#pound

I inherited a pound from my British uncle. I’d have rather gotten a dollar, because what do I want with an animal shelter?
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— Jarod Kintz

#animal-shelter #british #death #desire #die

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

Innovation accelerates and compounds. Each point in front of you is bigger than anything that ever happened. ↗

— Marc Andreessen

#bigger #compounds #each #ever #front

My mother, she had a very good attitude toward money. I'm very grateful for the fact that we had to learn to save. I used to get like 50 pence a week, and I'd save it for like five months. And then I'd spend it on Christmas presents. I'd save up like eight pounds. It's nothing, but we did that. ↗

— Gemma Arterton

#christmas #did #eight #fact #five

I'm like the universe; either expanding or contracting at any given moment. The most that I had put on was about 35, 36 pounds, and I've taken all of that off. ↗

— Sean Astin

#any #contracting #either #expanding #given

I'd like to see the giant squid. Nobody has ever seen one. I could tell you people who have spent thousands and thousands of pounds trying to see giant squid. I mean, we know they exist because we have seen dead ones. But I have never seen a living one. Nor has anybody else. ↗

— David Attenborough

#because #could #dead #else #ever

I don't know, examination I guess. And then they put the jump suit back on me again. I went through the compound - I remember somebody shouting, Jim don't let them break you. ↗

— Jim Bakker

#back #break #compound #examination #guess

Ten thousand pounds is the legal value of a negligently taken life, of a child or a parent. A cold and somewhat mean-spirited calculation: you would do better if you slipped on a paving-stone and broke a front tooth. ↗

— Nina Bawden

#broke #calculation #child #cold #front

If you move something 10 pounds through space and then stop suddenly, there's a little overshoot. When you transfer weight from one leg to another, there's a certain way that it happens. ↗

— Brad Bird

#certain #certain way #happens #leg #little

I always use the same guitar; I got this guitar years and years ago for nine pounds. It's still got the same strings on it. ↗

— Brian Eno

#always #got #guitar #i #i always