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
With photography, everything is in the eye and these days I feel young photographers are missing the point a bit. People always… — Alfred Eisenstaedt 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 judgment. — Adam Gilchrist 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
Poetry is not the proper antithesis to prose, but to science. Poetry is opposed to science, and prose to meter. The proper… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
The meter is ticking [particularly in the face of climate change], so you've got to get to as much as you can… — Robert Redford 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
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
“When I was researching the book Toxic Electricity, I would see biological reactions for up to a week afterwards. They are typically… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
'Perfection' to me is, I walk away from a situation and say, 'I did everything I could do right there. There was… — Drake 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
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
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
If all the stars and galaxies in the universe today were smoothed out into a uniform sea of atoms, there would only… — John D. Barrow Copy Share Image
Everything that Traffic ever did, I'd give Steve a complete lyric, titled, written out with the verse, the bridge, the shape and… — Jim Capaldi Copy Share Image
Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
I was always the fastest and strongest kid in my school so events like the 100 meter and discus throwing attracted me.… — Bo Jackson Copy Share Image
“Like all sentient beings, Fat Charlie had a weirdness quotient. For some days the needle had been over in the red, occasionally… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
In our Mechanics' Fair, there must be not only bridges, ploughs, carpenter's planes, and baking troughs, but also some few finer instruments,--rain-gauges,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
When I saw this Broken Kilometer, it reminded me of these 1,000 Buddhas. That piece is 1,000 one-meter gold rods, and this… — Hiroshi Sugimoto Copy Share Image
It takes a great deal of time and thought to install work carefully. This should not always be thrown away. Most art… — Donald Judd Copy Share Image
My first memory as a child growing up is of playing in the gardens, the mosque is really a gigantic garden, probably… — Rula Jebreal Copy Share Image
Some 3 million years ago, when the earth was a little more than 3°C warmer than preindustrial levels (about 2.2°C warmer than… — Joseph J. Romm Copy Share Image
