#pounds

Who authorised the spend of millions of pounds and thousands of man hours into a stale, historical situation from three decades ago - with virtually no complaints made? ↗

— Jonathan King

#complaints #decades #historical #hours #into

Yes, some people say to me you're too skinny, but never a skinny person says that to me, only people who could lose a few pounds say that. ↗

— Karl Lagerfeld

#few #lose #me #never #only

I wasn't like those girls who give birth and are back on the runway. It took me probably six months to gain 45 pounds and I would say it took me double that time to lose it. ↗

— Padma Lakshmi

#birth #double #gain #give #i

At a moderate calculation, among a million of persons inhabiting the metropolis, there are, at least, twenty-five thousand children who attend these schools, and cost their parents as many pounds sterling, per annum. ↗

— Joseph Lancaster

#attend #calculation #children #cost #inhabiting

The one I was driving for at the time, Nissan, they pulled out after they won the championship, because it was costing millions of pounds to do a national championship and ok, that might be ok when you're doing an international championship, but not for a national one. ↗

— David Leslie

#because #championship #costing #doing #driving

Take care of the pence, for the pounds will take care of themselves. ↗

— William Lowndes

#pounds #take #take care #themselves #will

How in the world any one weighing 185 pounds can be cute is beyond me. ↗

— Vaughn Monroe

#beyond #cute #how #me #pounds

I have a face that is a cross between two pounds of halibut and an explosion in an old clothes closet. ↗

— David Niven

#closet #clothes #cross #explosion #face

Leaving America is like losing twenty pounds and finding a new girlfriend. ↗

— Phil Ochs

#finding #girlfriend #leaving #like #losing

In the first quarter of the nineteenth century the experimental proof for the interdependence of the composition and properties of chemical compounds resulted in the theory that they are mutually related, so that like composition governs like properties, and conversely. ↗

— Wilhelm Ostwald

#chemical #composition #compounds #conversely #experimental