#pound

A key to my thinking has always been the almost fanatical belief that what I was engaged in was a literary art form. That belief was compounded out of ego and necessity, I guess, a combination of the two. ↗

— Will Eisner

#always #art #art form #been #belief

God doesn't go to jail for the pound of weed you got caught going over the Laredo with - even though he apparently has the knowledge, power, and care to prevent it - you go to jail. God passes go and the courts collect two hundred dollars. ↗

— Stephen Evans

#care #caught #collect #courts #dollars

I don't think so, in that Virgin is already a global brand. Brands like Amazon have had to spend hundreds of millions of pounds you know, building their brands, whereas Virgin is already well-known around the world. ↗

— Richard Branson

#amazon #around #brand #brands #building

Whether I was dancing around the house with headphones on or on stage with the Spice Girls... I learned firsthand that dancing was the key to shedding off the pounds and keeping them off. ↗

— Melanie Brown

#dancing #firsthand #headphones #house #i

It's about mass immigration at a time when 21% of young people can't find work. It's about giving £50 million a day to the EU when the public finances are under great strain. ↗

— Nigel Farage

#day #eu #finances #find #giving

We spend billions of pounds on welfare, yet millions are trapped on welfare. It's not worth their while going into work. ↗

— David Cameron

#going #into #millions #pounds #spend

Toward the end of my pregnancy, I felt really big - I gained about 40 pounds, which is a lot for my size. ↗

— Christina Aguilera

#big #end #felt #gained #i

My mom cooked pot roast with noodles and frozen vegetables. Or she'd make spaghetti or hot dogs, or heat up TV dinners. Before I started modeling at age 19, I was 5'8" and weighed 165 pounds. ↗

— Carol Alt

#before #cooked #dinners #dogs #frozen

I put £150,000 into the stage production of Grease and have got back £1.5 million so far. It has been a fantastic success. ↗

— Jeffrey Archer

#been #fantastic #far #got #grease

Somebody will be able to crack ebook files in the same way that people cracked music files a decade ago. An author could have worked for three years on his book, have someone buy it for their Kindle for £6.99 and then see it shared with everyone in the world for free. ↗

— Simon Armitage

#ago #author #book #buy #could