Metrically Quotes

#1. Both space and time are metrically amorphous, i.e. they do not have - despite how strongly we believe so - an inherent metric which would allow us to measure them without any definitions. In this sense, thus, neither space nor time is absolute.

Felix Alba-Juez

#2. He comes off a little like Practical Pig in The Three Little Pigs.

Stieg Larsson

#3. Music is not technique and melody, but the meaning of life itself, infinitely sorrowful and unbearably beautiful.

Pearl S. Buck

#4. The use of butterflies is to adorn the world and delight the eyes of men, to brighten the countryside, serving like so many golden spangles to decorate the fields.

John Ray

#5. Enterprising law-enforcement officers with a warrant can flick a distant switch and turn a standard mobile phone into a roving mic or eavesdrop on occupants of cars equipped with travel assistance systems.

Jonathan Zittrain

#6. But I love you, sir:
And when a woman says she loves a man,
The man must hear her, though he love her not.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

#7. Whatever you create in your life you must first create in your imagination

Daniel Marques

#8. Life means opportunity, and the thing men call death is the last wonderful, beautiful adventure.

Alice Foote MacDougall

#9. An educated mind is, as it were, composed of all the minds of preceding ages.

Bernard Le Bovier De Fontenelle

#10. Make no mistake: The organization of the working class must be both economic and political. The capitalist is organized upon both lines. You must attack him on both.

Daniel De Leon

#11. Incredibly, the human body produces about 2 million red blood cells every second.

Nessa Carey

#12. One of the problems with a lot of "confessional" writing is that it starts and stops with the confessional and doesn't really tie the "I" into a "we" at all. I'm still surprised at how mad critics get at that kind of confessional writing.

Kiese Laymon

#13. My idea to bridge the world together with music starting in Asia and going to the West is something that is new, untapped and leading to the future of bringing the worlds together.

Swizz Beatz

#14. Just like downing a powerful caffeine drink, "reaching out to others" pays that big "life energizer dividend!

Wes Adamson

#15. I have a fax machine with "fax waiting".

Steven Wright

#16. Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.

Dave Barry