Atkins Quotes & Sayings

In my lame pescetarian defense, it's very hard to be a girl and say you won't eat something. Refuse one plate of bacon-wrapped pork rinds and you're anorexic. Accept them and you're on the Atkins. Excuse yourself to go to the bathroom and you're bulimic. Best to keep perfectly still and bring an IV of fluids with you to dinner. — Sloane Crosley

You had to give, uh, a lot of consideration to the fact that, uh, the artist had to come back into the mike area and start singing, especially the background singers, you know. And you had to make sure they had a couple of bars of music in order to catch their breath. And uh, in many cases a lot of choreographers didn't give that, uh, the proper thought. — Cholly Atkins

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

We wanted to do a crime that the world would have to stand up and take notice. — Susan Atkins

I started doing some demos and got online and bought a refurbished laptop, bought a microphone off of eBay. A lot of folks said you can't really do it that way at a pro level, but I did some vocals that way, turned it into the label and they said, 'Wow, where did you record this? The vocals sound great!' — Rodney Atkins

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

As Maria Mitchell pointed out in 1875, 'Science needs women'. — Jeannine Atkins

The effort must be total for the results to be meaningful. — Eileen Atkins

I'll always be poor in my mind. — Chet Atkins

I had actually finished the manuscript of 'The Wild Trees' and turned it in to Random House when all of a sudden word came. Michael Taylor and his colleague, Chris Atkins, another explorer, have just knocked one out of the park. They found the world's tallest tree. The tree is named Hyperion, 379.1 feet tall. — Richard Preston

Woman, I have no mercy for you. — Susan Atkins

They built these little tanning booths for Brooke and I to do nothing but lay down and tan all over. — Christopher Atkins

Reality TV is really just based for sensationalism. So, it's extreme versions and extreme caricatures of personalities. — Essence Atkins

It's a damn shame we have this immediate ticking off in the mind about how people sound. On the other hand, how many people really want to be operated upon by a surgeon who talks broad cockney? — Eileen Atkins

By pushing or forcing something upon people, you tend to push people further away. — Christopher Atkins

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

All of a sudden your whole life becomes a public issue. Money, wealth, people, prestige - all of that suddenly comes into play. — Christopher Atkins

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

Science is almost totally incompatible with religion. — Peter Atkins

I have had cardiomyopathy, which is a non-coronary condition and is in no way related to diet. — Robert Atkins

The Shrink always warned me that carriers stay wracked with lifelong guilt. It's not an uplifting thing having turned lovers into monsters. We feel bad that we haven't turned into monsters ourselves
survivor's guilt, that's called. And we feel a bit stupid that we didn't notice our own symptoms earlier. I mean, I'd been sort of wondering why the Atkins diet was giving me night vision. But that hadn't seemed like something to worry about ... — Scott Westerfeld

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

The chemist Peter Atkins correctly observed, "Natural selection was a revolution and a stepping-stone to fame; so was relativity, and so was quantum theory. The sheer thrill of discovery is the spur to greater effort. All young scientists aspire to revolution." The same can't be said for theologians (Martin Luther is a rare exception), who either bear their heresies in silence or aspire only to trivial reinterpretations of church doctrine. — Jerry A. Coyne

When I was a little boy, I told my dad, 'When I grow up, I want to be a musician.' My dad said: 'You can't do both, Son'. — Chet Atkins

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

Obsession is hard work and can only be performed at full speed for short periods of time. — Raymond L. Atkins

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

The last song I recorded with [Hank Williams, Sr.] was "I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive." I remember thinking, "Hoss, you're not just jivin'," because he was so weak that all he could do was sing a few lines and then just fall in the chair. — Chet Atkins

Well, the difference in working with the Supremes and the other girl groups like Martha and the Vandellas, and the Marvelettes, you let the material dictate to you, uh, really, how you worked with the group, and with the talent, and the personalities. All of these things was instrumental in having all of the groups, uh, retain their own identity. Uh, and, and the material had a lot to do with it, you know. — Cholly Atkins

Names and knowledge change, the way the turning
world brings color or deep shadows, without a sound
even as soft as the twist of a key in a lock. — Jeannine Atkins

Just the desire to play a mom, wanting to play someone actually closer to who I am and where I am in my life. People are used to seeing me play the single, hot girl, which has been fun, but at the same time, this role is more akin to my natural proclivities. — Essence Atkins

I like to write at home a lot. — Rodney Atkins

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

There's a book called 'The Shack' - it had a lot to do with me coming full circle, meeting my birth mother. Awhile back, my birth mom and my adopted mom came to my show together, and it was pretty surreal. — Rodney Atkins

Thank God for machines. They can make a dog sing! — Christopher Atkins

If you KNOW that you're FUCKED Then you're NOT If you think that you're NOT THEN YOU ARE!
Isn't that lovely? Iambic pentangle? — Martin Atkins

For all his apologies, the convict Esau Davis was just a low-level toilet scrubber without the sense that God gave a goat. If she could get to a pistol or a shotgun or a hammer or a screwdriver, Caddy Colson would go all redneck on his ass and tear him a new asshole. That's the way she was feeling, sitting there in the front seat of his shitty old truck, muffler rattling loose and wild, while he took Kleenex to his bleeding eye and talked about old times with Jamey Dixon like he thought they could still be friends after all this shit went down. — Ace Atkins

No one wants to stumble into gates on moonless nights to trip in holes dug by dogs, but Maria finds more beauty than danger in night. — Jeannine Atkins

There is not one, but many cures for cancer available. But they are all systematically suppressed by the ACS, the NCI, and the major oncology centres. They have too much of an interest in the status quo. — Robert Atkins

You never know how your skills are going to play out at the next level. But I knew I had a lot of doubles and I was capable of driving the ball into gaps. — Garrett Atkins

I figured that, if you do a vampire movie in Hollywood, you've made it. — Christopher Atkins

Dead men told no tales, according to the generally held view. — Raymond L. Atkins

It's still a trip for me to see somebody that I've only seen on television or in a movie. When they are there in real life, it's very different. When we played Detroit, Kevin Costner played before us. — Rodney Atkins

If Raymond Chandler came from the South, his name would be Ace Atkins. — Kinky Friedman

Home runs usually come in bunches for me. If I'm feeling good and I'm on time, I can drive the ball even more. — Garrett Atkins

I had a lot of coaching for the movie and no, I have never sung professionally before. — Christopher Atkins

Elvis changed the country music scene quite a bit; he almost put country music out of business. — Chet Atkins

Stars crown the world, she said, but the lights in your eyes, those are stars, too.
They make up your crown, he said. — Jeannine Atkins

There is no better example of the weakness of our dominant medicine than its clearly ineffective War On Cancer. By the same token, there is no better example of the superiority of complementary, alternative medicine than its management of this dread disease. We are equally concerned about whether mainstream medicine's demand for proof works to maintain it at its current level of ineptitude. — Robert Atkins

You say goodbye to the people you love thousands of times in a lifetime: every time they walk out of the front door; every time you hang up the phone; every waved farewell. You just never know which of those goodbyes is going to be the last one. — Dani Atkins

I guess I do prefer a ball cap. I have performed without a cap, mostly at funerals and weddings. — Rodney Atkins

I know you're on the Atkins diet, but could you stop eating bacon during sex? — David Letterman

The challenge of elucidating living processes
including consciousness and all its baggage which we bundle together as 'the human spirit'
is only one example of a challenge where hard work is paying off and science does not need to accept the false explanations peddled by religions. — Peter Atkins

One can slide between poor and rich, the difference as slight as between paper and parchment, one voice and a choir, arms hanging by sides and a hug. — Jeannine Atkins

My aim is to argue that the universe can come into existence without intervention, and that there is no need to invoke the idea of a Supreme Being in one of its numerous manifestations. — Peter Atkins

Well, I would never do a study because I'm a practicing physician. I mean, all I do is treat people. — Robert Atkins

I forget how good I've got it sometimes, how lucky I am just to be alive. And I pass good prayer to the man upstairs just to thank him like I should. Yeah you know, I get it ... I've got it good. — Rodney Atkins

Brooke was special in the sense that we grew up together on that island. — Christopher Atkins

I don't believe in religion, but I do believe in God. There's a big difference between the two. — Raymond L. Atkins

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

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

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

I have a two year old. Just turned two a couple weeks ago, and he is my main man, he is my shadow. Every spare second, I am hanging with him. — Rodney Atkins

I think I can wipe out diabetes. — Robert Atkins

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

I only wish Chet Atkins could be here for this joyous occasion. — Brenda Lee

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

I could be on 52nd and Third in Manhattan up and ask a strange for directions and they will help you, that's a rural heart. Your car breaks down in the middle of Iowa or somewhere, or Tennessee where I'm from, people want to help each other. Given each opportunity, you see how people come together. — Rodney Atkins

I was a sickly baby, and after two sets of adoptive parents took me home, they returned me to the orphanage because of a serious respiratory infection. But as they say, the third time's a charm, because my mom and dad adopted me and took me into their home where I was raised in a family full of love. — Rodney Atkins

Too many constants were changing, belying the illusion of permanence. — Raymond L. Atkins

There are times when directors just don't know what they're doing. — Christopher Atkins

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

I always wondered if I was supposed to be excellent at something or not. I think, because of that, I have a lot of insecurities about myself. — Christopher Atkins

I am spiritual. I believe God loves and is pulling for all of us. — Rodney Atkins

Well, the most important thing in choreographing for a specific tune is to get the story line and try to make your movements, rather than just actual movements, let them become more or less a physical drama to, to what they were singing about. And uh, also, uh, honor the beat and the rhythmic pattern of the musical track. — Cholly Atkins

Do it again on the next verse, and people think you meant it. — Chet Atkins

Permanence was a illusion, and nothin really mattered but now. — Raymond L. Atkins

Now I'm growing and I can see my faults. I can look at myself objectively and say I can't blame anyone else; it was my own damn fault. — Christopher Atkins

The way I heard about The American Giving Awards was from the people that I work with. My publicist and I had a conversation a while back about wanting to really get involved more and more. We've been working with the National Council for Adoption with the children's home that I was adopted from called Holston Home. — Rodney Atkins

Carbohydrate is the bad guy. You have to see that. — Robert Atkins

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

I think most British people who say they can do an American accent are so bad at it. I find it excruciating. I find it excruciating the other way around, too. — Eileen Atkins

Everyone has their own sound, and if you're heard enough, folks will come to recognize it. Style however, is a different thing. Try to express your own ideas. It's much more difficult to do, but the rewards are there if you're good enough to pull it off ... — Chet Atkins

A controlled carbohydrate lifestyle really prevents risk factors for heart disease. — Robert Atkins

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

Lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being, while movement and methodical physical exercise save it and preserve it. - Plato — Peter Atkins

I attended Professional Children's School in Manhattan because my ballet and modern dance schedules were intensive and had started to interfere with regular school hours. — Essence Atkins

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

Mel Gibson was lovely. He was on the edge of both scenes that I had with Danny Glover. — Tom Atkins

The machine invades me all day. — Susan Atkins

Challenges, when you're in a tumultuous situation, are an opportunity to grow, an opportunity to get closer to God, an opportunity to find and kind of reform yourself, and to figure out what really matters and what your priorities are. — Essence Atkins

You take the healthiest diet in the world, if you gave those people vitamins, they would be twice as healthy. So vitamins are valuable. — Robert Atkins

I don't like when people try to put a spin and have a second agenda to make a person look bad. — Robert Atkins

My diet is like Atkins, but with the carbs. — Phil Baroni

In vocal choreography you had to give a lot of consideration to the fact that you were working with singers and not dancers. But you had to make singers look like they were dancers, and to make the movements as natural as possible, and there to be an association with the movement, uh, somewhat to what the lyric was saying. — Cholly Atkins

Love's language is imprecise,
fits more like mittens than gloves. — Jeannine Atkins

Perhaps it is a testament to the power of modern marketing savvy that an obese man with heart disease and high blood pressure became one of the richest snake oil salesmen ever to live, selling a diet that promises to help you lose weight, to keep your heart healthy and to normalize your blood pressure. — T. Colin Campbell

But I have vertigo ... I lose my equilibrium easily. I can lean out to look at something and just keep leaning and not realize I'm about to fall. — Rodney Atkins

Don't fix what's not broken. — Robert Atkins

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