Metronome One Quotes

#1. Playing juvenile pranks. In twelfth grade he built an electronic metronome - one of those tick-tick-tick devices that keep time in music class - and realized it sounded like a bomb. So he took the labels off some big batteries, taped them together, and put it in a school locker; he rigged

Walter Isaacson

#2. Artists are going to be the metronome of this society.

Yoko Ono

#3. Can you tell me what it means to waive your rights?
I hold my breath as Jacob hesitates. And then slowly, beautifully, the right fist he's been banging against the wooden railing unfurls and is raised over his head, moving back and forth like a metronome.

Jodi Picoult

#4. Dick Clark will be truly missed. We will carry on his legacy every New Year's Eve.

Fergie

#5. I know that the whole point - the only point - is to
find the things that matter, and hold on to them, and fight for them, and refuse to
let them go.

Lauren Oliver

#6. It's like a spiritual elevation that occurs when you're playing and becoming one with the instrument or players on the stage.

Matt Nathanson

#7. We used to have a crew of three on board the space station and even at one time a crew of two people, so it's something we can adjust to.

Scott Kelly

#8. I put a metronome up to all the songs, and I tried to really keep it true to the original tempos.

Brian Setzer

#9. Which the experimental participant leaned her head on a chin-and-forehead rest and stared at a camera while listening to prerecorded information and answering questions on the recorded beats of a metronome. The beats triggered an infrared flash every second, causing a

Daniel Kahneman

#10. The stage is a routine. It keeps you grounded, like a metronome. I find that soothing.

Michael Shannon

#11. He was charmed out of all reason as he watched her, this sandy, disheveled, storytelling mermaid, who seemed already to belong to him and yet wanted nothing to do with him. His heart worked in strange rhythms, as if it were struggling to adjust to a brand new metronome. What was happening to him?

Lisa Kleypas

#12. There is something so INEVITABLE about seven-and-twenty; it is decidedly on the wrong side of the decade for a lady, particularly an unmarried one.

Stephanie Barron

#13. The things she truly loved,
& only those things,
were like a beautiful
metronome
of her heart
as was she,
only for them,
the same
rhythm.

Cheri Bauer

#14. I lost some friends when I made the move, but if that's what matters to them, then they're not really friends at all.

Jock Stein

#15. What would you give someone who likes to play the piano?"
"A piano."
"Simon."
"A really huge metronome that could also double as a weapon?

Cassandra Clare

#16. Sorry is a question that begs forgiveness, because the metronome of a good heart won't settle until things are set right and true.

Craig Silvey

#17. The white noise in his heart, the sum of all his colors
- the metronome to which he beat
[was she].

Coco J. Ginger

#18. How we grow food has enormous effects on the environment - climate change as well as pollution of air, water, and soil.

Marion Nestle

#19. Never be the best in town. Just be the best 'til the best come around.

Buddy Guy

#20. Cut out the eye from a photograph of one who has been loved but is seen no more. Attach the eye to the pendulum of a metronome and regulate the weight to suit the tempo desired. Keep going to the limit of endurance. With a hammer well-aimed, try to destroy the whole at a single blow.

Man Ray

#21. So, first you have to be able to play with a metronome. Then you take your freedom. If you play in an orchestra, you got to watch the conductor, he is like a metronome, but it is more difficult because he can change rhythms.

Ruggiero Ricci

#22. Ibn Firnas was a polymath: a physician, a rather bad poet, the first to make glass from stones (quartz), a student of music, and inventor of some sort of metronome.

Lynn Townsend White Jr.

#23. Make the metronome your friend, not your enemy.

Vinnie Colaiuta

#24. Knowing even as I craved permanence in New York City, that would never come to pass. The pair of us would live for as long as we could. As well as well could. That was all. Then we'd blow away like wishes made on dandelion heads.

Lyndsay Faye

#25. He wishes that time was a matter of choice. That you could live your life controlling the metronome speed it up sometimes, but mostly slow it down.

David Levithan

#26. I did learn something interesting [while at the Atlanta airport]. You have to be a member of the TSA in order to legally perform a cavity search. My apologies to the staff of Cinnabon, but you guys should really keep that extra frosting where the customers can find it.

Stephen Colbert

#27. My body is a metronome, keeping time for the universe ...

Pete Wentz

#28. Attention, learning, and problem solving depend in part on the ability to plan and sequence actions and ideas. The Interactive Metronome(R) helps individuals systematically exercise and often improve basic motor planning and sequencing capacities.

Stanley Greenspan

#29. Compose in the sequence of the musical phrase, not in sequence of a metronome.

Ezra Pound

#30. Iconic Paris tells us: here are our three-star attractions, go thou and marvel. And so we gaze obediently at what we are told to gaze at, without exactly asking why.

Julian Barnes