Pound Quotes

It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.
Muhammad Ali

Pound's crazy. All poets are. They have to be. You don't put a poet like Pound in the loony bin.
Ernest Hemingway

Crazy, Put, Poet

An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.
Rudyard Kipling

Mother, Worth, Clergy

An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with.
Thomas Fuller

God, Sadness, Worth

When I gain a pound it's in the headlines.
Kim Kardashian

Gain, Headlines

When a person is down in the world, an ounce of help is better than a pound of preaching.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Help, Person, Down

Not all my shoes are designer. In terms of clothes, everything is on the same level for me. If I like it, it doesn't matter if it cost £200 or £2. I'm attracted to things rather than labels.
Sophie Ellis Bextor

Everything, Same, Matter

The first kiss I had was the most disgusting thing in my life. The girl injected about a pound of saliva into my mouth, and when I walked away I had to spit it all out.
Leonardo DiCaprio

Life, Girl, Away

Last night I dreamt I ate a ten pound marshmallow. When I woke up the pillow was gone.
Tommy Cooper

Night, Last, Gone

Both my parents are English and came out to Australia in 1967. I was born the following year. My parents, and immigrants like them, were known as '£10 poms.' Back then, the Australian government was trying to get educated British people and Canadians - to be honest, educated white people - to come and live in Australia.
Hugh Jackman

Government, Live, Parents

My parents were drawn to the idea that there was space and opportunity in Australia. For the meagre sum of £10, you could sail your entire family out to Australia, so that's what my father chose to do.
Hugh Jackman

Family, Father, Parents

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

Family, Health, Failure

I've never experienced chronic poverty, but I know what it's like to live on £3 a week.
Annie Lennox

Live, Poverty, Week

In a global race, can we really justify the huge number of expensive peripheral European institutions? Can we justify a commission that gets ever larger? Can we carry on with an organisation that has a multibillion pound budget but not enough focus on controlling spending and shutting down programmes that haven't worked?
David Cameron

Focus, Down, Enough

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

Beauty, Poetry, Joy

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

Work, Time, Great

One pound of uranium is worth about 3 million pounds worth of coal or oil.
James Lovelock

Worth, Million, Oil

You just have to believe in yourself when you've got something, and just keep pounding on the door, because if you pound long enough, somebody is going to open it.
Cynthia Weil

Yourself, Long, Enough

From paying off friends' tax bills to rescuing stray dogs and stuffing £20 notes into the hands of homeless people, I can't get rid of my money fast enough.
Julie Burchill

Money, Friends, Enough

A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.
James A. Garfield

Worth, Luck, Pluck

Last night the United States dropped four 2,000 pound bombs on Saddam Hussein. I don't know anything about explosives, but, my God, do those things even need to explode?
David Letterman

God, Night, Last

I always feel a bit trapped when a painting goes for millions of pounds and only one person can have it. If you can have that as well as a poster on every student's wall, then you're in a very enviable position. I'd like to do a Damien Hirst for £500 at some point.
Damien Hirst

Person, Point, Student

If you want to ask about my drug problem, go ask my big, fat, smart, ten pound daughter, she'll answer any questions you have about it.
Courtney Love

Smart, Problem, Big

I just like to catch fish, I don't care if it weighs half a pound or 10 pounds. But I can't do a lot of casting. I can work a jig or a worm. But not for long, especially if the big ones are biting. Those big bass will make it hurt after a while.
Terry Bradshaw

Work, Hurt, Care

Listen, if you were with me on a plane? I'm embarrassed for the people who sit next to me. I have such a regimen! I, like, pound on the face cream because your face will dry out, I get the stuff you put in your nose so no nose germs come in, I take elderberry for immunity, I wear a scarf.
Lea Michele

Put, Face, Next

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

Nature, History, Poetry

At the risk of sounding like Virginia Woolf, I could live on £700 a year.
Ian Mcewan

Live, Year, Risk

To be clear, climate change is a true 800 pound gorilla in the room. The effects of global warming threaten global environmental upheaval over the coming century. But for South Florida and the Everglades, it could be our death knell if urgent action is not taken.
Debbie Wasserman Schultz

Change, Death, True

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

Success, Put, Far

An ounce of hypocracy is worth a pound of ambition.
Michael Korda

Ambition, Worth, Ounce

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