Quotes About Weight

There was a hollow in her chest, but at the bottom of this emptiness a heavy weight pressed down and bruised her stomach, so that she felt sick.

Knowledge is often a responsibility nobody wants

ONE THING OF GREAT IMPORTANCE can affect a small number of people. Equally so, a thing of little importance can affect a multitude.

Kennedy's issue didn't seem to be that she had been in jail, but that she had put on weight in jail. The food had been crappy, she'd told me, and it has been high on the carbohydrate count. But I'm an emotional eater, she'd said, as if that were a terrible thing. And I was real emotional in jail.

I was quite a fat lad.

My first Weight Watchers meeting was when I was 14 years old on Long Island, and I went there with my mother. I'd gained that adolescent weight and wanted to try out for cheerleading... I lost the weight, tried out, and made the cheerleading team.

If you want to lose weight, you must make sure your appetite for life is far bigger than your appetite for mere food.

I get asked about my weight endlessly. There is no story. It doesn't merit so much talk.

I think showing people being messy and showing them being wrong and showing them in their humanity is something that we can do, but it becomes difficult because there's this weight put on comedy to be part of change and I'm like, 'I don't think it changes anything.'

I need to eat every three hours - it keeps my metabolism going so I stay at a certain weight.

I don't do long juice cleanses because, for me, it messes up my metabolism, and I actually gain weight.

Honestly, I have the quickest metabolism ever, I can eat as much as I want and barely gain any weight. So I just try to eat as much as I can every day.

Certainly Roseanne Barr has power, but it seems like it's more acceptable to be heavy if you're lower middle class and blue collar.

I was fat because I lived in the Midwest in the 1970s, and everyone was a little fat then and only getting fatter.

I've written not milestones of cinema but millstones.

I've gone through literally over 30 years of struggle with weight and food and body image... and I'm like, 'Wait a minute.'

What happens, if the writer is good, is usually not that the work seems derivative or trivial but just the opposite: the work actually acquires depth and resonance from the echoes and chimes it sets up with prior texts, weight from the accumulated use of certain basic patterns and tendencies.

There was a sense of being in the midst of something having prodigious weight and volume but no form, of being utterly unable to utilize past experience.

her presence had not so much weight as to task thought, and yet enough to exercise it.

los años ricos en acontecimientos transcurren con mayor lentitud que los años pobres, vacíos y carentes de peso, que el viento barre y que pasan volando. Lo

The only people I truly envy are those who can play a musical instrument and those who can eat anything they want without gaining weight.

For intellectuals in general, where the primary constraint is peer response, rather than empirical criteria, currently prevailing attitudes among peers may carry more weight than enduring principles or the weight of evidence.

My heart is heavy, she thought. It's not just a saying. It is what is—heavy, a great stone lodged in my breast, pressing down my whole being. How can I even stand straight and look out upon the world? I am doubled over into myself and, for all the weight, find only emptiness.

the happy weight of secret love is just as heavy as sadness.