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«Ben Franklin may have discovered electricity- but it is the man who invented the meter who made the money»
Author: Earl Warren (Judge, Politician) | About: Money | Keywords: ben, electricity, franklin, meter, meters
«Atomic power will make electricity too cheap to meter»
«I figure I had no business being here this long anyway, so what do you care how old I am? I've been on borrowed time for years. You know my old saying: live it up, the meter's running. I've always said that if you don't have fun while you're here, then it's your fault. You only get to do this once.»
«The 'not-giving-a-fuck' meter is as far into the red-zone as ever before.»
«Life is like a taxi. The meter just keeps a-ticking whether you are getting somewhere or just standing still.»
«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 don't even know how to use a parking meter, let alone a phone box.»
«A hospital bed is a parked taxi with the meter running.»
«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 power.»