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An ounce of convention is worth a pound of explanation. — Ethel Mumford

weigh ninety pounds." "RESOLUTION: — Rick Riordan

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. — James Gandolfini

Remember, that six pounds a year is but a groat a day. — Benjamin Franklin

An ounce of prevention is better than a pound of cure. — Osama Bin Laden

I know a guy who had his doctor say, "Take some weight off, go to a health club." The man lost 20 pounds in one week! The machine tore his leg off! — Henny Youngman

running with packs of thirty or forty pounds, — Jamie Wilson

I don't know if I'm the best Pound-For-Pound fighter ever. I know I'm close. I gotta be Top 5. — Roy Jones Jr.

I could throw 56-pound words clear across the Grand Canyon. As a matter of course, I went into politics. — Henry F. Ashurst

They call Ray Robinson the best fighter, pound for pound. I'm the best fighter, ounce for ounce. — Willie Pep

It's hard to go underground when you weigh 400 pounds, Marcus. That's why they'll have to bury you in a piano case. — Jem Fox

History says that I'm one of the best pound-for-pound, and I won't stop until I'm number one. — Sergio Martinez

Wanderlei Silva, six feet tall and 205 pounds, boy, until I met you, I didn't know they could stack crap that high, — Chael Sonnen

I only weigh 98 pounds. The rest of this is liver. — Mimi Imfurst

My goal, whenever entering a project, is always to gain 12 pounds. — Bob Odenkirk

Exercise because it's good for you even if every step weighs a thousand pounds. — Andrew Solomon

I'm at 23 feet, diving into 17 feet of water. I'm over 400 pounds. Who doesn't want to see that? I do. I'm always shocked that I can do it. — Louie Anderson

I tried to do the impossible on paper
beat the middleweight champ coming up from 130 pounds. — Oscar De La Hoya

I see the Beatles have arrived from England. They were 40 pounds overweight - and that was just their hair. — Bob Hope

I lay on my back, surprised at how calm and focused I felt, strapped to four and a half million pounds of explosives. — Ron Garan

Julius Peppers is probably 6'7 and 300 pounds. The great players spend all year round training for 16 games. It isn't fun being on the receiving end. — Matthew Stafford

I have also known of weight estimates by ultrasound to be off by as much as five pounds. — Ina May Gaskin

I arrived in Hollywood twenty pounds overweight and as strong as an ox. — Gene Kelly

The 800 pound gorilla just entered the blogosphere, with Google launching its blog search. — Charlene Li

I gained, I think, 65 pounds when I was pregnant. And I will say to moms out there, 'Don't stress about losing it. It will happen when it happens.' — Vanessa Lachey

The last thing I remember, I left with a girl on a motor bike that weighed 300 pounds. — Rod Stewart

I've caught fish as big as I am. I've caught marlin close to 300 pounds. — Merlin Olsen

Because I'm 5'4' and athletically built, if I gain five pounds it looks like a lot. — Sophia Bush

An ounce of performance is worth pounds of promises. — Mae West

From a will: And to my communist nephew Oswald, I leave the sum of 10,000 pounds - to be shared equally with his fellow Britishers. — John Carpenter

Better see rightly on a pound a week than squint on a million. — George Bernard Shaw

Yes, some people say to me you're too skinny, but never a skinny person says that to me, only people who could lose a few pounds say that. — Karl Lagerfeld

I get my sticks and go out to the shed, and I pound on that drum like it was my boss's head. — Todd Rundgren

If Parliament may take from me one shilling in the pound, what security have I for the other nineteen? — Richard Henry Lee

Whether I pound or am being pounded, all the same there will be moaning! — Henrik Ibsen

Shame the rest of you is so plain. My heart pounds. — Veronica Roth

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. — Frederick Busch

I definitely wouldn't mind gaining a few more pounds at all. — Nicole Richie

I was born at six months, and I weighed 900 grams [less than two pounds]. I have a very heroic birth story. — Etgar Keret

I took up an offer for me to lose 30 pounds in 30 days. It worked. I lost 30 days! — Zig Ziglar

Sometimes I've thought it's only our challenges that sharpen us, and change us, too - a mile-long runway and nineteen hundred pounds — Paula McLain

The drum in a dream pounds loud to the dreamer. — Carl Sandburg

You see your peers weighing 80 pounds and you think, 'Oh, my God, I've got to be 80 pounds or I'll fail.' — Cathy Rigby

People are here because they've got baggage. I'm talking curbside-check-in, pay-the-fine-'cause-it's-over-fifty-pounds kind of baggage. Get it? — Lauren Kate

TV cameras seem to add ten pounds to me. So I make it a policy never to eat TV cameras. — Kitty Carlisle

Three thousand pounds — Charlie Gallagher

I'm one of those guys who would like to weigh about 115 pounds for a couple of hours in the afternoon and then go back to my own size about 5 o'clock. — Richie Allen

On the equator, where centrifugal forces are greatest, a 150-pound person will be a slender 149 pounds 14 ounces. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

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

The day I finished 'Twilight,' I came home and started bulking up. For 'New Moon,' I'm 30 pounds heavier than I was in 'Twilight.' — Taylor Lautner

Is winning the Open worth a million pounds? Well, it's worthwhile winning it - I would recommend it to anybody! — Sandy Lyle

Going from 300 pounds to 150 pounds was the biggest change of my whole life. — Carnie Wilson

Three thousand pounds of steel and glass and plastic that no thing made out of flesh could resist. A car. — T.C. Boyle

When I was playing football, I was getting up to 240 pounds, and they wanted me to get to 260. — Bill Fagerbakke

Leaving America is like losing twenty pounds and finding a new girlfriend. — Phil Ochs

About 3 million pounds of antibiotics are given to humans each year, but a whopping 17.8 million pounds are fed to livestock. — Jonathan Safran Foer

When I was in high school I was 250 pounds. — Adam Lambert

In practice in 2007 I had a limit that probably would've weighed almost 30 pounds. — Kevin VanDam

I lost 100 pounds and embraced theater and music as what I was going to make for the rest of my life. — Josh Young

I've put on a lot of weight ... I only weighed six and a half pounds when I was born. — Red Skelton

We live in a world where we give our pounds to those who have too much and our pennies to those who have too little — Dean Griffiths

Each year, food companies use an amount of salt that is every bit as staggering as it sounds: 5 billion pounds. — Michael Moss

The amount of quaint, authentic, rustic charm varies inversely with the pounds per square inch of water pressure in the shower. — Frank Mankiewicz

Lester Bargus was what people liked to call 'two pounds of shit in a one-pound bag. — John Connolly

In my day, if a guy came to spring training 20 pounds heavier than what he left, he was considered out of shape and was probably in trouble. — Ryne Sandberg

As the years go by, I've added a few pounds on, and I like it. I like it that I look a little softer. — Victoria Principal

The illusion never really dissipates that you can lose twenty pounds in one night by cutting out dinner. — Shirley Maclaine

I had a laptop when they weighed 10 pounds. — Curt Schilling

At 150 pounds, I feel like I'm at my healthiest and my strongest and my most beautiful. — Ronda Rousey

Few are aware that they want any thing, except pounds schillings and pence. — Augustus William Hare

Also, I sort of let my appearance go, to the point where I was maybe ten to seventy pounds overweight ... — Matthew Quick

I have earned hundreds of thousands of pounds, but I can't seem to get to grips with money. — Rufus Wainwright

An ounce of performance is worth more than a pound of preachment. — Elbert Hubbard

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. — Heidi Klum

O, what a world of vile ill-favored faults, looks handsome in three hundred pounds a year! — William Shakespeare

Lisa Lampanelli lost 100 pounds, but that's because she was poached for ivory. — Reno Collier

A thousand pounds for clothes
when on thinks how long poor people could live on it! When one thinks how long we could live on it, for that matter! — Dodie Smith I Capture The Castle

One acre of land can produce either 20,000 pounds of potatoes or a measly 165 pounds of meat. — Lindsay S. Nixon

He who hath not a dram of folly in his mixture hath pounds of much worse matter in his composition. — Charles Lamb

In 1961, at age seventy, standing just four feet ten inches tall and weighing ninety-eight pounds, Kline became Disneyland's first Tinker Bell. — Jim Korkis

I push back against him, meeting his forceful pounds with my eager pu*sy. Riding the razors edge of climactic heaven. — S.K. Logsdon

Unfortunately, the administration's plan is an ounce of cure for a pound of problems. — Charles Schumer

When you gain 50 pounds during pregnancy like I did, you fear that you'll never get back in shape. — Charisma Carpenter

You mix two jiggers of Scotch to one jigger of Metrecal. So far I've lost five pounds and my driver's license. — Rocky Bridges

We never did a lot of weights, but a lot of repetitions. The most I would use doing squats was 300 pounds. — Eric Heiden

The other bad news: Polyphemus barreled toward me, a thousand smelly pounds of Cyclops that I would have to fight with a very small sword. — Rick Riordan

I put my money on Brexit. The EU Financial Stability Commissioner, Jonathan Hill from Britain, still owes me a pound. — Jean-Claude Juncker

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

I borrowed 100 pounds and made the pact with God: Make me a millionaire - and you can have half of my money. — Albert Gubay

Poverty is not just about income: it's about aspiration. It's not just about giving people a couple of extra pounds a week, welcome though that is. — Theresa May

Jerry Seinfeld has an interesting theory. He goes, '20 pounds up or down, and you lose your funny.' — Jason Alexander

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

She'd lost two more pounds. A picture of the models she'd cut out of the magazine flashed through Kessa's mind. And the winner is ... seventy-three! — Steven Levenkron

I had polio when I was 13. I started feeling stiff, my joints ached, and over a two-week period I lost my coordination and 20 pounds. — Jack Nicklaus

Life is pounds, shillings, and pence ... Death is not pounds, shillings, and pence. — Charles Dickens

One of life's little mysteries is how a two-pound box of chocolate can make a person gain five pounds. M — Jill Shalvis

My parents are still married. They don't weigh 350 pounds; they go to the gym all the time. — Jami Attenberg

Back in the day, I would wear up to 45 pounds of gold. It would take me four hours to get dressed! — Mr. T

I'm not much of a drinker, so I'm going to eat seven pounds of pork. — Billy Bob Thornton

It takes fifteen pounds of wild fish to get you one pound of farm tuna. Not very sustainable. It doesn't taste very good either. — Dan Barber