Meter Quotes
140 quotes by 128 authors
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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
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Please don't ask me to do that which I've just said I'm not going to do, because you're burning up time. The meter is running…
— George H. W. Bush
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(About events he will take part in) I vaulted today, and I'll throw the discus tomorrow around one o' clock. Then I'll race in the…
— Trey Hardee
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(On the 1,500 meters) We went pretty slowly. It was a nice final lap for everyone. I didn't really have that last gear, but I…
— Blake Williams
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(On winning the 800 meters in front of the home fans) I was really excited to come back here. Of course you are always a…
— Leonel Manzano
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Often I visualize a quicker, like almost a ghost runner, ahead of me with a quicker stride. It's really crazy. In races, this always happens…
— Gabe Jennings
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Blink and you miss a sprint. The 10,000 meters is lap after lap of waiting. Theatrically, the mile is just the right length: beginning, middle,…
— Sebastian Coe
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The fundamental reason why carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is critically important to biology is that there is so little of it. A field of…
— Freeman Dyson
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Our EMF meter was jumping off the charts. We found her alarm clock was causing crazy electro-magnetic fields around it. We spent $22.99 on a…
— Jason Hawes
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Nineteen hundred meters up there is completely different from1,900 any place else. There's no air, there's no oxygen. There's no vegetation, there's no life. There's…
— Lance Armstrong
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The most challenging aspect of the decathlon is not the events themselves, but how you train to become the best 100-meter runner you are on…
— Bruce Jenner
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I find the Doomsday picture Al Gore is painting - a six-meter sea level rise, fifteen times the IPCC number - entirely without merit...I protest…
— Hendrik Tennekes
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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
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It followed us during half of our orbit. We observed it on the light side, and when we entered the shadow side, it disappeared completely.…
— Viktor Mikhailovich Afanasyev
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When you win a race your on top that day, so take it for what its worth, have a good time and party, cause the…
— Bobby Allison
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I started running track when I was 13 years old, as a freshman in high school. I ran the 400 meters, which is a very…
— Norah O'Donnell
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I was born in the back seat of a Yellow Cab in a hospital loading zone and with the meter still running. I emerged needing…
— Tom Waits
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The ever-rising cost of living: Someday soon, the corporate technicians will be locking meters on our noses and charging us a royalty on the air…
— Edward Abbey
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Today's meters are little computers.
— Ros Hubbard
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[My choice about scripts] is just a question of what I fall in love with. You have to use some kind of instinct meter about…
— Mira Sorvino
Who Wrote These Meter Quotes
128 authors contributed a total of 140 Meter Quotes, led by these top contributors: