Meter Quotes

140 Meter quotes by 124 unique authors

My bullshit meter is reading that as 'false'. — Charlaine Harris
I have to tell you man, that my stalker meter is kind of registering in the red zone right now. — John Green
What is it about meter and cadence and rhythm that makes their makers mad? — Susanna Kaysen
There was a sound like a human yawn, and then the skull turned slightly toward me and asked, "What's up, boss?" "Evil's afoot." "Well, sure,"… — Jim Butcher
Here she was, a women who could bolt-load a crossbow in under a second, put half a dozen long arrows in the air in fewer… — Justin Cronin
The kitchen was bright, cheerful yellow, the walls decorated with framed chalk and pencil sketches Simon and Rebecca had done in grade school. Rebecca had… — Cassandra Clare
In your language you have a form of poetry called the sonnetâ€¦There are fourteen lines, I believe, all in iambic pentameter. Thatâ€™s a very strict… — Madeleine L'Engle
Isn't that someone we know?" asked Horace. He pointed to where a cloaked figure sat by the side of the road a few hundred meters… — John Flanagan
I'm a girl; of course I have a built-in miss-o-meter. — Alexandra Adornetto
using parking meters as walking sticks. — Tom Waits
Sookie, what have we done? And to whom?" "I killed a chicken. And I cooked it." "Sookie, Sookie. My bullshit meter is reading that as… — Charlaine Harris
Here I am in the garden laughing an old woman with heavy breasts and a nicely mapped face how did this happen well that's who… — Grace Paley
Produce your own dream. If you want to save Peru, go save Peru. Itâ€™s quite possible to do anything, but not if you put it… — John Lennon
To my embarrassment, I was crying again. Real girl tears for the second time, these ones born out of frustration. That didn't happen to me… — C.E. Murphy
Before I could do anything rash, a familiar voice behind me said, "Hello, Sadie." The other girls let out a collective gasp. My pulse quickened… — Rick Riordan
The small gargoyle had gone entirely white to match the ceiling, and only the rims of his ears, his long clawlike nails, and a thick… — Kim Harrison
Rincewind had always been happy to think of himself as a racist. The One Hundred Meters, the Mile, the Marathon -- he'd run them all. — Terry Pratchett
Poetry is not the proper antithesis to prose, but to science. Poetry is opposed to science, and prose to meter. The proper and immediate object… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
In the dance, one finds the cinema, the comic strips, the Olympic hundred meters and swimming, and what's more, poetry, love and tenderness. — Maurice Bejart
To achieve the very pinnacle of good taste, the neoclassicists wrote their plays entirely in alexandrine verse, a rarefied meter that is uniquely tailored to… — Florence King

Who Wrote These Meter Quotes

124 authors contributed a total of 140 Meter Quotes, led by these top contributors: