#meter

It's hard to really articulate what the parameters are that make one song parody-able and another song not, but if I can come up with a good enough idea for it, I go for it, and if not, then I have to move on. ↗

— Al Yankovic

#articulate #come #enough #go #go for it

When I was young, I was too slow. I thought I must learn to run fast by practicing to run fast, so I ran 100 meters fast 20 times. Then I came back, slow, slow, slow. ↗

— Emil Zatopek

#came #fast #i #i came #learn

Meanwhile, we have carved out a place for ourselves among the dead; the glittering pinnacles of commerce rise along the skyline, their foundations sunk in a charnel house; and the lost lie forgotten below us as, overhead, we persaude ourselves that we are immortal and carry on the business of life. ↗

— Catharine Arnold

#dead #death #london #necropolis #business

Then Mount Jerome for the protestants. Funerals all over the world everywhere every minute. Shovelling them under by the cartload doublequick. Thousands every hour. Too many in the world. ↗

— James Joyce

#death #dublin #mount-jerome #death

What Hamlet suffers from is a lack of zombies. Let us say Rosencrantz and Guildenstern show up—Ho-HO! Now you’ve got something that stirs the, um, something that stirs things that are stirrable. BOOM! A pack of ravenous flesh-eaters breaks open their heads and sucks out their eyeballs. No need for iambic pentameter because they are grunting, groaning annihilators of humanity with no time for meter. You’re not asleep in the back of English class anymore, are you? This is what I’m talking about. Zombies. Learn it, live it, love it. ↗

— Libba Bray

#iambic-pentameter #zombies #humor

I think many cooks are afraid of undercooked meats. A good thermometer is a cook's best friend. ↗

— Emeril Lagasse

#best #best friend #cook #cooks #friend

The arts are an even better barometer of what is happening in our world than the stock market or the debates in congress. ↗

— Hendrik Willem Van Loon

#arts #barometer #better #congress #debates

We developed simple test tools to optimize imaging parameters. No company was interested in our idea. ↗

— John Cameron

#developed #idea #imaging #interested #optimize

I had crashes when I was small and Gumby-like that would have killed me now. I would just fly off jumps and go 40 or 50 meters when I was 6 years old - break skis, smash my goggles and get a bloody nose and go crawl inside for a little while and then come back out and ski more in the afternoon. ↗

— Bode Miller

#back #bloody #break #come #crashes

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

— Thom Gunn

#confident #i #meter #most #myself