Meter Quotes - Page 7

• The Europeans look down on raising your hands. They don't like the end-zone dance. I think that's unfortunate. That feeling - the finish line, the last couple of meters - is what motivates me.

  Lance Armstrong

  Couple, Thinking, Cycling

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• Paralysis, anxiety stomachs, arthritis and many ills and aberrations have been relieved by auditing them. An E-Meter shows them up and makes them confess their misdeeds. They are probably just compartments of the mind which, cut off, begin to act as though they were persons.

  Lawrence Wright

  Cutting, Anxiety, Mind

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• The first line is the DNA of the poem; the rest of the poem is constructed out of that first line. A lot of it has to do with tone because tone is the key signature for the poem. The basis of trust for a reader used to be meter and end-rhyme.

  Billy Collins

  Keys, Dna, Signatures

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• The Meters are, I think, the most influential group in our time to come out of New Orleans, to have changed and introduced us all to a way of playing, and to a groove and a level of feel in playing funk-jazz.

  John Scofield

  Thinking, New Orleans, Levels

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• We are already engaged in World War III. It is a war against nature, and it is simply no contest. As a result, the threat from the skies is no longer missiles but ozone-layer depletion and global warming. Leaders who assert they will not concede one square meter of national territory to an invader should think of the hundreds of square kilometers of topsoil eroded from their countries each year.

  Norman Myers

  Country, War, Thinking

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• You want to know my definition of gun control? Being able to stand there at 25 meters and put two rounds in the same hole. That's gun control.

  Jesse Ventura

  Gun, Two, Definitions

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• It is difficult batting in artificial light with a red ball but it's a horrible task for umpires to make a judgment.

  Adam Gilchrist

  Light, Umpires, Judgement

  "Gilchrist almighty". www.theguardian.com. March 28, 2005.

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• Rhymes, meters, stanza forms, etc., are like servants. If the master is fair enough to win their affection and firm enough to command their respect, the result is an orderly happy household. If he is too tyrannical, they give notice; if he lacks authority, they become slovenly, impertinent, drunk and dishonest.

  W. H. Auden

  Art, Winning, Drunk

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• Major power and telephone grids have long been controlled by computer networks, but now similar systems are embedded in such mundane objects as electric meters, alarm clocks, home refrigerators and thermostats, video cameras, bathroom scales, and Christmas-tree lights - all of which are, or soon will be, accessible remotely.

  Charles C. Mann

  Home, Light, Long

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• When I climb a fourteener, a 14,000-foot/4,260-meter peak, in the winter by myself, I leave an itinerary and information about where my vehicle will be parked and the name of the county sheriff to contact in case I don't get home.

  Aron Ralston

  Home, Winter, Feet

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• Actually, I always dreamed about getting a gold medal in the 100-meter freestyle in Olympic swimming. I always thought that would be the epic award in sports to get.

  Chris Klein

  Sports, Swimming, Epic

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• We can understand poetry from a billion - in a billion styles, experiment, tradition, combination, spice, meter, image. It's all there for the poet and for the listener and for all of us.

  Juan Felipe Herrera

  Style, Spices, Tradition

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• In my experience, if you go to a hospital for any reason whatsoever, including to read the gas meter, they give you a tetanus shot.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Humorous, Doctors

  Dave Barry (2009). “Dave Barry Is from Mars and Venus”, p.25, Ballantine Books

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• What I worry about is working in this serial medium, where people are talking about your stories before they're done, we have this instant feedback loop now. I'm very active on Tumblr and I have a very active engagement with readers and I love it, but I don't want to start writing to try to please someone else. I don't want my meter to get skewed.

  Kelly Sue DeConnick

  Writing, Talking, People

  Interview with Christopher Zumski Finke, thestake.org. January 30, 2014.

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• I find it terrible when talents are rejected based on computer stats. Based on the criteria at Ajax now I would have been rejected. When I was 15, I couldn't kick a ball 15 meters with my left and maybe 20 with my right. My qualities technique and vision, are not detectable by a computer.

  Johan Cruijff

  Change, Football, Ajax

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• By denying people's sense of visual beauty in painting and sculpture , melody in music , meter and rhyme in poetry , plot and narrative and character in fiction , the elite arts wrote off the vast majority of their audience . They purposely excluded people who approach art in part for pleasure and edification in favour of social one-upmanship and an ever-narrowing, in-crowd elite.

  Steven Pinker

  Art, Character, People

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• Who thinks seriously that if we sit on another hilltop, on another hundred meters, that this is what will make the difference for the state of Israel's basic security?

  Ehud Olmert

  Thinking, Israel, Differences

  "Olmert Says Israel Should Pull Out of West Bank" by Laura Rozen, www.motherjones.com. September 29, 2008.

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• The fall of a given weight from a height of around 365 meters corresponds to the heating of an equal weight of water from 0° to 1°.

  Robert Mayer

  Fall, Science, Water

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• If all the stars and galaxies in the universe today were smoothed out into a uniform sea of atoms, there would only be about one atom in every cubic meter of space.

  John D. Barrow

  Stars, Space, Sea

  John D Barrow (2014). “The Origin Of The Universe: Science Masters Series”, p.33, Basic Books

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• So we might say that the most important thing one can acquire in college is a well-functioning bullshit meter.

  Andrew Delbanco

  College, Bullshit, Important

  Andrew Delbanco (2014). “College: What It Was, Is, and Should Be”, p.29, Princeton University Press

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• Speak in your authentic voice because people have a BS Meter

  Michael Hyatt

  Voice, People, Social Media

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• When I walk with a camera, I walk from shot to shot, reading the light on a calibrated meter. When I walk without a camera, my own shutter opens, and the moment's light prints on my own silver gut. When I see this second way I am above all an unscrupulous observer.

  Annie Dillard

  Reading, Light, Sight

  Annie Dillard (2016). “The Abundance”, p.120, Canongate Books

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• When you put a movie together, you're continually screening it for yourself and you're screening it for other people. It's like a video game power meter. When the power bar starts going down, you've gotta look at what's going on.

  David Ayer

  Games, People, Together

  Source: collider.com

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• I find the Doomsday picture Al Gore is painting - a six-meter sea level rise, fifteen times the IPCC number - entirely without merit...I protest vigorously the idea that the climate reacts like a home heating system to a changed setting of the thermostat: just turn the dial, and the desired temperature will soon be reached.

  Hendrik Tennekes

  Home, Numbers, Sea

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• Out of the tens of thousands of prosthetic legs they've made, there's never been any 400-meter athletes run under 50 seconds. So, if this was such a technologically advanced prosthetic leg, then how come not everyone's qualifying, or coming close to the qualification time, then?

  Oscar Pistorius

  Running, Athlete, Legs

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