Best Popeye Quotes

#1. Popeye the Sailor Man has more cultural longevity. Only women and poofs read or write now. Otherwise, these days, no sooner has someone been sodomised by a close relative than they think they can write a memoir. The game's up.

Hanif Kureishi

#2. Christ refers to the common thread of divine love that is the core and essence of every human mind.

Marianne Williamson

#3. I was a really picky eater as a child. Because I was obsessed by Popeye, my mum and aunts would put my food in a can to represent spinach and we'd hum the Popeye tune and then I'd happily eat it.

Paul O'Grady

#4. Friends are like the stars that glow in the sky ... you don't always see them, but you know they're always there overhead, and even when it's cloudy, snowy or stormy, even when the power goes out and you're trapped in darkness, they'll always find a way to shine through to you.

Rebecca McNutt

#5. She ate--so, so good--cocooned in the harmonic dissonance of a large family, where every sound was distinct yet blended.

Rachel Hauck

#6. The only thing that's worse than people who say "I am what I am" is people who say "I yam what I yam" while doing a Popeye imitation.

Ariel Leve

#7. I always think of "Popeye" and "Barney Google" as quintessential comic strips in that old rollicky, slapstick way we've sort of lost.

Bill Watterson

#8. Seventy-six for an American male was a number on an actuarial chart that includes men who are obese, smokers and inheritors of deadly family genes.

Tom Brokaw

#9. The Thickety is a sinister, magical debut with a marvelous and shocking heroine. J.A. White's elegant writing and masterful plot kept me turning pages late into the night.

Lisa McMann

#10. I was surprised he didn't just spit the nails into the wood like Popeye the Sailor Man.

Josh Lanyon

#11. I want you in the sky, and against the earth. I want to kiss you again, I want to touch you, I want to feel you in my arms and I want to hear you gasping my name when I'm inside you. I want all that, and I want it badly. Every time I look at you, I want it.
-Kit to Rue

Shana Abe

#12. Kale is my best friend. I eat kale salad. I put kale in my smoothies, kale in my soup. Kale, kale, kale! I feel like Popeye. I love it. I definitely need variety or I get super bored, so I have to mix it up with different sauces and tahini or whatever.

Alanis Morissette

#13. I've never even been into those supplements or any of that. I don't even drink energy shakes. I'm not into that kind of stuff. You just get me an In-N-Out burger and some Popeye's fried chicken and I'm straight.

Paul Pierce

#14. I used to say in the cabinet room, 'confidence is not like a can of Popeye spinach - you can't take the top off and swallow it down.' You know, confidence has to be earned.

Paul Keating

#15. I was Popeye mad when I was a kid, and I'd eat spinach until the cows came home.

Paul O'Grady

#16. Some think that by preparing to deal with crises you make them more likely. I think the wiser judgment is the contrary. In this area at least, if you want peace or stability, it's better to prepare for war or instability.

Timothy Geithner

#17. Most of us came out of Popeye, so turning Popeye into something believable was tricky enough.

Gil Kane

#18. Although we cannot change the past, we can stake our claim on it and make it ours. We can know for ourselves where we have been and use that wisdom to build our future.

Ashley Warner

#19. I'm really emotional. I don't fight with people - like, I can barely fight with my husband because I'll just start crying instead. I've learned not to do that.

Gwen Stefani

#20. You gotta have goals!

Zig Ziglar

#21. It's become normal for me to walk on set as Popeye, Frankenstein or an Elf or even a chicken.

Paul O'Grady

#22. When I was a kid, I loved Popeye, but the old ones, the real old ones.

John Goodman

#23. I'm not staid and unbiased here. I have certain biases I want to convey, and if you disagree, that's fine.

Neil Cavuto

#24. Being unable to say No, can make you exhausted, stressed and irritated.

Auliq Ice

#25. The ideal build for a golfer would be strong hands, big forearms, thin neck, big thighs and a flat chest. He'd look like Popeye.

Gary Player

#26. Nice to meet ya," Popeye said. He sort of held his hand out. "Do we shake?" "Of course," Ronald said, enveloping the small man's hand in his massive hairy one. "Decorum doesn't go away just because there are bodies on the ground." Ronald

Jake Bible

#27. You're the man now,' she said to me after my father died, 'you're the man.' Then she turned to Popeye, our calico tom, and said, 'You're the cat now, Popeye, you're the cat,' as if she'd always worn a veil over her face and had never known we were men and cats all along.

David Sedaris

#28. I realised there were no good role models for kids. Popeye eats spinach, but also smokes and hits people.

Magnus Scheving

#29. The things that you did with parents, whether it was spending every Sunday morning with your dad and eating French toast and watching Popeye, or decorating the Christmas tree with our mother - these are memories that help you be happy.

Leonardo DiCaprio

#30. When man manages his intellect and steadies his mind,
He discovers the all-pervading Self.

Gian Kumar

#31. Popeye was right about spinach: dark green, leafy vegetables are the healthiest food on the planet. As whole foods go, they offer the most nutrition per calorie.

Michael Greger

#32. I'm Popeye the sailor man dum dum I live in a cara-van dum dum I op-en the door And fall-on the floor I'm Popeye the sailor man dum dum

Arundhati Roy

#33. I'm asking God to give you a Popeye moment. A moment when God blesses you with a divine burden: something that bothers you so deeply, you're moved from complacency to action.

Craig Groeschel

#34. We, who fill our stomachs with nothing but boiled lettuce, raw lettuce, spinach, spinach and more spinach. Maybe we'll end up being as strong as Popeye, though so far I've seen no sign of it!

Anne Frank

#35. I'm just riding this train as long as I can. As long as I'm having fun, I'll do it. When it stops being fun, I'll try something else. Maybe I'll open up a chain of Popeye's Chicken.

Gabrielle Union

#36. I never had any desire to get a tattoo. If I was ever going to get one, I would get a plain anchor with a rope around it, the most unimaginative possible tattoo, like Popeye had.

John Waters

#37. A lot of American companies are now moving into Iraq. Iraq now has Pizza Hut, Subway, Taco Bell and Popeye's fried chicken. So, great, instead of oil for food, we're giving them oil in food.

Jay Leno

#38. Jolted by a twentyfold increase in testosterone, a bull changes into a sort of spinach-eating Popeye, a self-confident jerk ready to fight anyone in his path.

Frans De Waal