Quotes About Latitude And Longitude

#1. 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

#2. Give children beauty, not the record of bloody slaughters and barbarous brawls, as they call history, or of the latitude and longitude of places nobody cares to visit, as they call geography.

Oscar Wilde

#3. Handsome widows, after a twelve-month, enjoy a latitude and longitude without limit.

Honore De Balzac

#4. People used to pooh-pooh the idea of a check-in, saying that this wasn't interesting. But when you have 3 billion of those data points, you can take any latitude and longitude anywhere in the world, and I'll tell you what is interesting now, 20 minutes from now, and 6 hours from now.

Dennis Crowley

#5. What poor, mean trash this whole business of human virtue is! A mere matter, for the most part, of latitude and longitude, and geographical position, acting with natural temperament. The greater part is nothing but an accident.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

#6. No navigator has yet traced lines of latitude and longitude on the conjugal sea.

Honore De Balzac

#7. Every filmmaker knows that when you make a book into a movie, the first thing you have to do is kill the book, unfortunately. You've got to recreate it.

Sam Raimi

#8. Women, are a map, Avik. You've got to understand their longitude, and how much latitude you can take.

Walter Russell

#9. I play music - I write my own music, but I play music, just background music really, and just let it happen.

Anthony Hopkins

#10. 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

#11. - but then I wonder what Latitude or Longitude I've got to?

Lewis Carroll

#12. 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

#13. A way a lone a last a loved a long the riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and Environs.

James Joyce

#14. The pleasure I gave my lovers was a four fifth of the pleasure I experienced.

Giacomo Casanova

#15. Djuna concerned only with the longitude, and latitude and altitude of human beings in relation to each other.

Anais Nin

#16. I have all the world around me. My walls are 180 East Longitude and 90 North and 90 South Latitude ... Adventure is my guidon.

L. Ron Hubbard

#17. At the close of the day when the hamlet is still, and mortals the sweets of forgetfulness prove, when naught but the torrent is heard on the hill, and naught but the nightingale's song in the grove.

James Beattie

#18. When I'm playful I use the meridians of longitude and parallels of latitude for a seine, and drag the Atlantic Ocean for whales. I scratch my head with the lightning and purr myself to sleep with the thunder.

Mark Twain

#19. I propose to construct a new chart for navigating, on which I shall delineate all the sea and lands of the Ocean in their proper positions under their bearings; and further, I propose to prepare a book, and to put down all as it were in a picture, by latitude from the equator, and western longitude.

Christopher Columbus

#20. Commander to teacher. Why not call me Cato the Elder, and really insult me while you're at it? (Julian)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#21. The lines of his face were the longitude and latitude of his life.

Louise Penny

#22. In the '70s, you had to come up with an album every year whether you were ready or not.

Nick Lowe

#23. This is it, the geographical limit of how far I'll go for Ossie. We are learning longitude and latitude in school, and it makes my face burn that I can graph the coordinates of my own love and courage with such damning precision.

Karen Russell