Quotes About The Metric System

#1. You can tell all that about me from your measuring tape?'
'Well, I use the metric system, It's the only way to get really exact numbers.

Catherynne M Valente

#2. God invented man, and man invented the metric system.

Salvador Dali

#3. If God had wanted us to use the metric system, Jesus would have had 10 apostles.

Jesse Helms

#4. The French writer Edmond About, who visited Greece in 1832, a dozen years after its independence, reports how peasants struggled with the metric system as it was completely unnatural to them and stuck to Ottoman standards instead.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#5. If God wanted us to use the metric system, He would have given us ten fingers and ten toes.

Judith Stone

#6. The metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.

Dave Barry

#7. The metric system was designed to get people to enter charity runs.Do you think you would go run a 3.1 mile race? No, but if somebody says, hey, 5 km. You go, 5km sounds pretty impressive.

Greg Gutfeld

#8. I don't understand why a 40 is a quarter of beer when a 40 is 40 ounces. It's time to embrace the metric system.

Greg Gutfeld

#9. I'm not familiar with the metric system.

Patton Oswalt

#10. There was a sound like a human yawn, and then the skull turned slightly toward me and asked, "What's up, boss?"
"Evil's afoot."
"Well, sure," Bob said, "because it refuses to learn the metric system. Otherwise it'd be up to a meter by now.

Jim Butcher

#11. It was a harbinger of the metric system.

Imraan Coovadia

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

Jim Butcher

#13. If god had meant us to use the metric system he would have given us ten finger and ten toes.

Judith Stone

#14. During the meeting in Delhi with Dirac on 12 January 1955, Nehru asked him if he had any recommendations for the future of the new republic of India. After his usual reflective pause, Dirac replied: 'A common language, preferably English. Peace with Pakistan. The metric system.

Graham Farmelo

#15. The most lasting and universal consequence of the French revolution is the metric system

Eric Hobsbawm

#16. Money is just like the metric system:
you work more, you earn more
and there's always an extra zero to be added.
It's only a zero, though.

Luca Pesaro

#17. Drugs have taught an entire generation of kids the metric system

P. J. O'Rourke

#18. 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

#19. Some people are meant to disappear from your life, to remain a memory, a faded possibility. A curiosity. I ought to know. But when curiosity is so easily fulfilled, how do you avoid fulfilling it? A button is pressed and you're friends again.

Catherine McKenzie

#20. The third note in a chord is what depicts whether it's major or minor. Rhythm and Blues hardly ever uses it because it means that the melody is free to move between major and minor because you're not clashing with the third being depicted one way or the other.

Robert Palmer

#21. Sales managers should track the number of first meetings with "right fit" prospects a sales person is engaged in on a monthly basis ... This metric alone will serve as a powerful, early-warning system to sales performance.

Adrian Davis

#22. And are you suspicious of me? (Maggie)
Woman, I'm suspicious of anyone who acts altruistically. I've only known a handful of people in my entire life who were actually kind. The vast majority of people only help others when they know it'll benefit them in some manner. (Sin)

Kinley MacGregor

#23. No real blood flows in the veins of the knowing subject constructed by Locke, Hume, and Kant, but rather the diluted extract of reason as a mere activity of thought.

Wilhelm Dilthey

#24. If you're going to die, die interesting! Is there anything worse than a boring death? (Other than a Charlie Rose marathon on PBS?) I think not. When my time comes I'm going to go out in high style. I have no intention of being sick or lingering or dragging on and on and boring everyone I know.

Joan Rivers

#25. I think we've all lost some kind of feeling.

Bret Easton Ellis

#26. She did not yet know that Tink hated her with the fierce hatred of a very woman.

J.M. Barrie