When modernist poetry, or what not so long ago passed for modernist poetry, can reach the stage where the following piece by Mr. Ezra Pound is seriously offered as a poem, there is some justification for the plain reader and orthodox critic who shrinks from anything that may be labelled 'modernist' either in terms of condemnation or approbation. . . . Better he thinks, that ten authentic poets should be left for posterity to discover than one charlatan should be allowed to steal into the Temple of Fame.
Toward the end of my pregnancy, I felt really big - I gained about 40 pounds, which is a lot for my size.
In my life I've easily lost 500 pounds but for some reason they keep finding me.
I’m not much of a drinker, so I’m going to eat seven pounds of pork.
Juice fasting destroys your metabolic rate. I see a lot of women who are like, "Oh, I lost seven pounds and then I gained 10. " That's not what detoxification is about.
Don't say I want to lose 30 pounds in 30 days. Say, you know what I want to lose weight- say 30 pounds in three to six months for instance. But more importantly I want to knock out 20 pushups a day or I want to run a 3K a day and time myself, and try to beat my time every time every week.
I've never even been out of my BMI range. I'm 5-foot-3. If I gain five pounds, it shows.
One pound of uranium is worth about 3 million pounds worth of coal or oil.
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.
An ounce of doing things is worth a pound of theorizing.
My heart pounds sickeningly and I turn pale. . . I often feel as if I were dead. . . I seem to be losing my mind.
I lost about 60 pounds. I don't really have a moment specifically that made me do it. I remember little things, like, when I was in Japan, I remember looking around at the portion sizes of a fast food restaurant and being like, 'Well, this has something to do with it. ' Americans definitely eat too much.
My objective is to destroy anybody over 200 pounds, in the ring or out.
If you believe you can shed pounds quickly by force of will and deprivation, you will in all likelihood not only regain the ones you lost, but add a few more besides.
I'm scared to death of being poor. It's like a fat girl who loses 500 pounds but is always fat inside. I grew up poor and will always feel poor inside. It's my pet paranoia.
I was getting Monkees Monthly and there was a competition to draw a Monkee. I did a caricature of Micky Dolenz and won 10 pounds-a fantastic sum of money for me then. I bought a secondhand tape recorder, which further launched me. They've been very responsible for me getting started.
I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.
I could find David Beckham naked in a cardboard box on my doorstep and I would drop him off at the pound.
I really wanna lose three pounds.
In my early days, I was about 145 pounds. I was really a starving artist; the poster child for starving artists.