Pounds Quotes

If put to the pinch, an ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness.

I really believe in setting goals, no matter what it is: whether it's losing five pounds or making the world championship team.

The brain weighs only three pounds, yet it is the most complex object in the solar system.

An ounce of image is worth a pound of performance

[To lose twenty pounds] is not even about how much I lose and how fast, it's so much about being healthy.

For one person who dreams of making fifty thousand pounds, a hundred people dream of being left fifty thousand pounds.

I had polio when I was 13. I started feeling stiff, my joints ached, and over a two-week period I lost my coordination and 20 pounds.

No one saw the recession coming. The UK businesses were solid as a rock, but the issues we had were in Paris, New York and LA. For every pound we were making here we were losing two pounds abroad.

My doctor told me that I drastically needed to lose weight. Fear of death and dying motivated meto make many lifestyle changes that led me to eventually shed over 100 pounds.

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.

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

I was up around 340 pounds because the producers said they wanted a really big guy, and I'm not that big, you know! I've lost it all now though. I'm 285 pounds, my sexy weight!

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.

We spend billions of pounds on welfare, yet millions are trapped on welfare. It's not worth their while going into work.

A full-grown manatee, which can weigh more than 1,000 pounds, looks like the result of a genetic experiment involving a walrus and the Goodyear Blimp.

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

I went to the 30th reunion of my preschool. I didn't want to go, because I've put on like a hundred pounds.

I gained 80 pounds for my pregnancy so this is like my coming out party.

Come around, feel the sound. Know you make my heart pound. Fill me up, bring me down; when I hear your sound.

Women who put on a few pounds after starting lithium sometimes say the cure is worse than the disease. The weight gain shoots them straight into depression.

There are sixteen cans of coffee here; together they hold a total of thirteen and a half pounds of coffee. Doesn't that seem like cheating?

I always say we got 700 pounds of pork up front. They're going to hold guys down and allow us linebackers to make a lot of plays. Even in practice. I'm loving it, man.

Man is the only 150 pound nonlinear servomechanism that can be wholly reproduced by unskilled labor.

Then they show up at the door and the reality is that they are 5-foot-8, 240 pounds and have not run a mile in years. A background check is not going to help you with that.

When you gain 50 pounds during pregnancy like I did, you fear that you'll never get back in shape

Leaving America is like losing twenty pounds and finding a new girlfriend.

Keeping your body in shape is a spiritual discipline. Its not just about losing a few pounds, wanting to live longer, or trying to look nicer.

Remember, that six pounds a year is but a groat a day.

I'm like the universe; either expanding or contracting at any given moment. The most that I had put on was about 35, 36 pounds, and I've taken all of that off.

Its amazing that Lou Ferrigno can talk with fifty pounds of cracker in his mouth.

I don't know if I'm the best Pound-For-Pound fighter ever. I know I'm close. I gotta be Top 5.

My heart pounds sickeningly and I turn pale... I often feel as if I were dead... I seem to be losing my mind.

But, indeed, we prefer books to pounds; and we love manuscripts better than florins; and we prefer small pamphlets to war horses.

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.

And remember, every pound you give leaves you a pound poorer.

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

A woman is a lot like a refrigerator. Six feet tall, 300 pounds...it makes ice.

You're not challenging anyone else but yourself. I'd like to have a 300-pound bench, 500-pound deadlift, and a 400-pound squat.

When I was in high school I was 250 pounds.

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

One pound of uranium is worth about 3 million pounds worth of coal or oil.

O, what a world of vile ill-favored faults, looks handsome in three hundred pounds a year!

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.

When my babe was born, they said it was premature. It weighed only four pounds; but God let it live.

Few are aware that they want any thing, except pounds schillings and pence.

I also played with Jimi Hendrix. Jimi would come down and sit in with Retaliation and we would have a ball. He offered me the gig with him at 20 pounds a week, which at that point, was like 60 bucks.

I'd get a shell, they weighed about 80 pounds I think, but when I was 19 or 20 that was nothing. I'd take a shell and a bag of powder, I'd put it in the hoist and then I would send it up to the gun.

An ounce of wit that is bought, Is worth a pound that is taught.

Recently somebody said, "Hey, you lost weight," and I said, "Yeah, thirty-five pounds and three and a half billion dollars." So I'm quite a bit lighter and more flexible than I was.

What makes all doctrines plain and clear? About two hundred pounds a year. And that which was proved true before, prove false again? Two hundred more.