Metric Quotes

Canadians can easily 'pass for American' as long as we don't accidentally use metric measurements or apologize when hit by a car.

The real metric of success isn't the size of your bank account. It's the number of lives in whom you might be able to make a positive difference.

I'm not familiar with the metric system.

I frequently compose out the entire metric structure of a piece in modified cyclic form, where each cyclic revolution undergoes some form of 'variation' much as if measure lengths were concrete musical 'material.'

Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.