Popeye's Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. I work out to eat.

Bobby Flay

#6. Nobody tells you Rwanda looks like Tuscany with its tiled roofs.

Joanna Lumley

#7. 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

#8. If we are to send people, it must be for a very good reason - and with a realistic understanding that almost certainly we will lose lives. Astronauts and Cosmonauts have always understood this. Nevertheless, there has been and will be no shortage of volunteers.

Carl Sagan

#9. 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

#10. 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

#11. The greatest risk in life is to risk nothing. The Person who risks nothing, has nothing and becomes nothing.

Leo Buscaglia

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

Josh Lanyon

#13. 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

#14. 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

#15. The Service you do for others is the rent you pay for your room here on Earth.

Muhammad Ali

#16. I fell in love, not with anything or anybody in particular but with everything.

George Harrison

#17. 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

#18. 3. There are three stages. Thoughtless being. Thought. Return to thoughtless being.
33. Do not confuse the first and third stages. Thoughtless being is attained by everyone, the return to thoughtless being by a very few.

Chad Harbach

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

Paul O'Grady

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

Gil Kane

#21. 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

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

Paul O'Grady

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

John Goodman

#24. 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

#25. We need to build a wall ... I don't mind having a big beautiful door in that wall.

Donald Trump

#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. Tell me this is the future,
I won't believe you.
Tell me I'm living,
I won't believe you.

Louise Gluck

#28. 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

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

Magnus Scheving

#30. 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

#31. What did it feel like, I wondered, to love someone that much? So much that you couldn't even control yourself when they came close, as if you might just break free of whatever was holding you and throw yourself at them with enough force to easily overwhelm you both.

Sarah Dessen

#32. Without my relatives, I am but a thread; together, we form a colorful and elaborate Persian carpet.

Firoozeh Dumas

#33. 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

#34. 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

#35. 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

#36. I'll try anything once, most things twice.

Michael Flatley

#37. 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