In my experience, if you go to a hospital for any reason whatsoever, including to read the gas meter, they give you… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
No one will ever win a 5,000-meter by running an easy two miles. Not against me. — Steve Prefontaine Copy Share Image
“The 'Smart' radio frequency (RF) utility meter program is a known biologically harmful system that has been implemented by evil people.” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
ever been kidnapped by a poet if i were a poet i'd kidnap you put you in my phrases and meter… — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
“I will use science to shut down the Thirty Meter Telescope on Mauna Kea.” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
I have to tell you man, that my stalker meter is kind of registering in the red zone right now. — John Green Copy Share Image
Americans are not brought up with meter. They're not brought up with poetry. If you try to get them to recite, they're… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
Another drunk goes up to a parking meter, puts in a quarter, the dial goes to 60. The drunk says, "Huh. I… — Henny Youngman Copy Share Image
A lot of the music that you listen to now is because of the things that the Meters did, the Neville Brothers… — Harry Connick, Jr Copy Share Image
When Black Flag and DOA and all those bands were touring in the early 80s, it was kind of a forest and… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
When I walk with a camera, I walk from shot to shot, reading the light on a calibrated meter. When I walk… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
I have to move on now as there is no point to dwell on the past. I have a few days to… — Usain Bolt Copy Share Image
Music and text have several commonalities, and one is meter and rhythm. Both spoken word and music have certain regularities, and they… — Jeff Britting Copy Share Image
We live in a predatory capitalist society in which everything is for sale. Everybody is for sale, so there is ubiquitous commodification… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
The kitchen was bright, cheerful yellow, the walls decorated with framed chalk and pencil sketches Simon and Rebecca had done in grade… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Norm MacDonald is here - one of the funniest people ever. Norm's got a giant gambling problem. He's dropped more coin in… — Greg Giraldo Copy Share Image
(On winning the 800 meters in front of the home fans) I was really excited to come back here. Of course you… — Leonel Manzano Copy Share Image
After perhaps thirty meters, just as a soldier turned around, the girl was felled. Hands were clamped upon her from behind and… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
The last great unknown, in terms of physiological training, is the optimum length of a piece. Is three minutes enough? Is ten… — Brad Alan Lewis Copy Share Image
I refuse to be released on the basis of a 'condition for negotiations' and I will not accept the price for my… — Ahmad Sa'adat Copy Share Image
By far the most important consequence of the conceptual revolution brought about in physics by relativity and quantum theory lies not in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
From authors whom I read more than once I learn to value the weight of words and to delight in their meter… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
The gross profits in many workouts appear quite small. It's a little like looking for parking meters with some time left on… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I know you are reporters and I know this is your job, but, you know, take your note pads, take your pencils… — Maria Sharapova Copy Share Image
Colors in painting are as allurements for persuading the eyes, as the sweetness of meter is in poetry. — Nicolas Poussin Copy Share Image
Of course Evil's afoot. If it had switched to the metric system it'd be up to a meter by now. — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
The rhythm persisted, the unfaltering common meter of blues, but the blueness itself, the sorrow, the despair, began to give way to… — Rudolph Fisher Copy Share Image
“Every poet has his dream reader: mine keeps a look out for curious prosodic fauna like bacchics and choriambs.” — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
“It may be possible that Leukemia in children is linked to the location of the fuse board and the electrical meter on… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
Rincewind had always been happy to think of himself as a racist. The One Hundred Meters, the Mile, the Marathon -- he'd… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
It is difficult batting in artificial light with a red ball but it's a horrible task for umpires to make a judgement,… — Adam Gilchrist Copy Share Image
The stock market has always had its own meter. Sometimes it's ahead of itself, sometimes it's behind itself. A broken watch is… — Steve Ballmer Copy Share Image
Sookie, what have we done? And to whom?" "I killed a chicken. And I cooked it." "Sookie, Sookie. My bullshit meter is… — Charlaine Harris Copy Share Image
Blink and you miss a sprint. The 10,000 meters is lap after lap of waiting. Theatrically, the mile is just the right… — Sebastian Coe Copy Share Image
If the wind is blowing like stink and everything is working right, a twelve-meter sailboat can go eleven and a half or… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
The robotic fly that we actually make the most use of in our laboratory is actually not a small thing, it's a… — Michael Dickinson Copy Share Image
The first line is the DNA of the poem; the rest of the poem is constructed out of that first line. A… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
I am a helicopter pilot. Something that gives me pleasure sometimes is taking my helicopter to go high, 2000 meter, 6000 feet,… — Roberto Cavalli Copy Share Image
Life is tons of discipline. Your first discipline is your vocabulary; then your grammar and your punctuation Then, in your exuberance and… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
“I find it very concerning that a utility company that has an established history of harassing me has my family under surveillance… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
