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

• I get tired of comedies where there are a bunch of funny guys and a beautiful woman who doesn't do anything funny. And I don't like books where there's a rough-and-tumble boy and a really clever, snotty girl. That's just not my experience with teenagers.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Experience
  • Beautiful
  • Girl

• 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, for one, am tired of seeing movies about men damaging each other.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Men
  • Movies
  • Tired

• 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
  • Change
  • Me
  • Sick

• 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

• It takes me so long to get tired of a man. It's women that are the problem. Don't get me wrong. I think men have their problems just as much as women.

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Men
  • Long
  • Women

• 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

• If you're filming a scene on horseback, if you're trying to control an animal that's much larger than you and trying to get it to do the exact same thing so you can match things up, that can get tricky, especially if the horse gets tired or angry or something.

  

  Daniel Portman
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Control

• I'm an athlete, so I'm very interested in making the sport as safe as possible - just for my own career longevity.

  

  Ted Ligety
  • Career
  • Athlete
  • Own

• Standing on the apex of our planet is humbling. I'm starved of oxygen, depleted of reserves, unable to eat, and bound by anxiety. This is a dangerous place. Yet the symbolism of standing on top of the world gives me a chance to experience time on a cosmic scale.

  

  Conrad Anker
  • Time
  • World
  • Experience

• Besides, you don't work for a dollar - you work to create and have fun.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Work
  • Fun
  • Create

• When I am working on a book or a story I write every morning as soon after first light as possible. There is no one to disturb you and is it is cool and you come to your work and warm as you write. You read what you have written and, as you always stop when you know what is going to happen next, you go on from there. You write until you come to a place where you still have your juice and know what will happen next and you stop and try to live through until the next day when you hit again.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Story
  • Write
  • Juice

• 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