Poetry is engendered in solitude, so what better meter for it than the clip of a buckskin horse? — Edward Hoagland 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
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
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
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
It is not too much to expect that our children will enjoy in their homes electrical energy too cheap to meter — Lewis Strauss 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
I have always hated crowds. I like deserts, prisons, and monasteries. I have discovered, too, that there are fewer idiots at 3000… — Jean Giono Copy Share Image
When you put a movie together, you're continually screening it for yourself and you're screening it for other people. It's like a… — David Ayer Copy Share Image
(About events he will take part in) I vaulted today, and I'll throw the discus tomorrow around one o' clock. Then I'll… — Trey Hardee Copy Share Image
I have a secret goal with my editor - he has asthma and uses his inhaler, and after I send him a… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I think as a rifle platoon and company commander your view is about 1,000 meters in front of you and you hope… — Oliver North 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
Denial exists because human infants, though equipped with trust-o-meters, are built to trust, blindly and absolutely, any older person who wanders past. — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
“Words, Natasha thinks, should behave more like units of measure. A meter is a meter is a meter. Words shouldn't be allowed… — Nicola Yoon 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
The commonest error made in relation to poetry is that it consists simply in verse-making. Many confound the casket of meter and… — Orson F. Whitney Copy Share Image
“I'd like to be a light meter." "A what?" "A light meter. Like a photographer uses. Tinks had one this morning." Aidan… — Amber Dermont Copy Share Image
Fair are the flowers and the children, but their subtle suggestion is fairer; Rarer is the roseburst of dawn, but the secret… — Richard Realf Copy Share Image
If you had to call it "unison", it ain't unison. It ain't the same as somebody else. If you can hear that… — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
The word "Verse" is used here as the term most convenient for expressing, and without pedantry, all that is involved in the… — Edgar Allan Poe 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
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
What is it about meter and cadence and rhythm that makes their makers mad? — Susanna Kaysen 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
I get joy, and actually, a high... by putting a quarter in a meter. — Kristin Chenoweth Copy Share Image
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
Yo me volvi a meter entre tus brazos Y me querias decir no se que cosa. — Lupillo Rivera Copy Share Image
Don't be married to a line or verse if it can't rhyme, fit the meter, or doesn't fit the outline. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
