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I'm a poet who can whine in meter
Ergometer is Greek for 'work meter'
A meter of green is greener than a centimeter.
Keep a meter on your fear. Fear can cripple you.
Life is like a taxi. The meter just keeps a-ticking.
I'm a girl; of course I have a built-in miss-o-meter.
A hospital bed is a parked taxi with the meter running.
I can see well enough on the 28-meter basketball court.
You're so good looking I can barely keep my eyes on the meter.
I get joy, and actually, a high... by putting a quarter in a meter.
I don't even know how to use a parking meter, let alone a phone box.
I've ran only about 3 meters and I feel like my heart is going to explode
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.
My father would tell me if I wasn't writing in meter verse, it wasn't poetry.
Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.
Life is like riding in a taxi. Whether you are going anywhere or not, the meter keeps ticking.
Ever been kidnapped by a poet if i were a poet i'd kidnap you put you in my phrases and meter.
Poetry is engendered in solitude, so what better meter for it than the clip of a buckskin horse?
As a writer given to the old formalities of rhyme and meter, I sometimes feel endangered these days.
I want to ski down Mount Cho Oyu in the Himalayas when I am 85, descending from a height of 8,201 meters.
Ben Franklin may have discovered electricity- but it is the man who invented the meter who made the money.
The fact that rap has a strict meter and stays to a click means that you have to make your thoughts concise.
Benjamin Franklin may have discovered electricity, but it was the man who invented the meter who made the money.
I want to prove that if you write in strict meter and rhyme about subjects people care about, they will buy poetry.
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.
Americans are not brought up with meter. They're not brought up with poetry. If you try to get them to recite, they're too embarrassed.
I'm in my 60s now, and just running almost 50 meters with explosives going on, it was kind of like, "Oh, my god! What am I doing here?"
Denial exists because human infants, though equipped with trust-o-meters, are built to trust, blindly and absolutely, any older person who wanders past.
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.
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.
I like making comics and animation because it takes such a long time. I'm not a runner of the 100 meter. I like marathons. The longer it takes, the better I feel.
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.
I'm more scared of parking by a parking meter than vampires because one of them is real and adversely affects my life and results in a $35 fine, and one is nonsense.
Music and text have several commonalities, and one is meter and rhythm. Both spoken word and music have certain regularities, and they can be sub-divided rhythmically.
On TV, only a handful of people can move the meter so to speak - only a handful of personalities can move ratings. LeBron seems to single-handedly affect those ratings.
A seductive technology that works like a dream and improves lives will set off a consumer clamor, whether the new tool is an iPhone 4S or an implantable blood-sugar meter.
When I started, it was all meter maids or the sassy nurse, or the sassy receptionist in the hospital. And I felt like: Are those the only jobs that large, black women have?
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.
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.
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.
I am a helicopter pilot. Something that gives me pleasure sometimes is taking my helicopter to go high, 2000 meter, 6000 feet, to go there and feel like a bird. In this moment I feel free.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
When you talk about goals, you look at your team last year and you want to move the meter a little bit. You don't want to go back and be the same team that you were last year, so we have tried to get better in some ways.
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.
Your heart-as you call it-and hers are alike, after all: they are like mine, like everyone's. They resemble nothing so much as those meters you will find on gas-pipes: they only perk up and start pumping when you drop coins in.