Tape Measure Quotes

#1. What you need to do is get that tape measure out, and start measuring that gut. Then you start working out and you start eating properly till that gut gets down close to it was when you were in your 20's. Then you'll find out what your weight should be.

Jack LaLanne

#2. The first entry into modeling doesn't build your confidence. They pull out the tape measure and pick you apart. I'm a curvy woman, so I was definitely told I was 'too curvy.'

Joelle Carter

#3. The stopwatch doesn't lie. The tape measure doesn't lie.

Daley Thompson

#4. Power is a big thing in baseball. It can't be cheapened. That is, a fellow has it or hasn't. It isn't a fluke or great accomplishment, like a perfect game. When Mantle connects, it's a tape-measure job. Nobody who ever lived has more power than Mantle.

Gabe Paul

#5. You can't get rid of it with exercise alone. You can do the most vigorous exercise and only burn up 300 calories in an hour. If you've got fat on your body, the exercise firms and tones the muscles. But when you use that tape measure, what makes it bigger? It's the fat!

Jack LaLanne

#6. I've always thought Marilyn Monroe looked fabulous, but I'd kill myself if I was that fat ... I went to see her clothes in the exhibition, and I wanted to take a tape measure and measure what her hips were. She was very big.

Elizabeth Hurley

#7. I was going to thrash them within an inch of their lives, but I didn't have a tape measure.

Groucho Marx

#8. God never measures the mind ... He always put His tape measure in the HEART

Corrie Ten Boom

#9. Scales lie! You lose thirty pounds of muscle and you gain thirty pounds of fat and you weigh the same, right?
Take that tape measure out. That won't lie. Your waistline is your lifeline.
It should be the same as it was when you were a young person.

Jack LaLanne

#10. He [Groucho's father] had absolutely no training, and if you had ever seen one of his suits, you'd realize what an accurate statement that is. You see, Pop never used a tape measure. He didn't believe in it. He said he could just look at a man and tell hi.

Groucho Marx

#11. You can't measure manhood with a tape line around his biceps.

Billy Sunday

#12. I cannot remember the time when I was not writing, or when I did not mean to be a writer...I was an indefatigable scribbler

L.M. Montgomery

#13. I'm supposed to be here taking measurements, but I haven't even brought a measuring tape. And it's not the apartment I need to measure -- it's the size of my balls.

Sarina Bowen

#14. Every actress hopes to play a wide range of characters because not often you don't.

Megalyn Echikunwoke

#15. Every religion has a prophet who is pointing people to God. Jesus is the only one who says, 'I am God, and I am coming to find you.'

Timothy Keller

#16. Interest in the lives of others, the high evaluation of these lives, what are they but the overflow of the interest a man finds in himself, the value he attributes to his own being?.

Sherwood Anderson

#17. There are many reasons I feel at home in the U.K., but if I were asked to pinpoint the moment I knew I'd arrived, it might well be when I realised the British shared my love of fritters.

Yotam Ottolenghi

#18. Santa exists in the hearts of all true believers.

J.D. Robb

#19. Families are webs. Impossible to touch one part of it without setting the rest vibrating.

Diane Setterfield

#20. We shall see but little if we require to understand what we see. How few things can a man measure with the tape of his understanding! How many greater things might he be seeing in the meanwhile!

Henry David Thoreau

#21. Most of Set's forces were running towards our boat, screaming and throwing rocks (which tended to fall down and hit them, but no one says demons are bright).

Rick Riordan

#22. I love watermelon!
Chomp! Chomp! Chomp!

Greg Pizzoli

#23. For $425 you can buy pills containing real gold that make your poop sparkle. How have I lived this long without sparkly poop?

Michael Makai

#24. Our fear that communism might someday take over most of the world blinds us to the fact that anti- communism already has.

Michael Parenti

#25. Am I lonelier now
Than when my sad imagination
Had him disappear?
Heart torn,
Loosing tiny droplets
Of sorrow
No tape can measure
No needle can mend.

Stasia Ward Kehoe

#26. To measure a leader, put a tape around his heart, not his head.

John C. Maxwell

#27. Here in the UK the government has decided to accept the recommendations of the Better Regulation Task Force to measure and make targeted reductions in the administrative costs - the red tape costs - that regulations impose on business.

John Hutton

#28. The best stock a man can invest in, is the stock of a farm; the best shares are plow shares; and the best banks are the fertile banks of a rural stream; the more these are broken the better dividends they pay.

Henry Ward Beecher