#pounds

Life began three and a half billion years ago, necessarily about as simple as it could be, because life arose spontaneously from the organic compounds in the primeval oceans. ↗

— Stephen Jay Gould

#ago #arose #because #began #billion

I'm not a big guy anyway. I'm only, what, 150 pounds? I was 190 for 'Batman,' 179 for 'Warrior.' Films make you look big. ↗

— Tom Hardy

#batman #big #big guy #films #guy

It is now common knowledge that the average American gains 7 pounds between Thanksgiving and New Year's Day. ↗

— Marilu Henner

#american #average #average american #between #common

My Mum brought me up to believe that if you look after the pennies then the pounds look after themselves, and I could never do it. ↗

— Damien Hirst

#believe #brought #could #i #look

I have skinny genes. My mother weighs 90 pounds. ↗

— Ellen Barkin

#i #mother #pounds #skinny #weighs

I freak out if I go a little too long without being in the gym. For a long time it was all about getting the weight off because I was 240 pounds at my heaviest, and now I'm around 175, so the majority of that weight loss was due to diet and exercise. ↗

— Nick Carter

#around #because #being #diet #due

When I found out I had to take off my shirt in 'Teen' movie, I panicked and hit the gym. I was like, 'It's going to be on film, documented, for my children to see. I can't be 140 pounds. I need to put on a little bit of muscle.' ↗

— Chris Evans

#children #documented #film #found #going

One pound of uranium is worth about 3 million pounds worth of coal or oil. ↗

— James Lovelock

#coal #million #oil #pound #pounds

Let's turn British inventions into British industries, British factories and British jobs. Let them make pounds for us, not dollars marks or yen for others. ↗

— John Major

#dollars #factories #industries #into #inventions

There is no intrinsic worth in money but what is alterable with the times, and whether a guinea goes for twenty pounds or for a shilling, it is the labor of the poor and not the high and low value that is set on gold or silver, which all the comforts of life must arise from. ↗

— Bernard de Mandeville

#comforts #goes #gold #guinea #high