Oliver Reed Quotes

I was in hospital between the Grand Prix in Australia and Malaysia because of a lack of water and a little bit of lack of everything. I was very weak.

Let me ask you a question: If you never ate a balanced diet, what would happen to your body? You know the answer: Eventually you'd grow weak; you might even open yourself to serious illness or disease. We all need a balanced diet if we are to stay healthy.

Swollen in head, weak in legs, sharp in tongue but empty in belly.

I don't know how my body would react if I don't eat for 10 days. In order to go through that experience, I almost did not eat or drink water for 15-20 days. I only had one carrot a day, a cup of black coffee, and a few sips of water.

When a contestant actually loses consciousness, I think that's a good sign.

When I see someone who is starved, they don't look alert. They don't have boundless energy. If you're too skinny, it looks like you're near death.

Diarrhoea is the reason you can have a malnourished child in a well-fed family.

When I was around eleven or twelve, my board got hung up on the top of a bowl, and I got a concussion, and I knocked my teeth out. That was the first time that I got seriously injured, and I was taken to the hospital in an ambulance, and my parents briefly doubted.

Many women who have anorexia put their hearts in a compromised situation.

Did you know that you can live on Ensure for a year? A person can live for a really long time just lying in bed and drinking Ensure - way longer than you think.

They all in general had putrid gums, the spots and lassitude, with weakness of their knees.

I think I could survive a week without eating.

Poor, darling fellow - he died of food. He was killed by the dinner table.

Death by starvation is slow.

It zonked me for three days. I kept falling down and the people at the lab assigned someone to follow me around with a mattress

You can tell when you look at someone and think 'he's on the brink of fainting' or that certainly something's not right.

There is no such thing as a healthy cleanse. It's the worst thing you can do for your body.

There are models who don't eat. That's worrisome - you need the right amount of gas to get going.

A hundred yards away, Mike Newton was lowering Bella's limp body to the sidewalk. She slumped unresponsively against the wet concrete, her skin chalky as a corpse. I almost took the door off the car.

Anything that brings spiritual, mental, or physical weakness, touch it not with the toes of your feet.

When I black out, it's the happiest time of my life.

Is he all right?" Jade asked Sterns. He Swooned" I know he swooned," Jade replied.

Achilles only had an Achilles heel, I have an entire Achilles body.

I view tea drinking as a destroyer of health, an enfeebler of the frame, an en-genderer of effeminancy and laziness, a debaucher of youth and maker of misery for old age. Thus he makes that miserable progress towards that death which he finds ten or fifteen years sooner than he would have found it if he had made his wife brew beer instead of making tea.

I closed my eyes, held my breath and then everything went black.