#pounds

What makes all doctrines plain and clear? About two hundred pounds a year. And that which was proved true before, prove false again? Two hundred more. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#again #before #clear #doctrines #false

I get an abundance of e-mail every day, some say 'dear Richard, can you call my husband, he weighs 400 pounds...' or 'my 14-year-old is 200 pounds...' or 'I just got divorced, no one wants me, I am 500 pounds.' So I pick up the phone and I call people. ↗

— Richard Simmons

#am #call #day #dear #divorced

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

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

Dieting is the only game where you win when you lose! ↗

— Karl Lagerfeld

#dieting #fashion-designer #game #image #look

I started to put on weight when I was about four and a half and it got really bad when I was around nine. I ballooned. I was about 110 pounds. ↗

— Carnie Wilson

#around #bad #four #got #half

You always fed strays and bent down to talk to the dogs you met on the street, looking straight into their eyes as if they were old friends. (Maybe they are, you said. From another life.) You liked to go to the pound and look at them. You tried to send them messages of comfort. I couldn’t go because I started crying the one time I tried. All those eyes and the barks like sobs. ↗

— Francesca Lia Block

#animal-cruelty #animal-kindness #animal-rights #animal-welfare #animals

Skinniness is not your friend when you're over 40. I'd like to gain a good 10 pounds, but I did always have a fat, round face that plagued me when I was young. When I started to make movies, I couldn't look at myself. ↗

— Ellen Barkin

#did #face #fat #friend #gain

In two decades I've lost a total of 789 pounds. I should be hanging from a charm bracelet. ↗

— Erma Bombeck

#charm #decades #hanging #i #lost

A lot of compelling stories in the world aren't being told, and the fact that people don't know about them compounds the suffering. ↗

— Anderson Cooper

#being #compelling #compounds #fact #know