Dava Quotes

#1. Any clock that can track this sideral schedule proves itself as perfect as God's magnificent clockwork.
Dava Sobel

Dava Sobel

#2. New hair and clothes don't change ugly.

Kelly Moran

#3. Turning points in my life ... the bush, the trails, lakes, waterfalls ... moving camp from one wonderful lake to another ... the companionship of a great individual, a wonder with canoe, axe and fish line.

Arthur Lismer

#4. Consider everything belonging to another as if it were your own, and so treat it.

G.I. Gurdjieff

#5. One degree of longitude equals four minutes of time the world over, but in terms of distance, one degree shrinks from sixty-eight miles at the Equator to virtually nothing at the poles.

Dava Sobel

#6. I am a failed architect, if I'm honest. I got a degree in art history and was about to get another degree, in architecture, but realized I would be terrible at building things because I've got really bad spatial awareness.

Hannah Ware

#7. Don't fear the nighttime, cause the monsters know that you're divine. Don't fear the sunshine, cause everything's better in the summertime

Michael Franti

#8. Divorce doesn't fit my cookie-cutter image.

Lindsey Vonn

#9. He wrested the world's whereabouts from the stars, and locked the secret in a pocket watch.

Dava Sobel

#10. I have no way to ask about that. I have no elegant way of stepping into your heart to ask about that without tracking in filth. So I will wait, someday, when you want to tell me.. tell me then. I'll wait until then.

Josef Kucera

#11. The zero-degree parallel of latitude is fixed by the laws of nature, while the zero-degree meridian of longitude shifts like the sands of time.

Dava Sobel

#12. As a former NFL athlete, my quality of play on the field was in direct correlation to how I took care of my body. Bulletproof has many practical principles and tips on how, as men, we can thrive and not just survive as we get older. This is a must read.

Devon McDonald

#13. If this wasn't automotive foreplay, what was?

Ashleigh Raine

#14. Having established itself securely on shipboard, the chronometer was soon taken for granted, like any other essential thing, and the whole question of its contentious history, along with the name of its original inventor, dropped from the consciousness of the seamen who used it every day.

Dava Sobel

#15. No matter how many good deeds we preform, they aren't the ticket to earning God's favor. God graces us in spite of what we do in this life, not because of.

Bill Courtney

#16. Today, the latitude and longitude lines govern with more authority than I could have imagined forty-odd years ago, for they stay fixed as the world changes its configuration underneath them - with continents adrift across a widening sea, and national boundaries repeatedly redrawn by war or peace.

Dava Sobel

#17. The British Parliament, in its famed Longitude Act of 1714, set the highest bounty of all, naming a prize equal to a king's ransom (several million dollars in today's currency) for a "Practicable and Useful" means of determining longitude.

Dava Sobel

#18. Believe in yourself and you can change the world.

Ray Wilkins

#19. The select natures who pant after the ideal, and find nothing in pantaloons or petticoats great enough to command their reverence and love, are curiously in unison with the narrowest and pettiest.

George Eliot

#20. Don't feel sad. The only certain thing in life ... is death itself. She's free from her body and her soul is ready to take on another new life, so she can continue on until she becomes light, just like the stars.

Grace Fiorre

#21. When we do the hard, intimate work of friendship, we bring a little more of the divine into daily life.

Shauna Niequist

#22. In the wake of the Longitude Act, the concept of "discovering the longitude" became a synonym for attempting the impossible.

Dava Sobel