There's something wrong with a mother who washes out a measuring cup with soap and water after she's only measured water in it.
When we had a great defense at Tampa Bay, we always measured our defenses against the best quarterbacks.
Many feel discouraged because they have not measured up to their potential.
The former measured six feet and an inch in his stockings, and, without a single pound of cumbrous flesh about him, weighed a hundred and eighty. The latter was an inch shorter than his rival, and ten pounds lighter; but he was much the most active of the two.
The waves travel with the velocity of light and slightly squeeze and stretch space transverse to the direction of their motion. The first waves we measured came from the collision of two black holes each about 30 times the mass of our sun.
I was convinced that the trading frequency measured a fundamental heartbeat of financial markets. Clearly it reflected the flow of information. It turns out also to be closely related to measures of liquidity.
Remember, a real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.
The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure.
A measuring jug is also vital when cooking rice, as this is always measured by volume rather than by weight.
The value of life can be measured by how many times your soul has been deeply stirred.
That inefficiency is masked because growth and progress are measured in money, and money does not give us information about ecological systems, it only gives information about financial systems.
Like all writers, he measured the achievements of others by what they had accomplished, asking of them that they measure him by what he envisaged or planned.
If you could equate the amount of time and effort put in mentally and physically into succeeding on the baseball field and measured it by the dirt on your uniform, mine would have been black.
I think all those people I did stories about measured their own success by the joy their work was giving them.
Moreover, photography has made it possible to fix these images and now provides us with a permanent record of each observed spectrum, which can be measured out at any time.
Motherhood runs its own way and is measured with another watch that, unfortunately, we can't control.
The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it.
It may be that there is no such thing as an equable motion, whereby time may be accurately measured. All motions may be accelerated or retarded, but the true, or equable, progress of absolute time is liable to no change.
Money is something that can be measured; art is not. It's all subjective.
As a diabetic, I'm a walking picnic. I have to eat measured amounts of food at certain times.
It's like this: The time between having an idea and its public launch is measured in days not months, weeks not years.
In the initial stages of my journey, I was trying to travel too fast by horse by sticking to a 'five days on and two off' schedule. On the steppe, time is not measured by days, weeks or hours but the fall of the seasons and condition of the animals.
Hitchcock's got a very interesting voice; it's a very controlled, measured rhythm that's quite slow and, in that sense, also felt quite controlling in its pace. He retained something from his childhood, that London sound, as well as adopting some of the L.A. sounds... All of this helps you create the character.
Love is space and time measured by the heart.
Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells and sights, before the dark hour of reason grows.
Trump's juvenilia stands in stark contrast to Obama's measured words.
Damn the great executives, the men of measured merriment, damn the men with careful smiles oh, damn their measured merriment.
The really interesting stuff about virtuality is what you can measure with it. Because what you can measure in virtuality is everything. Every single thing that every single person who's ever played in a game has ever done can be measured.
The situation in the sciences is this: A concept or an idea which cannot be measured or cannot be referred directly to experiment may or may not be useful. It need not exist in a theory.
I measured my success by how many clients I had and how many billable hours I had.
No writer must be measured by a word or paragraph. He is to be measured by his work - by the tendency, not of one line, but by the tendency of all.
The influence of a mother upon the lives of her children cannot be measured. They know and absorb her example and attitudes when it comes to questions of honesty, temperance, kindness, and industry.
The American television industry is a Darwinian environment where success is usually measured in inches, not yards. That is, for most TV media, audiences have gotten so small that one measures 'victories' in tenths of a point - as in, a 2.2 percent share is a great leap over a 2.1 percent share.
The size of the effect that we measured from the first event, the merging of two black holes, the actual size of the signal was about one thousandth the size of a proton, what it did to our apparatus.
The political, social, and spiritual impact of the life example set by Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela might be measured in part by the profound and unique gestures made by people in different countries to honor his life upon learning of his death.
Grit can't be measured on pop quizzes, but it can often predict long-term success more than mere intelligence.