Best Pounds Quotes

You can have everything in the world and still be the loneliest man. And that is the most bitter type of loneliness, success has brought me world idolisation and millions of pounds. But it’s prevented me from having the one thing we all need: A loving, ongoing relationship.

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

An ounce of performance is worth pounds of promises.

I’m fighting a losing battle here: I’m trying to lose some weight. I love chocolate; that’s one of my biggest downfalls. I haven’t gotten a whole lot of chocolate, thank goodness, because I’d probably be about 300 pounds.

The first kiss I had was the most disgusting thing in my life. The girl injected about a pound of saliva into my mouth, and when I walked away I had to spit it all out.

An ounce of help is worth more than a pound of pity any day.

I’d like to see the giant squid. Nobody has ever seen one. I could tell you people who have spent thousands and thousands of pounds trying to see giant squid. I mean, we know they exist because we have seen dead ones. But I have never seen a living one. Nor has anybody else.

T.S. Eliot’s influence was enormous on my generation. Much more than Ezra Pound. I actually had to put T.S. Eliot books out of the house because my poetry was so influenced. Everything I wrote sounded like Eliot.

The three-pound organ in your skull – with its pink consistency of Jell-o – is an alien kind of computational material. It is composed of miniaturized, self-configuring parts, and it vastly outstrips anything we’ve dreamt of building.

All through school, I was losing hundreds of pounds in school, so that’s a journey – that’s an old journey. I’m tired of that. I know that road.

I knew once a very covetous, sordid fellow [perhaps William Lowndes], who used to say, `Take care of the pence, for the pounds will take care of themselves.

I’ve never even been out of my BMI range. I’m 5-foot-3. If I gain five pounds, it shows.

They wrote that I’d gained 30 pounds over the summer and lost it in a week because I was dating three guys at once!

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.

We all work together to pump each other up. Before the show [Aladdin], we give each other a pound on the back, like a sports team.

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

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.

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

Spring is beautiful, and smells sweet. Spring is when you shake the curtains, and pound on the rugs, and take off your long underwear, and wash in all the corners.

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

I’m the kind of person to wait until I’ve gained ten pounds to start exercising.

An ounce of mirth is worth a pound of sorrow.

The more we learn about AI and about how the brain works, the more amazing the brain seems. Just the sheer amount of computation it does is truly incredible, especially for a couple of pounds of meat.

If Parliament may take from me one shilling in the pound, what security have I for the other nineteen?

I know I’ve got to pay some tax, but I hate the fact that they collect millions of pounds a day from the congestion charge and I don’t see anything or anyone benefitting from it. Where are the new hospitals?

Lisa Lampanelli lost 100 pounds, but that’s because she was poached for ivory.

Great towns are but a large sort of prison to the soul; like cages to birds, or pounds to beasts.

Running through airports with pounds of luggage – that’s a good workout.

Even if I’m hormonal and I feel like I’ve got a couple pounds of water weight, I will never starve myself, I will never, ever go on a diet.

I’ve put on a lot of weight… I only weighed six and a half pounds when I was born.

GMO herbicide-tolerant crops have led to a 527 million pound increase in herbicide use in the U.S. between 1996 and 2011.

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

Up until the age of 30 I could eat whatever I wanted – I mean, literally, I never put on a pound; if anything, I was criticised in the media for being too skinny.

The idea of a young thin woman who weighs 100 pounds driving herself around in a 4,000 pound SUV is laughable.