Quotes and Sayings about Diet
"This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well."
- Francis Bacon
(Related: Man, Revenge, Wounds)
"She used to diet on any kind of food she could lay her hands on."
- Arthur Baer
(Related: Diet, Food)
"I am now in that happy comfortable state that I do not hesitate to indulge in any fancy in regard to diet, but watch the consequences, and do not continue any course which adds to weight or bulk and consequent discomfort."
- William Banting
(Related: Diet, Consequences, Fancy, Now, State, Weight)
"For the sake of argument and illustration I will presume that certain articles of ordinary diet, however beneficial in youth, are prejudicial in advanced life, like beans to a horse, whose common ordinary food is hay and corn."
- William Banting
(Related: Food, Diet, Life, Argument, Will, Youth)
"I have been following a vegan diet now since the 1980s, and find it not only healthier, but also much more attractive than the chunks of meat that were on my plate as a child."
- Neal Barnard
(Related: Diet, Now)
"We help people to begin truly healthful diets, and it is absolutely wonderful to see, not only their success, but also their delight at their ability to break old habits and feel really healthy for a change."
- Neal Barnard
(Related: Change, Success, People, Ability, Delight, Habits, Help, Old)
"A vegan diet takes care of most of what we need to do. But you'll also want to minimize the use of oils generally, because while olive oil and other vegetable oils are better for your heart than chicken fat, they are as fattening as animal fats."
- Neal Barnard
(Related: Diet, Heart, Care, Oil, Want)
"I used to be hung up on my figure, but it's a waste of time. I don't believe in diets. Have four pints one night, be healthy the next."
- Sophie Ellis Bextor
(Related: Time, Night, Waste)
"And I believe that the best buy in public health today must be a combination of regular physical exercise and a healthy diet."
- Julie Bishop
(Related: Diet, Health, Exercise, Public, Today)
"Let me pose you a question. Can farm-raised salmon be organic when its feed has nothing to do with its natural diet, even if the feed itself is supposedly organic, and the fish themselves are packed tightly in pens, swimming in their own filth?"
- Mark Bittman
(Related: Diet, Fish, Nothing, Question)
"Thanks to farm subsidies, the fine collaboration between agribusiness and Congress, soy, corn and cattle became king. And chicken soon joined them on the throne. It was during this period that the cycle of dietary and planetary destruction began, the thing we're only realizing just now."
- Mark Bittman
(Related: Collaboration, Congress, Destruction, Now)
"The sad thing is, when it comes to diet, is that even when well-intentioned Feds try to do right by us, they fail. Either they're outvoted by puppets of agribusiness, or they are puppets of agribusiness."
- Mark Bittman
(Related: Diet, Right)
"The USDA is not our ally here. We have to take matters into our own hands, not only by advocating for a better diet for everyone - and that's the hard part - but by improving our own. And that happens to be quite easy. Less meat, less junk, more plants."
- Mark Bittman
(Related: Diet, Plants)
"A friend doesn't go on a diet because you are fat."
- Erma Bombeck
(Related: Diet, Friend)
"Only he who believes is obedient and only he who is obedient believes."
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
"We must learn to regard people less in light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer."
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
(Related: People, Light)
"To endure the cross is not tragedy; it is the suffering which is the fruit of an exclusive allegiance to Jesus Christ."
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
(Related: Christ, Suffering, Tragedy)
"The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children."
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
(Related: Society, Children, World)
"The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children."
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
(Related: Society, Morality, Children)
"Politics are not the task of a Christian."
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
(Related: Politics, Christian)
"One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons."
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
(Related: Act, Obedience, Sermons)
"Gratitude changes the pangs of memory into a tranquil joy."
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
(Related: Gratitude, Joy, Memory)
"The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned; it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy."
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
(Related: Inspiration, Hope, Optimism, Enemy, Future, Man, Present, Vitality)
"God's truth judges created things out of love, and Satan's truth judges them out of envy and hatred."
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
(Related: God, Love, Truth, Envy, Hatred, Judges, Satan)
"It is very easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements in comparison with what we owe others."
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
(Related: Importance)
"Human love has little regard for the truth. It makes the truth relative, since nothing, not even the truth, must come between it and the beloved person."
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
(Related: Love, Truth, Nothing)
"If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction."
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
(Related: Direction, Running, Wrong)
"It is the characteristic excellence of the strong man that he can bring momentous issues to the fore and make a decision about them. The weak are always forced to decide between alternatives they have not chosen themselves."
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
(Related: Decision, Excellence, Man)
"It is the nature, and the advantage, of strong people that they can bring out the crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them. The weak always have to decide between alternatives that are not their own."
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
(Related: Nature, People, Opinion, Questions)
"A god who let us prove his existence would be an idol."
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
(Related: God, Existence)
"I don't have a problem with my body. I don't diet, and I'm not hiding anything. I'm not going to be the subject of a movie of the week 10 years from now."
- Lara Flynn Boyle
(Related: Diet, Body, Now, Years)
"It looks to me to be obvious that the whole world cannot eat an American diet."
- Jerry Brown
(Related: Diet, American, Obvious, World)
"We are also in the process of defining how best to work together with food and other companies to address diet and physical activity factors in order to prevent chronic diseases."
- Gro Harlem Brundtland
(Related: Diet, Food, Work, Order)
"Such lifestyle factors such as cigarette smoking, excessive alcohol consumption, little physical activity and low dietary calcium intake are risk factors for osteoporosis as well as for many other non-communicable diseases."
- Gro Harlem Brundtland
(Related: Alcohol, Risk, Smoking)
"A safe and nutritionally adequate diet is a basic individual right and an essential condition for sustainable development, especially in developing countries."
- Gro Harlem Brundtland
(Related: Diet, Development, Countries, Right)
"I always recommend a sensible diet, including lots of carbohydrates and avoiding too much fat. Dancers don't need different fuel from other people - they just need more of it because they use more energy."
- Deborah Bull
(Related: Diet, People, Energy)
"My interesting diet tips are eat early and don't nosh between meals. I mean, I can pack it away."
- Carol Burnett
(Related: Diet)
"I did my famous cabbage soup diet, so I was able to do it."
- Ellen Burstyn
(Related: Diet, Famous)
"We have the opportunity to provide the first FDA reviewed and approved over-the-counter option that can help people lose weight and make changes to their lifestyle and diet."
- Steve Burton
(Related: Diet, People, Opportunity, First, Help, Weight)
"I never diet. I smoke. I drink now and then. I never work out."
- Naomi Campbell
(Related: Work, Diet, Now)
"My experience as a school nurse taught me that we need to make a concerted effort, all of us, to increase physical fitness activity among our children and to encourage all Americans to adopt a healthier diet that includes fruits and vegetables, but there is more."
- Lois Capps
(Related: Diet, Experience, Fitness, Americans, Children, Effort, School)
"The right diet directs sexual energy into the parts that matter."
- Barbara Cartland
(Related: Diet, Energy, Right)
"To many, Homer may appear lazy and a loser, but he's just much misguided. He's boorish, sure, but well meaning and, I guess, the one thing we have in common is the pursuit of lousy diets."
- Dan Castellaneta
(Related: May, Meaning, Pursuit)
"Adopting a new healthier lifestyle can involve changing diet to include more fresh fruit and vegetables as well as increasing levels of exercise."
- Linford Christie
(Related: Diet, Exercise)
"In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet."
- Winston Churchill
(Related: Diet, Life, Words)
"I don't believe in dieting."
- Joan Collins
(Related: Dieting)
"I think dieting is bad for you."
- Joan Collins
(Related: Dieting)
"It is vital that we provide North Dakota's children with nutritionally sound diets. That means ensuring that they are getting plenty of fresh fruits and vegetables, and are developing good eating habits for their future."
- Kent Conrad
(Related: Children, Eating, Future, Habits, Sound)
"There are six components of wellness: proper weight and diet, proper exercise, breaking the smoking habit, control of alcohol, stress management and periodic exams."
- Kenneth H. Cooper
(Related: Diet, Control, Habit, Management, Alcohol, Exercise, Smoking, Stress, Weight)
"Far too many times over the next 12 to 15 years, it was brought to my attention that people who followed my exercise guidelines exactly but ignored their diet, their weight and their cigarette smoking had heart attacks at age 55."
- Kenneth H. Cooper
(Related: Age, Diet, People, Heart, Attention, Exercise, Smoking, Weight, Years)
"I don't believe in fad diets."
- Jenny Craig
"I thought, you know the food and the diet thing is one way to start yourself onto a healthy lifestyle, but if you don't move, if you don't start exercising you're gonna deteriorate."
- Warren Cuccurullo
(Related: Diet, Food, Thought)
"Do not suppose, however, that I intend to urge a diet of classics on anybody. I have seen such diets at work. I have known people who have actually read all, or almost all, the guaranteed Hundred Best Books. God save us from reading nothing but the best."
- Robertson Davies
(Related: Diet, Work, God, People, Books, Nothing, Reading)
"Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread, and pumpkin pie."
- Jim Davis
(Related: Diet)
"Everyone would talk about their diets and working out and what it made me do was go to craft services where all the food for the cast and crew was and I would eat."
- Kristin Davis
(Related: Food, Talk)
"I have to be very careful about diet and exercise."
- Taylor Dayne
(Related: Diet, Exercise)
"Particularly at around the age of 70 you reach a stage where you have to be very careful. If, at that point, you abandon the work you have been doing, there is a good chance that you will just collapse and drift."
- Dietrich Fischer Dieskau
(Related: Age, Work, Chance, Will)
"Rather, I believe that it is very good, if, with the aid of his songs, we can be reminded, among other things, of the social conditions under which Schubert had to work."
- Dietrich Fischer Dieskau
(Related: Work, Songs)
"The composition of a single melody is born out of a bit of text, perhaps the first line, but it can also be the entire strophe; it can even be the poem's overall form."
- Dietrich Fischer Dieskau
(Related: First)
"The future? Like unwritten books and unborn children, you don't talk about it."
- Dietrich Fischer Dieskau
(Related: Books, Children, Future, Talk)
"Unfortunately, it happens all too seldom that you really disappear behind a work, that you are no longer audible as an interpreter."
- Dietrich Fischer Dieskau
(Related: Work)
"Within each individual young person you meet, you have the same fields to plow. The trick is just to wake thmem up, to sharpen their ears for what's already there in the music."
- Dietrich Fischer Dieskau
(Related: Music)
"Which is why, in my lieder concerts, I always strove, when possible, to sing only the works of a single composer, so that the audience could be gradually drawn into a particular creative genius' way of thinking, and could follow him."
- Dietrich Fischer Dieskau
(Related: Genius, Thinking)
"You can't do opera when already from the 10th row you can only see little dolls on the stage. In such an enormous space you can't put much faith in the personal presence of the individual singer, which is reflected in facial expressions, among other things."
- Dietrich Fischer Dieskau
(Related: Faith, Opera, Space)
"With creative people, truly new horizons open up."
- Dietrich Fischer Dieskau
(Related: People, Open)
"Many, many composers have only found their way to a certain form, through familiarizing themselves with texts."
- Dietrich Fischer Dieskau
(Related: Composers)
"Toward the end of his life, one can sense that he was no longer thinking his way into the minds of others, causing them to speak on his behalf, but that he was now speaking for himself."
- Dietrich Fischer Dieskau
(Related: Life, End, Now, Sense, Thinking)
"When you go out onto the stage, all the preparation has to be forced into your subconscious. For the moment of the performance, we all have to return to a new level of unconsciousness. All the reflection and all the doubts have to be laid aside before you start."
- Dietrich Fischer Dieskau
(Related: Performance, Preparation, Reflection)
"Brahms believed that there was no need to publish absolutely everything that Schubert ever wrote."
- Dietrich Fischer Dieskau
"What concerns me, is the general social tendency to enforce a level, above which nothing rises and stands out."
- Dietrich Fischer Dieskau
(Related: Nothing)
"All music has to speak in some form or other."
- Dietrich Fischer Dieskau
(Related: Music)
"It's not all that different with the orchestra. There are orchestras that seem to be encased in dough, so that first you have to break through the normal routine, and clear out the openings."
- Dietrich Fischer Dieskau
(Related: First, Orchestras, Routine)
"Anyone who draws attention to himself as an individual, is viewed with suspicion. We acquired this tendency, of course, from America, and we must resist it: levelling, and imitation of what others are already doing."
- Dietrich Fischer Dieskau
(Related: America, Attention, Imitation, Suspicion)
"Admittedly, it is really our duty, as artists, to hold up a mirror to our own era; but, on the other hand, these works have lives of their own, and they're still alive today."
- Dietrich Fischer Dieskau
(Related: Artists, Duty, Today)
"But the thing that will always occupy me the most is music."
- Dietrich Fischer Dieskau
(Related: Music, Will)
"But, on the other hand, if Schubert were alive today, he would find even richer fields to plow."
- Dietrich Fischer Dieskau
(Related: Today)
"I came together with younger musicians and tried to pass on my own experiences. In the process, I always tried to maintain my curiosity and spontaneity."
- Dietrich Fischer Dieskau
(Related: Curiosity, Musicians, Spontaneity)
"If you only do little clusters - three or four songs by one, and another, and then yet another - you lose the opportunity to think your way into the composer's mind, since, after all, most of these pieces are quite brief."
- Dietrich Fischer Dieskau
(Related: Opportunity, Mind, Songs)
"In fact, the element of play has an important role in my life, and I think that should be the case in the life of every artist. Our life is occupied with playing, whether we play an instrument or a role."
- Dietrich Fischer Dieskau
(Related: Life, Artist, Fact, Play)
"In Romanticism, the main determinant is the mood, the atmosphere. And in that regard, you could also describe Schubert as a Romantic."
- Dietrich Fischer Dieskau
(Related: Romantic)
"It is desirable that people make music on the breath, with the breath."
- Dietrich Fischer Dieskau
(Related: Music, People)
"And what unity is to be had, at a time when orchestras are dying out, and when opera houses are about to close their doors; what's going to come next - when nothing new in music, for the orchestra, is truly lasting: pieces are performed once, and then they're thrown away."
- Dietrich Fischer Dieskau
(Related: Time, Music, Dying, Houses, Nothing, Opera, Orchestras, Unity)
"Most women set out to try to change a man, and when they have changed him they do not like him."
- Marlene Dietrich
(Related: Change, Women, Man)
"Latins are tenderly enthusiastic. In Brazil they throw flowers at you. In Argentina they throw themselves."
- Marlene Dietrich
(Related: Brazil, Flowers)
"It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter."
- Marlene Dietrich
(Related: Friends)
"In America, sex is an obsession, in other parts of the world it's a fact."
- Marlene Dietrich
(Related: Sex, America, Fact, Obsession, World)
"Without tenderness, a man is uninteresting."
- Marlene Dietrich
(Related: Man, Tenderness)
"If there is a supreme being, he's crazy."
- Marlene Dietrich
(Related: Being)
"I'm worth more dead than alive. Don't cry for me after I'm gone; cry for me now."
- Marlene Dietrich
(Related: Now, Worth)
"I never enjoyed working in a film."
- Marlene Dietrich
(Related: Film)
"Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast."
- Marlene Dietrich
(Related: Man, Woman)
"I had no desire to be an film actress, to always play somebody else, to be always beautiful with somebody constantly straightening out your every eyelash. It was always a big bother to me."
- Marlene Dietrich
(Related: Desire, Film, Play)
"There's something about an American soldier you can't explain. They're so grateful for anything, even a film actress coming to see them."
- Marlene Dietrich
(Related: American, Film)
"I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself."
- Marlene Dietrich
(Related: Love, Thoughts, Authority, Joy, Quotations)
"I dress for the image. Not for myself, not for the public, not for fashion, not for men."
- Marlene Dietrich
(Related: Men, Dress, Fashion, Public)
"Sex. In America an obsession. In other parts of the world a fact."
- Marlene Dietrich
(Related: Sex, America, Fact, Obsession, World)
"Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs."
- Marlene Dietrich
(Related: Beliefs, Habits)
"The average man is more interested in a woman who is interested in him than he is in a woman with beautiful legs."
- Marlene Dietrich
(Related: Man, Woman)
"The Germans and I no longer speak the same language."
- Marlene Dietrich
(Related: Language)
"The tears I have cried over Germany have dried. I have washed my face."
- Marlene Dietrich
(Related: Germany, Tears)
"There is a gigantic difference between earning a great deal of money and being rich."
- Marlene Dietrich
(Related: Money, Being, Difference)
"They want you to bring out your intestines."
- Marlene Dietrich
(Related: Want)
"Think twice before burdening a friend with a secret."
- Marlene Dietrich
(Related: Friend)
"To be completely woman you need a master, and in him a compass for your life. You need a man you can look up to and respect. If you dethrone him it's no wonder that you are discontented, and discontented women are not loved for long."
- Marlene Dietrich
(Related: Women, Life, Man, Respect, Woman, Wonder)
"When you're dead, you're dead. That's it."
- Marlene Dietrich
"Glamour is what I sell, it's my stock in trade."
- Marlene Dietrich
(Related: Glamour, Trade)
"The weak are more likely to make the strong weak than the strong are likely to make the weak strong."
- Marlene Dietrich
"I am at heart a gentleman."
- Marlene Dietrich
(Related: Heart, Gentleman)
"Grumbling is the death of love."
- Marlene Dietrich
(Related: Death, Love)
"Darling, the legs aren't so beautiful, I just know what to do with them."
- Marlene Dietrich
"How do you know love is gone? If you said that you would be there at seven and you get there by nine, and he or she has not called the police yet - it's gone."
- Marlene Dietrich
(Related: Love, Police)
"Courage and grace are a formidable mixture. The only place to see it is in the bullring."
- Marlene Dietrich
(Related: Courage, Grace)
"America took me into her bosom when there was no longer a country worthy of the name, but in my heart I am German - German in my soul."
- Marlene Dietrich
(Related: Soul, Heart, America, Country, Name)
"A man would prefer to come home to an unmade bed and a happy woman than to a neatly made bed and an angry woman."
- Marlene Dietrich
(Related: Home, Bed, Man, Woman)
"A king, realizing his incompetence, can either delegate or abdicate his duties. A father can do neither. If only sons could see the paradox, they would understand the dilemma."
- Marlene Dietrich
(Related: Father, Incompetence, Paradox, Sons)
"I am not a myth."
- Marlene Dietrich
(Related: Myth)
"Time hurries by, we're here and gone."
- Howard Dietz
(Related: Time)
"A day away from Tallulah is like a month in the country."
- Howard Dietz
(Related: Country, Day)
"Composers shouldn't think too much - it interferes with their plagiarism."
- Howard Dietz
(Related: Composers, Plagiarism)
"The world is a stage, the stage is a world of entertainment."
- Howard Dietz
(Related: Entertainment, World)
"I'll go my way by myself, love is only a dance."
- Howard Dietz
(Related: Love, Dance)
"We will continue to do all we can to protect the public health against these dietary supplements that have been found to cause serious illness and injury."
- Andrew von Eschenbach
(Related: Health, Cause, Illness, Injury, Public, Will)
"I certainly feel that the time is not far distant when a knowledge of the principles of diet will be an essential part of one's education. Then mankind will eat to live, be able to do better mental and physical work and disease will be less frequent."
- Fannie Farmer
(Related: Diet, Time, Work, Education, Knowledge, Disease, Mankind, Principles, Will)
"Dieting on New Year's Day isn't a good idea as you can't eat rationally but really need to be free to consume whatever is necessary, moment by moment, in order to ease your hangover. I think it would be much more sensible if resolutions began generally on January the second."
- Helen Fielding
(Related: Idea, Day, Dieting, New year, Order)
"I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is two weeks."
- Totie Fields
(Related: Diet)
"Childhood obesity is best tackled at home through improved parental involvement, increased physical exercise, better diet and restraint from eating."
- Bob Filner
(Related: Diet, Home, Childhood, Eating, Exercise, Obesity, Restraint)
"First need in the reform of hospital management? That's easy! The death of all dietitians, and the resurrection of a French chef."
- Martin H. Fischer
(Related: Death, Management, First, Reform)
"I don't believe in depriving myself of any food or being imprisoned by a diet."
- Joely Fisher
(Related: Diet, Food, Being)
"I have been on diets that were supervised by doctors, that were carefully supervised where I lost weight."
- Roberta Flack
(Related: Doctors, Weight)
"The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet."
- Gustave Flaubert
(Related: Diet, Heart)
"The number of kids affected by obesity has tripled since 1980, and this can be traced in large part to lack of exercise and a healthy diet."
- Virginia Foxx
(Related: Diet, Exercise, Kids, Obesity)
"Dieting is murder on the road. Show me a man who travels and I'll show you one who eats."
- Bruce Froemming
(Related: Dieting, Man, Murder, Road)
"This cream will help one's nature strengthen and grow, The diet gives support in my decline."
- Du Fu
(Related: Diet, Nature, Help, Support, Will)
"The question is not only what is grown but what it's used for. There's not going to be a mass transformation of dietary habits in rich countries-on the contrary, the first thing people do when they become more prosperous is to buy more meat."
- Susan George
(Related: People, Countries, First, Habits, Question)
"The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it."
- Jackie Gleason
(Related: Diet, Day, First)
"Uh, I just had an operation last March which was rather serious and I'm recuperating now. I'm on a very bland diet. But, uh, I'm lucky, I was just lucky, that's all."
- Rube Goldberg
(Related: Diet, March, Now)
"Our society's strong emphasis on dieting and self-image can sometimes lead to eating disorders. We know that more than 5 million Americans suffer from eating disorders, most of them young women."
- Tipper Gore
(Related: Women, Society, Americans, Dieting, Eating, Self)
"I go to the gym five days a week and I have a personal trainer. I am on a strict diet, which is kind of hard to keep up with on the road, but I stick to it as well as I can."
- Lou Gramm
(Related: Diet, Road)
"I'm on this diet where you're supposed to eat only fish and meat."
- Lasse Hallstrom
(Related: Diet, Fish)
"The circuit training program along with a healthy clean diet is the way to excellent results."
- Lee Haney
(Related: Diet, Results, Training)
"Everybody needs a way out of that pain. Many people choose drugs and alcohol. Some people obsessively exercise or develop strange dietary habits, which is what I did. At least it got me toward a path of healthier living."
- Mariel Hemingway
(Related: People, Alcohol, Drugs, Exercise, Habits, Living, Needs, Pain)
"My soul is dark with stormy riot: directly traced over to diet."
- Samuel Hoffenstein
(Related: Diet, Soul)
"I'm not strictly vegetarian, but meat doesn't play a big part in my diet."
- Katie Holmes
(Related: Diet, Play)
"You'd think that I'd be dieting, but I'm not."
- Kelly Hu
(Related: Dieting)
"I'm very girly. I love to talk about diets, exercise, kids, make-up."
- Rachel Hunter
(Related: Love, Exercise, Kids, Talk)
"Healthy people are those who live in healthy homes on a healthy diet; in an environment equally fit for birth, growth work, healing, and dying... Healthy people need no bureaucratic interference to mate, give birth, share the human condition and die."
- Ivan Illich
(Related: Diet, Work, People, Growth, Dying, Environment, Healing)
"If cooking becomes an art form rather than a means of providing a reasonable diet, then something is clearly wrong."
- Tom Jaine
(Related: Art, Diet, Cooking, Wrong)
"As the body dieth when the soul departeth, so the soul of man dieth, when it hath not the knowledge of God."
- John Jewel
(Related: God, Soul, Knowledge, Body, Man)
"My diet is mostly chicken and fish. I make sure I get a lot of vegetables, a lot of fruit. I am a big fruit man, I am a vegetable man anyway. And I also get a lot of rest. That's the key I may be up early, but I'm in bed early too."
- Magic Johnson
(Related: Diet, Bed, Fish, Key, Man, May, Rest)
"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."
- Jean Kerr
(Related: People, Airplanes)
"An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day."
- Irv Kupcinet
(Related: Diet, Day, Thanksgiving)
"Because I stopped dieting already six months ago, and I think it's important to bring out a book like this and you are there a year later and say look, I'm still like this."
- Karl Lagerfeld
(Related: Dieting, Months)
"Look at the average American diet: ice cream, butter, cheese, whole milk, all this fat. People don't realize how much of this stuff you get by the end of the day. High blood pressure is from all this high-fat eating."
- Jack LaLanne
(Related: People, American, Blood, Day, Eating, End, Pressure)
"If you've got a big gut and you start doing sit-ups, you are going to get bigger because you build up the muscle. You've got to get rid of that fat! How do you get rid of fat? By changing your diet."
- Jack LaLanne
(Related: Diet)
"Food is an important part of a balanced diet."
- Fran Lebowitz
(Related: Diet, Food)
"I told my doctor I get very tired when I go on a diet, so he gave me pep pills. Know what happened? I ate faster."
- Joe E. Lewis
(Related: Diet)
"No disease that can be treated by diet should be treated with any other means."
- Maimonides
(Related: Diet, Disease)
"I almost fainted. There was no family history. I had been eating a vegetarian diet and I exercised."
- Rue McClanahan
(Related: Diet, Family, History, Eating)
"As for those grapefruit and buttermilk diets, I'll take roast chicken and dumplings."
- Hattie McDaniel
"Hate is a draining bottomless pit from whence nothing good or of any value can come. Try to eat a balanced diet. Guys only want one thing."
- Christopher Meloni
(Related: Diet, Hate, Nothing, Value, Want)
"He that studieth revenge keepeth his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well."
- John Milton
(Related: Revenge, Wounds)
"I am not naturally that thin, so I had to go through everything from using drugs to diet pills to laxatives to fasting. Those were my main ways of controlling my weight."
- Carre Otis
(Related: Diet, Drugs, Weight)
"The best physicians are Dr. Diet, Dr. Quiet, and Dr. Merryman."
- Daniel D. Palmer
(Related: Diet, Physicians, Quiet)
"What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease."
- Alexander Pope
(Related: Diet, Health, Anxiety, Disease)
"I highly recommend worrying. It is much more effective than dieting."
- William Powell
(Related: Dieting)
"Good design is making something intelligible and memorable. Great design is making something memorable and meaningful."
- Dieter Rams
(Related: Design)
"I'm only drinking white wine because I'm on a diet and I don't eat."
- Oliver Reed
(Related: Diet, Drinking, Wine)
"My doctor explained that exercise and diet changes might help and that I also might need a medication."
- Della Reese
(Related: Diet, Exercise, Help)
"Diets, like clothes, should be tailored to you."
- Joan Rivers
(Related: Clothes)
"I was member of the Diet as long as it existed, until May 1933."
- Fritz Sauckel
(Related: Diet, May)
"I was elected to the Diet in the same way as at every parliamentary election."
- Fritz Sauckel
(Related: Diet)
"The Diet was dissolved by a Reich Government decree."
- Fritz Sauckel
(Related: Diet, Government)
"Bodybuilding is much like any other sport. To be successful, you must dedicate yourself 100% to your training, diet and mental approach."
- Arnold Schwarzenegger
(Related: Diet, Successful, Training)
"Hope is a very thin diet."
- Thomas Shadwell
(Related: Diet, Hope)
"Before long it will be the animals who do the dieting so that the ultimate consumer does not have to."
- Mimi Sheraton
(Related: Animals, Dieting, Will)
"Sex keeps me in shape. I don't diet, I eat what I like. I love Mars bars and I smoke and drink. But I love running off in the middle of the day to make love. It really burns up calories."
- Lisa Snowdon
(Related: Love, Diet, Sex, Day, Running)
"I started dieting. I dieted, dieted, dieted and tried all the diets and I would lose and then I would go back to normal eating and would put it on and then some."
- Suzanne Somers
(Related: Dieting, Eating)
"I am not qualified to talk about the diet. Simply because I am not a dietician."
- Mark Spitz
(Related: Diet, Talk)
"You can't have a world where 50 percent of the people are dieting and 50 percent of the people are starving if you want stability."
- John Shelby Spong
(Related: People, Dieting, Stability, Want, World)
"I was starting to become impotent through this diet and couldn't perform. How many people who are taking the little blue pill, if they started to change what they are eating most of the time, could change the way their sex life is?"
- Morgan Spurlock
(Related: Change, Diet, Life, Time, Sex, People, Eating)
"I try not to be but I'm super-neurotic about diet. I'm neurotic about trying not to be neurotic! I'm like every other girl. I have to try really hard my whole life to try to be fit. And I'm super-vain. And I want to wear cute clothes."
- Gwen Stefani
(Related: Life, Diet, Clothes, Cute, Trying, Want)
"Meat is a wasteful use of water and creates a lot of greenhouse gases. It puts enormous pressure on the world's resources. A vegetarian diet is better."
- Nicholas Stern
(Related: Diet, Pressure, Water, World)
"You can't be fat and fast, too; so lift, run, diet and work."
- Hank Stram
(Related: Diet, Work)
"The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman."
- Jonathan Swift
(Related: Diet, Doctors, Quiet, World)
"Each of us should take personal responsibility for our diet, and our children's diet, and the government's role should be to make certain it provides the best information possible to help people stay healthy."
- James Talent
(Related: Diet, Government, People, Children, Help, Information, Responsibility)
"I grew up on Bette Davis movies, and Marlene Dietrich, Marilyn Monroe."
- Charlize Theron
(Related: Movies)
"I followed the same diet for 20 years, eliminating starches, living on salads, lean meat, and small portions."
- Gene Tierney
(Related: Diet, Living, Years)
"As I mentioned previously, the tools that allow for optimum health are diet and exercise."
- Bill Toomey
(Related: Diet, Health, Exercise, Tools)
"A boxer's diet should be low in fat and high in proteins and sugar. Therefore you should eat plenty of lean meat, milk, leafy vegetables, and fresh fruit and ice cream for sugar."
- Gene Tunney
(Related: Diet)
"When I was pregnant. I exercised and was healthy, but it was also the first time since I was 14 that I wasn't on a diet."
- Liv Tyler
(Related: Diet, Time, First)
"The first couple of days on the detox diet aren't pleasant."
- Carol Vorderman
(Related: Diet, First)
"Their diet is basically boiled vegetables, fish and rice. No fat, no sugar. You notice when you live there that there are no fat people."
- Arsene Wenger
(Related: Diet, People, Fish)
"As a coach you can influence the diet of your players. You can point out what is wrong."
- Arsene Wenger
(Related: Diet, Coach, Influence, Wrong)
"I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number you get in a diamond."
- Mae West
(Related: Interest, Worry)
"They sent me to these places to get the weight off. The diets never worked; the diets actually made it worse."
- Lisa Whelchel
(Related: Weight)
"There were years when I was a beer and tequila guy, then I got real fat. And then I found that you could actually go on a diet and drink scotch. Then I got hooked on scotch, and if you get hooked on scotch, then everything else just tastes wrong."
- Ron White
(Related: Diet, Beer, Wrong, Years)