Meter Quotes - Page 3

• 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 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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• 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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• 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 think that happens for a lot of people, they have this idea that there's only one type of way to write poetry and that you have to have this information. You have to know about meter, you have to know about form, you have to know about iambic pentameter, and all of that.

  Jacqueline Woodson

  Writing, Thinking, Ideas

  Source: therumpus.net

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• The most recent science including from Jim Hansen, the foremost climate scientist, suggests that we could see as much as, according to his study, meters' worth [of sea-level rise] - that is nine, 12, 15 and more - as soon as 50 years from his study.

  Jill Stein

  Years, Sea, Climate

  Source: www.justicenewsnetwork.com

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• One of my favorite places is the Maldives, an all-Muslim nation in the Indian Ocean with a culture that stretches back 5,000 years. But since the highest point in the archipelago is a meter or two above sea level, even the next hundred are not guaranteed. They've committed to becoming the first carbon-neutral nation on Earth by 2020, building windmills as fast as they can.

  Bill McKibben

  Ocean, Years, Sea

  Source: www.wolverinefarm.org

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• When you have solar panels, your electricity gets there for free, no one's figured out how to meter the sun yet. And that's good.

  Bill McKibben

  Sun, Electricity, Solar Panels

  Source: www.opendemocracy.net

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• Americans are not brought up with meter. They're not brought up with poetry. If you try to get them to recite, they're too embarrassed.

  Derek Walcott

  Trying, Embarrassed, Ifs

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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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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• using parking meters as walking sticks.

  Tom Waits

  Parking Meters, Walking Sticks, Sticks

  Song: Nighthawk Postcards From Easy Street

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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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• Don't follow leaders, watch your parkin' meters.

  Bob Dylan

  Leader, Watches, Politics

  Bob Dylan (2014). “The Lyrics: Since 1962”, p.172, Simon and Schuster

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• Your heart-as you call it-and hers are alike, after all: they are like mine, like everyone's. They resemble nothing so much as those meters you will find on gas-pipes: they only perk up and start pumping when you drop coins in.

  Sarah Waters

  Heart, Coins, Perks

  Sarah Waters (2002). “Fingersmith”, p.140, Penguin

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• It's now come out just before his record-breaking 100-meter dash, gold medalist Usain Bolt ate at McDonald's. Apparently he timed his meal so when the race started he would have exactly 9.63 seconds to get to a toilet.

  Conan O'Brien

  Funny, Race, Mcdonalds

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