Pounds Quotes - Page 17

• I have but nine-pence in ready money, but I can draw for a thousand pounds.

  Joseph Addison

  Speech, Nine, Thousand

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations". Book by Kate Louise Roberts, 1922.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• I knew once a very covetous, sordid fellow [perhaps William Lowndes], who used to say, `Take care of the pence, for the pounds will take care of themselves.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Caring, Care, Used

  4 Copy quote

• At about the age of ten, during a late summer visit to Sears to buy school clothes, I became aware of the concept of candy by the pound.

  Steve Almond

  Summer, School, Clothes

  Steve Almond (2004). “Candyfreak: A Journey through the Chocolate Underbelly of America”, p.21, Algonquin Books

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Praise be to Nero's Neptune The Titanic sails at dawn And everybody's shouting "Which Side Are You On?" And Ezra Pound and T.S. Eliot Fighting in the captain's tower While calypso singers laugh at them And fishermen hold flowers.

  Bob Dylan

  Flower, Fighting, Sea

  'Desolation Row' (1965 song)

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• The owl and the pussycat went to sea, / In a beautiful pea green boat. / They took some honey, and plenty of money, / Wrapped up in a five pound note.

  Edward Lear

  Beautiful, Sea, Owl

  "The Owl and the Pussy-Cat" l. 1 (1871)

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• What do I want to express? The subject means little. The arrangement, the design, colour, shape, depth, light, space, mood, movement, balance, not one or all of these fills the bill. There is something additional, a breath that draws your breath into its breathing, a heartbeat that pounds on yours, a recognition of the oneness of all things.

  Emily Carr

  Mean, Oneness, Space

  Emily Carr (2009). “Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr”, p.293, D & M Publishers

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

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

  Oscar De La Hoya

  Paper, Impossible, Beats

  11 Copy quote

• I'm magnificent! I'm five feet eleven inches and I weigh one hundred thirty-five pounds, and I look like a racehorse.

  Julie Newmar

  Feet, Looks, Thirty

  6 Copy quote

• But I was thinking about this, the Obamas want to adopt a stray dog from the pound. And I think that is admirable. I believe the last president to bring a stray dog into the White House got impeached.

  David Letterman

  Dog, Believe, Thinking

  17 Copy quote

• Now they always accuse me of carrying around a sledge hammer with which to pound the church members. Yes sir, I do pound them, every time I come down, I knock one of the halfway fellows out of the doorway, and every time I knock one out I get a sinner in.

  Mordecai Ham

  Religion, Church, Hammers

  26 Copy quote

• Since chemical fertilizer burns out the soil organic matter, other farmers struggle with tilth, water retention, and basic soil nutrients. The soil gets harder and harder every year as the chemicals burn out the organic matter, which gives the soil its sponginess. One pound of organic matter holds four pounds of water. The best drought protection any farmer can acquire is more soil organic matter.

  Joel Salatin

  Struggle, Years, Land

  5 Copy quote

• 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

  Work, Boss, Sticks

  5 Copy quote

• The easiest way to make a fruitcake is to buy a darkish cake, then pound some old, hard fruit into it with a mallet. Be sure to wear safety glasses.

  Dave Barry

  Humorous, Glasses, Cake

  27 Copy quote

• If you do the things that Britain needs to do - namely, withdraw from NATO, get rid of the bomb, and stop being aligned with one side of the Cold War - then presumably the run on the pound, the result in the stock exchanges of the world, will be fairly catastrophic for the economy. But some sort of political realignment is plainly what this country needs.

  David Hare

  Running, Country, War

  "New Again: David Hare". Interview with Kathleen Tynan, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 29, 2015.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I was 17 pounds when I was born. My mother couldn't walk for three weeks.

  Art Donovan

  Mother, Three, Week

  4 Copy quote

• In the Java Sea in Indonesia, I have seen fishers going out in the morning, six of them going out and coming back with five pounds of fish. That is the end point, a pound of fish per person per day to sell for rice. That's where fisheries go if you let it happen. That's where it stabilizes. These people cannot feed their families.

  Daniel Pauly

  Morning, Sea, People

  4 Copy quote

• How to figure out the recipe of your life? Your body knows when it needs food. And it asks for it. But if your devouring self keeps asking for more food, pounds of unnecessary problems are added to your life.

  Ruben Papian

  Self, Recipes, Needs

  Ruben Papian (2013). “How to Wish”, p.26

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• You can order yourself to treasure a moment, to cling tight to a feeling and never let it fade, but it's your brain, that three-pound lump of hamburger, that makes the final call.

  Isaac Marion

  Order, Feelings, Brain

  4 Copy quote

• The most nervous I've ever been was on a 250 pound music video which is the first thing I ever did. And I stepped on there with a directing partner, so I could blame him when everything went tits up. But since then my nerves have incrementally decreased so I'm not plagued by the same sense of nerves as I used to be.

  Guy Ritchie

  Video, Nerves, Firsts

  Source: collider.com

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Donald Trump is on the show tonight. Donald is a big man, I think 230 pounds -- 235 with cologne.

  David Letterman

  Men, Thinking, Tonight

  7 Copy quote

• Early in his life Mr. [Ezra] Pound met with strong, continued, and unintelligent opposition. If people keep opposing you when you are right, you think them fools; and after a time, right or wrong, you think them fools simply because they oppose you. Similarly, you write true things or good things, and end by thinking things true or good simply because you write them

  Randall Jarrell

  Strong, Writing, Thinking

  "Kipling, Auden & Co: Essays and Reviews 1935-1964". Book by Randall Jarrell, "Poets: Old, New, and Aging" (p. 44), 1980.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

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

  Evan Esar

  Dieting, Weight, Trouble

  11 Copy quote

• Let them say what they want. I will not demand that the Jewish Agency allocate a sum of 300,000 or 100,000 pounds sterling to help European Jewry. And I think that whoever demands such things is performing an anti-Zionist act.

  Yitzhak Gruenbaum

  Thinking, Agency, Demand

  5 Copy quote

• By no means run in debt: take thine own measure, Who cannot live on twenty pound a year, Cannot on forty.

  George Herbert

  Running, Mean, Years

  George Herbert, Edward Clarke LOWE (1867). “The Church Porch, :... [being the Introduction to the Poem Entitled “The Temple”]; with Notes; and a Selection of Latin Hymns for Sunday Use in Upper Forms, Edited by E. C. Lowe”, p.16

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• Let a gentleman be known to have been cheated of twenty pounds, and it costs him forty a-year for the remainder of his life.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Years, Gentleman, Twenties

  Walter Savage Landor (1829). “Barrow and Newton. Peleus and Thetis. The King of Ava and Rao-Gong-Fao. Photo Zavellas and his sister Kaido. Epicurus, Leontion, and Ternissa. The Empress Catharine and Princess Dashkoff. William Penn and Lord Peterborough. Miguel and mother. Metellus and Marius. Nicolas and Michel. Leofric and Godiva. Izaac Walton, Cotton, and William Oldways”, p.83

  4 Copy quote

  Show source