Quotes about Meters

Flea and Anthony are into funk, like old school Meters and stuff like that. Votes: 3

Rincewind had always been happy to think of himself as a racist. The One Hundred Meters, the Mile, the Marathon -- he'd run them all. Votes: 3

A lot of the music that you listen to now is because of the things that the Meters did, the Neville Brothers did, and they're there, the guys who invented those beats that the guys sample today. Such an enormous opportunity. Votes: 3

The Meters are, I think, the most influential group in our time to come out of New Orleans, to have changed and introduced us all to a way of playing, and to a groove and a level of feel in playing funk-jazz. Votes: 3

Today's meters are little computers. Votes: 0

using parking meters as walking sticks. Votes: 0

Don't follow leaders, watch your parkin' meters. Votes: 0

The whole decathlon is ridiculous, but the 1,500 meters is insanity. Votes: 0

I've ran only about 3 meters and I feel like my heart is going to explode Votes: 0

I want to ski down Mount Cho Oyu in the Himalayas when I am 85, descending from a height of 8,201 meters. Votes: 0

If he's having a good day and running the right race, nobody can beat Frank Shorter at 10,000 meters... nobody except me. Votes: 0

Denial exists because human infants, though equipped with trust-o-meters, are built to trust, blindly and absolutely, any older person who wanders past. Votes: 0

If you've climbed the first 140 meters it doesn't mean that you've succeeded; you are going to succeed by climbing the last 10 meters. Votes: 0

That is when the crowd really lifted me. That last 600 meters I was not running with my own legs. It was incredible. Votes: 0

Walk ten meters, you will find the lust; walk thousand miles, you may find the love! Soil is everywhere; but gold is somewhere! Votes: 0

If Americans in 2100 came to see 12 meters sea-level rise as inevitable by 2200, who can even begin to fathom how the nation would respond? Votes: 0

In the dance, one finds the cinema, the comic strips, the Olympic hundred meters and swimming, and what's more, poetry, love and tenderness. Votes: 0

The long term health effects from utility company smart meters present a far greater risk to the general population than terrorism in the USA. Votes: 0

We are different, in essence, from other men. If you want to win something, run 100 meters. If you want to experience something, run a marathon. Votes: 0

People always underestimate the impact of technology. To give you an example: In the 1970s the frontier for offshore development was 200 meters, today it is 4,000 meters. Votes: 0

The fall of a given weight from a height of around 365 meters corresponds to the heating of an equal weight of water from 0° to 1°. Votes: 0

The ever-rising cost of living: Someday soon, the corporate technicians will be locking meters on our noses and charging us a royalty on the air we breathe. Votes: 0

You want to know my definition of gun control? Being able to stand there at 25 meters and put two rounds in the same hole. That's gun control. Votes: 0

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?" Votes: 0

I have always hated crowds. I like deserts, prisons, and monasteries. I have discovered, too, that there are fewer idiots at 3000 meters above sea level than down below. Votes: 0

Blink and you miss a sprint. The 10,000 meters is lap after lap of waiting. Theatrically, the mile is just the right length: beginning, middle, end, a story unfolding. Votes: 0

It has been known for many years that a subset of the population cannot tolerate the radiation emitted by transmitting utility meters and sickness results in these people. Votes: 0

I started running track when I was 13 years old, as a freshman in high school. I ran the 400 meters, which is a very tough race and a full sprint. Votes: 0

Say, for example, you develop the ability to make parking meters disappear. It's probably easier to put a quarter in it. That would be the wisdom on the subject. Votes: 0

It is difficult batting in artificial light with a red ball but it's a horrible task for umpires to make a judgement, particularly if they're going by light meters. Votes: 0

Who thinks seriously that if we sit on another hilltop, on another hundred meters, that this is what will make the difference for the state of Israel's basic security? Votes: 0

The 200 meters is my baby. To me, it's the perfect distance. It's still a true sprint, but it unravels more. You get to enjoy the race a little bit more than the 100. Votes: 0

Now that parking meters have shifted from quarters to credit cards, I worry someone will steal my identity, my wallet, and my car and drive around town parking all over the place. Votes: 0

We live in a predatory capitalist society in which everything is for sale. Everybody is for sale, so there is ubiquitous commodification - be it of music, food, people, or parking meters. Votes: 0

When I say I get inspiration from my real life, I think of my real life as extending about 300 meters radius around me. So what I see in that area is what inspires me. Votes: 0

The Europeans look down on raising your hands. They don't like the end-zone dance. I think that's unfortunate. That feeling - the finish line, the last couple of meters - is what motivates me. Votes: 0

Credit card issuers and HELOC lenders are like fair-weather friends: They cozy up to you in good times, but when the economy heads south, they abandon you faster than Usain Bolt runs the 100 meters. Votes: 0

Thanks to a deal finalized in 2008, Chicago's parking meters will be operated for the next 75 years by a group of investors put together by Morgan Stanley, including the sovereign wealth fund of Abu Dhabi. Votes: 0

And if you are playing in several meters at once, there has to be a - not a rigid - but there definitely has to be a reference to a common pulse in the band. Votes: 0