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We did a gig at the Marquee and we were supposed to be paid five pounds but we never got it, and it cost us something like 10 pounds in petrol to get there to do it. So what we did was steal some equipment from The Marquee.

Quote by Andy Partridge

Meat is an inefficient way to eat. An acre of land can yield 20,000 pounds of potatoes, but that same acre would only graze enough cows to get 165 pounds of meat.

Quote by Alexandra Paul

I lost a lot of weight. I'm thin as it is, but I was...

I lost a lot of weight. I'm thin as it is, but I was probably 50 pounds lighter; and if you're that skinny, your head starts acting sort of funny.

Quote by Kevin Bacon about heads

Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen...

Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness.

Quote by Charles Dickens about happiness

I'd turned out to be a skinny little kid. I still only weighed about nine pounds when I was 15, so I didn't live up to my father's expectations. He felt embarrassed by it, so it embarrassed me too.

Quote by Peter Fonda

What makes all doctrines plain and clear? About two...

What makes all doctrines plain and clear? About two hundred pounds a year. And that which was proved true before, prove false again? Two hundred more.

Quote by Samuel Johnson

No scale to balance, what's in my heart. No numbers to measure, nor even to chart. This love can't be seen, in ounces or in pounds. For only through time, can it's value be found.

Quote by Robert M. Hensel about love, numbers, measure, value, heart, time

I adore art...when I am alone with my notes, my heart...

I adore art...when I am alone with my notes, my heart pounds and the tears stream from my eyes, and my emotion and my joys are too much to bear.

Quote by Giuseppe Verdi about music, emotions, tears, eyes, art, magic, heart

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