#pound

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

If somebody's looking at pictures of naked people and you go, 'Oh I don't want to see that,' you're lying. Cause naked people are always interesting. Always. Whether they're beautiful, or naked or 500 pounds. ↗

— Andy Richter

#beautiful #cause #go #i #interesting

I never had to pound the pavement and really struggle after college. ↗

— Moira Kelly

#college #had #i #never #pavement

My weight always fluctuates by 10 pounds. ↗

— Miranda Lambert

#pounds #weight

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

— Donald Rumsfeld

#correct #delay #fast #foul #mistakes

The United States dollar took another pounding on German, French and British exchanges this morning, hitting the lowest point ever known in West Germany. ↗

— Gordon Sinclair

#british #dollar #ever #exchanges #french

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