Top 100 Pound For Pound Quotes
#1. Nature is not benevolent; Nature is just, gives pound for pound, measure for measure, makes no exceptions, never tempers her decrees with mercy, or winks at any infringement of her laws.
John Burroughs
#2. The Brain is just the weight of God
For
Heft them
Pound for Pound
And they will differ
if they do
As Syllable from Sound
Emily Dickinson
#3. The purpose is to become the best writer in my category (yes, page for page and pound for pound).
Georges St-Pierre
#4. History says that I'm one of the best pound-for-pound, and I won't stop until I'm number one.
Sergio Martinez
#5. That man was beautiful. Timing, speed, reflexes, rhythm, his body, everything was beautiful. And to me, still, I would say pound for pound ... I'd say I'm the greatest heavyweight of all time, but pound for pound, I still say Sugar Ray Robinson was the greatest of all time.
Muhammad Ali
#6. I want to be one of the greats. I want to be the pound for pound king and I know what it takes to get there.
Victor Ortiz
#7. When I learned that flour pound for pound has as many calories as sugar, and that when eating pasta you're basically eating cake, I was size 23, and my neck was restricting my breathing, and so I got on a microbiotic diet and got myself an exercise bike.
Caitlin Moran
#8. Joe Frazier was the epitome of a champion. I mean, here is a guy who was total old school, blue collar, who would fight anybody. You know, he didn't tell you he was the best fighter pound for pound.
Sugar Ray Leonard
#9. Sugar Ray Robinson was probably the greatest pound-for-pound fighter of all time.
Sugar Ray Leonard
#10. Pound for pound, she was stronger than Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Gloria Steinem
#11. I don't know if I'm the best Pound-For-Pound fighter ever. I know I'm close. I gotta be Top 5.
Roy Jones Jr.
#12. Pound for pound, your show is the best of its kind. I'm always learning from your great content!
Craig Shoemaker
#13. If you go too far in fantasy and break the string of logic, and become nonsensical, someone will surely remind you of your dereliction ... Pound for pound, fantasy makes a tougher opponent for the creative person.
Richard Matheson
#14. There are no living beings who exert more power over others, pound for pound, than tiny babies and extremely thin moguls.
Stanley Bing
#15. They call Ray Robinson the best fighter, pound for pound. I'm the best fighter, ounce for ounce.
Willie Pep
#16. For sure, without question, the writing is better on TV pound for pound than movies because the businesses have changed so much. So all the great writers would rather work for TV, and they do.
Rob Lowe
#17. Why did I follow her? If you must know, Sir, it was easy. Pound for pound, Puss-in-Boots was the best commander I ever served under.
L.A. Meyer
#18. For me, I like old-school rap music. There was a time when music was so, so rich overall, and the content of what people talked about was so deep on every level, song-for-song, pound-for-pound, and on radio, there was so much content. I gravitate more towards that type of music, to be honest.
Ciara
#19. Pine nuts pound for pound are more expensive than most varieties of smoked salmon. There I said it.
Dov Davidoff
#20. Right now, it's very difficult to single out one fighter, pound-for-pound, who is the best. Right now, it's very complex. Miguel Cotto, Mayweather and Zab Judah's a good fighter as well.
Roberto Duran
#21. Did you know that, pound for pound, the moose is the leanest ruminant on Earth? It's true. Moose are very in tune with their natural surroundings.
Mallory Ortberg
#22. If your rod weighs six ounces, your reel nine, and your line another ounce or two, it means that you are holding a pound of weight in your casting hand - much of the time at arm's length - all the time you fish. Try carrying a pound of butter around that way for four or five hours.
Ted Trueblood
#23. It would be about as easy for an American to become a Chinaman or a Hindoo as for him to acquire an Englishness or a Frenchness or a European-ness that is more than half skin deep.
Ezra Pound
#24. The age demanded an image Of its accelerated grimace, Something for the modern stage, Not, at any rate, an Attic grace.
Ezra Pound
#25. And tomorrow I'm gonna pound the shit outta your cunt for talking to me like that.
Crystal Spears
#26. And the good writer chooses his words for their 'meaning', but that meaning is not a a set, cut-off thing like the move of knight or pawn on a chess-board. It comes up with roots, with associations, with how and where the word is familiarly used, or where it has been used brilliantly or memorably.
Ezra Pound
#27. I didn't ask for twenty quarter-pound cheeseburgers, I asked for four quarter-pound cheeseburgers five times." "Same thing," he said. "It's not the same thing at all. You can't be this stupid." Two
Bill Bryson
#28. Giving saves lives. Especially the giver's.
Shannon Kopp
#29. The man who fears war and squats opposing
My words for stour, hath no blood of crimson
But is fit only to rot in womanish peace
Ezra Pound
#30. Write your goals down in detail and read your list of goals every day. Some goals may entail a list of shorter goals. Losing a lot of weight, for example, should include mini-goals, such as 10-pound milestones. This will keep your subconscious mind focused on what you want step by step.
Jack Canfield
#31. We've got to have major health care reform because that is the 800-pound gorilla. That is the thing that can swamp the boat fiscally for the United States.
Kent Conrad
#32. Music is my love and to me acting is more mercenary. I don't pound the pavements for roles: if it happens, it happens. I hate that auditioning thing.
David Johansen
#33. Frying gives cooks numerous ways of concealing what appeared the day before and in a pinch facilitates sudden demands, for it takes little more time to fry a four-pound carp than to boil an egg.
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
#34. As I recall, Drew made me take him to see a voodoo priestess he found in the yellow pages that week because he said the friend put a hex on his penis. For two weeks he slept with a two-pound package of boneless, skinless chicken breasts on his junk since he refused to sacrifice a live chicken.
Tara Sivec
#35. I gotta pound the keys for the ideas to flow.
Kirby Larson
#36. It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week.
Ezra Pound
#37. Cubans were getting a monthly ration of five pounds of rice, three pounds of beans, five eggs, one chicken, half a pound of coffee, milk for children up to age seven, one bar of soap, two rolls of toilet paper, three packs of cigarettes.
Tony Mendoza
#38. For you can't hear Irish tunes without knowing you're Irish, and wanting to pound that fact into the floor.
Jennifer Armstrong
#39. Consider the way of the scientists rather than the way of an advertising agent for a new soap.
Ezra Pound
#40. The good news is my almost-boyfriend was ready to pound Eric's face for you."
"Almost-boyfriend? Don't you gays usually move a lot faster than this? I thought you were supposed to shack up together on the second date and adopt a cat so you had something to dress up in a tutu.
Ashlan Thomas
#41. The person who pays an ounce of principle for a pound of popularity gets badly cheated.
Ronald Reagan
#42. We believe the 36, nearly 40, billion pound discount given for a right to buy houses took a million houses out of the public housing sector which is desperately needed for rent.
John Prescott
#43. As for literature It gives no man a sinecure. And no one knows, at sight, a masterpiece. And give up verse, my boy, There's nothing in it.
Ezra Pound
#44. Personally, I like one hand preacher curls with dumbbells. You don't have to do 100 pound dumbbells to get a burn. Heck I can do 35- 45 dumbbells and get something out of it. It's also great for guys that travel. It's the one piece of equipment that most hotels always have.
Phil Heath
#45. Listen, if you were with me on a plane? I'm embarrassed for the people who sit next to me. I have such a regimen! I, like, pound on the face cream because your face will dry out, I get the stuff you put in your nose so no nose germs come in, I take elderberry for immunity, I wear a scarf.
Lea Michele
#46. I would hold the rosy, slender fingers of the dawn for you.
Ezra Pound
#47. Thank you for calling the Weight Loss Hotline. If you'd like to lose a half pound right now, press 1 eighteen thousand times.
Randy Glasbergen
#48. Burn shavings and splinters of pitch pine, and when they turn to charcoal, put them out, and pound them into mortar with size. This will make a pretty black for fresco painting.
Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
#49. My roommate is a 240-pound homicidal hermit. For dinner he's fixing me a dead fox he scraped off the highway near Ponchatoula, and after that we're taking a leaky tin boat out on a windy lake to spy on some semi-retarded fishermen. Don't you wish you were here?
Carl Hiaasen
#50. You've got to look out for number one. If you're really worried about not being spoiled, just pound on through that book guys. Just read the shit out of it.
Veronica Belmont
#51. One pound invested for five years gives the same result as five pounds invested for one year, the product being five pound years.
William Stanley Jevons
#52. For me, I'd rather be the inventive one, and if something doesn't work, I'll go back to the workshop, put it on the bench, and pound on it for awhile.
Janet Fitch
#53. I'd been touring for so long, seven years. For a year and a half I'd just been curious about what it was like not to tour. It's like if you were to lift a 100-pound barbell with your right arm for seven years, eventually you'd get really curious about what your left arm was capable of.
Feist
#54. Today, if you pay a[n US] dollar for a pound of apples in the supermarketm only about six cents covers the farmwork used to get it there; ( ... )
Tracie McMillan
#55. The cosmetics industry has much to answer for. It's a multi-million- pound confidence trick based on giving women endless hope, courtesy of overpriced little pots.
Joan Collins
#56. It has been said that an engineer is a man who can do for ten shillings what any fool can do for a pound; if that be so, we were certainly engineers.
Nevil Shute
#57. Every pound for a woman in the real world is seven pounds for an actress.
Amber Heard
#58. He had great respect for a novelist like James. Pound knew about the concentration of energies required to write novels and also knew that he did not have such qualities, that his inspirations came more in flashes than in sustained work. Writing prose was difficult,
John Tytell
#59. A man in love will jump to pick up a glove or a bouquet for a silly girl of sixteen, whilst at home he will permit his aged mother to carry pails of water and armfuls of wood, or his wife to lug a twenty-pound baby, hour after hour, without ever offe
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
#60. Occasions for defining moments do not arise every day. When they do, we must seize the opportunities they present for improving everyone's life.
Richard Pound
#61. Why do you treat us like a four-headed freak? All we need is a pound a week, Just enough for our beer and pills
Bunny Paine-Clemes
#62. I would be very, very strong on the debt limit. And I would be asking for a very big pound of flesh if I were the Republicans. And the problem with the Republicans, they have two sides. The smaller side is very strong and the other side is always agreeing and, you know, you can't do that.
Donald Trump
#63. It takes twenty-one pounds of protein fed to a calf to produce a single pound of animal protein for humans. We get back less than 5 percent of what we put in.
Peter Singer
#64. The meter said six pounds, so I passed a ten pound note through the window and watched a fifteen-second production of 'I'm Not Sure I've Got Change For That', starring licensed cab driver 99102, before getting out and heading back down the street.
Hugh Laurie
#65. They used to say, "A penny for your thoughts". I have heard that zombies will pay up to $5 a pound for your brains. Inflation even affects the dead!!!
Neil Leckman
#66. Earmarks do not add spending the budget anymore than choosing to purchase a box of pasta instead of a pound of bananas (i.e., earmarking funds for pasta) adds to one's bill at the supermarket.
Sean Kelly
#67. It is known, to the force of a single pound weight, what the engine will do; but, not all the calculators of the National Debt can tell me the capacity for good or evil, for love or hatred, for patriotism or discontent, for the decomposition of virtue into vice, or the reverse.
Charles Dickens
#68. If love could be purchased, everybody would have paid a thousand dollars a pound for it. You know it doesn't work that way.
Harbhajan Singh Yogi
#69. In those days [the 1790s],the students paid their professors directly for the lectures-typically about three guineas a class (a guinea was worth slightly more than a pound).
Joshua Kendall
#70. [Eric] 'So you want me to go to a human orgy, where I will not be welcome, and you want us to leave before I get to enjoy myself?'
[Sookie] 'Yes,' I said, almost squeaking in my anxiety. In for a penny, in for a pound. 'And... do you think you could pretend to be gay?
Charlaine Harris
#71. Up until the age of 30 I could eat whatever I wanted - I mean, literally, I never put on a pound; if anything, I was criticised in the media for being too skinny.
Patsy Kensit
#72. In California today, you may save more water by not eating a pound of beef than you would by not showering for six entire months.
John Robbins
#73. I need to pick up some lingerie," I told them. "What for?" asked Trey. "To make you feel pretty, Pound Cake," I retorted. "The fuck you think?
Kelli Jean
#74. Pound it out, get it done, write every day. No excuses. Kerouac said you can't wait for inspiration, you have to go after it with a club. Damn straight. You'll sleep a lot better getting your word count in than another quick Twitter check or keeping up to date on the Kardashians.
Dan Alatorre
#75. For the price of a couple of Happy Meals, you can buy a digital textbook and stop your child from having to carry around a six-pound book.
Osman Rashid
#76. A heroic figure ... not wholly to blame for the religion that's been foisted on him.
Ezra Pound
#77. Other men are strong like bricks - firm, unyielding, but if you pound on them long enough, they crack. You ... you're strong like the wind. Always there, so willing to bend, but never apologetic for the times when you must be firm.
Brandon Sanderson
#78. He that will not stoop for a pin will never be worth a pound.
Samuel Pepys
#79. Governments should want and even crave the best possible scientific advice. With reliable knowledge come better decisions, fewer mistakes and more results achieved for each pound spent.
Geoff Mulgan
#80. Any combination of a 250-pound Mexican and LSD-25 is a potentially terminal menace for anything it can reach
Hunter S. Thompson
#81. As for agility, a biologist at the National Bison Range in Montana once observed a 2,000-pound bull leap up a six-foot embankment from a standing start!13
Michael Punke
#82. She threatened him with dire consequences if he got all puffed up and studly about this. It was easy for him to take it in stride - exactly how many eight-pound babies had he pushed out? And if he joked about this even once, she was going to make him pay. Perhaps for life. Jack
Robyn Carr
#83. I'd like to be a 5-10, 205-pound running back. I think it's natural for big guys to want to be a little faster.
Antonio Gates
#84. When I think of the causes for which people more commonly give up their lives-nationalism, religion, ethnicity-it seems to me that a thirty-five pound bag of rocks and the lost world it represents, is not such a bad thing to die for.
Anne Fadiman
#85. The temple is holy because it is not for sale
Ezra Pound
#86. Listen to me, attend me!
And I will breathe into thee a soul,
And thou shalt live for ever.
Ezra Pound
#87. Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
Ezra Pound
#88. I feel the most natural thing is for music to come that way because it's sort of like poetry. Though I do think with poets that I like, like Charles Olson or Ezra Pound, they were rewriting constantly, until the poem becomes a diamond.But with music I don't really feel that way.
Stephen Malkmus
#89. Till now they send him dreams and no more deed;
So doth he flame again with might for action,
Forgetful of the council of the elders,
Forgetful that who rules doth no more battle,
Forgetful that such might no more cleaves to him
So doth he flame again toward valiant doing.
Ezra Pound
#90. Stay away from Mistress Laera," said Frank, "or I'll find grounds to sue your ass off. Possibly for damaging my fist when I pound your pretty boy face in.
Sindra Van Yssel
#91. Socialized medicine, some still cry, but it's long been socialized, with those covered paying for those who are underinsured. American medicine is simply socialized badly, penny wise and pound foolish.
Anna Quindlen
#92. For a long time the IOC liked the idea of money but they didn't like the thought of working for it.
Dick Pound
#94. Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity.
Ezra Pound
#95. On my first day in jail, a three hundred pound man named Porterhouse hit me in the back of the head with a metal tray. I was standing in line for lunch and I didn't see it coming. I went down. When I got up, I turned around and started throwing punches. (James Frey, pg.1)
James Frey
#96. I just like to catch fish, I don't care if it weighs half a pound or 10 pounds. But I can't do a lot of casting. I can work a jig or a worm. But not for long, especially if the big ones are biting. Those big bass will make it hurt after a while.
Terry Bradshaw
#97. Recipe for a Worry
Take one pound morbid preoccupation and mix vigorously with one cup overactive imagination. In a separate bowl, add one part hypersensitivity to three parts increased hormone activity. Fold together and let stew for hours on end.
Emily Colas
#98. For us in England, the relative value of the pound against the dollar, that has a huge impact on how easy it is to get our films made in the U.K.
Eric Fellner
#99. I'm sort of in for a penny, in for a pound with Star Trek, It's my life at this point. To deny it would just be foolish.
Jonathan Frakes
#100. Biology seems to be a chemical strategy for amplifying quantum mechanical indeterminacy so that it leaves the subatomic realm and can be present in a hundred and forty five pound block of meat.
Terence McKenna
