Pound Quotes

405 quotes by 346 authors

My main commitment is to Caudwell Children. I put more than £1m a year into the charity, besides a lot of time and effort. — John Caudwell
Every man, woman and child consumes, on average, 43 teaspoons of sugar a day. In 13 days, that adds up to a five-pound bag of… — John Mackey
An ounce of hypocracy is worth a pound of ambition. — Michael Korda
I never had to pound the pavement and really struggle after college. — Moira Kelly
She loses 50 pounds in the film, and goes from fairly sane to totally out of her mind. So for the first part of the… — Ellen Burstyn
The former measured six feet and an inch in his stockings, and, without a single pound of cumbrous flesh about him, weighed a hundred and… — Augustus Baldwin Longstreet
Lighter computers and lighter sensors would let you have more function in a given weight, which is very important if you are launching things into… — Ralph Merkle
I put £150,000 into the stage production of Grease and have got back £1.5 million so far. It has been a fantastic success. — Jeffrey Archer
Varese, Apollinaire, Ezra Pound, Leger, Gleizes, Severini, Villon, Duchamp, Duchamp-Villon, Marie Laurencin, Cocteau and many others were to me household names in the literal sense… — Jacques Barzun
Red-hot songs were born on the black streets of Baltimore, where I delivered five-gallon cans of kerosene and ten-pound bags of coal. — Jerry Leiber
I personally think that a couple of pounds a week - maybe rising to almost £3 a week - is a reasonable price for Britain… — Tim Yeo
Some people collect vintage cars, I collect Birkins. The leather ones are £20,000. — Tamara Ecclestone
The key thing for me is to secure medium-term funding for the Roundhouse studios. It costs around £2m a year to run, but we want… — Lloyd Dorfman
In an era of billion-person countries and trillion-pound economies, we need to find ways to amplify our voice. We are most likely to be heard… — Douglas Alexander
Not reforming the NHS would have been a much easier decision for me as secretary of state to have taken. We could have just protected… — Andrew Lansley
There are no living beings who exert more power over others, pound for pound, than tiny babies and extremely thin moguls. — Stanley Bing
An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship. — Spanish Proverb
Better an ounce of luck than a pound of gold. — Yiddish Proverb
If I owe you a pound, I have a problem; but if I owe you a million, the problem is yours. — John Maynard Keynes
I had a dream last night, I was eating a ten pound marshmallow. I woke up this morning and the pillow was gone. — Tommy Cooper

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