
“Leaving America is like losing twenty pounds and finding a new girlfriend.”
Source: The Broadside Tapes 1 (made in the 1960s; published c. 1980), Liner notes
The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover
“Leaving America is like losing twenty pounds and finding a new girlfriend.”
Source: The Broadside Tapes 1 (made in the 1960s; published c. 1980), Liner notes
Similar remarks are also attributed to Winston Churchill, Groucho Marx and to Mark Twain
Disputed
Hemsworth on discussing most difficult part of preparing for role for The Hunger Games. — [Hemsworth craved meaty part, Boston Herald, Stephen Schaefer, March 20, 2012, 28, 29; volume 30, issue80]
“…the 10,000-pound gorilla that has been kept secret for about 50 or 60 years.”
Greer's description of UFOs during an interview.
Undated
Source: [Mcdonald, Bill, A 10,000-pound gorilla offers a mental workout, The Portland Tribune, May 3, 2002, http://www.portlandtribune.com/opinion/story.php?story_id=11204, 2007-05-05]
30,000 Pounds of Bananas
Song lyrics, Verities & Balderdash (1974)
“Then I lost it. Kinda lost it all, you know. Faith, dignity, about fifteen pounds.”
High Fidelity (1995)
Verse Chronicle, article, The Criterion, 1932
Other Quotes
“I have learned more from Ezra Pound about writing than from anyone else.”
Review of Letters of Ezra Pound 1950
Prose
Historian Eric Jorgensen stateshttp://coxscorner.tripod.com/greb.html