1 5 Meter Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. Ergometer is Greek for 'work meter'

Barry S. Strauss

#5. There was little work left of a routine, mechanical nature. Men's minds were too valuable to waste on tasks that a few thousand transistors, some photo-electric cells, and a cubic meter of printed circuits could perform.

Arthur C. Clarke

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. My laps-meter, the first caliper of the soul and the first hope of bridging the dread chasm that has rent the soul of Western man ever since the famous philosopher Descartes ripped body loose from mind and turned the very soul into a ghost that haunts its own house.

Walker Percy

#9. I am sonnets full of stardust within the meter of my skin.

Patricia Robin Woodruff

#10. 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

#11. He could imagine how nice it would be to not understand. To see one's microcosm as the macrocosm. To focus a meter beyond one's own nose.

Hugh Howey

#12. The stock market has always had its own meter. Sometimes it's ahead of itself, sometimes it's behind itself. A broken watch is right twice a day.

Steve Ballmer

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

Steve Prefontaine

#14. 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

#15. I may be slow, but I know a racist when I'm called one - and I am proud to support the supremacy of the 100-meter leisurely stroll.

Bauvard

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

Thom Gunn

#17. 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

#18. 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

#19. My bullshit meter is reading that as 'false'.

Charlaine Harris

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

Earl Warren

#21. So I'm up the ghostie creek without an EMF meter

JoAnne Kenrick

#22. Sanity is a sonnet with a strict meter and rhyme scheme-and my mind is free verse.

Holly Schindler

#23. I look forward to being older, when what you look like becomes less and less an issue and what you are is the point.
(As quoted in Put Your Big Girl Panties on and Deal with it, Roz Van Meter, 2007)

Susan Sarandon

#24. The robotic fly that we actually make the most use of in our laboratory is actually not a small thing, it's a giant thing. It has about a meter wing span, and it flaps in three metric tons of mineral oil. And it is a so-called dynamically scaled fly.

Michael Dickinson

#25. My father would tell me if I wasn't writing in meter verse, it wasn't poetry.

John Darnielle

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

Jim Butcher

#27. 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

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

Andrew Delbanco

#29. I didn't mean to write this as a poem, but the meter turned up in my head and after that I simply had no say in the matter.

Neil Gaiman

#30. I'm more scared of parking by a parking meter than vampires because one of them is real and adversely affects my life and results in a $35 fine, and one is nonsense.

Ike Barinholtz