#pound

In February I secured permission to enter Osama bin Laden's compound in the northern Pakistani city of Abbottabad, where he was killed and where he had lived for the last half-decade of his life; the first, and only, journalist to do so. ↗

— Peter L. Bergen

#city #compound #enter #february #first

Marathons are hard because of the physical pain, the pounding on the muscles, joints, tendons. ↗

— Lance Armstrong

#hard #joints #muscles #pain #physical

If the poor overweight jogger only knew how far he had to run to work off the calories in a crust of bread he might find it better in terms of pound per mile to go to a massage parlor. ↗

— Christiaan Barnard

#bread #calories #crust #far #find

During our travels, the Indians entertained me well; and their affection for me was so great, that they utterly refused to leave me there with the others, although the Governor offered them one hundred pounds sterling for me, on purpose to give me a parole to go home. ↗

— Daniel Boone

#although #during #entertained #give #give me

I did kung fu up until two weeks before Benjamin was born, and yoga three days a week. I think a lot of people get pregnant and decide they can turn into garbage disposals. I was mindful about what I ate, and I gained only 30 pounds. ↗

— Gisele Bundchen

#ate #before #benjamin #born #days

In this year 1634, I purchased the moiety of thirteen houses in the Strand for five hundred and thirty pounds. ↗

— William Lilly

#houses #hundred #i #pounds #purchased

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

— Tommy Cooper

#dreamt #gone #i #last #last night

I went from 118 pounds to 135 pounds in a few months. But, I still didn't know anything about food. ↗

— Warren Cuccurullo

#anything #few #food #i #know

When two elements combine and form more than one compound, the masses of one element that react with a fixed mass of the other are in the ratio of small whole numbers. ↗

— Humphry Davy

#compound #element #elements #fixed #form

I'm sort of in for a penny, in for a pound with Star Trek, It's my life at this point. To deny it would just be foolish. ↗

— Jonathan Frakes

#foolish #i #just #just be #life