Pounds Quotes - Page 2

All human power is a compound of time and patience.

I'll lose about 20 pounds during the season.

If you're going to dedicate your career to ranting about the excesses of American capitalism, you probably shouldn't weigh 450 pounds.

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.

An ounce of doing things is worth a pound of theorizing.

I was in the gym working on my triceps, and I was thinking, just as I did the 50-pound pulldown, I am going to be in better shape by the end of the year [2016] than I've ever been in my life. I really just smiled at the notion: Wow, what a thing.

I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.

Errors accumulate in the sketch and compound in the model.

When I was 16 years old, I assembled a 2.3 million electron volt beta particle accelerator. I went to Westinghouse, I got 400 pounds of translator steel, 22 miles of copper wire, and I assembled a 6-kilowatt, 2.3 million electron accelerator in the garage.

A pinch of probability is worth a pound of perhaps.

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

I lost 28 pounds in my divorce... because that's what a soul weighs.

It has been said that an engineer is a man who can do for ten shillings what any fool can do for a pound; if that be so, we were certainly engineers.

Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.

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.

It's hard to predict what will happen with two brands in a market. Sometimes they will behave in a gentlemanly way, and sometimes they'll pound each other. I know of no way to predict whether they'll compete moderately or to the death. If you could figure it out, you could make a lot of money.

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.

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.

The one thing I would like to do is be able to drop 15, 20 pounds. It would be good.

Keep your jacket buttoned. Always. It's just really flattering—it will take pounds off you.

[Falling pound] makes us more competitive.

I tried to do the impossible on paper -- beat the middleweight champ coming up from 130 pounds.

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

When a person is down in the world, an ounce of help is better than a pound of preaching.

When I learned to forgive, it was like a million pounds were lifted from me.