Pounds Quotes

All through school, I was losing hundreds of pounds in school, so that's a journey - that's an old journey. I'm tired of that. I know that road.

A pinch of probability is worth a pound of perhaps.

Fear pounds on the door to our heart demanding to be let in. Joy is modest and often comes into our lives like a shy person entering a room; it can take a while to even notice it's there.

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

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

However strong or beautiful this body may be, its culmination is in those three pounds of ashes. And still people are so attached to it. Glory be to God.

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.

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

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

[Falling pound] makes us more competitive.

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

Running through airports with pounds of luggage - that's a good workout.

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

Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away; Give pearls away and rubies, But keep your fancy free.

Even when someone gets to looking like she should be so proud of herself, instead she's like, 'I could be another three pounds less; I could be a little taller and have bigger lips.'

I wasn't eating. I wasn't sleeping. All I was doing was cocaine. I stayed awake for about two weeks, locked in my bedroom. I went down from a 142 pounds to 110 pounds.

Be confident. There is no one who is not attracted to confidence. Women dig it. Men love it. Confidence adds hair, drops ten pounds, and takes off ten years.

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

I want to get back to my fighting weight of 98 pounds. I have the exact measurements of that guy from the movie, Powder. Right now, I am the reigning West Coast Powder.

I am now a turtle. Virtually everything I own is on my back and suffice it to say I am one ton lighter and therefore 2,000 pounds happier. All houses are gone.

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

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

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

When I grew up in France, I was a normal size. And then I came to the United States and I gained 20 pounds.

When I learned to forgive, it was like a million pounds were lifted from me.

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 finally get it.

An once of hypocrisy is worth a pound of ambition.

Books are like your children. They take nine months to write; the manuscript weighs six pounds and...you send them out into the world and hope that some day they'll send back money.

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. Can we do too much for Him?

My sister gained 80 pounds expecting her baby. Well, you get nervous, waiting for those adoption papers to clear.

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

I decided to stop drinking with creeps. I decided to drink only with friends. I've lost 30 pounds.

The match would have to be made at 165 pounds. Sean can't make 160 any more, even though he's drinking lite beer these days

If you owe your bank manager a thousand pounds, you are at his mercy. If you owe him a million pounds, he is at your mercy.

I lost 30 pounds to play my character in 'The Mexican,' but people don't take to skinny mafia men, and I don't feel right when I'm thin.

[To lose twenty pounds] is not even about how much I lose and how fast, it's so much about being healthy.

As I continue through my acting career I tend to wish I were a little shorter and a few pounds lighter so casting directors would call me in for more diverse roles.

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure understated.

The pressure of public opinion is like the pressure of the atmosphere; you can't see it - but all the same, it is sixteen pounds to the square inch.

I'm not a big guy anyway. I'm only, what, 150 pounds? I was 190 for 'Batman,' 179 for 'Warrior.' Films make you look big.

Biology seems to be a chemical strategy for amplifying quantum mechanical indeterminacy so that it leaves the subatomic realm and can be present in a hundred and forty five pound block of meat.

An ounce of prudence is worth a pound of cleverness.

Body armor. Four thousand pounds of body armor. And missile-proof glass? Nice. What had happened to good old-fashioned bulletproof?

I just think it's rather odd that a nation that prides itself on its virility should feel compelled to strap on forty pounds of protective gear just in order to play rugby.

My mother always wanted me to be glamorous. When I thought about that, it really fired me up, and once I lost all those pounds, I started to feel really good about myself.

An ounce of image is worth a pound of performance

The trouble with dieting is that a pound of will power takes off only an ounce of weight.

The brain weighs only three pounds, yet it is the most complex object in the solar system.

I really believe in setting goals, no matter what it is: whether it's losing five pounds or making the world championship team.