Pounds Quotes

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, of course... " Churchill: "Would you sleep with me for five pounds?" Socialite: "Mr. Churchill, what kind of woman do you think I am?!" Churchill: "Madam, we've already established that. Now we are haggling about the price

An ounce of behavior is worth a pound of words.

In two decades I've lost a total of 789 pounds. I should be hanging from a charm bracelet.

If I listened to my instincts, I'd be down at the pub chasing women, not under a 400 pound bar squatting

You can have everything in the world and still be the loneliest man. And that is the most bitter type of loneliness, success has brought me world idolisation and millions of pounds. But it's prevented me from having the one thing we all need: A loving, ongoing relationship.

I am beginning to measure myself in strength, not pounds. Sometimes in smiles.

An adult male weighs at least 200 pounds

I have a wonderfully hedonistic appetite, and if I wasn't really strict with myself, I'd weigh 300 pounds. I'm not good with moderation.

I thought I had too much money to be happy and normal. Thousand of pounds is just too much for a working person to handle all of a sudden, and I felt I didnt deserve it.

I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn't irascible.

Oh, a bookshop. Why not pop in and buy a little Kant? And perhaps just a quarter-pound of Kafka. Don't bother to wrap it, thanks. I'll eat it here.

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

Can't you see it all makes perfect sense, expressed in dollars and cents, pounds shillings and pence, can't you see it all; makes perfect sense

When you hang with a bunch of 300-pound linemen, you tend to find the places that are the greasiest and serve the most food.

Consider the biggest animals on the planet: elephants, and buffaloes, and giraffes. These are vegetarian animals. They grow to thousands of pounds of muscle and bone without ever eating cheeseburgers and pepperoni pizzas.

If you owe your bank a hundred pounds, you have a problem. But if you owe a million, it has.

Some coaches pray for wisdom. I pray for 260-pound tackles. They'll give me plenty of wisdom.

In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries.

I represent more the healthy, happy, curvy, strong woman. And that sounds much healthier to me than being 80 pounds and skinny as a bean.

I have gained and lost the same 10 pounds so many times over and over again my cellulite must have deja vu!

It takes a bee 10,000,000 trips to collect enough nectar to make 1 pound of honey.

I will lose twenty pounds like... I can lose ten... I have. I can lose ten in a week and a few days.

Scales lie! You lose thirty pounds of muscle and you gain thirty pounds of fat and you weigh the same, right? Take that tape measure out. That won't lie. Your waistline is your lifeline. It should be the same as it was when you were a young person.

If you're going to dedicate your career to ranting about the excesses of American capitalism, you probably shouldn't weigh 450 pounds.

I'll lose about 20 pounds during the season.

I'm on the diet where you eat vegetables and drink wine. That's a good diet. I lost 10 pounds and my driver's license.

Let's turn British inventions into British industries, British factories and British jobs. Let them make pounds for us, not dollars marks or yen for others.

An ounce of doing things is worth a pound of theorizing.

I was in the gym working on my triceps, and I was thinking, just as I did the 50-pound pulldown, I am going to be in better shape by the end of the year [2016] than I've ever been in my life. I really just smiled at the notion: Wow, what a thing.

I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.

When I was 16 years old, I assembled a 2.3 million electron volt beta particle accelerator. I went to Westinghouse, I got 400 pounds of translator steel, 22 miles of copper wire, and I assembled a 6-kilowatt, 2.3 million electron accelerator in the garage.

The Who got paid 4000 pounds during those days, but we always smashed our equipment that cost more than 5000 pounds.

A pinch of probability is worth a pound of perhaps.

It's hard to predict what will happen with two brands in a market. Sometimes they will behave in a gentlemanly way, and sometimes they'll pound each other. I know of no way to predict whether they'll compete moderately or to the death. If you could figure it out, you could make a lot of money.

I lost 28 pounds in my divorce... because that's what a soul weighs.

I was getting Monkees Monthly and there was a competition to draw a Monkee. I did a caricature of Micky Dolenz and won 10 pounds-a fantastic sum of money for me then. I bought a secondhand tape recorder, which further launched me. They've been very responsible for me getting started.

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 that be so, we were certainly engineers.

I was in the Pritikin Center in Santa Monica once, trying to lose 30 or 40 pounds in a month. I'd work... on a treadmill and with the weights, but it was driving me nuts. So I escaped. Tom Arnold picked me up and we went to Le Dome and had tons of desserts.

I arrived in Hollywood twenty pounds overweight and as strong as an ox. But if I put on a white tails and tux like Fred Astaire, I still looked like a truck driver.

The one thing I would like to do is be able to drop 15, 20 pounds. It would be good.

When a person is down in the world, an ounce of help is better than a pound of preaching.

Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.

[Falling pound] makes us more competitive.

Keep your jacket buttoned. Always. It's just really flattering—it will take pounds off you.

There've been times when I've bought a whole pound of cheese and walked down the street and eaten it in one go.

I consider anybody who weighs over 200 pounds fat, and time was when I could not refrain from telling such people so.

I'm a vegan. I lost 150 pounds because of being a vegan.

Everyone expects me to be 9 feet tall and weigh 200 pounds [when they meet me].

I tried to do the impossible on paper -- beat the middleweight champ coming up from 130 pounds.

John Cleese once told me he'd do anything for money. So I offered him a pound to shut up, and he took it.