Slim Quotations

I eat tons, three full meals a day, and I never go to the gym. When I was a child, my geography teacher said, 'You may be slim now but if you carry on eating like that, you'll end up being really fat.' Fortunately, I really don't think I've changed much in the past two decades, so that teacher was an idiot.

But my eyes were riveted on a small slim woman her hair simply coiled into her neck, Katherine Glasier.

Flannery O'Connor's brief life and slim output were nonetheless marked by piercing powers of observation.

I maintain that if there is such a thing as a true and honest environmentalist, it's people like Slim and hopefully me, who have been caretakers of the land all our lives, along with the generations before us.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Faced with the way the system does you in the 'hood sometimes, if you don't literally get out, your chances are slim. You'll definitely die mentally. You'll pretty much die physically.

The way Fatboy Slim layers motifs is the same as 18th-century baroque counterpoint. You have an idea, then you have an answer to the idea in another voice, then you have a counter idea accompanying the original idea, and you build up your texture like that. I'm really into Kruder and Dorfmeister at the moment, and they do the same thing.

I'd love there to be more larger models, but it's just not going to happen. Designers love to design for slim girls.

I tend to be slim and you know, I actually can lose weight quicker than I can gain it.

Many of us are tethered to bodies that sabotage us in our struggle to keep from getting fat, or to slim down when we do.

Your liver is your vital detoxification organ, and if it becomes overloaded with toxins from the food, drink, or medications you're consuming, you'll have more toxins circulating throughout your body, damaging your organs and glands. Detoxing your liver will help it work more efficiently - and help you slim your waistline.

I love character actors. If I'm switching channels, and something with Slim Pickens is on, or Walter Brennan, I'm stuck. I have to watch it.

I'm not saying that I won't tour again, but the chances are slim because my priorities are different now.

The Australian Book of Etiquette is a very slim volume.

I used to be able to slim down just by exercising more, but that's changed.

An embellished top with slim pants is great, even for a wedding.

If you look at me, I'm very tall but I'm not huge or muscular. I tend to be slim and you know, I actually can lose weight quicker than I can gain it.

My father was a dark-skinned brother, but my mother was a very fair-skinned lady. From what I understand, she was Creole; we think her people originally came from New Orleans. She looked almost like a white woman, which meant she could pass - as folks used to say back then. Her hair was jet-black. She was slim and very attractive.

Titanic Thompson and Amarillo Slim would have run from a game with Marty Stanovich. Marty could really play, and he didn't cheat.

Because I'm short and slim, I can identify with somebody who's an unlikely fit for something and desperately wants to be part of it.

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.

I like to wear tight jeans. Most of my stuff is pretty slim fit.

When he finished packing, he walked out on to the third-floor porch of the barracks brushing the dust from his hands, a very neat and deceptively slim young man in the summer khakis that were still early morning fresh.

Over the very long term, history shows that the chances of any business surviving in a manner agreeable to a company's owners are slim at best.

We've still got a shot. It's a slim one. Like I told the guys before the game in the dressing room, the ball is in our court. If we take care of business, we control our own destiny.

The problem with Vegas was that there was an upper end and a lower end. They had five or so guys who went to Notre Dame, Florida State and all those schools and the others are I-AA kids. There was no in-between. Obviously we recruit Nevada first. Once we realized it was slim pickings this year, we moved elsewhere.

When you're a major college football coach and your son is a major college football player, the chances of being together for the holidays are slim to none. But we had talked about this happening.

When I came back I felt we had a very slim chance of getting out of it, to be honest. A couple of friends who come here every week said we had no chance. But it was a challenge, and I took it on. I've never regretted it. I feel comfortable here. I enjoy coming into the training ground in the morning. I think that's important. It ain't the best training ground in the world but I feel comfortable there, you know?

I'd like to see the wind blow a little harder for the rest of the day. Maybe a little rain will be good, ... slim to none.

I don't know of anybody else that's doing anything this slim this year.

I have about 20 pages, actually. But I tried to consolidate it and slim it down a little bit. Hopefully some of the stuff we can use to help us win.

I felt after I left prison in England that maybe there was a slim chance I could put my life back on track and have a career.

Francis has set us another very high benchmark - the chances of breaking it are very slim but if we don't try, we won't know.

From the outset we always knew we were up against it, and the odds were slim that we could rescue this whale.

He had a slender nose. He had very slim features.

Within the modeling industry, there's no doubt that there are some girls out there that are too thin. But there are also girls who are genetically slim and can eat like a horse.

Jack Dempsey was a picture book fighter. By all the sons of Mars, he looked the part. He had dark eyes, blue-black hair, and the most beautifully proportioned body ever seen in any ring. He had the wide but sharply sloping shoulders of the puncher, a slim waist, and fine, symmetrical legs. His weaving, shuffling style of approach was drama in itself and suggested the stalking of a jungle animal. He had a smoldering truculence on his face and hatred in his eyes.

Joey was always slim and he's not now.

I think the odds of it getting shut down are very, very slim at this point. As an investor, it's going to be a very, very choppy stock between now and February 24. It's not for widows and orphans. That being said, the stock is cheap. When the overhang's gone, the stock will go higher.

I think Toys R Us will continue to run some kind of toy operation in the future. But in order to still be competitive, it will need to slim down considerably and run probably around 450 to 500 stores.

Later in the season, I think it's going be pretty slim pickings. Pheasant season is ... a stocked, put-and-take situation. Once those birds are dead, they're done and there are no native birds to hunt. That's just the way it is.

I think they'll be concerned, but ultimately supportive, ... Look, an accountant might have looked at actuarial tables and said it wasn't cost-efficient to have levees to protect against a Category 5 storm because the odds of that hitting the area were slim, and the odds of it overtopping levees even if it hit were slim as well.

I see Democrats picking up a couple of states. I think there is a slim chance they can pick up the Senate.

Our chances are slim to none. There's always a chance several guys will have problems. But we decided to go for broke, try to win races and not care about anything else.

Papers do slim down, but they don't want to look like bad value for money

People look at it and say, 'I want that. We call it slim with substance. Slim product with a lot of features.

My own view is that it has a very slim chance of being scheduled on the floor,

I still have to work really hard and improve on my conditioning. Right now I trained hard last summer to get to this point. I ran a lot. Since I am a big guy, I am not going to be very slim so I have to be careful of what I am eating, but I am going in the right direction.

My chances of racing in this year's Tour de France are slim to none. That's what got me out of bed every morning.

We encourage Monopoly fans to participate in the design of our new game board by voting often at our Web site for their favorite landmarks. Remember, elections are often won by a slim margin, so your vote could be the difference needed to land your favorite American city on a blue property space.

Voters clearly understand the importance of proper education funding. The proposal would pass with a slim majority of 56 percent if the election were held today. However, once voters learn the consequences of this funding mandate, their support decreases significantly.

We are delighted to announce a month of special opportunities in January 2006, culminating with an Open House event on Saturday, January 14 from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. that will allow the public to get a sampling of the many features Slim and Tone has to offer.

We advise clients that if they don't take the package, chances are slim there will be an equal package again and there rarely will be a better one.

Being slim is the new elitism. Thinness today says that you are richer, smarter and more successful than the overweight masses.

We don't like to stick to any one genre. I don't think any two records of ours sound alike, stylistically. Really, we're soon going to have to start doing the Fat Boy Slim thing and putting things out under 700 different names.

The reason we've always had hope for Van and still do is he fits in that slim margin of cases where there's room for flexibility.

We've just got to get some wins. We're still alive in this thing, the season's not over. We've still got a chance, whether it's a slim chance or not. If we keep winning and some teams lose, we're right there.

We wanted to schedule them, but chances are slim that we will now,

The recent surge in fuel prices and Delta's disclosure that it will have to post 750 million dollars of cash collateral to extend its credit card processing agreement indicate that the airline's already slim chances of avoiding bankruptcy are dwindling rapidly.

There is no reason a healthful meal that helps us slim down can't also taste and look so special that we could proudly serve it to guests or to celebrate important occasions.

To be honest, I thought we only had a slim chance after losing in the tournament.

To be frank with you, without their efforts, our chances of winning are slim to none.

To successfully lose weight after 40, you need to understand that imbalanced hormones and chemicals have a huge impact on your health. It is possible, however, to live a clean, healthy, and long life - with a slim body, even after 40!

This one hurts. This is as bad a loss as any I've ever suffered because our chance of winning a conference title is pretty slim now, and that was one of the things I really wanted to accomplish here.

English is a funny language. A fat chance and a slim chance are the same thing

I've concentrated a lot on trying to slim back up and kind of lose that real muscular frame I had, ... I've been working a lot on my footwork and on my perimeter game. I feel like since I left Duke, I got a lot of my quickness back, a lot of my explosiveness back. It's been really good for me here in this camp.

Samsung's 2006 slim phone line-up, the most advanced and diverse in the industry, showcases the company's manufacturing and design genius. We continue to lead the wireless industry with premier technologies and eye-catching form factors.

Realistically, the chances of a breakthrough are very slim given the rigidity of the U.S. position on key issues.

You should never rule out strategic deals, i.e. uneconomic deals, but the probability looks slim to us.

They have been on a multi-year campaign to slim down their business structure and get focused on the brands that are faster growing and where they have some dominance. We feel they are on the right track.

It was a tough night to catch the ball. Ivan threw the ball well. For the most part, guys caught the ball well. The kids never gave up fighting. It gave us a chance. It was a slim chance, but it was a chance.

It's a little different here. George Bush trails by a slim margin in the polls to John McCain; Bill Bradley is the leader over Al Gore. And it's interesting to see both George Bush and Al Gore paint themselves as the underdog...whereas, in the rest of the nation, that's not the case.

It only comes from actually handling a live, infected chicken. We don't have any of those in the U.S.A. and only a small number of people in Asia have contacted it. The danger, right now, is essentially zero in the United States and it's even pretty slim in Asia.

It's going to be tough to score off us in the latter part of the game. If a starter has the know-how and capability of getting 18 outs with a slim lead, we're in pretty good shape.

It's probably a slim chance I'll be back. I've seen some doctors around St. Louis who said it was kind of sort of the same thing, in just different terms.

Everybody is rushing to TVs and suppliers, through natural competition will slim down a bit. Over time, companies will have to make the decision to stay in or get out.

Not till recently I've got re-interest in that. It looks like Baskin-Robbins is looking to resurrect there. It's not for sure. It's a possibility, but it's a slim chance it could come back.

The airline's already slim chances of avoiding bankruptcy are dwindling rapidly.

It's great to be a contender for the championship even if I only have a slim chance, ... The team believed in me from the start and so did PacifiCare so I am glad to give them all the podiums so far and especially the win in Montreal and put them in the position of fighting for another 1-2 finish in the championship. There are two races left and two opportunities to win and were going to try our best to do this. Bruno brought PacifiCare wins in Montreal and Australia last year and it would be nice if I could do that for them again this year.

They have very slim margins already and I find it hard to believe that they're not going to have to step up and do more in terms of health care and that's going to affect their margins, and therefore their earnings.

A persona like Slim Shady is artificial, you hide behind it. It takes great courage to tear yourself open, to give the sort of performance I wanted. He found it wearing.

I'm very positive. My last three races at the World Cup I was on the podium and two of them I lost by a slim margin. I have nothing to worry about. I have all my equipment. Everything is falling in place.

If you go down this path, and we take the steps we're taking now, it's going to move our chances for a referendum from slim to none. We're going to be stuck in these buildings for probably 10 to 15 years.

I live in L.A., so layers are essential to my wardrobe. I like slim silhouettes, typically, and I love good tailoring.

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.

It has changed the way we are going to run our practices. The chances are pretty slim that we'll go over that (95) heat index figure at that time of day. Time will tell if it is a better way to do things or not.

I plan to recognize numerous Slim and Tone members for their fitness achievements over the past two years at the Open House.

I don't know if it's because he's slim or what, I thought he'd come in a giddy guy. But he's serious. He wants to play, and wants to play well in this league. It's evident in the way he approaches things ... and man can he pass the ball. Sometimes you've got to remind yourself that he's on the court, because the ball could be coming your way at any time.

He took a lot of sales away from him. Dorsey Burnette was white, so therefore they started buying Dorsey Burnette instead of Slim Harpo.

There is much to be said for post-menopausal celibacy. Sex is rough on loners because you have to have somebody else around, but now I don't. No more diets to stay slim and desirable: I've had sex and I've had food, and I'd rather eat.

I don't think this means that Europe is moving forward on creating a data retention law any time soon. I think the chances are still slim at best. This latest plan only further muddies the issue.

I'd love to be in the thick of a playoff race right now -- and the chances are very slim for us now -- but the mathematical chance is still there. Either way, you use this time to prepare for next season, to find something out about people.

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.

I don't have slim children. I have hearty ones.

I have no sponsors because I am not blond, tall and slim enough

Working your obliques pulls everything together and gives you a slim waist.

Ive been told that if I lose weight Id have more work, but I refuse to submit myself to Hollywood standards. To the rest of the world I am slim and I like the way I am.