I bought a five-pound sack of sugar. Now I just need to buy a cup of coffee to dump it in.
This book is dedicated, with love, to Bobby, who has found the only pound of pure- Faith in a Loving God.
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.
One hazard of our job on TV is people are always checking us out and noting every pound we've gained or haven't quite lost.
There is a time in a boy’s life when the sweetness is pounded out of him; and tenderness, and the ability to show what he feels, is gone.
A charity donkey is where you sponsor a donkey in a sanctuary and give them three pounds a month to have some donkey nuts or something.
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.
I believe that behind both the person who weighs 400 pounds and the one who weighs 85 there is a lot of baggage, and it has nothing to do with their bodies.
I did not grow up with people, you know, pounding in my head, 'This is what you've got to do, this is what you're going to do.'
A handicap is like trying to race and you have a ten pound weight stuck to your waist. That is a handicap.
When I grew up in France, I was a normal size. And then I came to the United States and I gained 20 pounds.
My heart pounds sickeningly and I turn pale... I often feel as if I were dead... I seem to be losing my mind.
I'm like the universe; either expanding or contracting at any given moment. The most that I had put on was about 35, 36 pounds, and I've taken all of that off.
When I was 14 I would pick up my brother's bass guitar, and I would just pound on it, having no idea how to play it.
What I learned, a little too late, was that the 'traditional' Martin Short target viewer weighs under 300 pounds. Unfortunately, I was on during daytime.
When I start to get that few pounds, which I try to monitor, then I just pull back. So it's really just being conscious.
I hired a personal trainer to help me lose 25 pounds and get from obese to fat. My next step will be to get from fat to chubby.
There are many tough sides to being a jockey. Injury is something we all dread, but spending lengthy periods in the bath or the sauna just to shed a few pounds can be an exhausting and draining experience.
I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.
In Paris they have special wheelchairs that go through every doorway. They don't change the doorways, they change the wheelchairs. To hell with the people! If someone weighs a couple more pounds, that's it!
To be able to have winning in your blood growing up, whether it was pounding my little brother or trying to beat my dad in something, or just competing on teams with my friends, it was nonstop.
