"Fat lady sings" can mean:
- Part of the phrase "It ain't over 'til the fat lady sings".
- The early 1990s Irish band Fat Lady Sings.
Famous quotes containing the words fat lady, fat, lady and/or sings:
“The opera isn’t over till the fat lady sings.”
—Anonymous.
A modern proverb along the lines of “don’t count your chickens before they’re hatched.” This form of words has no precise origin, though both Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations (16th ed., 1992)
“Marty: I’m just a fat little man. A fat ugly man.
Mrs. Pilletti: You’re not ugly.
Marty: I’m ugly! I’m ugly! I’m ugly!”
—Paddy Chayefsky (1923–1981)
“A lady dying of diabetes
Listened to the radio,
Catching the lesser dithyrambs.
So heaven collects its bleating lambs.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)
“Nobody sings anymore.”
—Imamu Amiri Baraka (b. 1934)