Meter Quotes - Page 2

• I love watching track and field - the 4x100 relay, the 100-(meter) dash, the 200-(meter) dash. To see what they're able to do, I love watching that.

  LeBron James

  Track, Able, Fields

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• Colors in painting are as allurements for persuading the eyes, as the sweetness of meter is in poetry.

  Nicolas Poussin

  Eye, Color, Painting

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• I wonder whether my bleak-o-meter is set differently from other people's. I have such passion for what I do that I can't see it as bleak. When people use that word, or “grim” or “gritty,” I just think, “Oh, come on, look a bit deeper.” My films don't give you an easy ride. I can see that. The sense I get is that people have quite a physical experience with them. They feel afterwards that they've really been through something.

  Andrea Arnold

  Passion, Thinking, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I think going into space would be like going deep into the ocean, like 5,000 meters down. When you go down that far, it's just awfully black. There's not much there except mud and some particles. I imagine space would be a similar thing. The only difference is you're hoping to bump into some sort of intelligent extraterritorial being.

  Ridley Scott

  Ocean, Intelligent, Thinking

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• The puzzle and conundrums of Emily Dickinson's poetry or The Cantos, by Ezra Pound, is infinitely pleasurable. Or Ronald Johnson's Ark. And the experience extends a whole lifetime. But the intensity of certain vocalized language affects our bodies in a particular way, and that further actualization propels me. The Greeks explored this; there were very particular meters used in making war, different ones for a love chant.

  Anne Waldman

  War, Greek, Ark

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• I have found a shaft, going 29 meters [95 feet, approximately] vertically down into the ground, exactly halfway between the Chefren Pyramid and the Sphinx. At the bottom, which was filled with water, we have found a burial chamber with four pillars. In the middle is a large granite sarcophagus which I expect to be the grave of Osiris, the god.

  Zahi Hawass

  Osiris, Pyramids, Feet

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• using parking meters as walking sticks.

  Tom Waits

  Parking Meters, Walking Sticks, Sticks

  Song: Nighthawk Postcards From Easy Street

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• I'm a poet who can whine in meter

  Sherman Alexie

  Poet

  Sherman Alexie (2013). “The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven”, p.24, Open Road Media

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• After perhaps thirty meters, just as a soldier turned around, the girl was felled. Hands were clamped upon her from behind and the boy next door brought her down. He forced her knees to the road and suffered the penalty. He collected her punches as if they were presents. Her bony hands and elbows were accepted with nothing but a few short moans. He accumulated the loud, clumsy specks of saliva and tears as if they were lovely to his face, and more important, he was able to hold her down.

  Markus Zusak

  Girl, Boys, Doors

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• You're so good looking I can barely keep my eyes on the meter.

  Woody Allen

  Eye, Looking Good, I Can

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• I think animation is like running a marathon, and making a movie is like a 100 meter sprint. The question is: are you a marathon man or are you a sprinter? I realized that I was more of a sprinter than a marathon man. With a long, long project, I get bored easily.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Running, Men, Thinking

  Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. August 9, 2012.

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• No one will ever win a 5,000-meter by running an easy two miles. Not against me.

  Steve Prefontaine

  Running, Winning, Two

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• 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

  Running, Good Day, Race

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• It wasn't until I was 14 and watched the 1976 Olympic games on television that I really started to dream about the big time. I remember seeing Evelyn Ashford in the 100 meters, and she was going to UCLA.

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee

  Dream, Ucla, Games

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• Thanks to a deal finalized in 2008, Chicago’s parking meters will be operated for the next 75 years by a group of investors put together by Morgan Stanley, including the sovereign wealth fund of Abu Dhabi.

  Thomas Frank

  Years, Parking Meters, Together

  "The Real Chicago Way" by Thomas Frank, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• Of course Evil's afoot. If it had switched to the metric system it'd be up to a meter by now.

  Jim Butcher

  Evil, Metrics, Metric System

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• My bullshit meter is reading that as 'false'.

  Charlaine Harris

  Truth, Reading, Bullshit

  Charlaine Harris (2009). “Sookie Stackhouse 8-copy Boxed Set”, p.1050, Penguin

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• I'm a girl; of course I have a built-in miss-o-meter.

  Alexandra Adornetto

  Girl, Missing, Courses

  Alexandra Adornetto (2011). “Halo: Number 1 in series”, p.223, Hachette UK

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• 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 away, arms wrapped around his knees. Close by him, a small shaggy horse cropped the grass growing at the edge of the drainage ditch that ran beside the road. "So it is," Halt replied. "And he seems to have brought Will with him.

  John Flanagan

  Horse, Growing, Arms

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• In your language you have a form of poetry called the sonnet…There are fourteen lines, I believe, all in iambic pentameter. That’s a very strict rhythm or meter…And each line has to end with a rigid pattern. And if the poet does not do it exactly this way, it is not a sonnet…But within this strict form the poet has complete freedom to say whatever he wants…You’re given the form, but you have to write the sonnet yourself. What you say is completely up to you.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Believe, Writing, Lines

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• 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 some drawing talent, you could tell, but Simon's sketches of people all looked like parking meters with tufts of hair.

  Cassandra Clare

  Wall, School, Hair

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.487, Simon and Schuster

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• 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 than five, blade a target dead through the sweet spot at six meters, on the run, on an off day; and yet knitting a pair of baby booties seemed completely beyond her power.

  Justin Cronin

  Running, Baby, Sweet

  Justin Cronin (2010). “The Passage: A Novel (Book One of The Passage Trilogy)”, p.436, Ballantine Books

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• 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," Bob said, "because it refuses to learn the metric system. Otherwise it'd be up to a meter by now.

  Jim Butcher

  Skulls, Evil, Boss

  Jim Butcher (2008). “White Night: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.117, Penguin

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• What is it about meter and cadence and rhythm that makes their makers mad?

  Susanna Kaysen

  Mad, Cadence, Makers

  Susanna Kaysen (2013). “Girl, Interrupted”, p.48, Vintage

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• I have to tell you man, that my stalker meter is kind of registering in the red zone right now.

  John Green

  Men, Red, Kind

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