I don't even know how to use a parking meter, let alone a…

Another success is the post-office, with its educating energy augmented by cheapness and guarded by a certain religious sentimentin mankind; so that the power…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“…but Zoe, your bitch meter is hitting a twelve. I need you at a six, okay?”

— Sherry D. Ficklin

Voice-acting, on the fun meter, is off the scale. You show up, you don't have to be all primped up, or dressed up. And…

— Jason Marsden

I was born in the back seat of a Yellow Cab in a hospital loading zone and with the meter still running. I emerged…

— Tom Waits

You're so good looking I can barely keep my eyes on the meter.

— Woody Allen

Blink and you miss a sprint. The 10,000 meters is lap after lap of waiting. Theatrically, the mile is just the right length: beginning,…

— Sebastian Coe

The Meters are, I think, the most influential group in our time to come out of New Orleans, to have changed and introduced us…

— John Scofield

ever been kidnapped by a poet if i were a poet i'd kidnap you put you in my phrases and meter…

— Nikki Giovanni

We live in a predatory capitalist society in which everything is for sale. Everybody is for sale, so there is ubiquitous commodification - be…

— Cornel West

I love watching track and field - the 4x100 relay, the 100-(meter) dash, the 200-(meter) dash. To see what they're able to do, I…

— LeBron James

In the dance, one finds the cinema, the comic strips, the Olympic hundred meters and swimming, and what's more, poetry, love and tenderness.

— Maurice Bejart

I like to compare the two to a quarterback and a lineman. Being a brakeman is very physical and success is mostly determined by…

— Elana Meyers

(On winning the 800 meters in front of the home fans) I was really excited to come back here. Of course you are always…

— Leonel Manzano

I have always hated crowds. I like deserts, prisons, and monasteries. I have discovered, too, that there are fewer idiots at 3000 meters above…

— Jean Giono

As the great philosopher George Santayana would have said, 'those who cannot remember the past . . . should simply read Jan Van Meter's…

— Mo Rocca