Top 100 Atkins Quotes
#1. After trying Atkins and doing Nutrisystem a few times, now I'm just focused on maintaining a healthy lifestyle rather than dieting.
Miranda Lambert
#2. The mere fact that [Tommy Atkins] saw himself as a hero, and not as the rough he was, enlisted, more probably, through hunger, and disciplined by fear, tended to make him behave like a hero, as he did on the Ridge of Delhi and in the fog at Inkermann.
Esme Cecil Wingfield-Stratford
#3. F you're making the scene as a director, you're looking for alternatives, once you've got to that place that's very much in Rowan's [Atkins] head, to see if you can take it further, in some places. Sometimes you do absolutely know there's something there. You just feel it in your bones.
Oliver Parker
#4. I only wish Chet Atkins could be here for this joyous occasion.
Brenda Lee
#5. Hey! D'you guys hear Dr. Atkins died? Slipped on some ice, hit his head, died on life support. The man who invented the all-meat diet ... died a vegetable. That's a damn good joke. But that joke's like a Toyota Camry - reliable, not inspiring.
Christopher Titus
#6. If Raymond Chandler came from the South, his name would be Ace Atkins.
Kinky Friedman
#7. Cate Blanchett and Eileen Atkins are definitely among my top five actresses whose work I aspire to.
Hattie Morahan
#8. I tended to lean towards the guys who both sang and played, such as Ricky Skaggs, Vince Gill, Steve Wariner ... And at the other end of the spectrum, I had Eric Clapton in a rock and blues sense, jazz guys such as Tal Farlow and Les Paul ... Then Chet Atkins-type stuff.
Brad Paisley
#9. My diet is like Atkins, but with the carbs.
Phil Baroni
#10. As my colleague, the physical chemist Peter Atkins, puts it, we must be equally agnostic about the theory that there is a teapot in orbrit around the planet Pluto. We can't disprove it. But that doesn't mean the theory that there is a teapot is on level terms with the theory that there isn't.
Richard Dawkins
#11. I did every diet: Atkins. Cabbage-soup diet. Dean Ornish. But I couldn't live the rest of my life like a rabbit.
Mike Huckabee
#12. Though this was all but a fiction of his own, yet it had its desired effect; Atkins fell upon his knees to beg the captain to intercede with the governor for his life; and all the rest begged of him, for God's sake, that they might not be sent to England.
Daniel Defoe
#13. Her cupboards are crammed with Cappuccino mix. No one needs Cappuccino mix. It's not diginified. She watched 'Super Size Me' and went straight to McDonald's. She did the Atkins Diet, but with potatoes.
Anna Maxted
#14. I've had weight issues all my life. I've been on all the diets: Atkins, liquid protein, Scarsdale diet. Now I go to the gym often. I'm always on the StairMaster, and I do weights.
Hoda Kotb
#15. Atkins knows two kinds of birds: seagulls and the ones that aren't seagulls.
Iain Sinclair
#16. The Atkins' diet is where you eat bacon for six or seven months ... and the end result is that you lose weight. Because you're dead.
Michael Ian Black
#17. I first got interested in music as a toddler by my childhood babysitter, Rosetta Atkins. She taught me how to sing by imitating the voices on the gospel radio station she listened to - both men and women's voices.
Wendy Starland
#18. You may not know it, but I was adopted as a baby by my wonderful parents, Allan and Margaret Atkins of Cumberland Gap, Tenn.
Rodney Atkins
#19. I did recording sessions as a musician as well as a background vocalist and enjoyed every minute of it. I remember singing harmony with Waylon Jennings on a few songs that were hits. Chet Atkins always put me up so high that I strained to hit every note. It was a lot of fun.
Ray Stevens
#20. People do lose weight on an Atkins diet. The reason they lose weight is because of calorie reduction. If a person's caloric intake has not fallen, if they are really shoveling in the steak, they don't lose weight.
Neal Barnard
#21. There is a great book out called 'Everything I Needed to Learn I Learned in Kindergarten,' and I believe that everything I ever needed to learn on guitar was in my first two years of hungry learning: Scotty Moore, Hank Marvin, Chet Atkins, Lenny Breau, Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley.
Randy Bachman
#22. I saw an oxygen tank in the cluttered room - what had been Atkins's "study," as his son had explained, now converted for a deathwatch.
John Irving
#23. Ultimately, despite Atkins's wealth of practical knowledge in helping people lose weight and possibly avoid heart disease, he would not get a serious hearing from academic researchers until the twenty-first century.
Nina Teicholz
#24. Everyone loves a slice of period-drama-pie, but I think the success of 'Upstairs Downstairs' is really down to the wonderful format that Jean Marsh and Eileen Atkins created.
Ellie Kendrick
#25. There's no great guitarist that doesn't sit down and listen to Chet Atkins and Eddie Van Halen, and all these other great players.
Lee Ann Womack
#26. I'm a food addict. I've tried everything- Weight Watchers, The South Beach, raw food, Atkins, low-fat diets. Nothing works for me." I looked at him and said, "Have you tried suffering?" He laughed out loud, as if I was joking. I wasn't joking.
Frederick Woolverton
#27. Chet Atkins ... is probably the best guitar player who ever lived.
Charley Pride
#28. I tried the Atkins diet in the Seventies when pregnant with my son, as I didn't want to pile on the pounds. Now, so long as I'm healthy, I don't care what my scales say.
Britt Ekland
#29. Atkins diet is not a "quick diet" as it is often presented. It is more a way of life. In obese individuals with cardiovascular disease, high blood sugar or triglycerides, or persons with epilepsy Atkins diet shows up as very successful long-term solution.
Jenna Lopez
#30. I remember when the Atkins diet arrived; I lost 16 lb in the first month, but when I stopped, it all went back on again.
Bonnie Tyler
#31. You know, in the days when I started, if you had Chet Atkins' name on your record as a producer and it was on RCA, you could work the road. It didn't have to be a big hit record, it just had to have that on it.
Waylon Jennings
#32. There only have been two people on this earth that I was nervous around: Chet Atkins and Mickey Mantle. It's because of the respect I have for them.
Charley Pride
#33. Dr. Atkins continued, "Sometimes silence is a way to cover emotion or to hide true feelings. Sometimes the bridge between emotion and language is so vast or so scary that it's just easier not to cross it.
Melanie Dawn
#34. I have been fortunate enough to record several singles and a whole album with Chet Atkins.
Suzy Bogguss
#35. My biggest regret is putting my body through fad diets - Atkins, cleanses, the hCG diet.
Jennie Garth
#36. I know you're on the Atkins diet, but could you stop eating bacon during sex?
David Letterman
#37. Who cares who comes out of the closet or not, so long as you're happy?
Christopher Atkins
#38. My wife grew up loving country music, so I always run songs by her whether I wrote it or if somebody pitched it to me.
Rodney Atkins
#39. You know, they just don't make big movie stars the way they used to, maybe because the system has changed, the studio system, but it's sad to see people like Jimmy Stewart go, all the giants of the past.
Tom Atkins
#40. I love Denver. There's not a better place to hit, better place to play. I'm a West Coast guy, so I like playing in the NL West.
Garrett Atkins
#41. The guy who owned that island was from Oregon and he decided that he wanted to have an Oregon feeling to it, so he planted pine trees all over the place!
Christopher Atkins
#42. Copying one person is stealing. Copying ten is research.
Chet Atkins
#43. I don't want to sing songs that aren't worth while. Time is so rare. I just don't want to waste the listener's time and I think that my songs don't do that. That's what I pray for. I want songs that really touch people's hearts.
Rodney Atkins
#44. Love's language is imprecise,
fits more like mittens than gloves.
Jeannine Atkins
#45. The only control you have is the amount of work you put into something. Never lose because someone else worked harder than you.
Candy Atkins
#46. How much obesity has to be created in a single decade for people to realize that diet has to be responsible for it?
Robert Atkins
#47. Your background has a lot to do with your approach to movement.
Cholly Atkins
#48. I started out singing covers. I've sung a lot of 'em and love a lot of 'em.
Rodney Atkins
#49. I truly, truly believe that I was going in that direction and all of a sudden fate took me and put me here. It's like something else has other plans for me.
Christopher Atkins
#50. The emergence of consciousness, like the unfolding of a leaf, relies upon restraint.
Peter Atkins
#51. I weighed 193 pounds and had three chins. I couldn't get up before 9 a.m. and never saw patients before 10. I decided to go on a diet.
Robert Atkins
#52. You don't have to prove yourself to me. You don't even have to prove yourself to you.
Susan Atkins
#54. I'm trying to put together quality at-bats and hit the ball hard somewhere.
Garrett Atkins
#55. I have had cardiomyopathy, which is a non-coronary condition and is in no way related to diet.
Robert Atkins
#56. With videos, I find I'm better off if I'm playing a role inside of it. The more you do it, the more you understand it.
Rodney Atkins
#58. The people in power have created an obesity epidemic.
Robert Atkins
#59. I was gaining weight very rapidly and read about the idea of restricting carbohydrates as an alternative to going hungry. I had a big appetite, so that was the only thing I would even consider.
Robert Atkins
#61. Permanence was a illusion, and nothin really mattered but now.
Raymond L. Atkins
#62. I like to make Arroz con Gandules, rice with pigeon peas. My husband loves it. It's a Puerto Rican dish my mother taught me.
Essence Atkins
#63. I grew up playing music and enjoying good food, friends and family in my own backyard.
Rodney Atkins
#64. I figured that, if you do a vampire movie in Hollywood, you've made it.
Christopher Atkins
#65. I sat backstage and had a beer with Richard Chamberlain, Paul Newman, and Princess Grace.
Christopher Atkins
#66. After 35, I felt like I'd been in these relationships; some were great, some weren't so great, but they weren't right partnerships.
Essence Atkins
#67. [Religion is] a fantasy [and is] completely empty of any explanatory content. It is also evil.
Peter Atkins
#68. Every song you're trying to find something that going to connect in different ways but for me the songs that I'm really drawn to are inspirational, songs that lift you and that everybody can relate to no matter where you're from.
Rodney Atkins
#70. that I wasn't going crazy. For a long time I thought that this story should begin with what happened to me at the church, when my life
Dani Atkins
#71. As Maria Mitchell pointed out in 1875, 'Science needs women'.
Jeannine Atkins
#72. I see the crowd singing 'Rock 'N Roll' or 'Back Road' at my concerts ... they are anthems and they lift up your life.
Rodney Atkins
#73. Everyone would be healthier if they didn't eat junk food.
Robert Atkins
#74. What online dating did was offer me the opportunity to go out with a bunch of different people from different industries; I really didn't want to limit myself with people who are in the entertainment industry.
Essence Atkins
#75. If you're going through hell, Keep on going, don't slow down, If you're scared, don't show it You might get out Before the devil even knows you're there.
Rodney Atkins
#76. When I did 'The Tonight Show' and Jay Leno was still there, he was very nice but it was surreal. It's like you can't believe you're standing there talking to that person. If you've seen them in a lot of movies or on TV you feel like you know them, just like my fans feel like they know me.
Rodney Atkins
#77. It's only in the United States that they make a big deal about nudity.
Christopher Atkins
#78. Where I'm fortunate and why I think I've thrived and survived, through the not having albums out every year-and-a-half, is not taking the songs lightly and trying to make sure I've got consistency.
Rodney Atkins
#79. One of my favorite stories is my first kissing scene with Linda Gray.
Christopher Atkins
#80. My family and I are just regular folks, just trying to get through the day and do the best you can and pay the bills, and that's who we're singing to.
Rodney Atkins
#81. Focusing on what matters means saying no to things that don't matter. Otherwise, your life becomes cluttered with distractions.
Peter Atkins
#82. Right now my favorite TV show - because it's too close to home - is 'My Name Is Earl.' That show kills me. There's some funny stuff in there.
Rodney Atkins
#84. History was ignorant and had a mean streak, so it tended to repeat.
Raymond L. Atkins
#85. The effort must be total for the results to be meaningful.
Eileen Atkins
#86. I don't take a second for granted of the honor of representing country music.
Rodney Atkins
#87. I've been a scuba diver since I was 16 and I think that was one of the reasons they chose me.
Christopher Atkins
#88. I am a big guy and happen to play a position that requires you to be relatively quick. I can't let up now. I have to work every day to be better next year.
Garrett Atkins
#89. There's more in the earth than anyone knows. We'll find wonders.
Jeannine Atkins
#91. Carbohydrate is the bad guy. You have to see that.
Robert Atkins
#92. Fame means absolutely nothing except a good table at a restaurant.
Eileen Atkins
#93. If you hear something you like, and you're halfway like the public, chances are they'll like it too.
Chet Atkins
#94. It's so logical and so simple. Fat is the backup fuel system. The role it plays in the body is that when there's no carbohydrate around, fat will become the primary energy fuel. That's pretty well known.
Robert Atkins
#95. Reality TV is really just based for sensationalism. So, it's extreme versions and extreme caricatures of personalities.
Essence Atkins
#96. Gone with the Wind, a self-help manual that dealt with the subject of how best to cope with Yankees when they venture south.
Raymond L. Atkins
#97. Jimmy Garner is a very gracious guy, as he was then and he is still today.
Tom Atkins
#98. Some people grab my hair and pull it out. People write on my jeans when I'm on stage. They write on my boots - their phone number, name or whatever.
Rodney Atkins
#99. Let me tell you something: if you're on an island for three and a half months and you're four and a half hours by boat from the nearest store, and there's nobody but 30 crew members on the island, I guarantee that you'd be running around without your clothes on.
Christopher Atkins
