The rhythm persisted, the unfaltering common meter of blues, but the blueness itself, the sorrow, the despair, began to give way to hope.
Quotes about meter (16 Quotes)
A hospital bed is a parked taxi with the meter running.
With the previous system, a meter reader could check an average of 1,000 meters a day. Under the new system, a meter reader can read up to 4,000 meters a day.
I don't even know how to use a parking meter, let alone a phone box.
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.
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 work best in rhyme and meter. I was most confident of myself in that way.
When people talk about Super Bowl dynasties they mention the 1970's Steelers, 1980's 49ers, 1990's Cowboys and the current New England Patriots, but nobody has dominated the Super Bowl like Anheuser-Busch. In recent years, Budweiser has been the MVP of Super Bowl advertising -- making another company the favorite to win the Ad Meter poll was never an option.
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.
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.
'But,' you might say, 'none of this shakes my belief that 2 and 2 are 4.' You are quite right, except in marginal cases and it is only in marginal cases that you are doubtful whether a certain animal is a dog or a certain length is less than a meter. Tw.
Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.
I've been opposed to it from the beginning, ... The argument is that our gas tax is lower than our surrounding states, so I have a moral obligation to pay 5 cents more a gallon. When I'm watching that little meter spin around, I don't really feel all that morally obligated to pay more.
Benjamin Franklin may have discovered electricity, but it was the man who invented the meter who made the money.
Life is tons of discipline. Your first discipline is your vocabulary then your grammar and your punctuation... Then, in your exuberance and bounding energy you say you're going to add to that. Then you add rhyme and meter. And your delight is in that.
Ben Franklin may have discovered electricity- but it is the man who invented the meter who made the money.