Famous Quotes & Sayings

After I stopped smoking, the pounds stayed on.

During the season, (May through July), we go through 3,000 to 4,000 pounds of ribs a week.

Jim Connors

Pound for pound, ... the smallest one down there.

They've got 14 seniors. They're enormous. They have three lineman who are well over 300 pounds and they have some quick secondary people.

Gertrude Stein

[On Ezra Pound:] A village explainer, excellent if you were a village, but if you were not, not.

An ounce of convention is worth a pound of explanation.

Jean-Claude Juncker

I put my money on Brexit. The EU Financial Stability Commissioner, Jonathan Hill from Britain, still owes me a pound.

Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

I walk around at 150-152 pounds to weigh 147 pounds. Other boxers weigh around 160-170 before coming down.

Ezra Pound

I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn't irascible.

That's what Mike's going to do. He's a big guy. He'll pound away and pound away.

You have to make adjustments. I know I only have so many pitches. I'm going to pound the zone.

I'm down to 191 pounds. I'd like to get to 196-198 by the time the season starts. I was 197 before I got sick. It sure stayed with me awhile. To me, getting back to around 197 pounds is a big deal.

They really do some pounding on each other out on the water.

Honore de Balzac

An ounce of courage will go farther with women than a pound of timidity.

How do you think it went? ... He wasn't going to take any lip. He was pounding on the table and saying we'd just go home. We're thinking, 'Fine. Let's go home.'

Diego Forlan

I only stayed at 130 pounds to get back at Casamayor,

They were all out at the plate. They started pounding my helmet. It was great.

Pete Townshend

The Who got paid 4000 pounds during those days, but we always smashed our equipment that cost more than 5000 pounds.

Lewis Carroll

Better say nothing at all. Language is worth a thousand pounds a word!

Rachel Hunter

All you need is a bad angle and suddenly youre 30 pounds overweight.

John Maynard Keynes

If you owe your banker a thousand pounds, you are at his mercy. If you owe your banker a million pounds, he is at your mercy.

Josh Young

I lost 100 pounds and embraced theater and music as what I was going to make for the rest of my life.

Nicole Richie

I am naturally a thin person and I am 5'1" and putting on five or 10 pounds, that looks like a lot on me.

Nick Offerman

I have a wonderfully hedonistic appetite, and if I wasn't really strict with myself, I'd weigh 300 pounds. I'm not good with moderation.

Olivia Wilde

I could find David Beckham naked in a cardboard box on my doorstep and I would drop him off at the pound.

Kathy Najimy

There was a time when I was 312 pounds. And I've been all different weights.

Mike Tyson

I'm a vegan. I lost 150 pounds because of being a vegan.

Matthew Quick

Also, I sort of let my appearance go, to the point where I was maybe ten to seventy pounds overweight...

Michael Caine

My mum never understood how much I earned. When I told her I earned a million pounds a film, she said, 'How much is that?'

Merlin Olsen

I've caught fish as big as I am. I've caught marlin close to 300 pounds.

Cliff Curtis

I put on close to 60 pounds for 'Genesis,' an independent movie from New Zealand.

John Salley

I'm John Salley, and I'm a vegan. I'm a vegan because I'm only four pounds heaver than I was in 1989.

Eric Idle

John Cleese once told me he'd do anything for money. So I offered him a pound to shut up, and he took it.