Pound Quotes
405 quotes by 346 authors
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I have a hippopotamus skull next to my bed, called Gregory. When I was six, my three sisters and I clubbed together and paid £4…
— Deborah Moggach
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Sugar Ray Robinson was probably the greatest pound-for-pound fighter of all time.
— Sugar Ray Leonard
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I grew up in the suburbs of a small town on the south coast where the only opportunity I ever got to wear anything smart…
— Tom Odell
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When my company was first getting off the ground, we were completely lost in the shuffle, despite our best efforts. In 2012, however, we had…
— Ryan Holmes
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A pound of Alaskan king crab legs and buffalo shrimp = happy Travie.
— Travie McCoy
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A 20-pound weight on the back of a small horse is more damaging than a 20-pound weight on a very big horse.
— Grover Norquist
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A pound invested in energy efficiency buys seven times more energy solution than a pound invested in nuclear power.
— Zac Goldsmith
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Our nano-quadrotor robots are made to be as lightweight as possible: less than a fifth of a pound and palm-sized. They can do an aerial…
— Vijay Kumar
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Food redistribution is one of the best win-win solutions for food waste avoidance. Food companies can often save money by donating food rather than paying…
— Tristram Stuart
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A 10-pound sack of potatoes lasts a long time.
— Octavia Butler
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For us in England, the relative value of the pound against the dollar, that has a huge impact on how easy it is to get…
— Eric Fellner
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Dear London, British fashion is a serious business. The British fashion industry is worth £21bn to the U.K. economy and employs 819,000 people across the…
— Natalie Massenet
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A handicap is like trying to race and you have a ten pound weight stuck to your waist. That is a handicap.
— Malcolm Gladwell
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For sure, without question, the writing is better on TV pound for pound than movies because the businesses have changed so much. So all the…
— Rob Lowe
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I was 15 when I got my first job as a proofreader for an advertising agency in the City, earning £12 a week. But by…
— Eric Bristow
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If the Scottish people decide to opt for independence, it would not be a good idea for Scotland to maintain a very rigid link to…
— Mohamed El-Erian
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My dad died in 1980, and I found out afterwards from mum that my piano lessons, which cost £2 a week, took up nearly a…
— Rick Wakeman
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I treated myself to a £700 Chloe bag after one of my first acting jobs. Then my friends pointed out that, for the same money,…
— Lily James
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A stock certificate is not a tool, like a shovel, or a commodity, like a pound of cheese. What we sell a customer is not…
— Jean Giraudoux
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As a technology, the book is like a hammer. That is to say, it is perfect: a tool ideally suited to its task. Hammers can…
— James Gleick
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