I worked as a belly dancer at a Greek restaurant senior year in high school.
There’s something quite joyful about doing comedy which doesn’t really need much analysis. I’m not elitist. I like to do crowd-pleasing stuff which is a bit smart, but is just about belly laughs.
I don’t keep any copy of my books around… they would embarass me. When I finish writing my books, I kick them in the belly, and have done with them.
Television was supposed to be a national park. Instead it has become a money machine. It’s a commodity now, just like pork bellies.
When you’re pregnant you just want to be comfortable – but I wear more or less the same as I do when I’m not pregnant: pregnancy denim with normal tops and flat shoes. But when the belly starts to really stick out, I’ll want the floaty dresses!
When we first get to space, we feel sick. Your body is really confused. You’re dizzy. Your lunch is floating around in your belly because you’re floating. What you see doesn’t match what you feel, and you want to throw up.
Proletarian language is dictated by hunger. The poor chew words to fill their bellies.
In the pregnancy process I have come to realize how much of the burden is on the female partner. She’s got a construction zone going on in her belly.
If you paid me $2 million, I’m sure I could lose my belly. But I don’t get paid to look a certain way. I get paid to win fights. That’s what I concentrate on.
To be honest I see myself as a broadcaster, I’m just on the radio a lot. So I don’t really feel like I’m getting papped on the school run with my belly in.
I never could stand losing. Second place didn’t interest me. I had a fire in my belly.
Credit default swap is basically just an agreement that I have with you, where I sell you insurance on some bond you own. If the bond goes belly up, I promise to pay you. And as long as the bond doesn’t go belly up, you pay me for selling you insurance.
When I was little, I wasn’t so little. I had a big old round belly and I was really clumsy, but I was super confident.
My ex used to tell me that I needed to lose weight. Bear in mind I have a wheat allergy and I’m a coeliac! I’m constantly ill and it’s like, how the hell do you tell someone like that they need to lose weight off their belly?
I think belly dancing is very sensuous.
I just finished touring, and I’m on a detox thing. It’s a heavy detox, so nothing in my belly except water, salt, and cayenne pepper.
Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.
I don’t go to these places where there are belly dancers and this and that.
I was the first to win a major with a belly putter, and I’ve spent hours practicing that way, so I hope they don’t ban anchoring.
I have two belly buttons.
Having people doubt you is what gives you that fire in your belly.
Normally I don’t feel like having a belly full of pasta.
Ain’t nobody more punk rock than Robert Johnson, Lead Belly, even Little Richard.
When I read the scene where I’m actually chainsawing my way out of the belly of a shark, how could a guy turn that down when that’s in the job description?
I don’t exactly fit well in leather pants, so I don’t rock that look. I lost my hair a long time ago, so no hair-metal look, either. I had hair down to my belly button at one point, but I think that was the ’90s.
Basically, I like anything with guts – Lead Belly, Bill Big Broonzy, Johnny Winter, the Stones.
I look like if AJ Styles and Conrad Thompson had a child. But the child didn’t grow full arms or legs; he just grew out from the belly.
One thing that happens when you’re pregnant is that as your stomach starts to stretch. It itches! So I have to keep my belly really lubricated. Every morning, there’s a buttering ceremony after I get out of the shower. It’s really like basting a turkey with body butter.
I went to Ethiopia, and it dawned on me that you can tell a starving, malnourished person because they’ve got a bloated belly and a bald head. And I realized that if you come through any American airport and see businessmen running through with bloated bellies and bald heads, that’s malnutrition, too.
I’m a firm believer in smiles. I used to believe that everything had to be a belly laugh. But I’ve come to realize that a real sincere smile is mighty powerful.
‘Badmaash Company’ and ‘Delhi Belly’ was about friends, and I was part of the gang. And yes, they did have stars playing the lead! You do need a star to sell a film; and playing the second lead doesn’t bother me.
I always say that I was dancing and acting in the belly. I feel like it’s something I was born with and inspired by my family since I grew up backstage, watching them perform. I guess it was just a natural path for me.
You’ll see every kind of New Yorker in there. You really feel like you’re in the belly of the beast when you’re in Union Square.
Watching Mum work hard made me do the same. I’ve watched her since I was little, and I’ve picked up on how hard she works and the fire she has in her belly.
With his economic speeches in response to Obama’s ‘you didn’t build that’ fiasco, Romney proved that he does have fire in his belly and that he is fervently dedicated to free enterprise, entrepreneurship and pro-growth policies.
We have been concentrating on the banks, business and our bellies. We have neglected the spiritual and cultural. It was because Rome and Athens neglected these things that they fell.
I like men with some belly who are a little over the hill.
In my first-ever shot, there was a big shell that was dropped on my belly in slow motion. I even asked the director why we are doing it, and he said it would look beautiful… and I wondered, ‘Really? But why and how?’
I’m coeliac and I’d constantly have a bad belly from a night out.
In ‘Delhi Belly,’ I was bald; in other movies I always carried a different look.
Too much coffee can lead to belly bloat!
Occasionally, when I run into a great bass backstage at a festival I’ll play a few notes on the low E string, just to feel the instrument vibrate against my belly.
I nearly always wear a boring suit but I do sometimes furnish the with long dangly earrings or belly button jewelry.
A swollen belly is a lot of pressure on the back.
People were talking about songs of the common man in order to make the common man. With Woody Guthrie and Lead Belly, they were so common it was just uncommon.
Some foreigners with full bellies and nothing better to do engage in finger-pointing at us. First, China does not export revolution; second, it does not export famine and poverty; and third, it does not mess around with you. So what else is there to say?
I think my first bikini, I was four and it was polka dotted and I had a big belly and I looked dashing.
The pancreas releases insulin to make you ready for fight or flight when you’re scared. So if you don’t fight or flight – if you stay onstage, telling jokes – then your body stores more fat in your tummy which makes you insulin resistant. All comedians have fat bellies, even if they exercise.
I just like to have cereal in the morning, but it’ll be those cluster things – it’s a bit random – and through the day, I like just pasta, plain pasta with a bit of sauce on it, never too much in case I get a bad belly… and jelly just before I go on for a bit of energy!
Cut the things out of your life that keep you from reaching your dream. It doesn’t matter if it’s cooking or belly dancing.
In the tight belly of the dead, Burrow with hungry head, And inlay maggots like a jewel.
Their kitchen is their shrine, the cook their priest, the table their altar, and their belly their god.
I put cocoa butter all over my face and my iconic belly and my arms and legs. Why live rough? Live smooth.
I have belly fat like everybody else, and I don’t want to be airbrushed on the cover of a magazine.
I’m an old-fashioned guy… I want to be an old man with a beer belly sitting on a porch, looking at a lake or something.
If a man can make me laugh and stimulate me intellectually, then I wouldn’t mind if he was 4 ft. 8 in. with a huge belly. The only thing that would put me off is bad breath – but even that can be fixed. A bad personality isn’t so easy to fix.
This beast went to the well and drank, and the noise was in the beast’s belly like unto the questing of thirty couple hounds, but all the while the beast drank there was no noise in the beast’s belly.
You can do something as simple as drinking two cups of water before a meal to fill your belly a bit so that you don’t overeat, or change up your cheese from dairy to nondairy.
I’m very uncomfortable, mainly with my belly.
I would put belly laughing at the top of my highlights list. They always say that laughter is the best medicine.
The reason fiber helps us control our weight is that it fills the belly yet yields few calories since fiber is, for the most part, not something that we can digest.
In my mother’s belly, I remember not liking the tempi my father played the Beethoven Sonatas in.
So many times I’ve seen that done where it’s the man laying back in bed, with his chubby belly, and the woman is absolutely gorgeous in every way, and you see all of her beautiful backside. To flip that on its head was so interesting to me.
