Famous Quotes

"Sticking to a diet required me to have a permanently low self-esteem. But happily, I developed other skills beyond a fluctuating weight, eventually building up a different source of self-worth."

Arabella Weir on Diet

More quotes about Diet

• "I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number you get in a diamond."

  Mae West on Diet

• "Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread, and pumpkin pie."

  Jim Davis on Diet

• "My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people."

  Orson Welles on Diet

• "No disease that can be treated by diet should be treated with any other means."

  Maimonides on Diet

• "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 on Diet

More quotes by Arabella Weir

• "If one's honest about it, spending time in a car with children is pretty ghastly."

• "My dad was a diplomat and after living in America, where I was born, he was posted to Cairo."

• "In the 20 long, hungry years between my late teens and late 30s I bought in to virtually every new diet and/or exercise regime that hoved into view, particularly at this most vulnerable time for those of us prone to poor body image - a new year."

• "Look, I want what's good for everybody. I want to promote good state education for all. I want to raise standards for all kids, irrespective of race and class but why can't they all just do what I say when I know I'm right?"

• "I know a lot of people fear the rougher types who might be at a state school, but surely it is better to know who they are and how to deal with them than for that kind of child to appear as a completely different species to yours."