Slim Quotes:
On the subject of literary genres, I’ve always felt that my response to poetry is inadequate. I’d love to be the kind of person that drifts off into the garden with a slim volume of Elizabethan verse or a sheaf of haikus, but my passion is story.
J. K. Rowling
Now a ‘funnyman’ can get a laugh before opening his mouth – looking funny. Lou Costello was one of your great funnymen. Harry Langdon, Larry Semon; they were all funnymen – they looked funny. W.C. Fields was never a comedian. Slim Summerville was a comedian, yet looked funny. Now if you have both attributes, you are in good shape.
Milton Berle
The chances of a bank going out of business are extremely slim, but it’s always a good idea to spread around major sums so every penny is backed by insurance.
Suze Orman
The state of radio is not great. It’s like playing the lottery. The chances of hitting are mind boggling slim.
Teddy Thompson
Skyjackers had a pretty abysmal success rate – once you commandeered a plane in American airspace, your odds of a happy ending were slim. After the epidemic ended in 1973, what folks tended to remember most about the skyjackers was their futility.
Brendan I. Koerner
I have been active as a writer and journalist for nearly forty years. But the number of great reporters I have run across in that time would make, as they say, a slim book. Without question, the top man on my list would be Tommy Thompson.
Shana Alexander
Young girls look to me as a role model and think I crash diet to keep slim. That’s not true, I always eat properly.
Denise Van Outen
I’ve learned that for Indian people, the opportunity for us to succeed is very slim. So acting was a great tool for that. And in the process of learning about my culture, I’ve learned how to connect myself again to my ancestors.
Adam Beach
I like to wear tight jeans. Most of my stuff is pretty slim fit.
Carl Hagelin
Americans who read the papers or watch Jay Leno have been aware for some time now that there is a slim but real possibility – about 1 in 45,000 – that an 850-foot-long asteroid called Apophis could strike Earth with catastrophic consequences on April 13, 2036.
Rusty Schweickart
My first book was an adult novel, ‘Down Among the Gods,’ published by Virago, and I’ve written poems as well, a slim volume of poetry.
Kate Thompson
The French are endowed with bigger limbs; those of the Spaniards are stronger; they have a very slim waist. The French fight with more ferocity than advise. The Spaniards the opposite.
Michael Servetus
I’m not slim. I’m a curvy girl: I’ve got thighs and a bum. I don’t mind baring the fact that I’ve got a bit of cellulite because everybody has. I find it off-putting when everybody on telly is the same size or looks the same build. For me, it’s important for people to watch someone normal.
Vicky McClure
People called me ‘Slim’ and ‘Daddy Long Legs.’ My best friend Martine named me Daddy Long Legs after she saw me running track. She was making fun of me!
Shelley Hennig
I’d never really been content with just churning out these slim volumes every three or four years. I’ve always tried to think of poetry as an active ingredient in the language rather than just something that appears between the covers of thin books.
Simon Armitage
Realistically, the chance of any book becoming a film is slim.
Kenneth Oppel
Given how majestically slim she always was, it’s a little odd to admit that I can remember bellowing that Whitney Houston was The Heavyweight Champion of the World! on the MTV News floor back in the ’90s.
CHRIS CONNELLY
Poetry is a lousy form of activism; it doesn’t really change much. And maybe we can point to one or two historical times when a poem has started a revolution or a rebellion or an uprising, but it doesn’t happen that often, and if you put the number of poems next to the number of political acts, it would be pretty slim.
Daphne Gottlieb
I was born and raised in Vancouver. I moved to Beijing in 2010 just before the Olympics. Being an Asian Canadian actor, the amount of opportunity at the time was slim to none. I made the decision to go to China, and it was one of the best decisions of my life.
Osric Chau
When I planned to ski Everest, the first thing I faced was, ‘How can I return alive?’ All the preparation and training was based on this question. But the more I prepared, I knew the chance of survival was very slim. Nobody in the world had done this before, so I told myself that I must face death. Otherwise, I am not eligible.
Yuichiro Miura
Being slim is the new elitism. Thinness today says that you are richer, smarter and more successful than the overweight masses.
David Zinczenko
But my eyes were riveted on a small slim woman her hair simply coiled into her neck, Katherine Glasier.
Ellen Wilkinson
If you really love acting, you’ll want to act. That’s what I did. You don’t look for any payday because the likelihood of a payday is slim to none.
Robert Gossett
Pool swimmers are very slim, and they’re stronger. Marathon swimmers have to train an awful lot, and they end up losing a bit of muscle mass. So we need to have a bit more fat, though that’s not the case with me. Many swimmers have a little bit of extra fat though, so that they can deal with the cold and get through what is an exhausting event.
Poliana Okimoto
At least, in this situation, I know my chances of coming back could be slim because of the young talent the Yankees do have.
Johnny Damon
Give me a mystery – just a plain and simple one – a mystery which is diffidence and silence, a slim little bare-foot mystery: give me a mystery – just one!
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
I have tried to make decisions to work with great directors, with good scripts, and that makes the pickings real slim.
Tom Sizemore
I didn’t get fat even when I was pregnant. You have to work very hard at staying slim, and it’s a bore. But it’s worth it.
Mary Quant
I was quite chubby, so when I started dancing professionally I had to work hard to stay slim.
Craig Revel Horwood
Air travel is the safest form of travel aside from walking; even then, the chances of being hit by a public bus at 30,000 feet are remarkably slim. I also have no problem with confined spaces. Or heights. What I am afraid of is speed.
Sloane Crosley
Fat people are so rarely included in visual culture that fat is perceived as a blot on the landscape of sleek and slim.
Susie Orbach
Whenever you’re looking at new ways to get in shape, first you have to decide what you want. Do you want a more muscular look, or do you want to slim down and appear more toned and ripped? I adapt my training and diet with each role I do, depending on the image I want to convey.
Scott Adkins
I know lots of women who have slim legs but refuse to wear skirts because of unsightly varicose or spider veins. Though heredity plays a role, your genes don’t have to doom you to a life of long pants.
Denise Austin
I’m slim for professional reasons, and I work at it. I really want to continue working. There aren’t that many models who are still doing it at 60.
Marie Helvin
I’m well trained. The only reason I am this slim is that I have to fit into the clothes. The samples are size 8, and I am naturally a size 10 to 12. I have been on a diet for my entire life.
Marie Helvin
For most of us, no matter how slim, middle-aged spread really does set in, and your waist thickens, irrespective of whether you’ve had children or if you exercise regularly.
Marie Helvin
I don’t have slim children. I have hearty ones.
Jessica Capshaw
Working your obliques pulls everything together and gives you a slim waist.
Marisa Miller
I have actually been sporty right from my childhood. I was quite chubby in the first eight years of my life. But then I began playing volleyball in school. That did it. I lost all my baby fat and became slim.
Shilpa Shetty
At home I have big vats of cabbage soup that I make to slim down.
Jilly Cooper
I’m lucky that I have a supportive partner who loves me when I’m bigger as well as slim.
Penny Lancaster
I knew the HIV virus was something anyone could get but also believed the chances were very slim… I honestly believed I had a better chance of winning the lottery than contracting this disease. I have never been so wrong in my life.
Tommy Morrison