Pounds Quotes - Page 5

I have but nine-pence in ready money, but I can draw for a thousand pounds.

Well, I had nightmares when I was doing the Klan story all the time. I had a recurring nightmare of basically being exposed as a Jew inside the Klan compound.

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.

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

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.

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

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

Pound's crazy. All poets are.... They have to be. You don't put a poet like Pound in the loony bin.

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.

I always use the same guitar; I got this guitar years and years ago for nine pounds. It's still got the same strings on it.

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

After getting the first hundred pounds, it is more easy to get the second.

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

When I was in high school I was 250 pounds.

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.

How in the world any one weighing 185 pounds can be cute is beyond me.

Is winning the Open worth a million pounds? Well, it's worthwhile winning it - I would recommend it to anybody!

How to figure out the recipe of your life? Your body knows when it needs food. And it asks for it. But if your devouring self keeps asking for more food, pounds of unnecessary problems are added to your life.

Matt and Mark (Hughes) used to pound each other on the farm as young boys.

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?'

Whenever there's a red carpet event coming up my trainer in LA that I see, I always come to her like three days before and go, 'Can you make me really thin in three days?' She's always like, 'If you come to me consistently all throughout the year, then yes I can. When you come to me with three days and ask to lose 10 pounds it's just not going to happen.' I'm like, 'Do your best. Please. Make me skinny.'

When modernist poetry, or what not so long ago passed for modernist poetry, can reach the stage where the following piece by Mr. Ezra Pound is seriously offered as a poem, there is some justification for the plain reader and orthodox critic who shrinks from anything that may be labelled 'modernist' either in terms of condemnation or approbation. Better he thinks, that ten authentic poets should be left for posterity to discover than one charlatan should be allowed to steal into the Temple of Fame.

Dance, even if you have nowhere to do it but the living room in your fortified compound.