A Quote by J. D. Salinger

Do it for the fat lady!

J. D. Salinger

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Fat Lady

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J. D. Salinger
American - Writer
January 1, 1919 - January 27, 2010

Two fat ladies, 88! Not that you'd find these ladies at a bingo hall, of course... they're altogether a higher class of fat lady.

Steve Coogan

There isn't anyone anywhere who isn't Seymour's Fat Lady. Don't you know that? Don't you know that goddam secret yet? And don't you know — listen to me, now — don't you know who that Fat Lady really is? . . . Ah, buddy. Ah, buddy. It's Christ Himself. Christ Himself, buddy.

J. D. Salinger

Chicken fat, beef fat, fish fat, fried foods - these are the foods that fuel our fat genes by giving them raw materials for building body fat.

Neal Barnard

Snap. Lady with dog. Lady on sofa half-naked. Snap. Naked lady. Lady next to dresser. Lady at window. Snap. Lady on balcony sunlight. (On New Orleans photographer E. J. Bellocq)

Michael Ondaatje

There isn't anyone out there who isn't Seymour's Fat Lady.

J. D. Salinger

You can be fat and love yourself. You can be fat and have a great damn personality. You can be fat and sew your own clothes. But you can't be fat and healthy.

Susan Powter

The opera isn't over until the fat lady sings.

Dick Motta

I've had all that you could ask for. The fat lady has sung, and there's a standing ovation.

Flip Wilson

I have been treated as a freak, rather like the fat lady at the circus.

Margaret Hughes

There aren't more lady songwriters for the same reason that there aren't more lady doctors or lady accountants or lady lawyers; not enough women have the time for careers.

Dorothy Fields

The fat lady hasn't sung yet. We'll wait until we get a look at what is in the motion passed on third reading.

Bobby Orr

Being fat is the absolute nadir of the misfit. You're a misfit because nothing fits. You don't fit in. You're not fit. You're fat. Fat doesn't have the poetic cachet of alcohol, the whiff of danger in the drug of choice. You're just fat. Being fat is so un-American, so unattractive, unerotic, unfashionable, undisciplined, unthinkable, uncool. It makes you invisible. It makes you conspicuous.