The Aedes aegypti mosquito, which spreads dengue fever and yellow fever, has traditionally been unable to survive at altitudes higher than 1,000… — Ross Gelbspan Copy Share Image
The puzzle and conundrums of Emily Dickinson's poetry or The Cantos, by Ezra Pound, is infinitely pleasurable. Or Ronald Johnson's Ark. And… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
(On the 1,500 meters) We went pretty slowly. It was a nice final lap for everyone. I didn't really have that last… — Blake Williams Copy Share Image
A man goes through many changes in 2000 meters. Some are not very pretty. Some make you hate yourself. Some make you… — Brad Alan Lewis Copy Share Image
What Hamlet suffers from is a lack of zombies. Let us say Rosencrantz and Guildenstern show up—Ho-HO! Now you’ve got something that… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
Here I am in the garden laughing an old woman with heavy breasts and a nicely mapped face how did this happen… — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
[Rhyme is] but the invention of a barbarous age, to set off wretched matter and lame Meter; ... Not without cause therefore… — John Milton Copy Share Image
There is enough energy in a single cubic meter of space to boil all the oceans in the world. — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
My favorite piece of tech gear is my SRM power meter. It's the most accurate power meter on the market. — Timothy O'Donnell Copy Share Image
Flea and Anthony are into funk, like old school Meters and stuff like that. — Chad Smith Copy Share Image
We don't have a "consciousness meter" that'll tell us exactly how conscious something is. I think we might get there eventually. — Edward Boyden Copy Share Image
Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Distance is your friend in the world of biologically toxic transmitters.” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
I work best in rhyme and meter. I was most confident of myself in that way. — Thom Gunn Copy Share Image
When you have solar panels, your electricity gets there for free, no one's figured out how to meter the sun yet. And… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
Now, kids are bulls**t meters. We can smell bulls**t right away. When something's not real, you can't connect to it. — Becky G Copy Share Image
In a long meter hymn, a singer - they call it 'lays out a line.' And then the whole church joins in… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I have spent 11 horrific years in solitary confinement in a 6-square-meter dungeon three floors underground without sunlight or fresh air. But… — Samir Geagea Copy Share Image
Our EMF meter was jumping off the charts. We found her alarm clock was causing crazy electro-magnetic fields around it. We spent… — Jason Hawes Copy Share Image
If you've climbed the first 140 meters it doesn't mean that you've succeeded; you are going to succeed by climbing the last 10 meters. — Alain Robert Copy Share Image
The day you step on the floor the meter is ticking and time is of the essence. You can't really afford to… — Robert Schwentke Copy Share Image
Nanotechnology is the idea that we can create devices and machines all the way down to the nanometer scale, which is a… — Paul McEuen Copy Share Image
And if you are playing in several meters at once, there has to be a - not a rigid - but there… — Robert Fripp Copy Share Image
Some things you know all your life. They are so simple and true they must be said without elegance, meter and rhyme...they… — Philip Levine Copy Share Image
Isn't that someone we know?" asked Horace. He pointed to where a cloaked figure sat by the side of the road a… — John Flanagan Copy Share Image
You don't train for only the 100-meter dash and you don't practice only the excerpts. When I prepared for auditions, I spent… — Jim Rogers Copy Share Image
The fundamental reason why carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is critically important to biology is that there is so little of it.… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
We spent a long time learning the craft of songwriting, Roger Glover and I, for a few years before we joined Deep… — Ian Gillan Copy Share Image
At a time when you stay at the top, there is no explosion of happiness - happiness is experienced when everything remains… — Jerzy Kukuczka Copy Share Image
I wonder whether my bleak-o-meter is set differently from other people's. I have such passion for what I do that I can't… — Andrea Arnold Copy Share Image
I had crashes when I was small and Gumby-like that would have killed me now. I would just fly off jumps and… — Bode Miller Copy Share Image
Long before the idea of a writer's conference was a glimmer in anyone's eye, writers learned by reading the work of their… — Francine Prose Copy Share Image
I like making comics and animation because it takes such a long time. I'm not a runner of the 100 meter. I… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
The most challenging aspect of the decathlon is not the events themselves, but how you train to become the best 100-meter runner… — Bruce Jenner Copy Share Image
We can understand poetry from a billion - in a billion styles, experiment, tradition, combination, spice, meter, image. It's all there for… — Juan Felipe Herrera Copy Share Image
“Your heart—as you call it—and hers are alike, after all: they are like mine, like everyone's. They resemble nothing so much as… — Sarah Waters Copy Share Image
It's illegitimate to talk about a post-scarcity Utopia without talking about questions of distribution. There have always been these Utopian predictions -… — Mitch Kapor Copy Share Image
To achieve the very pinnacle of good taste, the neoclassicists wrote their plays entirely in alexandrine verse, a rarefied meter that is… — Florence King Copy Share Image
It wasn't until I was 14 and watched the 1976 Olympic games on television that I really started to dream about the… — Jackie Joyner-Kersee Copy Share Image