Weight Quotes

I could not get as big as a bodybuilder. I tried to put on as much weight in the right places as I could. My weightlifting was impressive for me, but not for some of the guys I see down at the gym.

Ralph Fiennes

I had had an extroverted personality with a lot of friends, but when I lost the weight and grew so tall, I withdrew within myself.

Tyra Banks

I had to gain weight until I looked like a seal so I could compete with the real whores who played the other roles. I was fat as a barrel.

Victoria Abril

I hate overweight, because it implies that there is a weight standard I should be adhering to.

Camryn Manheim

I have been dairy free for several years, and I started because I felt it was going to reduce my allergies, which it did, and help me lose weight, which it did.

Fran Drescher

I look at an ant and I see myself: a native South African, endowed by nature with a strength much greater than my size so I might cope with the weight of a racism that crushes my spirit.

Miriam Makeba†

I never - you know also one of the things that would save me for a man my age, it was not that easy to lose that much weight and fall down and look like something draped.

Karl Lagerfeld

I want more muscles! I go to the gym three or four times a week with a personal trainer. I can afford that now. I can not put on weight though, no matter how much I eat.

Christopher Parker

I am very hard on myself because I know how good my body can look. Dorie has taught me to use less weight and more repetition so I don't become too muscular.

Donna Dixon

If American men are obsessed with money, American women are obsessed with weight. The men talk of gain, the women talk of loss, and I do not know which talk is the more boring.

Marya Mannes

If I like myself at this weight, then this is what I am going to be. I do not have an eating disorder.

Courteney Cox

It is true I gained muscular vigour, but with it a prodigious appetite, which I was compelled to indulge, and consequently increased in weight, until my kind old friend advised me to forsake the exercise.

William Banting

Never order food in excess of your body weight.

Erma Bombeck

The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor.

Albert Camus†

Some people have a foolish way of not minding, or pretending not to mind, what they eat. For my part, I mind my belly very studiously, and very carefully; for I look upon it, that he who does not mind his belly will hardly mind anything else.

Samuel Johnson

Self delusion is pulling in your stomach when you step on the scales.

Paul Sweeney

Eat not to dullness, drink not to elevation.

Benjamin Franklin

Donít eat too many almonds; they add weight to the breasts.

Colette

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.

Elie Wiesel

It is okay to be fat. So you are fat. Just be fat and shut up about it.

Roseanne Barr

I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me that they are wonderful things for other people to go on.