Meter Quotes - Page 8

• Americans respect talent only insofar as it leads to fame, and we reserve our most fervent admiration for famous people who destroy their lives as well as their talent. The fatal flaws of Elvis, Judy, and Marilyn register much higher on our national applause meter than their living achievements. In Amerca, talent is merely a tool for becoming famous in life so you can become more famous in death - where all are equal.

  Florence King

  People, Achievement, Becoming

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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

  Writing, Lines, Married

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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. It was an engineered structure, made from some type of metal, approximately 40 meters long with inner hulls. The object was narrow here and wider here, and inside there were openings. Some places had projections like small wings. The object stayed very close to us. We photographed it, and our photos showed it to be 23 to 28 meters away.

  Viktor Mikhailovich Afanasyev

  Light, Wings, Long

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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 tough race and a full sprint.

  Norah O'Donnell

  Running, School, Race

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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 a shave and shouted 'Time Square, and step on it!'

  Tom Waits

  Running, Squares, Yellow

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• If rowing is a trial then the ergometer is the courtroom, the meter is the jury. And an honest jury at that, because the numbers do not lie.

  Barry S. Strauss

  Lying, Numbers, Trials

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• Wealth brings with it its own checks and balances. The basis of political economy is noninterference. The only safe rule is found in the self-adjusting meter of demand and supply. Open the doors of opportunity to talent and virtue and they will do themselves justice, and property will not be in bad hands. In a free and just commonwealth, property rushes from the idle and imbecile to the industrious, brave and persevering.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Opportunity, Doors, Self

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• The rhythm persisted, the unfaltering common meter of blues, but the blueness itself, the sorrow, the despair, began to give way to hope.

  Rudolph Fisher

  Giving, Sorrow, Despair

  Rudolph Fisher (1990). “The City of Refuge: The Collected Stories of Rudolph Fisher”, p.156, University of Missouri Press

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• I am a helicopter pilot. Something that gives me pleasure sometimes is taking my helicopter to go high, 2000 meter, 6000 feet, to go there and feel like a bird. In this moment I feel free.

  Roberto Cavalli

  Feet, Giving, Bird

  The CNN Interview, edition.cnn.com. May 3, 2008.

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• I know you are reporters and I know this is your job, but, you know, take your note pads, take your pencils down, take your grunt-o-meters down, the fashion police, put everything away and just watch the match, you know, from just the fans' perspective. I seriously think that the quality of the match today was great.

  Maria Sharapova

  Fashion, Jobs, Thinking

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• With photography, everything is in the eye and these days I feel young photographers are missing the point a bit. People always ask about cameras but it doesn't matter what camera you have. You can have the most modern camera in the world but if you don't have an eye, the camera is worthless. Young people know more about modern cameras and lighting than I do. When I started out in photography I didn't own an exposure meter - I couldn't , they didn't exist! I had to guess.

  Alfred Eisenstaedt

  Photography, Eye, People

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• I am always surprised when I see several cameras, a gaggle on lenses, filters, meters, et cetera, rattling around in a soft bag with a complement of refuse and dust. Sometimes the professional is the worst offender!

  Ansel Adams

  Photography, Dust, Cameras

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• 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 today), Antarctica had far less ice and sea levels were a stunning 25 meters higher than today. If we stay on our current emissions path, the planet will almost certainly be that warm by the century's end.

  Joseph J. Romm

  Years, Ice, Sea

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• If Americans in 2100 came to see 12 meters sea-level rise as inevitable by 2200, who can even begin to fathom how the nation would respond?

  Joseph J. Romm

  Sea, Climate, Levels

  Joseph J. Romm (2007). “Hell and high water: global warming - the solution and the politics - and what we should do”, William Morrow & Co

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• Today's meters are little computers.

  Ros Hubbard

  Technology, Littles, Today

  "Watch The Parking Meters". www.wired.com. September 4, 2005.

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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 it. I think I'm getting closer to my instincts now. I don't think there needs to be a plan. I think there needs to be love. I think you need to love what you're doing and then the rest is anybody's guess.

  Mira Sorvino

  Falling In Love, Love You, Thinking

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• The landscape changes, so enjoy it: of course, you have to have an objective in mind - to reach the top. But as you are going up, more things can be seen, and it's no bother to stop now and again and enjoy the panorama around you. At every meter conquered, you can see a little further, so use this to discover things that you still had not noticed.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Inspiration, Mind

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• I can see well enough on the 28-meter basketball court.

  Yao Ming

  Basketball, Enough, Court

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• I want to prove that if you write in strict meter and rhyme about subjects people care about, they will buy poetry.

  Felix Dennis

  Writing, People, Care

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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, end, a story unfolding.

  Sebastian Coe

  Running, Waiting, Missing

  "An Exclusive Club". Interview with Gary Smith, www.si.com. June 27, 1994.

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• A meter of green is greener than a centimeter.

  Paul Gauguin

  Green, Greener

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• I don’t use an exposure meter. My personal advice is: Spend the money you would put into such an instrument for film. Buy yards of film, miles of it. Buy all the film you can get your hands on. And then experiment with it.That is the only way to be successful in photography. Test, try, experiment, feel your way along. It is the experience, not technique, which counts in camera work first of all. If you get the feel of photography, you can take fifteen pictures while one of your opponents is trying out his exposure meter.

  Alfred Eisenstaedt

  Photography, Successful, Hands

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• A man goes through many changes in 2000 meters. Some are not very pretty. Some make you hate yourself. Some make you wonder if you've been rowing for only three or four days. To avoid that fate, we prepared for all possibilities. If a meteor landed 10 feet off our stern, we would not blink. [We] Would be aware, yet impassive, to the outside world. Every ounce of energy would be funneled into the water, and not wasted by looking around, worrying about opponents, wondering about things that didn't concern our primary goal-to be the first across the finish line.

  Brad Alan Lewis

  Hate, Fate, Men

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• Fair are the flowers and the children, but their subtle suggestion is fairer;
  Rarer is the roseburst of dawn, but the secret that clasps it rarer;
  Sweet the exultance of song, but the strain that precedes it is sweeter
  And never was poem yet writ, but the meaning outmastered the meter.

  Richard Realf

  Beauty, Song, Sweet

  Richard Realf, Richard Josiah Hinton (1893). “Poems”

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• Usain Bolt won the gold for the men's 100- and 200-meter dashes for the second Olympics in a row. You know, he has been running since he was in elementary school - kind of like Mitt Romney.

  Jay Leno

  Funny, Running, School

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