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Quotes About Fat

MR. L. PROSSER was, as they say, only human. In other words he was a carbon-based bipedal life form descended from an ape. More specifically he was forty, fat and shabby and worked for the local council.
~ Douglas Adams
The fat woman in purple was looking radiant…Undoubtedly the fat had certain compensations in life…a zest—a gusto—denied to those of more fashionable contours.
~ Agatha Christie
Little Mariano was at home, getting fat
~ Alan Gratz
The 'classic' pig is inspired by northern Italy. It is made up of meat and fat, rosemary and garlic, salt and lots of black pepper.
~ Bill Buford
I was a really girly girl when I was younger. I only wore pink until I was at least 12. Think of me in culottes with a Bagpuss T-shirt and frizzy hair. Oh, and I was a fat child. It was bad news.
~ Gayle Rankin
Gary was a righteous man, frank about his lusts, and they were the lusts of the righteous: for sugar and fat and the succour of a wife.
~ Rafael Yglesias
Insulin signals cells to absorb excess sugar, which solves the problem of too much sugar in the blood, but it creates a host of new problems. Now the body's cells have too much sugar. To correct this imbalance, cells turn the sugar into saturated fat.
~ Raymond Francis
My fat cells have a memory like Einstein! I'm proof that surgery is not a magic potion. There are many ways to sabotage it.
~ Carnie Wilson
I called him up from a phone booth. The voice that answered was fat. It wheezed softly, like the voice of a man who had just won a pie-eating contest.
~ Raymond Chandler
He looked durable. Most fat men do.
~ Raymond Chandler
I hesitated, pretending to weigh it up. "What's the deal in the bar?" "Ha ha ha." Someone had programmed a laugh into the robot. It sounded like a fat man drowning in syrup.
~ Richard K. Morgan
we're all just feeding off the stored fat of a dream gone bad. You want soy sauce on that?
~ Richard K. Morgan
Sperm is high in fat and protein, which takes time for the digestive system to process.
~ Karin Slaughter
Duke was a burly, barrel-shaped Rottweiler made up of muscle and solid fat and built like a wrestler, a dog that looked like it was permanently on the verge of dying of boredom. He shook his weighty head as if he was being plagued by ear-mites and dislodged a scatter of small romantic words like a broken rope of pearls.
~ Kate Atkinson
Can you envision a world without men? No wrongdoing and bunches of euphoric, fat women.
~ Nicole Hollander
Why doesn't the fattest man in the world become a hockey goalie?
~ Steven Wright
I've played so many historical characters because most horrible dictators are short, fat, middle-aged men.
~ Bob Hoskins
I cannot but bless the memory of Julius Caesar, for the great esteem he expressed for fat men and his aversion to lean ones.
~ David Hume
When your mom was not in labor yelling at me, she made me laugh so hard.
~ Jim Gaffigan, Dad Is Fat
Cats of good breed hunt better fat than lean.
~ Benvenuto Cellini
A cat sleeps fat, yet walks thin.
~ Fred Schwab
We also find anticipatory effects from another macronutrient, oral fat. People who chew and spit out real cream cheese on a cracker versus nonfat cream cheese (a.k.a. fake cream cheese) on a cracker have relatively large elevations in triglycerides measured in the blood plasma for hours after.13 This study suggests that whole body lipid metabolism may be regulated by oral sensations of fats.
~ David J. Linden
Lion's fat is regarded as a sure preventive of tsetse or bungo. This was noted before, but I add now that it is smeared on the ox's tail, and preserves hundreds of the Banyamwesi cattle in safety while going to the coast; it is also used to keep pigs and hippopotami away from gardens: the smell is probably the efficacious part in "Heresi," as they call it.
~ David Livingstone
Ham's substantial, ham is fat. Ham is firm and sound. Ham's what God was getting at When He made pigs so round.
~ Roy Blount, Jr.