Pounds Quotes
756 Pounds quotes by 643 unique authors
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I have now seen sucrose beaches and water a very bright blue. I have seen an all-red leisure suit with flared lapels. I have smelled…
— David Foster Wallace
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If you owe your bank a hundred pounds, you have a problem. But if you owe a million, it has.
— John Maynard Keynes
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The only number that would ever be enough is 0. Zero pounds, zero life, size zero, double-zero, zero point. Zero in tennis is love. I…
— Laurie Halse Anderson
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It is known, to the force of a single pound weight, what the engine will do; but, not all the calculators of the National Debt…
— Charles Dickens
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And you, my best friend on earth, my soul sister who shares Chunky Monkey scoops and beefcake e-mails at the drop of a hat, the…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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I wasn't sure exactly how prostitutes determined price, but if men bought hookers by the pound, these two would be doing okay.
— Janet Evanovich
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Howie's doctor told him to lose ten pounds, and since Howie's been on a diet he's gained three.
— Janet Evanovich
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One has not lived until one has carried a sixty-pound dog down a sweeping flight of stairs at half-past V in the morning.
— Connie Willis
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I pound on the glass, screaming my head off. Everyone ignores me except for some Capitol attendant who appears behind me and offers me a…
— Suzanne Collins
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When I was one-and-twenty I heard a wise man say, `Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away; Give pearls away and…
— A. E. Housman
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Churchill: "Madam, would you sleep with me for five million pounds?" Socialite: "My goodness, Mr. Churchill... Well, I suppose... we would have to discuss terms,…
— Winston Churchill
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Michael had to pound me a couple of times to convince me not to go stage a rescue." Shane shrugged. "He hits like a girl,…
— Rachel Caine
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If I had a thousand pounds China should have it- if I had a thousand lives, China should have them. No! Not China, but Christ.…
— Hudson Taylor
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The Brain - is wider than the Sky - For - put them side by side - The one the other will contain With ease…
— Emily Dickinson
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The storm hit with all the fury of a woman who’d been dieting for six months, only to discover she’d gained four pounds.
— Alan Dean Foster
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Give me a hot coal glowing bright red, Give me an ember sizzling with heat, These are the jewels made from my beak. We fly…
— Kathryn Lasky
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They wanted to come in after the pounds", explained Pooh, "so I let them. It's the best way to write poetry, letting things come.
— A A Milne
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I wish I had only offered you a sovereign instead of ten pounds. Give me back nine pounds, Jane; I’ve a use for it.' 'And…
— Charlotte Bronte
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When she left for a third time and returned with a giant box, I started to get irate. "What is this?" I demanded, taking it…
— Richelle Mead
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Listen, street punk. You're a guy, and you're a couple inches taller, and maybe forty pounds heavier, and ooh, you're in a gang. But I've…
— James Patterson
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A pretty face had been damaged by acne scars and she wore and extra forty pounds on her frame like a threat. Her eyes were…
— Dennis Lehane
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Katniss: 'What about you? Ive seen you in the market. You can lift hundred pound bags of flour'. I snap at him Tell him that.…
— Suzanne Collins
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Don't worry, now that I know about your little ego problem, I'll do my best to look all gushy when you pound you chest.
— Christine Feehan
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The noonday devil of the Christian life is the temptation to lose the inner self while preserving the shell of edifying behavior. Suddenly I discover…
— Brennan Manning
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Body armor. Four thousand pounds of body armor. And missile-proof glass? Nice. What had happened to good old-fashioned bulletproof?
— Stephenie Meyer
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