Pound Quotes

405 Pound quotes by 346 unique authors

In those days [the 1790s],the students paid their professors directly for the lectures-typically about three guineas a class (a guinea was worth slightly more than… — Unknown Author
Don't even wait until you've lost a pound. The minute you can push the plate away with food still on it, give yourself a pat… — Tony Robbins
Thanksgiving. It proved you had survived another year with its wars, inflation, unemployment, smog, presidents. It was a grand neurotic gathering of clans: loud drunks,… — Charles Bukowski
If you work for a man, in heavens name work for him! If he pays you wages that supply you your bread and butter, work… — Elbert Hubbard
You don't get hurt running straight ahead...three-yards-and-a-cloud-of-dust offense. I will pound you and pound you until you quit. — Woody Hayes
Can you imagine any better example of divine creative accomplishment that the consummate flying machine that is a bird? The skeleton, very flexible and strong,… — Guy Murchie
An ounce of image is worth a pound of performance — David Lee Roth
I saw...a kid on a leash. You seen these people? Kid on a leash? How horrible. Put him in the pound where he belongs. — Bill Hicks
Love makes the world go 'round, it's true, but lust stops the world in its tracks; love renders bearable the passage of time, lust causes… — Tom Robbins
Here is this three-pound mass of jelly you can hold in the palm of your hand, and it can contemplate the vastness of interstellar space.… — Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
He that will not stoop for a pin will never be worth a pound. — Samuel Pepys
If I listened to my instincts, I'd be down at the pub chasing women, not under a 400 pound bar squatting — Dorian Yates
Some coaches pray for wisdom. I pray for 260-pound tackles. They'll give me plenty of wisdom. — Chuck Noll
I always buy the smaller turkeys. On the pre-baste put pats of butter on the meat under the skin, put the skin back on, put… — Sandra Lee
Don't talk age! Age has nothing to do with it. One of my guys who started out at my gym is 87 now, and he… — Jack LaLanne
That is the beautiful part about weights: even if you are 100 year old, you can lift something. Maybe it's only a half a pound… — Jack LaLanne
There are a lot of Christians who are halfway fellows. They stand in the door, holding on to the Church with one hand while they… — Mordecai Ham
When we hear a Mozart piano concerto today, we're most likely to hear the piano part played on a modern concert grand. In the hands… — Robert Greenberg
It has been said that an engineer is a man who can do for ten shillings what any fool can do for a pound; if… — Nevil Shute
The person who renders loyal service in a humble capacity will be chosen for higher responsibilities, just as the biblical servant who multiplied the one… — B. C. Forbes
An ounce of performance is worth more than a pound of preachment. — Elbert Hubbard
You may wonder why a question of manners has got me so exercised. It's because I believe in a simple rule. If you see a… — Daniel Finkelstein
Thank you for calling the Weight Loss Hotline. If you'd like to lose a half pound right now, press 1 eighteen thousand times. — Randy Glasbergen
...A one-pound box of prewashed lettuce contains 80 calories of food energy. According to Cornell ecologist David Pimentel, growing, chilling, washing, packaging, and transporting that… — Michael Pollan
The brain is a three pound mass you can hold in your hand that can conceive of a universe a hundred billion light-years across. — Marian Diamond

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