Top 176 Meter Quotes & Sayings

Benjamin Franklin may have discovered electricity, but it was the man who invented the meter who made the money.

I'm the first from Ethiopia getting 1500-meter world record; that is amazing.

A meter of green is greener than a centimeter.

I don't even know how to use a parking meter, let alone a phone box.

What is it about meter and cadence and rhythm that makes their makers mad?

The most challenging aspect of the decathlon is not the events themselves, but how you train to become the best 100-meter runner you are on the same day that you're the best 1,500-meter runner.

There is enough energy in a single cubic meter of space to boil all the oceans in the world.

My bullshit meter is reading that as 'false'.

Right now, I'm just focused on the 8,000-meter peaks. I don't know what's next. I don't think I will get tired of climbing.

The rhythm persisted, the unfaltering common meter of blues, but the blueness itself, the sorrow, the despair, began to give way to hope.

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

Ergometer is Greek for 'work meter'

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

I find songs today very fake. I can't write according to the meter, but I can write from my heart.

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.

Rhyme and meter force gaps in meaning so the muse can enter.

When you have solar panels, your electricity gets there for free, no one's figured out how to meter the sun yet. And that's good.

In my experience, if you go to a hospital for any reason whatsoever, including to read the gas meter, they give you a tetanus shot.

I was born in the back seat of a Yellow Cab in a hospital loading zone and with the meter still running. I emerged needing a shave and shouted 'Time Square, and step on it!'

You're so good looking I can barely keep my eyes on the meter.

I have to tell you man, that my stalker meter is kind of registering in the red zone right now.

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.

I don’t use an exposure meter. My personal advice is: Spend the money you would put into such an instrument for film. Buy yards of film, miles of it. Buy all the film you can get your hands on. And then experiment with it.That is the only way to be successful in photography. Test, try, experiment, feel your way along. It is the experience, not technique, which counts in camera work first of all. If you get the feel of photography, you can take fifteen pictures while one of your opponents is trying out his exposure meter.

I love watching track and field - the 4x100 relay, the 100-(meter) dash, the 200-(meter) dash. To see what they're able to do, I love watching that.

I'm a poet who can whine in meter

My favorite piece of tech gear is my SRM power meter. It's the most accurate power meter on the market.

As a writer given to the old formalities of rhyme and meter, I sometimes feel endangered these days.

Life is like a taxi. The meter just keeps a-ticking.

I get joy, and actually, a high... by putting a quarter in a meter.

If all the stars and galaxies in the universe today were smoothed out into a uniform sea of atoms, there would only be about one atom in every cubic meter of space.

I'm not going to sit here and argue with you. Just PUT THE BLOODY METER ON.

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

We don't have a "consciousness meter" that'll tell us exactly how conscious something is. I think we might get there eventually.

Colors in painting are as allurements for persuading the eyes, as the sweetness of meter is in poetry.

I wonder whether my bleak-o-meter is set differently from other people's.

Keep a meter on your fear. Fear can cripple you.

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

Life is like riding in a taxi. Whether you are going anywhere or not, the meter keeps ticking.

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.

The fact that rap has a strict meter and stays to a click means that you have to make your thoughts concise.

If rowing is a trial then the ergometer is the courtroom, the meter is the jury. And an honest jury at that, because the numbers do not lie.

Nanotechnology is the idea that we can create devices and machines all the way down to the nanometer scale, which is a billionth of a meter, about half the width of a human DNA molecule.

It is not too much to expect that our children will enjoy in their homes electrical energy too cheap to meter

Emily Dickinson seems rather tame because she pretty much uses the same meter every time. It's called 'common meter.' It's a line of four beats that's followed by a line of three beats.

The 14-8,000-meter-peaks-in-six-months project was something nobody could imagine was ever possible. It's tough just to climb one 8,000-meter peak, let alone 14 in such a short period of time.

As the great philosopher George Santayana would have said, 'those who cannot remember the past . . . should simply read Jan Van Meter's Tippecanoe and Tyler Too.' Van Meter's greatest hits collection of slogans is the catchiest ever retelling of American history. It's like the greatest minds of Madison Avenue sat down to write a history book. They don't make sound bites like they used to!

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

Messi can get around his opponent in just a square meter. Ronaldo needs more space.

You cannot enter a studio and just start crooning before the mike. It is essential to understand the mind of the composer, mood of the song, and meter of the tune.

A hospital bed is a parked taxi with the meter running.

Don't be married to a line or verse if it can't rhyme, fit the meter, or doesn't fit the outline.

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

Poetry is engendered in solitude, so what better meter for it than the clip of a buckskin horse?

Speak in your authentic voice because people have a BS Meter

Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.

When I was 10, I went to the Junior Olympics for the 50-meter and 100-meter breaststroke.

I'm a girl; of course I have a built-in miss-o-meter.

Ever been kidnapped by a poet if i were a poet i'd kidnap you put you in my phrases and meter.

I can see well enough on the 28-meter basketball court.

Comedy is a difficult thing for a critic, as, unlike all other art-forms, it has an inbuilt success-o-meter: laughter. Therefore, there's no real need for critics.