Meter Quotes - Page 7

• We don't have a "consciousness meter" that'll tell us exactly how conscious something is. I think we might get there eventually.

  Edward Boyden

  Thinking, Might, Consciousness

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Walk ten meters, you will find the lust; walk thousand miles, you may find the love! Soil is everywhere; but gold is somewhere!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Love, Lust, Gold

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• Another drunk goes up to a parking meter, puts in a quarter, the dial goes to 60. The drunk says, "Huh. I lost 100 pounds!"

  Henny Youngman

  Funny, Humor, Parking Meters

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• Of course building a kitchen makes all the symmetric sense in the world because everybody's burning calories at 120 beats a minute. You could even register it on a graph at the DJ booth. "How fast are they burning calories, sir?" "126 a minute." "Are you sure?" "Oh, I'm very sure." You can meter that out.

  David Lee Roth

  Kitchen, Burning, World

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• I was always the fastest and strongest kid in my school so events like the 100 meter and discus throwing attracted me. I could throw the discus for great distance s without the proper spin and throw technique.

  Bo Jackson

  Distance, School, Kids

  Interview with Billy Worrell, whatmakesagreatathlete.weebly.com.

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• I have a secret goal with my editor - he has asthma and uses his inhaler, and after I send him a new manuscript, I'll have his assistant phone me and tell me how many times he had to get his inhaler out while reading a draft. It's my secret laugh meter.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Reading, Phones, Editors

  Source: www.writersdigest.com

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• We live in a predatory capitalist society in which everything is for sale. Everybody is for sale, so there is ubiquitous commodification - be it of music, food, people, or parking meters.

  Cornel West

  Parking Meters, People, Capitalist

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I like making comics and animation because it takes such a long time. I'm not a runner of the 100 meter. I like marathons. The longer it takes, the better I feel.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Long, Marathon, Animation

  Source: editorial.rottentomatoes.com

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• The problems with conventional parking meters are myriad. Nevertheless, two advanced technologies, multispace parking meters and curb-space occupancy sensors, can make it much easier for users to pay for curb parking, and for cities to adjust prices to meet the demand.

  Donald Shoup

  Technology, Cities, Parking Meters

  Source: translib.blogspot.com

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• Some things you know all your life. They are so simple and true they must be said without elegance, meter and rhyme...they must be naked and alone, they must stand for themselves.

  Philip Levine

  Simple, Naked, Elegance

  Philip Levine (2011). “The Simple Truth: Poems”, p.62, Knopf

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• Even after rowing in all these pieces, it's often hard to determine who will be selected because the decisive factor in seat racing is speed not margin. Boat X beats boat Y by two lengths over 1000 meters in a time of 2:54. After exchanging "Dave" from X to Y for "Scott," Boat X beats boat Y by one length in a time of 2:51. From the rower's perspective, the result is that Dave beats Scott by a length. But in Mike's eyes, Scott beats Dave because on the second piece, X was three seconds faster-even though it only beat Y by a length.

  Chris Ahrens

  Eye, Two, Perspective

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• At a time when you stay at the top, there is no explosion of happiness - happiness is experienced when everything remains in front of you, when you know that you have to a goal a few hundred, a few dozen meters when you are right in front. This is the time of happiness.

  Jerzy Kukuczka

  Goal, Dozen, Hundred

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• Poetry is engendered in solitude, so what better meter for it than the clip of a buckskin horse?

  Edward Hoagland

  Horse, Solitude, Clip

  Edward Hoagland (1992). “Balancing acts: essays”

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• Nobody in the United States knows what either a "meter" or a "kilogram" is. The whole reason why we fought the Cold War was so we wouldn't have to learn the metric system.

  Dave Barry

  War, Metrics, Metric System

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• Our children will enjoy in their homes electrical energy too cheap to meter...will travel effortlessly over the seas and under them and through the air with a minimum of danger and at great speeds, and will experience a lifespan far longer than ours, as disease yields and man comes to understand what causes him to age.

  Lewis Strauss

  Children, Home, Men

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• I refuse to be released on the basis of a 'condition for negotiations' and I will not accept the price for my freedom to be several meters of the land of Palestine, the land that we have fought for and been imprisoned for. I refuse to be free on the condition of the expansion of settlements. I refuse this offer, not even a single house for Zionist settlers will be built as the price of my freedom.

  Ahmad Sa'adat

  Land, House, Expansion

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• My favorite piece of tech gear is my SRM power meter. It's the most accurate power meter on the market.

  Timothy O'Donnell

  Gears, Pieces, My Favorite

  "Triathlon Gear". Interview with Chris Aung-Thwin, www.askmen.com.

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• I like to compare the two to a quarterback and a lineman. Being a brakeman is very physical and success is mostly determined by how fast you can push a sled for about 30 meters. Your position is won or lost by the hundredths of seconds you are faster than another individual. It's like the lineman who is there mostly for their athleticism and physicality. The driver, like the quarterback, possesses a unique skill that takes a lot longer to learn.

  Elana Meyers

  Unique, Skills, Two

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• My first memory as a child growing up is of playing in the gardens, the mosque is really a gigantic garden, probably the biggest in all of East Jerusalem. Our house was about 100 meters from the mosque.

  Rula Jebreal

  Children, Growing Up, Memories

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Life is like a taxi. The meter just keeps a-ticking.

  Louise Erickson

  Life Is Like, Life Is, Taxi

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• You don't train for only the 100-meter dash and you don't practice only the excerpts. When I prepared for auditions, I spent most of my time each day on scales and exercises to be my best in basic musicianship, and only a half-hour or so on the actual excerpts I'd be playing.

  Jim Rogers

  Exercise, Practice, Each Day

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• It makes me sick to see a superior runner wait behind the field until 200 meters to go and then sprint away. That is immoral. It's both an insult to the other runners and a denigration of his own ability.

  Ron Clarke

  Sick, Waiting, Fields

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• This church was open and seemingly unattended, and it was a throwback in another way as well. The candles in the little side altars were real ones, actual wax candles that burned with an open flame. Lots of churches have switched over to electrified altars. You drop your quarter in the slot and a flame-shaped bulb goes on and stays on for your quarter's worth of time. It's like a parking meter, and if you stay too long they tow away your soul.

  Lawrence Block

  Real, Flames, Parking Meters

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

  Yao Ming

  Basketball, Enough, Court

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