

  Responsibility, Choices, Feelings

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I just say that at any weight you should love your life.

  Kathy Najimy

  Love You, Love Your Life, Should

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• Cut out the eye from a photograph of one who has been loved but is seen no more. Attach the eye to the pendulum of a metronome and regulate the weight to suit the tempo desired. Keep going to the limit of endurance. With a hammer well-aimed, try to destroy the whole at a single blow.

  Man Ray

  Eye, Cutting, Blow

  Roland Penrose (Sir.), Man Ray (1975). “Man Ray”, New York Graphic Society Books

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