Top 39 Metre Quotes
#1. The personal vocabulary, the individual melody whose metre is one's biography, joins in that sound, with any luck, and the body moves like a walking, a waking island.
Derek Walcott
#3. It is hard to write, not, as might be expected, for reasons of metre or scholarship or elaborate symbolism, but because the actual writing depends almost entirely on the chance, the mood, the energy, of the moment.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#4. I used to be an athlete and even ran the 400 metre stretch for Tamil Nadu. I have always been active.
Arjun Rampal
#5. Peering around her, I took note exactly where the hundred metre high cliff started. i didn't want to be taking an unexpected flying lesson today.
Kelly Batten
#6. I remember in 1996 falling in love with the Chinese divers. These were people on 20 metre and 10 metre platform boards, doing stuff that you couldn't believe. Then when you saw them afterwards they were about the size of my leg. That was just sensational.
Steve Bunce
#7. But metre itself implies a passion , i.e. a state of excitement, both in the Poet's mind, & is expected in that of the Reader.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
#8. The truest and greatest Poetry, (while subtly and necessarily always rhythmic, and distinguishable easily enough) can never again, in the English language, be express'd in arbitrary and rhyming metre, any more than the greatest eloquence, or the truest power and passion.
Walt Whitman
#9. That metre itself forms an essential part of all true poetry is a principle which not even the assertions of an Aristotle or the pronouncements of a Plato can disestablish.
H.P. Lovecraft
#10. I came second in a 1,500-metre running race at school. I knew I couldn't have come first, so second was my version of first.
Chet Faker
#11. WorldView-3 goes into the mid-infrared wavelength, allowing you to see very subtle geological differences on the sites at a 0.4-metre resolution.
Sarah Parcak
#12. Man is the metre of all things, the hand is the instrument of instruments, and the mind is the form of forms.
Aristotle.
#13. Ennius was the father of Roman poetry, because he first introduced into Latin the Greek manner and in particular the hexameter metre.
Quintus Ennius
#14. Say, what other metre is it
Than the meeting of the eyes?
Nature poureth into nature
Through the channels of that feature
Riding on the ray of sight,
Fleeter far than whirlwinds go,
Or for service, or delight,
Hearts to hearts their meaning show.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#15. There is more talent per square metre in Ireland than there is anywhere else. We just don't harness or help them ... the radio stations prefer to support the likes of Rihanna and Beyonce.
Louis Walsh
#16. Thou hast come into being by the toil; the work of the gods thou art the way of holy order. With the Vasus, the gods, as deity, with the Gayatri metre I yoke thee, with the spring season as oblation I consecrate thee. - Yajur Veda, Taittiriya Samhita, Khand VII 1.18
Aparna Sinha
#17. We can see every square metre of the planet on Google Earth. But there is no substitute for that sensory experience of going out into the world and discovering things for yourself.
Tim Cope
#18. I am not a multimillionaire. I don't own a yacht or a Ferrari. I live in a 60-square- metre flat. My needs are simple.
Ferran Adria
#19. The monotony of a long heroic poem may often be pleasantly relieved by judicious interruptions in the perfect succession of rhymes, just as the metre may sometimes be adorned with occasional triplets and Alexandrines.
H.P. Lovecraft
#20. Canvases between 8 centimetres and 1 metre are priced around 25,000 francs. In the past I used to sell them from between 50 to 100 francs at the most. I have to say ... that I feel somewhat embarrassed at this admission.
Claude Monet
#21. We discovered a person in Lagos who had a fish stall, and within a single square metre she carried two children all the way to Harvard. She supported an unbelievable escape of her children into education. In that sense it was a city completed pixillated, and every pixel contained amazing stories.
Rem Koolhaas
#22. She's beautiful,' he murmured.
'She's a metre across the hips, easily,' said Julia.
'That is her style of beauty,' said Winston.
George Orwell
#23. When I was at Manchester, where there was a modern swimming pool, I was looked on as a great man, not for so trivial a reason as being an FRS, but because I used to dive off a five-metre board.
Louis J. Mordell
#24. Test cricket is bloody hard work, especially when you've got Sachin batting with what looks like a three metre wide bat.
Michael Hussey
#25. To be a racing driver it's essential you have very good eyesight, and that's especially relevant at night. Your senses are heightened, you're travelling over 200mph, you need to focus on that 110-metre braking point and you have to have absolute faith and commitment in your driving.
Allan McNish
#27. "vers libre," (free verse) or nine-tenths of it, is not a new metre any more than sleeping in a ditch is a new school of architecture.
G.K. Chesterton
#28. Each position, each metre of the Soviet territory must be stubbornly defended, to the last drop of blood. We must cling to every inch of Soviet soil and defend it to the end!
Joseph Stalin
#29. Shooting is very challenging because 10 metre air rifle you have different rules, short gun you have different rules.
Gagan Narang
#30. A marvellous power of expression over language often distinguishes genius; but Shakespeare in his phrases seems independent of the bonds of language as of the bonds of metre.
George Edward Woodberry
#31. I like the quiet life sometimes. I also love a bustling press conference sometimes as well. I love a 600 metre red carpet.
Martin Freeman
#32. She still weighed only forty kilos and stood one metre twenty-four centimetres tall.
Stieg Larsson
#33. The glorious Dryden, refiner and purifier of English verse, did less for rhyme than he did for metre.
H.P. Lovecraft
#34. How did you find me?"
"You were lying in the grass a metre away from me. It wasn't rocket science.
Maggie Stiefvater
#35. There is no escape from metre; there is only mastery.
T. S. Eliot
#36. For even they who compose treatises of medicine or natural philosophy in verse are denominated Poets: yet Homer and Empedocles have nothing in common except their metre; the former, therefore, justly merits the name of the Poet; while the other should rather be called a Physiologist than a Poet.
Aristotle.
#37. Three hundred and twenty-eight wormholes were opened in unison. They were small, all of them measuring a metre and a half wide. Just enough for a ten-megatonne warhead to pass through. The wormholes closed.
Peter F. Hamilton
#38. I'm not privy to the English set-up, but at the academies in Ireland, there is a huge focus on the weights room as opposed to whether they can throw a 10-metre pass on the run. They should be rugby players becoming athletes, not athletes becoming rugby players.
Brian O'Driscoll
