#pound

I recently lost 50 pounds. I'm hovering on the cusp of a size eight, which seems unbelievable. ↗

— Kathy Najimy

#eight #hovering #i #lost #pounds

I think there was a revolution in poetry, associated chiefly with Eliot and Pound; but maybe it is of the nature of revolutions or of the nature of history that their innovations should later come to look trivial or indistinguishable from technical tricks. ↗

— Howard Nemerov

#chiefly #come #eliot #history #i

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

#feeling #had #i #joints #lost

I've caught fish as big as I am. I've caught marlin close to 300 pounds. ↗

— Merlin Olsen

#big #caught #close #fish #i

I'm probably not 100 pounds anymore, but around there. I definitely got obsessed with my weight. When I met my husband and realized that he could put on 50 pounds and I'd still love him, I realized that's how he sees me or at least how he should! ↗

— Danica Patrick

#around #could #definitely #got #him

I started doing a paper round when I was about 10. I started earning 10 pounds a week and then I was obsessed with earning money until I was about 15. ↗

— Robert Pattinson

#doing #earning #i #money #obsessed

Meat is an inefficient way to eat. An acre of land can yield 20,000 pounds of potatoes, but that same acre would only graze enough cows to get 165 pounds of meat. ↗

— Alexandra Paul

#cows #eat #efficient way #enough #get

Public opinion is a compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs. ↗

— Robert Peel

#feeling #folly #newspaper #obstinacy #opinion

In Paris they have special wheelchairs that go through every doorway. They don't change the doorways, they change the wheelchairs. To hell with the people! If someone weighs a couple more pounds, that's it! ↗

— Itzhak Perlman

#couple #doorway #every #go #hell

It's better to have loved and lost than to have to do forty pounds of laundry a week. ↗

— Laurence J. Peter

#better #forty #laundry #lost #loved