Pounds Quotes · Page 8

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

— Sandy Lyle

You beat the liver out of a goose to get a pâté; you pound the muscles of a man's cardia to get…

— Djuna Barnes

I get my sticks and go out to the shed, and I pound on that drum like it was my boss's head.

— Todd Rundgren

I thought to myself, Join the army. It's free. So I figured while I'm here I'll lose a few pounds.

— John Candy

I want to be one of the greats. I want to be the pound for pound king and I know what it…

— Victor Ortiz

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.

— Aaron Tippin

You don't have to pound your head after hearing a country song and wonder if you missed something.

— Annette Funicello

Donald Trump is on the show tonight. Donald is a big man, I think 230 pounds -- 235 with cologne.

— David Letterman

She's (Christy Martin) voluptuous and intoxicating no smear lipstick. Here's a woman who pounds it out and her lipstick don't smear. Revlon…

— Don King

It has been said that an engineer is a man who can do for ten shillings what any fool can do for…

— Nevil Shute

From a pound of iron, that costs little, a thousand watch-springs can be made, whose value becomes prodigious. The pound you have…

— Robert Schumann

I know with me, you really have to, like, pound me over the head to say, 'I like you. I really like…

— Kiele Sanchez

I wanted to have a career in sports when I was young, but I had to give up the idea. I'm only…

— Jay Leno

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

— Andy Rooney

Pound had argued - and Eliot had helped him prove - that a poem could be sustained by memorable moments. Olson proved…

— Clive James

If you move something 10 pounds through space and then stop suddenly, there's a little overshoot. When you transfer weight from one…

— Brad Bird

Even happiness itself may become habitual. There is a habit of looking at the bright side of things, and also of looking…

— Samuel Smiles

I am tortured too. I am tortured by belly fat and magazine covers about how to please everyone but myself. I am…

— A.S. King

I like good food. People want a certain taste, but when they're offered something else, they'll overeat. If they really are looking…

— Maya Angelou

Alice thought to herself, 'Then there's no use in speaking.' The voices didn't join in this time, as she hadn't spoken, but…

— Lewis Carroll

Vee is my un-twin. She's green-eyed, milky blond, and a few pounds over curvy. I'm a smoky-eyed brunette with volumes of curly…

— Becca Fitzpatrick

Some of my pictures are poem-like in the sense that they are very condensed, haiku-lik. There are others that, if they were…

— Sally Mann

I went to all the shops in the village looking for work. I didn't have any qualifications. I ended up working in…

— Bonnie Tyler

My uncle was famous for his balanced point of view. At the time of which I am writing (when he was nearly…

— Stephen Spender

The truth is, unlike TV and film cameras, the theater stage doesn't add 10 pounds.

— Sara Ramirez

Body armor. Four thousand pounds of body armor. And missile-proof glass? Nice. What had happened to good old-fashioned bulletproof?

— Stephenie Meyer

I'm magnificent! I'm five feet eleven inches and I weigh one hundred thirty-five pounds, and I look like a racehorse.

— Julie Newmar

Every pound of muscle burns approximately 50 calories every day, just doing nothing.

— Jorge Cruise

Around the holidays, or anytime I'm going on vacation, I try to bump up my cardio or lose a pound before leaving.

— Stacy Keibler

I've caught fish as big as I am. I've caught marlin close to 300 pounds.

— Merlin Olsen

I normally run the 40-yard dash in 4.9, but when a 280-pound guy is chasing me, I run it in 4.6.

— John Elway

Ron Guidry is not very big, maybe 140 pounds, but he has an arm like a lion.

— Jerry Coleman

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

— Bobby Heenan

Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.

— John Wesley

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

— Lewis Carroll

Today I was in the gym benching 400 pounds. A-Ry is my witness to this.

— The Miz

Take care of the halfpence and pence, and the shillings and pounds will take care of themselves.

— Benjamin Franklin

Devolutionary reform will not provide a factory, a machine or jobs, build a school, train a doctor or put a pound on…

— Neil Kinnock

“We live in a world where we give our pounds to those who have too much and our pennies to those who…

— Dean Griffiths

Basically, what happened was, I had moved out to Los Angeles, I was pretty damn lazy and I put on some pounds.

— Jason Biggs