23 Meter Quotes for You to Enjoy

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

Running Hospital Bed Meter Taxi

'Perfection' to me is, I walk away from a situation and say, 'I did everything I could do right there. There was nothing more that I could do.' I was a hundred percent, like the meter was at the top. There was nothing else I could have done. You know? Like, I worked as hard as I possibly could have. That's perfection. Drake

Me You Walk Situation Nothing Else Everything Hundred Top Say Possibly Percent More Could Perfection Like Know Meter Did Done Worked Hard Away Right

To a generation beaten down by skyrocketing unemployment, plunging retirement savings, and mounting home foreclosures, 'Mad Men' offers the schadenfreude-filled message that their predecessors were equally unhappy - and that the bleakness meter in American life has always been set on high. Adam Cohen

Life Home Generation Unhappy Men Down Savings Mad Mad Men High Plunging Beaten Retirement Message Equally Always Meter Were Been Unemployment Offers Mounting American Predecessors American Life Skyrocketing Set

The first line is the DNA of the poem; the rest of the poem is constructed out of that first line. A lot of it has to do with tone because tone is the key signature for the poem. The basis of trust for a reader used to be meter and end-rhyme. Billy Collins

Trust Key Rest First Signature Out Poem Constructed Reader Because Meter Line Lot Used Tone Basis

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. Billy Collins

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

You Fear Cripple Meter Your Keep

To achieve the very pinnacle of good taste, the neoclassicists wrote their plays entirely in alexandrine verse, a rarefied meter that is uniquely tailored to the French language and fits no other. Florence King

Good Achieve Language Good Taste Other Rarefied Entirely Tailored French Wrote French Language Meter Verse Pinnacle Fits Very Taste Uniquely Plays

Though my poems are about evenly split between traditionally formal work that uses rhyme and meter and classical structure, and work that is freer, I feel that the music of language remains at the core of it all. Sound, rhythm, repetition, compression - these elements of my poetry are also elements of my prose. Floyd Skloot

Work Music Language Though Classical About Poems Structure Compression Poetry Remains Split Prose Feel Between Freer Also Sound Meter Repetition Formal Rhyme Rhythm Uses Elements Core

So many directors say nothing beautifully, and so many others say great and profound things but have no idea how to read a light meter or arrange a shot. George Cukor

Great Light Nothing Others Say No Idea Directors Idea Beautifully Read Arrange How Meter Shot Many Things Profound

Voice-acting, on the fun meter, is off the scale. You show up, you don't have to be all primped up, or dressed up. And you get to work with some amazing people, and goof off for four hours. Jason Marsden

Work You People Amazing Scale Some Dressed Goof Hours Meter Amazing People Off Up Get Show Fun Four

Everything that Traffic ever did, I'd give Steve a complete lyric, titled, written out with the verse, the bridge, the shape and rhyme and then Steve had to figure out how the meter of the words would fit musically. Jim Capaldi

The ultimate storyteller is Shakespeare, who was able to get the 'groundlings' to laugh at his bawdy humor and storylines but could still be studied by scholars to this day for the complexity of his language, meter, and symbolism. That's the real guy. Jon Favreau

I used to obsess on critical reactions to my films, and it's really not a healthy way to live your life, so my new take on it is simply, 'I hope people like it!' I'm not going to be looking at the tomato meter for at least a year! I was very lucky on '50/50' that most critics really liked it. Jonathan Levine

Life Hope People Looking Healthy Year Live Films Way Critical Critics Take Simply Obsess New Like Liked Most Reactions Least Meter Healthy Way Very Going Really Your Used Lucky Tomato

I think animation is like running a marathon, and making a movie is like a 100 meter sprint. The question is: are you a marathon man or are you a sprinter? I realized that I was more of a sprinter than a marathon man. With a long, long project, I get bored easily. Marjane Satrapi

The robotic fly that we actually make the most use of in our laboratory is actually not a small thing, it's a giant thing. It has about a meter wing span, and it flaps in three metric tons of mineral oil. And it is a so-called dynamically scaled fly. Michael Dickinson

It's illegitimate to talk about a post-scarcity Utopia without talking about questions of distribution. There have always been these Utopian predictions - 'electricity too cheap to meter' was the atomic promise of the 1950s. Mitch Kapor

Too Promise Distribution About Atomic Cheap Talk Talking Without Always Meter Been Questions Predictions Electricity Illegitimate Utopia Utopian

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

Alone Phone Parking Know Box How Meter Use Even

Let me state what the official IPCC prediction is: Sea levels could go up as much as three-quarters of a meter in this century, but there is a reasonable probability it could be much higher than that. Steven Chu

Me State Three-Quarters Could Higher Meter Go Up Than Official Probability Prediction Century Much Sea Reasonable Levels

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

Queen Our Enslaved Charm Poetry Supreme Meter Rhyme Creator

In a long meter hymn, a singer - they call it 'lays out a line.' And then the whole church joins in in repeating that line. And they form a wall of harmony so tight, you can't wedge a pin between it. Maya Angelou

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

Sometimes Old Given Writer Feel Days Meter Endangered Rhyme

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