Joe E. Lewis Quotes

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

• Tired

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• There are millions of Americans outside Washington who are tired of stale political arguments and are moving this country forward. They believe, and I believe, that here in America, our success should depend not on accident of birth, but the strength of our work ethic and the scope of our dreams.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Country

• Once you become poor, tired and time-constrained, you become a much better human being.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Time
  • Better
  • Human

• People have got to get together and work together. I'm tired of the kind of oppression that white people have inflicted on us and are still trying to inflict.

  

  Fannie Lou Hamer
  • People
  • Work
  • Trying

• As murderous industrial magnates go, Alfred Nobel is right up there with Ray Kroc, franchiser of McDonald's.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Up
  • Go
  • Industrial

• I get tired of stories that keep going and going and never get anywhere. It's like a promise that's never fulfilled. Stories need endings. Otherwise, they aren't really stories. Just pages.

  

  Ted Naifeh
  • Tired
  • Promise
  • Need

• I took this 'how to build computers' course basically because I'm sick and tired of getting ripped off by cheesy computer companies. Software baffles me. I like hardware. I used to change my own oil, and now I want to build my own computer so I can have what I want.

  

  Pat Cadigan
  • Me
  • Change
  • Tired

• I am tired. My arm aches. My head boils. My feet are cold. But I am not aware of any weakness.

  

  Zane Grey
  • Tired
  • Weakness
  • Boils

• When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Life
  • Man
  • Tired

• I feel very lucky that when I'm burnt out of acting, I take to the pen, and I write something I want to direct. And then, when I'm tired of taking on too much responsibility as a director, I then look for an acting gig. And I've made it very clear that I'm interested in voiceover work. I mean, I'm always looking for voiceover gigs. I love that.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Responsibility
  • Feel
  • Lucky

• I really enjoy myself in Norway. Because I had started losing confidence in my ability of what I do. But sometimes, man, you just get tired of fighting and trying to prove yourself.

  

  Ike Turner Ike & Tina Turner
  • Trying
  • Man
  • Myself

• Oddly enough you'd think, now that I wasn't training professionally, I'd be able to enjoy a lie-in at the weekend, but I actually slept more when I was competing because I was so tired.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Training
  • Enjoy
  • Tired

• The only time I eat alone is if I'm really tired or upset about something or on the phone to one of my friends, when it's easier to be alone. But you can't be too wrapped up in yourself... it starts making you look a little bit prima donna.

  

  Dakota Blue Richards
  • Up
  • Time
  • Friends

• It's the boredom that kills you. You read until you're tired of that. You do crossword puzzles until you're tired of that. This is torture. This is mental torture.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • You
  • Tired
  • Boredom

• I never get tired of exploring Americana or country music, and I always have a little bit of a crooner in me that never seems to go away.

  

  K. D. Lang
  • Music
  • Country
  • Away

• I'd rather be nauseous than tired, I think.

  

  Sam Simon
  • Think
  • Tired
  • Rather

• Turn resolutely to work, to recreation, or in any case to physical exercise till you are so tired you can't help going to sleep, and when you wake up you won't want to worry.

  

  B. C. Forbes
  • Up
  • Work
  • Help

• I seated ugliness on my knee, and almost immediately grew tired of it.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • Tired
  • Almost
  • Knee

• This whole 'tired footballers' and three-games-a-week thing is an absolute myth.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Tired
  • Myth
  • Absolute

• Petals are a plant’s eardrum. Distant sounds make them quiver like the needle of a seismograph.

  

  Malcolm de Chazal
  • Plant

• We always had 'Vogue' in our house. But, when I was around 12, my Mom finally took me seriously about modeling and put a stack of magazines in front of me, then told me to study all the poses. The ones I loved the most were in 'Vogue.'

  

  Chanel Iman
  • House
  • Mom
  • Study

• I believe that we are a story-driven species and that we understand how things are put together, in the context of narrative. It's a shame that science hasn't been taught that way, in a long time. It's usually the fact completely devoid of any human experience or any idea of how the scientist came to that conclusion.

  

  Ann Druyan
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Long

• I think there's a perception out there that people know me based on these glamorous photos they see of me in magazines, but I have about two hours of hair and makeup and then people to dress me, to make me look even better, in those pictures.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • People
  • Hair
  • Makeup

• 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
  • Tired