- Nov 07, 2020
Fat Quotes
Weight, humor, and the will to change it.
One line here is pure self-deprecating humor about carrying extra weight, while another recalls a memorably sweaty music-video moment built around a bigger-than-life performer. See Fat Man quotes for more in that vein.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Glasses
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was a teenager, I was fat. I was shy. I wore glasses. I had a big eyebrow and hair all over my body. They were years of torture.
- Handsome
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think my father is nearly perfect. I think he's quite handsome, except a bit fat.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
Women feel like we're fat if we can't wear the clothes we wore in high school. Men, in contrast, only start to feel fat only when they can no longer fit into a foreign car.
- Glands
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- Nov 07, 2020
A few dozen changes to the genome of a modern elephant - to give it subcutaneous fat, woolly hair and sebaceous glands - might suffice to create a variation that is functionally similar to the mammoth. Returning this keystone species to the tundras could stave off some effects of warming.
- Garlic
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- Nov 07, 2020
I use the confit principle for chicken thighs. I season them with herbs and garlic, let them marinate, and then cook them in chicken fat.
- Duck
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- Nov 07, 2020
Confit is not something that comes to mind for summer. Usually it means duck confit, made by cooking the legs and thighs in duck fat to preserve them for winter.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fat is one of the chief enemies of the heart because it has to be plentifully supplied with blood and thus needlessly increases the pumping load that the heart must sustain.
- Hair
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everything that goes into my mouth seems to make me fat, everything that comes out of my mouth embarrasses me.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most of the time when I receive a script, it says something like 'Rosenberg is the fat, slovenly Mayor, who doesn't want the kids to use the Skateboard Park', or 'Stein is a pompous, rotund attorney, imposing to all.' It would be so freeing to get a script where my character is simply described as 'A Man.'
- Liar
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- Nov 07, 2020