You mix two jiggers of Scotch to one jigger of Metrecal. So far I've lost five pounds and my driver's license.
I never felt big enough playing Thor. And then people talk about you like you're 9-foot tall and 800 pounds. I'm well aware of the illusion. There's not a second where I go: Yeah, I'm a god.
Consider the biggest animals on the planet: elephants, and buffaloes, and giraffes. These are vegetarian animals. They grow to thousands of pounds of muscle and bone without ever eating cheeseburgers and pepperoni pizzas.
Most people I know feel that life would be complete if they could just lose ten pounds.
I have earned hundreds of thousands of pounds, but I can't seem to get to grips with money.
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.
They wanted to come in after the pounds", explained Pooh, "so I let them. It's the best way to write poetry, letting things come.
TV cameras seem to add ten pounds to me. So I make it a policy never to eat TV cameras.
Better say nothing at all. Language is worth a thousand pounds a word!
I've never experienced chronic poverty, but I know what it's like to live on £3 a week.
If put to the pinch, an ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness.
When you gain weight, for every pound that you gain, it adds four pounds of stress on your knees. So if you gain five pounds, you've got 20 pounds of stress on your knees. So that's why I'm extremely careful with my portions and my workout, because I can't be overweight.
Better see rightly on a pound a week than squint on a million.
Going from 300 pounds to 150 pounds was the biggest change of my whole life.
Every pound of muscle burns approximately 50 calories every day, just doing nothing.
. . . A one-pound box of prewashed lettuce contains 80 calories of food energy. According to Cornell ecologist David Pimentel, growing, chilling, washing, packaging, and transporting that box of organic salad to a plate on the East Coast takes more than 4,600 calories of fossil fuel energy, or 57 calories of fossil fuel for every calorie of food.
On the strength of his literary output alone. . . any woman of sense would decline to tackle D. H. Lawrence at 1,000 pounds a night.
People who will not turn a shovel full of dirt on the project (Muscle Shoals Dam) nor contribute a pound of material, will collect more money from the United States than will the People who supply all the material and do all the work. This is the terrible thing about interest.
Of course, it is boring to read about boring thing, but it is better to read something that makes you yawn with boredom than something that will make you weep uncontrollably, pound your fists against the floor, and leave tearstains all over your pillowcase, sheets, and boomerang collection.
You're not challenging anyone else but yourself. I'd like to have a 300-pound bench, 500-pound deadlift, and a 400-pound squat.