Top 100 Quotes About Pound
#1. Don't readjust your contacts. No, that is not the slow hyena from The Lion King. That is my four-pound best friend.
Mamrie Hart
#2. 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
#3. 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
#4. The age demanded an image Of its accelerated grimace, Something for the modern stage, Not, at any rate, an Attic grace.
Ezra Pound
#5. If you're not stubborn, you'll give up on experiments too soon. And if you're not flexible, you'll pound your head against the wall and you won't see a different solution to a problem you're trying to solve.
Jeff Bezos
#6. Keep a sharp lookout upon your materials; get rid of every pound of material you can do without; put to yourself the question what business has it to be there?, avoid complexities, and make everything as simple as possible.
Henry Maudslay
#7. And tomorrow I'm gonna pound the shit outta your cunt for talking to me like that.
Crystal Spears
#8. I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn't irascible.
Ezra Pound
#9. All to prove to her I'm not lying and I'm not sleeping around on her. She's a vagina with arms, and legs, and two faces. Do you know what it's like to have your penis ridden by a two-hundred thirty pound woman?" He stood now, looking traumatized.
Lucian Bane
#10. I ask a wreathwhich will not crush my head.
And there is no hurry about it;
I shall have, doubtless, a boom after my funeral,
Seeing that long standing increases all things
regardless of quality.
Ezra Pound
#11. 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
#12. He fills my thoughts, my dreams, and my nightmares. The memory of him, and his touch, pound on the door to my soul with such force that cracks are forming in the wood. I do my best to act like no one is home by keeping the door locked and the lights off.
Andrea Randall
#13. I think most people read and re-read the things that they have liked. That's certainly true in my case. I re-read Pound a great deal, I re-read Williams, I re-read Thomas, I re-read the people whom I cam to love when I was at what you might call a formative stage.
James Laughlin
#14. When you said hold the ice ... "
"I thought you were near death over there," I answer, breathless. "That doesn't feel fatal."
"I was, but you are one hot chick when you pound on the right bag." He jerks me back against him hard and I yelp. Not in pain. No, definitely not pain.
K.A. Tucker
#15. If he [Pound] is not careful he will take to meaning what he says instead of saying what he means.
Edward Thomas
#16. Sure, our three-pound brains might be inadequate to understand the universe. But perhaps they're just good enough to build something that can.
Seth Shostak
#17. 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
#18. Giving saves lives. Especially the giver's.
Shannon Kopp
#19. But I was thinking about this, the Obamas want to adopt a stray dog from the pound. And I think that is admirable. I believe the last president to bring a stray dog into the White House got impeached.
David Letterman
#20. Cheese is one of my great weaknesses, I could eat the stuff by the pound.
Helena Christensen
#21. Seems fairly clear that you fix a breed by LIMITING the amount of alien infiltration. You make a race by homogeneity and by avoiding INbreeding ... No argument has ever been sprouted against it. You like it in dogs and horses.
Ezra Pound
#22. On the equator, where centrifugal forces are greatest, a 150-pound person will be a slender 149 pounds 14 ounces.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#23. I could be hit by a Sara Lee truck tomorrow. Which is not a bad way of going: 'Richard Simmons Found in a Freeway in Pound Cake and Fudge, With a Smile on His Face.' Let's face it. We don't know anything.
Richard Simmons
#24. 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
#25. Matt and Mark (Hughes) used to pound each other on the farm as young boys.
Mike Goldberg
#26. Pound forward until you succeed... until you succeed.
Ben Tolosa
#27. 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
#28. Technique is the test of sincerity.
Ezra Pound
#29. Compose in the sequence of the musical phrase, not in sequence of a metronome.
Ezra Pound
#30. I'm a mechanic; I fix things that are broken. I turn into a thirty-five pound coyote. I have powerful friends. But when it comes right down to it, my real superpower is chaos." -Mercy
Patricia Briggs
#31. But there was one bully to rule them all, one bully to find them, one bully to bring them all and in the darkness pound them.
Michael Grant
#32. 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
#33. But this...her...she's more than warmth. She's fire, a soul, a name. Mei Yee reverbs through my head, my veins. Lodges like shrapnel in the far reaches of my chest. More powerful than a pound of C-4. Uncontrollable.
Ryan Graudin
#34. It is generally agreed, and in fact stated in the bylaws of the American Kennel Club, that you have not been truly dog-humped until you have been double-dog-humped by a pair of four-hundred-pound hounds from hell
Christopher Moore
#35. 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
#37. 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
#38. Literature is news which stays news.
Ezra Pound
#39. I always buy the smaller turkeys. On the pre-baste put pats of butter on the meat under the skin, put the skin back on, put a bunch of seasoning on the top, call it a day, put it in the oven. With a 10 - 12 pound turkey you are done in a couple of hours.
Sandra Lee
#40. 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
#41. When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
Ezra Pound
#42. I gotta pound the keys for the ideas to flow.
Kirby Larson
#43. They say a hundred-and-thirty-pound woman has no chance against an athletic two-hundred-pound man. That's a lie. You just have to make the decision to hurt him and then do it.
Ilona Andrews
#44. In the seventeenth century the pound sterling was divided into twenty shillings (shortened to s.), and a shilling was divided into twelve pennies, or pence (shortened to d.). So an amount might be expressed as £2 10s 6d, or £2/10/6d.
Stephen Inwood
#45. Life repeats Shakespearian themes more often than we think. Did Lady Macbeth, Richard III, and King Claudius exist only in the Middle Ages? Shylock wanted to cut a pound of flesh from the body of the merchant of Venice. Is that a fairy tale?
Varlam Shalamov
#46. There is natural ignorance and there is artificial ignorance. I should say at the present moment the artificial ignorance is about eighty-five per cent.
Ezra Pound
#47. I believe in some parts of Nietzsche,
I prefer to read him in sections;
In my heart of hearts I suspect him
of being the one modern christian;
Take notice I never have read him
except in English selections.
Ezra Pound
#48. Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.
Ezra Pound
#49. Don't be blinded by the theorists and a lying press.
Ezra Pound
#50. But if we grow stronger...and rise higher than what's pullin' us down...Yes, rise higher than dirt...that fifty pound weight will lift and you'll be free, free without anybody's by-your-leave. Do something to wash out the sin.
Alice Childress
#51. To break the pentameter, that was the first heave
Ezra Pound
#53. 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
#54. A FRIGHTENED, ANGRY, FOUR-HUNDRED-POUND, antisocial chef with a combat shotgun never leads to anything good.
Dean Koontz
#55. The easiest way to make a fruitcake is to buy a darkish cake, then pound some old, hard fruit into it with a mallet. Be sure to wear safety glasses.
Dave Barry
#56. Genius ... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
Ezra Pound
#57. And remember, every pound you give leaves you a pound poorer.
Hugh Dennis
#58. Raw leafy greens contain only about 100 calories per pound and are packed with nutrients.
Joel Fuhrman
#59. 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
#60. I think there was a revolution in poetry, associated chiefly with Eliot and Pound; but maybe it is of the nature of revolutions or of the nature of history that their innovations should later come to look trivial or indistinguishable from technical tricks.
Howard Nemerov
#61. I know with me, you really have to, like, pound me over the head to say, 'I like you. I really like you' to get me to see it. I think if you're too passive, you just fall into that friend role. And that's hard to break out of.
Kiele Sanchez
#62. 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
#63. A pound of Alaskan king crab legs and buffalo shrimp = happy Travie.
Travie McCoy
#64. L'art
Green arsenic smeared on an egg-white cloth,
Crushed strawberries! Come, let us feast our eyes.
Ezra Pound
#65. I would also like to act, once in a while, but not get up every morning at 5:30 or six o'clock and pound into the studio and get home at 7:30 or eight o'clock at night, or act over and over and over every night on Broadway, either.
Jackie Cooper
#66. Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
Ezra Pound
#67. My heart starts to pound as he gets closer and closer to the stands, never taking his eyes off me.
Collette West
#68. For you can't hear Irish tunes without knowing you're Irish, and wanting to pound that fact into the floor.
Jennifer Armstrong
#69. The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.
Ezra Pound
#71. The former measured six feet and an inch in his stockings, and, without a single pound of cumbrous flesh about him, weighed a hundred and eighty. The latter was an inch shorter than his rival, and ten pounds lighter; but he was much the most active of the two.
Augustus Baldwin Longstreet
#72. See, they return; ah, see the tentative Movements, and the slow feet, The trouble in the pace and the uncertain Wavering! See, they return, one, and by one, With fear, as half-awakened; As if the snow should hesitate And murmur in the wind, and half turn back;
Ezra Pound
#73. And if you ask how I regret that parting?
It is like the flowers falling at spring's end,
confused, whirled in a tangle.
What is the use of talking! And there is no end of talking
There is no end of things in the heart.
Ezra Pound
#74. Even our brains shrink: at the age of thirty, the brain is a three-pound organ that barely fits inside the skull; by our seventies, gray-matter loss leaves almost an inch of spare room.
Atul Gawande
#75. The ant's a centaur in his dragon world.
Ezra Pound
#76. Journalism consists in buying white paper at two cents a pound and selling it at ten cents a pound.
Charles A. Dana
#77. Words can do wonderful things. They pound, purr. They can urge, they can wheedle, whip, whine. They can sing, sass, singe. They can churn, check, channelize. They can be a "Hup two three four." They can forge a fiery army of a hundred languid men.
Gwendolyn Brooks
#78. If the facts are against you, argue the law. If the law is against you, argue the facts. If the law and the facts are against you, pound the table and yell like hell
Carl Sandburg
#79. All of us in Quebec - and I mean all of us - have allowed language to become a preoccupation that works to the disadvantage of all of us - and I mean all of us.
Richard Pound
#81. If put to the pinch, an ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness.
(Get Out or Get in Line, 1928)
Elbert Hubbard
#82. A general loathing of a gang or sect usually has some sound basis in instinct.
Ezra Pound
#83. Poetry must be as well written as prose.
Ezra Pound
#84. His hand found her chin, gently tipping her face up to look at him. "Kitty."
"What?" She finally looked at him, exposing a vulnerability in her eyes that made his heart pound behind his ribs.
"Dibs.
Sarah Robinson
#85. Consider the way of the scientists rather than the way of an advertising agent for a new soap.
Ezra Pound
#86. The serious artist must be as open as nature. Nature does not give all of herself in a paragraph. She is rugged and not set apart into discreet categories.
Ezra Pound
#87. 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
#88. But the last few years had taught me that one of my grandmother's favorite sayings was true. An ounce of prevention was worth a pound of cure.
Charlaine Harris
#89. With one day's reading a man may have the key in his hands.
Ezra Pound
#90. Travis was still asleep, surrounding me with both his arms and his legs. I maneuvered an arm free to reach over and pound the snooze button. Wiping my face, I looked over at him, sleeping soundly two inches from my face.
Jamie McGuire
#91. A pinch of praise is worth a pound of scorn. A dash of encouragement is more helpful than a dipper of pessimism. A cup of kindness is better than a cupboard of criticism.
William Arthur Ward
#92. I once saw a small child go to an electric light switch as say, "Mamma, can I open the light?" She was using the age-old language of exploration, the language of art. It was a sort of metaphor, but she was not using it as ornamentation.
Ezra Pound
#93. Haie! Haie! These were the swift to harry; These the keen-scented; These were the souls of blood. Slow on the leash, pallid the leash-men!
Ezra Pound
#94. Literature is news that stays news.
Ezra Pound
#95. This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.
Ezra Pound
#96. I used to sit on the couch, and I could go through a pound of Brie cheese and a movie. I was like, 'That's enough,' because it feels like a bowling ball in your stomach.
JWoww
#97. You have a body that's made to pound a woman into her bed. So, I'm really hoping you can live up to that.
Ella Frank
#98. If you want to ask about my drug problem, go ask my big, fat, smart, ten pound daughter, she'll answer any questions you have about it.
Courtney Love
#99. No ifs, no buts - we will not share the pound if Scotland separates from the U.K.
George Osborne
#100. I really enjoyed doing the voice of Nose Marie on the cartoon series Pound Puppies. Fun, FUN cast.
Ruth Buzzi
