Pounds famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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I borrowed 100 pounds and made the pact with God: Make me a millionaire - and you can have half of my money.
-- Albert Gubay -
If I'm two pounds heavier, I'm fat. If I'm skinnier, I'm sick. It's ridiculous. And that's not coming from agents or designers.
-- Alessandra Ambrosio -
Exercise because it's good for you even if every step weighs a thousand pounds.
-- Andrew Solomon -
I was getting Monkees Monthly and there was a competition to draw a Monkee. I did a caricature of Micky Dolenz and won 10 pounds-a fantastic sum of money for me then. I bought a secondhand tape recorder, which further launched me. They've been very responsible for me getting started.
-- Andy Partridge -
We did a gig at the Marquee and we were supposed to be paid five pounds but we never got it, and it cost us something like 10 pounds in petrol to get there to do it. So what we did was steal some equipment from The Marquee.
-- Andy Partridge -
Well I don't know how many pounds make up a ton, Of all the nobel prizes that I've never won, And I may be the mayor of simpleton, But I know one thing, And that's I love you.
-- Andy Partridge -
End rhymes are not enough. Every word-sound in a poem should find an echo in another, neighbouring word's sound to achieve what Ezra Pound called melopoeia. (This is something like what the Welsh call Cynghanned.)
-- Anne Stevens -
I was 17 pounds when I was born. My mother couldn't walk for three weeks.
-- Art Donovan -
Man is the only 150 pound nonlinear servomechanism that can be wholly reproduced by unskilled labor.
-- Ashley Montagu -
Few are aware that they want any thing, except pounds schillings and pence.
-- Augustus William Hare -
People need help, advice and love, not websites telling you how to lose your last pound, or scantily clad, deeply anorexic celebrities parading around flaunting their golden bones.
-- Billie Piper -
The joke in aviation is, 'If you want to make a million, you'd better start with £10m.'
-- Bruce Dickinson -
I'll lose about 20 pounds during the season.
-- Bryce Harper -
The drum in a dream pounds loud to the dreamer.
-- Carl Sandburg -
Going from 300 pounds to 150 pounds was the biggest change of my whole life.
-- Carnie Wilson -
The hedonistic lifestyle is difficult to achieve when you're still carrying your own gear. Trust me that you don't feel glamorous with a 60-pound amp in your arms; it's a lot less sexy than toting a vodka gimlet and impossible to do in heels.
-- Carrie Brownstein -
Unfortunately, the administration's plan is an ounce of cure for a pound of problems.
-- Charles Schumer -
I was in the Pritikin Center in Santa Monica once, trying to lose 30 or 40 pounds in a month. I'd work... on a treadmill and with the weights, but it was driving me nuts. So I escaped. Tom Arnold picked me up and we went to Le Dome and had tons of desserts.
-- Chris Farley -
I went from 220 pounds that I cut down for 'Moneyball' to almost 270-280 pounds for 'Ten Year.'
-- Chris Pratt -
Don't worry, now that I know about your little ego problem, I'll do my best to look all gushy when you pound you chest.
-- Christine Feehan -
I lost 28 pounds in my divorce…because that's what a soul weighs.
-- Christopher Titus -
Some coaches pray for wisdom. I pray for 260-pound tackles. They'll give me plenty of wisdom.
-- Chuck Noll -
I gained 80 pounds for my pregnancy so this is like my coming out party.
-- Cindy Margolis -
Pound for pound, your show is the best of its kind. I'm always learning from your great content!
-- Craig Shoemaker -
In my early days, I was about 145 pounds. I was really a starving artist; the poster child for starving artists.
-- Creed Bratton -
I had a laptop when they weighed 10 pounds.
-- Curt Schilling -
I always feel a bit trapped when a painting goes for millions of pounds and only one person can have it. If you can have that as well as a poster on every student's wall, then you're in a very enviable position. I'd like to do a Damien Hirst for £500 at some point.
-- Damien Hirst -
We spend billions of pounds on welfare, yet millions are trapped on welfare. It's not worth their while going into work.
-- David Cameron -
I normally get paid tens of millions of pounds to fight and I ended up fighting for free. I don't like fighting for free.
-- David Haye -
An ounce of image is worth a pound of performance
-- David Lee Roth -
When I ran across America, for 75 days I ate 10,000 calories a day. I still lost about five pounds.
-- Dean Karnazes -
Now I walk every where I can. I also ride a stationary bicycle for a total of 30 minutes. I do it three or more times a week now and I have lost 20 pounds
-- Della Reese -
I actually lost 90 pounds over the course of 15 months in order to save money on life insurance.
-- Derek Kilmer -
At 200 pounds, with a 17-inch neck, a resting pulse of 78, a bench press of 200 pounds, I was very much indeed a normal, All-American male. I carried my sickness within.
-- Dirk Benedict -
You beat the liver out of a goose to get a pâté; you pound the muscles of a man's cardia to get a philosopher.
-- Djuna Barnes -
She's (Christy Martin) voluptuous and intoxicating no smear lipstick. Here's a woman who pounds it out and her lipstick don't smear. Revlon should jump on that like white on rice, you know what I mean? Max Factor, Elizabeth Arden.
-- Don King -
If I listened to my instincts, I'd be down at the pub chasing women, not under a 400 pound bar squatting
-- Dorian Yates -
I'd rather be a few pounds heavier and enjoy life than be worried all the time.
-- Drew Barrymore -
I personally cannot tell you how many times we rescuers put our names on animals to come to us as soon as they are eligible for release, only to find they have been senselessly killed by overzealous pound workers.
-- Elayne Boosler -
An ounce of performance is worth more than a pound of preachment.
-- Elbert Hubbard -
I have skinny genes. My mother weighs 90 pounds.
-- Ellen Barkin -
John Cleese once told me he'd do anything for money. So I offered him a pound to shut up, and he took it.
-- Eric Idle -
I decided to stop drinking with creeps. I decided to drink only with friends. I've lost 30 pounds.
-- Ernest Hemingway -
An ounce of convention is worth a pound of explanation.
-- Ethel Mumford -
My mother always wanted me to be glamorous. When I thought about that, it really fired me up, and once I lost all those pounds, I started to feel really good about myself.
-- Etta James -
The trouble with dieting is that a pound of will power takes off only an ounce of weight.
-- Evan Esar -
You can have everything in the world and still be the loneliest man. And that is the most bitter type of loneliness, success has brought me world idolisation and millions of pounds. But it's prevented me from having the one thing we all need: A loving, ongoing relationship.
-- Freddie Mercury -
Oh, a bookshop. Why not pop in and buy a little Kant? And perhaps just a quarter-pound of Kafka. Don't bother to wrap it, thanks. I'll eat it here.
-- Frederick Busch -
In my life I've easily lost 500 pounds but for some reason they keep finding me.
-- Gael Greene -
You might think the thinner version of yourself is going to be the most positive or confident, but that's not how it is for me. When I'm over 200 pounds, that's when I'm the most confident version of myself.
-- Garrett Hedlund -
I arrived in Hollywood twenty pounds overweight and as strong as an ox. But if I put on a white tails and tux like Fred Astaire, I still looked like a truck driver.
-- Gene Kelly -
I consider anybody who weighs over 200 pounds fat, and time was when I could not refrain from telling such people so.
-- Gloria Swanson -
If you're going to dedicate your career to ranting about the excesses of American capitalism, you probably shouldn't weigh 450 pounds.
-- Greg Giraldo -
Women are, in general, less shallow visually. If their man gains 10, 20 pounds, they don't care as much.
-- Hank Azaria -
When my babe was born, they said it was premature. It weighed only four pounds; but God let it live.
-- Harriet Ann Jacobs -
I represent more the healthy, happy, curvy, strong woman. And that sounds much healthier to me than being 80 pounds and skinny as a bean.
-- Heidi Klum -
Cheese is one of my great weaknesses, I could eat the stuff by the pound.
-- Helena Christensen -
The monogram of our national initials, which is the symbol for our monetary unit, the dollar, is almost as frequently conjoined to the figures of an engineer's calculations as are the symbols indicating feet, minutes, pounds, or gallons. ... This statement, while true in regard to the work of all engineers, applies particularly to that of the mechanical engineer...
-- Henry R. Towne -
When a newspaper comes out that says 'Duff' Puff - she must have gained 15 pounds' or something like that, how would any normal person react?
-- Hilary Duff -
An ounce of courage will go farther with women than a pound of timidity.
-- Honore de Balzac -
If I had a thousand pounds China should have it- if I had a thousand lives, China should have them. No! Not China, but Christ. Can we do too much for Him? Can we do enough for such a precious Saviour?
-- Hudson Taylor -
And remember, every pound you give leaves you a pound poorer.
-- Hugh Dennis -
Any combination of a 250-pound Mexican and LSD-25 is a potentially terminal menace for anything it can reach
-- Hunter S. Thompson -
Sure, I didn't weigh a hundred and ten pounds , but my narrow waist let me bend and I could break a man's neck with my kick.
-- Ilona Andrews -
The weight of the dead was heavier than the pounds of the body.
-- J.R. Ward -
I was voted best-looking kid in high school but, as you can see, things changed. I used to say I was a 260 pound Woody Allen. You can make that 295 pound now.
-- James Gandolfini -
One pound of uranium is worth about 3 million pounds worth of coal or oil.
-- James Lovelock -
Chubby Checker lost pounds by demonstrating how to move as if you were 'drying your back with a towel' − the substitution of the word 'back' for 'bottom' indicates the oddly wholesome image of the Twist.
-- Jan Murray -
I have gained and lost the same 10 pounds so many times over and over again my cellulite must have deja vu!
-- Jane Wagner -
Basically, what happened was, I had moved out to Los Angeles, I was pretty damn lazy and I put on some pounds.
-- Jason Biggs -
Anyone can lose a few pounds, but not everyone has the tools to stick with it.
-- Jennifer Hudson -
His hooves pound the beat, your heart sings the song.
-- Jerry Shulman -
Oliver's heart tried to pound its way out of his ribcage, but he ignored it. "I'm in love with Petunia," he announced. "And I want to help her.
-- Jessica Day George -
Here's the thing: life is now. It's not ten pounds from now, it's not twenty pounds from now, it's not a million dollars from now. It's right now. And you just have to take a chance.
-- Jillian Michaels -
I thought to myself, Join the army. It's free. So I figured while I'm here I'll lose a few pounds.
-- John Candy -
Let's turn British inventions into British industries, British factories and British jobs. Let them make pounds for us, not dollars marks or yen for others.
-- John Major -
If you owe your bank a hundred pounds, you have a problem. But if you owe a million, it has.
-- John Maynard Keynes -
We believe the 36, nearly 40, billion pound discount given for a right to buy houses took a million houses out of the public housing sector which is desperately needed for rent.
-- John Prescott -
In a thousand pounds of law there is not an ounce of love.
-- John Ray -
I'm 190 pounds of rock hard muscle, underneath 40 pounds of sturdy protective fat.
-- John Swartzwelder -
Every pound of muscle burns approximately 50 calories every day, just doing nothing.
-- Jorge Cruise -
Someone — Cyril Connolly? Ezra Pound? — once said that anything that can be read twice is literature; I would say that anything that bears saying twice is quotable.
-- Joseph Epstein -
I'm magnificent! I'm five feet eleven inches and I weigh one hundred thirty-five pounds, and I look like a racehorse.
-- Julie Newmar -
I gained 60 pounds, and I'm proud of it. Why do I need to watch my weight when I'm pregnant? I could eat whatever the hell I want to eat.
-- Kate Hudson -
Does anybody who gave up smoking to save a pound a week have a pound at the end of the week? Not on your life.
-- Katharine Whitehorn -
There was a time when I was 312 pounds. And I've been all different weights.
-- Kathy Najimy -
I might be half Derek's size, but I was the one who sounded like a two-hundred-pound beast plowing through the woods.
-- Kelley Armstrong -
I love food so much, all I have to do is look at it and I gain 5 pounds.
-- Kelly Rowland -
In practice in 2007 I had a limit that probably would've weighed almost 30 pounds.
-- Kevin VanDam -
Everyone expects me to be 9 feet tall and weigh 200 pounds when they meet me.
-- Khloe Kardashian -
I believe that behind both the person who weighs 400 pounds and the one who weighs 85 there is a lot of baggage, and it has nothing to do with their bodies.
-- Kirstie Alley -
He laughed. "I know you're teasing me. And you should know I'm not easily humiliated. You may hunt for my food, and pound me every time we fight, and protect me when we're attacked, if you like. I'll thank you for it.
-- Kristin Cashore -
Why did I follow her? If you must know, Sir, it was easy. Pound for pound, Puss-in-Boots was the best commander I ever served under.
-- L.A. Meyer -
I am beginning to measure myself in strength, not pounds. Sometimes in smiles.
-- Laurie Halse Anderson -
I've never even been out of my BMI range. I'm 5-foot-3. If I gain five pounds, it shows.
-- Lisa Marie Presley -
I knew once a very covetous, sordid fellow [perhaps William Lowndes], who used to say, `Take care of the pence, for the pounds will take care of themselves.
-- Lord Chesterfield -
an ounce of help is worth more than a pound of pity any day ...
-- Louise Jordan Miln -
For me to be ten pounds thinner is a full-time job, and I am handing in my notice and walking out the door!!
-- Margaret Cho
