Pounds Quotes

• Here in the United States we're now consuming about three gallons of petroleum per person per day. That's twenty pounds of oil per person per day. We only consume about four pounds of oxygen per person per day. We're consuming five times more oil each day, here in the United States than we are oxygen. We've become the oil tribe.

  

  Stewart Udall
  • Persons
  • Oil
  • Oxygen

• Around age 40 I put on twenty pounds. I had always had a perfect metabolism. But, my metabolism betrayed me as it does most people, except a very rare few who will always be thin.

  

  Suzanne Somers
  • People
  • Age
  • Perfect

• I believe in nonfat. I gain two pounds when I eat a lamb chop.

  

  Evelyn Lauder
  • Gain
  • I Believe In
  • Pounds

• Though I weigh only 120 pounds, when I'm mad, I weigh a ton.

  

  Thomas Starr King
  • Mad
  • Pounds

• And here's Zivojinovic, six foot six inches tall and fourteen pounds ten ounces.

  

  Dan Maskell
  • Pounds
  • Fourteen
  • Ounces

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

  

  Red Skelton
  • Weight
  • Pounds
  • I Was Born

• They call Ray Robinson the best fighter, pound for pound. I'm the best fighter, ounce for ounce.

  

  Willie Pep
  • Fighter
  • Rays
  • Boxers

• I always tell women, "Get in front of a mirror, know your body." Don't think, "OK, I'm going to lose five pounds and I'm going to gain five pounds." Try to find an acceptance in the present and buy things that make you feel good. I would say, if you're buying less expensive clothes, buy two sizes bigger. They'll hang better.

  

  Molly Sims
  • Thinking
  • Acceptance
  • Bigger

• Most people I know feel that life would be complete if they could just lose ten pounds.

  

  Betty Jane Wylie
  • Life
  • Lose
  • Pounds

• The brain immediately confronts us with its great complexity. The human brain weighs only three to four pounds but contains about 100 billion neurons.

  

  Gerald Fischbach
  • Brain
  • Pounds
  • Neurons

• My mum never understood how much I earned. When I told her I earned a million pounds a film, she said, 'How much is that?'

  

  Michael Caine
  • Film
  • Said
  • Understood

• Claims have been made that I've been on a strict workout routine regulated by co-stars, whipped into shape by trainers I've never met, eating sprouted grains I can't pronounce and ultimately losing 14 pounds off my 5'3" frame. Losing 14 pounds out of necessity in order to live a healthier life is a huge victory. I'm a petite person to begin with, so the idea of my losing this amount of weight is utter lunacy. If I were to lose 14 pounds, I'd have to part with both arms. And a foot.

  

  Scarlett Johansson
  • Victory
  • Losing
  • Pronounce

• The crazy part, with all of the surgeries I had, I retained water from the IV fluids, and I gained 60 pounds. I was 247 pounds at my maximum. I couldn't even touch my face because my joints were swollen. I was so big, it was ridiculous - just insane.

  

  Mike Schultz
  • Because
  • Ridiculous
  • Insane

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

  

  Michael Moss
  • Company
  • Billions
  • Staggering

• Physically, I’m not tough. I may think tough. I would say I’m kinda tough and calloused inside. I could use a foot more in height and fifty more pounds and fifteen years off my age and then God help all you bastards.

  

  Humphrey Bogart
  • May
  • Age
  • Helping

• My uncle was famous for his balanced point of view. At the time of which I am writing (when he was nearly seventy) it had become so balanced, that the act of balancing seemed rather automatic.One had only to offer him an opinion for him to balance it with a counter- opinion of exactly the same weight, as a grocer puts a pound weight against a pound of sugar.

  

  Stephen Spender
  • Writing
  • Opinion
  • Balance

• I do feel like especially nowadays, we are inundated with the message that, "Oh my god, you aren't making your own clothes? You didn't make your own bread? And you also don't have a career and you don't look unbelievable and you have 5 pounds on your frame? Where is your book that you haven't published yet?"

  

  Miriam Shor
  • Careers
  • Unbelievable
  • Pounds

• Journalism consists in buying white paper at two cents a pound and selling it at ten cents a pound.

  

  Charles A. Dana
  • Political
  • Journalism
  • Paper

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

  

  Charlene Li
  • Google
  • Launching
  • Gorillas

• I spend hundreds of pounds a year on candles and it is such a waste of money. It is burning cash whatever way you look at it but I love them.

  

  Kate Thornton
  • Looks
  • Waste
  • Burning

• I went into a butchers and I said, 'I'll have a pound of sausages. 'He said, 'I'm very sorry, sir, we only serve kilos in here. 'I said, 'Okay then I'll have a pound of kilos.'

  

  Tommy Cooper
  • Said
  • Sorry
  • Humor

• Believe me, you lose more than a gallon of fluids during a race. You could lose between six and 10 pounds during a race, depending on hot it is.

  

  Michael Andretti
  • Believe
  • Race
  • Gallons

• 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
  • Boys
  • Feet
  • Mets

• 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
  • Would
  • Pounds
  • Afternoon

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