Charles Atlas Quotes

My system uses no apparatus. The resistance of your own body is the best and safest apparatus.

Charles Atlas

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• I don't have a problem with recognition... It's very, very rarely about who I am, it's always, 'I love your work.'... It's always in relation to my work, which I think is a really lucky thing to have happen as opposed to, 'Oh, you're a famous personality.'

  

  C. C. H. Pounder
  • Work
  • Problem
  • Personality

• I'm not an ultra-libertarian who thinks there shouldn't be insider-trading laws at all.

  

  Gary Weiss
  • Laws
  • Thinks
  • Who

• I didn't see Dr. No for a year, but I liked it when I saw it. It was a fun movie. I don't like the Bond movies now. I hate special effects.

  

  Ursula Andress
  • Movie
  • Fun
  • Hate

• That's the great thing with the WWE. They want you to be like John Cena, they want you to be like The Rock, and they definitely give you that platform.

  

  A.J. Styles
  • Great
  • Want
  • Rock

• I could scrape water off horses all day long. That would never get boring.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Long
  • Day
  • Water

• We never broke up. As long as I'm living and as long as Chuck D is living, Public Enemy is always going to be alive.

  

  Flavor Flav
  • Up
  • Long
  • Never

• When I'm painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing. It's only after a get acquainted period that I see what I've been about. I've no fears about making changes for the painting has a life of its own.

  

  Jackson Pollock
  • Life
  • Period
  • Painting

• You're on your own with the book. And while you are writing fiction, you're spending all this time with people who don't actually exist, which is just madness.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • People
  • Time
  • Writing

• As I mentioned, I was a carpenter for a time.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Time
  • Carpenter
  • Mentioned

• The best teachers that I had were always the ones I never wanted to disappoint.

  

  Taylor Mali
  • Best
  • Always
  • Never

• I feel like I'll never get over red carpets. They're so bizarre and awkward.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Never
  • Red
  • Awkward

• When we started off it was all nervous energy and we probably played everything twice as fast as we do now.

  

  Dan Hawkins
  • Energy
  • Now
  • Fast

• You can't win unless you learn how to lose.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Sports
  • Learn
  • Win

• I always think that struggle can bring out the best in people - or the worst.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • People
  • Best
  • Struggle

• I have spent my career fighting to make Oregon a place where everyone can thrive.

  

  Kate Brown
  • Career
  • Fighting
  • Thrive

• I like Obama. I don't know who could do a better job. He's got an incredibly tough situation, and a good heart and mind. I'd like to see him rally support a little better.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Good
  • Mind
  • Heart

• I do think I know more about clothes than any 500 designers, because there's nothing like wearing them. You buy them, you study them, and you start to understand how they're crafted.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Think
  • Study
  • Start

• But the worst of all is, according to the old phrase, while the grass grows, the horse starves, but the man of money is the man for Nova Scotia. Those may do extremely well.

  

  Nathaniel Smith
  • Money
  • May
  • Man

• The writing day can be, in some ways, too short, but it's actually a long series of hours, for months at a time, and there is a stillness there.

  

  Anne Enright
  • Time
  • Long
  • Writing

• I think it's the aggressive press we have that does try to push President Trump, you know, into an area where maybe he will say something that then they'll just jump on.

  

  Chris Collins
  • Trump
  • Jump

• I know how to create and make people feel something. Honestly, if I didn't do this, I would just have some minimum-wage job in New Mexico, and I would go out on the weekends and make just enough money to pay my insurance and pay for a couple beers, and that would be it.

  

  Freddie Prinze, Jr.
  • People
  • Money
  • Job

• A politician... one that would circumvent God.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • God
  • Politics
  • Politician

• Lara Croft is completely different; the way she does the action scenes and maintains her body in perfect condition... I can't compete with her in any way.

  

  Anushka Shetty
  • Different
  • She
  • Action

• My system uses no apparatus. The resistance of your own body is the best and safest apparatus.

  

  Charles Atlas