If he's having a good day and running the right race, nobody can beat Frank Shorter at 10,000 meters... nobody except me. — Steve Prefontaine Copy Share Image
I used to obsess on critical reactions to my films, and it's really not a healthy way to live your life, so… — Jonathan Levine Copy Share Image
Usain Bolt won the gold for the men's 100- and 200-meter dashes for the second Olympics in a row. You know, he… — Jay Leno 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
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
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
“Distance is your friend in the world of biologically toxic transmitters.” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
This church was open and seemingly unattended, and it was a throwback in another way as well. The candles in the little… — Lawrence Block 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
Rap isn't poetry, not least because it involves music and often other elements that aren't words. But the way poets in English… — Andrew Hoberek Copy Share Image
Paralysis, anxiety stomachs, arthritis and many ills and aberrations have been relieved by auditing them. An E-Meter shows them up and makes… — Lawrence Wright Copy Share Image
If Americans in 2100 came to see 12 meters sea-level rise as inevitable by 2200, who can even begin to fathom how… — Joseph J. Romm Copy Share Image
So we might say that the most important thing one can acquire in college is a well-functioning bullshit meter. — Andrew Delbanco 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
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
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
The small gargoyle had gone entirely white to match the ceiling, and only the rims of his ears, his long clawlike nails,… — Kim Harrison Copy Share Image
When I climb a fourteener, a 14,000-foot/4,260-meter peak, in the winter by myself, I leave an itinerary and information about where my… — Aron Ralston Copy Share Image
Ben Franklin may have discovered electricity- but it is the man who invented the meter who made the money. — Earl Warren 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
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
Flea and Anthony are into funk, like old school Meters and stuff like that. — Chad Smith Copy Share Image
Let's talk... we have indications, let me just finish this point, because how can use WMD while your troops are only 100… — Bashar al-Assad Copy Share Image
I think going into space would be like going deep into the ocean, like 5,000 meters down. When you go down that… — Ridley Scott Copy Share Image
