#pounds

Even when someone gets to looking like she should be so proud of herself, instead she's like, 'I could be another three pounds less; I could be a little taller and have bigger lips.' ↗

— Melissa McCarthy

#bigger #could #even #gets #herself

My mom cooked pot roast with noodles and frozen vegetables. Or she'd make spaghetti or hot dogs, or heat up TV dinners. Before I started modeling at age 19, I was 5'8" and weighed 165 pounds. ↗

— Carol Alt

#before #cooked #dinners #dogs #frozen

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

— Marc Andreessen

#bigger #compounds #each #ever #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

Given Pounds and five years, and an ordinary man can in the ordinary course, without any undue haste or putting any pressure upon his taste, surround himself with books, all in his own language, and thence forward have at least one place in the world. ↗

— Augustine Birrell

#books #course #five #forward #given

Very good wine was bought at ten pounds per pipe, the contract price; but the superior quality was fifteen pounds; and some of this was not much inferior to the best London Madeira. ↗

— William Bligh

#bought #contract #fifteen #good #inferior

I also played with Jimi Hendrix. Jimi would come down and sit in with Retaliation and we would have a ball. He offered me the gig with him at 20 pounds a week, which at that point, was like 60 bucks. ↗

— Aynsley Dunbar

#ball #bucks #come #down #gig

I was up around 340 pounds because the producers said they wanted a really big guy - and I'm not that big, you know! I've lost it all now though. I'm 285 pounds, my sexy weight! ↗

— Michael Clarke Duncan

#because #big #big guy #guy #i

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