Meter Quotes

• Rhyme and meter force gaps in meaning so the muse can enter.

  Mason Cooley

  Poetry, Gaps, Muse

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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 through the sand on you, and I am now filibustering.

  George H. W. Bush

  Running, Romance, Political

  "Like Father, Like Son" by Brooke Shelby Biggs, www.motherjones.com. June 1, 2001.

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• A hospital bed is a parked taxi with the meter running.

  Groucho Marx

  Funny, Running, Witty

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• Everything that Traffic ever did, I'd give Steve a complete lyric, titled, written out with the verse, the bridge, the shape and rhyme and then Steve had to figure out how the meter of the words would fit musically.

  Jim Capaldi

  Bridges, Giving, Shapes

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• Let me state what the official IPCC prediction is: Sea levels could go up as much as three-quarters of a meter in this century, but there is a reasonable probability it could be much higher than that.

  Steven Chu

  Sea, Three, Levels

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• Ben Franklin may have discovered electricity- but it is the man who invented the meter who made the money.

  Earl Warren

  Money, Men, May

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• I keep a guitar around while writing and will improvise music. I do this for several reasons, such as that it's fun, and sometimes it helps me with the meter.

  Jack Prelutsky

  Fun, Writing, Guitar

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• I work best in rhyme and meter. I was most confident of myself in that way.

  Thom Gunn

  Rhyming, Way, Rhyme

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• Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.

  Victor Hugo

  Queens, Charm, Rhyme

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• I don't even know how to use a parking meter, let alone a phone box.

  Princess Diana

  Phones, Parking Meters, Use

  The Times, August 22, 1994.

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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 we breathe.

  Edward Abbey

  Cost Of Living, Air, Rising

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.51, RosettaBooks

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• The word "Verse" is used here as the term most convenient for expressing, and without pedantry, all that is involved in the consideration of rhythm, rhyme, meter, and versification... the subject is exceedingly simple; one tenth of it, possibly may be called ethical; nine tenths, however, appertains to the mathematics.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Simple, Poetry, May

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• When I was young, I was too slow. I thought I must learn to run fast by practicing to run fast, so I ran 100 meters fast 20 times. Then I came back, slow,slow,slow. People said, 'Emil, you are crazy. You are training like a sprinter.'

  Emil Zatopek

  Running, Crazy, People

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• Life is tons of discipline. Your first discipline is your vocabulary; then your grammar and your punctuation Then, in your exuberance and bounding energy you say you're going to add to that. Then you add rhyme and meter. And your delight is in that power.

  Robert Frost

  Vocabulary, Discipline, Delight

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• Ever been kidnapped by a poet if i were a poet i'd kidnap you put you in my phrases and meter.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Poetry, Phrases, Kidnapped

  Nikki Giovanni (2009). “Love Poems”, p.19, Harper Collins

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• Flea and Anthony are into funk, like old school Meters and stuff like that.

  Chad Smith

  School, Stuff, Fleas

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• And if you are playing in several meters at once, there has to be a - not a rigid - but there definitely has to be a reference to a common pulse in the band.

  Robert Fripp

  Pulse, Band, Common

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• I think as a rifle platoon and company commander your view is about 1,000 meters in front of you and you hope you can cover that ground and not have to back up and give it up again.

  Oliver North

  Thinking, Views, Giving

  "Oliver North Discusses His Book, ‘War Stories II: Heroism in the Pacific’". Interview with Renee Giachino, www.cfif.org. March 09, 2005.

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• People always underestimate the impact of technology. To give you an example: In the 1970s the frontier for offshore development was 200 meters, today it is 4,000 meters.

  Daniel Yergin

  Technology, Impact, People

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• I'm in my 60s now, and just running almost 50 meters with explosives going on, it was kind of like, "Oh, my god! What am I doing here?"

  Antonio Banderas

  Running, Kind, Explosives

  "Antonio Banderas Talks THE EXPENDABLES 3, the Changes He Made to His Character, PUSS IN BOOTS 2, Working with Terrence Malick, and More". Interview with Steve Weintraub, collider.com. May 7, 2014.

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• Life is like riding in a taxi. Whether you are going anywhere or not, the meter keeps ticking.

  John C. Maxwell

  Life Is Like, Riding, Taxi

  John C. Maxwell (2014). “Success: One Day at a Time”, p.102, Thomas Nelson Inc

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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 next day when you get out of bed, the meter goes back to zero again.

  Bobby Allison

  Zero, Party, Winning

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• 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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• 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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