Fat Lady Quotes

#1. Really, I'm trying to care, Artemis, really. But I thought it was all supposed to be over when the fat lady sings. Well, she's singing, but it doesn't appear to be over

Eoin Colfer

#2. He told me to be funny for the Fat Lady, once.

J.D. Salinger

#3. If this isn't the Fat Lady singing, it's awful close to that. If Ari seriously thought she was a contender for the presidential nomination, he would not walk away right now.

Stuart Rothenberg

#4. I was one in a million. I wasn't bright enough to realize the circus fat lady is, too

Stephen King

#5. Do it for the fat lady!

J.D. Salinger

#6. There is a point of obesity where, like it or not, whatever your other personal achievements or qualities, all you are is "the fat man" or "the fat lady", The world is a gawking four-year old.

Adrian Barnes

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

Margaret Hughes

#8. 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

#9. There had been a fat Austrian lady who told us she could leave her head and walk around the ceiling;

Neil Gaiman

#10. In Boston he met a pretty lady, fat and forty, but beautiful with the bloom of cash and collateral.

Flann O'Brien

#11. Sure I was glad to see John Wayne win the Oscar I'm always glad to see the fat lady win the Cadillac on TV, too.

Robert Mitchum

#12. It ain't over til the fat lady sings.

Dan Cook

#13. Lady?" he echoed, with a nasty laugh. "Just because she looks like a fat Pippa Middleton and talks like she's got a cock shoved in her mouth doesn't make her a lady.

Erin Lawless

#14. It's not over till the fat lady eats!

Ljupka Cvetanova

#15. The '60s aren't over; they won't be over until the Fat Lady gets high.

Ken Kesey

#16. Locker rooms are not, in actual fact, the secret clubhouses of the Effortlessly Thin Women's Fat-Lady Harassment Society.

Hanne Blank

#17. 747s always reminded me of a fat, ugly old lady in the neighborhood where I used to live. Huge sagging breasts, swollen legs, dried-up neckline.

Haruki Murakami

#18. She did not care what a ludicrous picture she might be painting, a fat happy old lady in her night gown, swinging on a small little swing in the dead of the night.

Srividya Srinivasan

#19. [ ... ] don't you know who that Fat Lady really is? ... Ah, buddy. Ah, buddy. It's Christ Himself. Christ Himself, buddy.

J.D. Salinger

#20. Mrs. Jennings, Lady Middleton's mother, was a good-humoured, merry, fat, elderly woman, who talked a great deal, seemed very happy, and rather vulgar.

Jane Austen

#21. Well, I reckon you should
" Ron began, but he was interrupted by the Fat Lady, who had been watching them sleepily and now burst out, "Are you going to give me the password or will I have to say awake all night waiting for you to finish your conversation?

J.K. Rowling

#22. I tend to sing opera and showtunes in the shower. I don't know why, but when I get in the shower I turn into this big fat opera lady.

Ester Dean

#23. In its natural state, the child tells the literal truth because it is too naive to think of anything else. Blurting out the complete truth is considered adorable in the young, right smack up to the moment that the child says, 'Mommy, is this the fat lady you can't stand?

Judith Martin

#24. I'm a foodie, I'm always eating, I'm eating right now ... sometimes I get fat around the waist, but I don't care.

Lady Saw

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

Dick Motta

#26. Some high society lady said is your horse outside? No ma'am, he's between my legs, but your too fat to ride.

Hank Williams Jr.

#27. She's a fighter, and she does the long program well, so we'll see how it turns out. And in figure skating, it's never over until the fat lady sings.

Frank Carroll

#28. I'll tell you a terrible secret - Are you listening to me? There isn't anyone out there who isn't Seymour's Fat Lady.

J.D. Salinger

#29. Hello, honey," he said. "You are a very nice fat lady. I like a soft mattress." She drew in her breath. "Then go home and lie down on your bed," she said. "Go back to your wife. I know her, by the way.

Alexander McCall Smith

#30. 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

#31. I have never been told that I snore. I am sure you're mistaken." He grinned.
"You snore like a big, fat man."
A laugh burst from me. I was sure he was lying. "Stop it," I said, swatting at his shoulder. "You are so inappropriate. What gentleman tells a lady she snores?

Julianne Donaldson

#32. 747s always remind me of a fat, ugly old lady in the neighborhood where I used to live. Huge sagging breasts, swollen legs, dried up neckline. The airport, a likely gathering place for the old ladies. Dozens of them, coming and going, one after the other.

Haruki Murakami