The IIc was Apple's first crack at a 'portable' computer, which it sort of was if you didn't mind a 7.5 pound weight, plus monitor, external floppy drive, and all the cables.

- Andrew Rosenthal

When a person is down in the world, an ounce of help is better than a pound of preaching.

- Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Pound's crazy. All poets are. They have to be. You don't put a poet like Pound in the loony bin.

- Ernest Hemingway

John Cleese once told me he'd do anything for money. So I offered him a pound to shut up, and he took it.

- Eric Idle

I don't weigh a pound over one hundred and eighty and, what's more, I never did.

- Fatty Arbuckle

No ifs, no buts - we will not share the pound if Scotland separates from the U.K.

- George Osborne

There've been times when I've bought a whole pound of cheese and walked down the street and eaten it in one go.

- Helena Christensen

When I gain a pound it's in the headlines.

- Kim Kardashian

A handicap is like trying to race and you have a ten pound weight stuck to your waist. That is a handicap.

- Malcolm Gladwell

An ounce of hypocracy is worth a pound of ambition.

- Michael Korda

I never had to pound the pavement and really struggle after college.

- Moira Kelly

I once ate nothing but grapefruit for an entire month. I didn't lose a pound.

- Ruth Reichl