#meter

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

Left love behind many years ago. Now it rests under a cross in the cemetery in Tombstone. ↗

I think as a rifle platoon and company commander your view is about 1,000 meters in front of you and you hope you can cover that ground and not have to back up and give it up again. ↗

— Oliver North

#again #back #back up #commander #company

Now, therefore, the Directors of the company are hereby ordered to see that precautions are taken to make travel on said railroad perfectly safe by using a screw with at least twenty-four inches diameter. ↗

— Joshua A. Norton

#diameter #directors #hereby #inches #least

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. ↗

— Jack Prelutsky

#fun #guitar #helps #i #i do

I think, because I'm an artist, part of my job is to be a barometer, an antenna. It's in the air and it resonates with a lot of people to lighten up. ↗

— Jane Siberry

#antenna #artist #barometer #because #i

I have certain moral parameters that I do not cross in writing; I don't write about adultery or kids having premarital sex. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#adultery #certain #cross #having #i

Shareholders have the right and obligation to set the parameters of corporate behavior within which management pursues profit. ↗

— Eliot Spitzer

#corporate #management #obligation #parameters #profit

I can't date women my own age any more - I hate going to cemeteries. ↗

— Cesar Romero

#any #cemeteries #date #going #hate

Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me. Going to bed at night saying we've done something wonderful, that's what matters to me. ↗