#pound

There is little premium in poetry in a world that thinks of Pound and Whitman as a weight and a sampler, not an Ezra, a Walt, a thing of beauty, a joy forever. ↗

— Anna Quindlen

#forever #joy #little #poetry #pound

Yes, I know and then in the same time period within those nine years I lost 150 pounds. ↗

— Star Jones

#know #lost #nine #now and then #period

I had started losing weight. I mean he didn't know anything about the journey that I was on at that point obviously but from my highest weight of just over 300 pounds I lost about 45 pounds. ↗

— Star Jones

#anything #had #highest #i #journey

I realized that in those nine seasons I started out at about 225 pounds and I felt, you know, full figured fabulous woman but in those seasons I gained 75 pounds up to over 300 pounds all in front of the nation. ↗

— Star Jones

#fabulous #felt #figured #front #full

I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back. ↗

— Erica Jong

#ahead #back #change #despite #fear

I arrived in Hollywood twenty pounds overweight and as strong as an ox. ↗

— Gene Kelly

#hollywood #i #overweight #ox #pounds

If you foul up, tell the President and correct it fast. Delay only compounds mistakes. ↗

— Donald Rumsfeld

#correct #delay #fast #foul #mistakes

For families across the UK who are income-poor, but more than that, whose lives are blighted by worklessness, educational failure, family breakdown, problem debt and poor health, as well as other problems, giving them an extra pound - say through increased benefits - will not address the reason they find themselves in difficulty in the first place. ↗

— Iain Duncan Smith

#address #benefits #breakdown #debt #difficulty

You were saying that once when visiting Yale, you were struck that unlike Pound, Williams's thinking was volatile, I mean, did not stay locked into a pattern of concepts that then defined his subsequent necessary behavior, whereas Pound did. ↗

— Robert Creeley

#concepts #defined #did #his #i

I thought I had too much money to be happy and normal. Thousand of pounds is just too much for a working person to handle all of a sudden, and I felt I didn't deserve it. ↗

— Peter Green

#deserve #felt #had #handle #happy