Famous Quotes & Sayings

Honore de Balzac

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

Olivia Wilde

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

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.

Gertrude Stein

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

Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

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

James Thurber

A pinch of probability is worth a pound of perhaps.

Henrik Ibsen

Whether I pound or am being pounded, all the same there will be moaning!

Hilary Duff

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?

Helena Christensen

Cheese is one of my great weaknesses, I could eat the stuff by the pound.

Helena Christensen

There've been times when I've bought a whole pound of cheese and walked down the street and eaten it in one go.

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.

You don't have to be 6-4 and 280 pounds to be a kicker,'' he said.

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.

Mike Tyson

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

Lewis Carroll

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

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.

Matthew Quick

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

Pete Townshend

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

Rufus Wainwright

I have earned hundreds of thousands of pounds, but I can't seem to get to grips with money.

Warren Cuccurullo

I went from 118 pounds to 135 pounds in a few months. But, I still didn't know anything about food.

William Bligh

Beef also was difficult to be procured and exceedingly poor; the price nearly sixpence farthing per pound.

Sugar Ray Leonard

Sugar Ray Robinson was probably the greatest pound-for-pound fighter of all time.

Rachel Hunter

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

Sue Monk Kidd

It takes a bee 10,000,000 trips to collect enough nectar to make 1 pound of honey.

Kim Kardashian

When I gain a pound it's in the headlines.

Samuel Pepys

He that will not stoop for a pin will never be worth a pound.

Zig Ziglar

I took up an offer for me to lose 30 pounds in 30 days. It worked. I lost 30 days!