Top 29 Quotes About Longitude And Latitude
#1. 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
#2. There was no joke I could make that was too offensive. I can actually remember at least one time where my mother told me something that, I was like, 'whoa!'
Seth MacFarlane
#3. No navigator has yet traced lines of latitude and longitude on the conjugal sea.
Honore De Balzac
#4. The lines of his face were the longitude and latitude of his life.
Louise Penny
#6. 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
#7. It is an odd paradox that a society, which can now speak openly and unabashedly about topics that were once unspeakable, still remains largely silent when it comes to mental illness
Glenn Close
#8. 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
#9. 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
#10. 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
#11. 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
#12. I saw you, I wanted you, I took you. You want me to fucking apologize for that?
Skye Warren
#13. Handsome widows, after a twelve-month, enjoy a latitude and longitude without limit.
Honore De Balzac
#14. Djuna concerned only with the longitude, and latitude and altitude of human beings in relation to each other.
Anais Nin
#15. People have more fun if they don't eat so much they have to be taken home in an ambulance.
Ina Garten
#16. It's always a pleasure to talk about someone else's work.
Chuck Close
#17. 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
#18. Paradoxically, the few eras of peace were times when men of war had high influence. The Pax Romana was enforced by Caesar's Legions. The Pax Brittanica was enforced by the Royal Navy and His Majesty's Forces.
Jerry Pournelle
#19. 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
#20. 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
#21. To become a lawyer you must discard your ethics and become an eloquent devil that views justice as god.
Kane Morgan
#22. - but then I wonder what Latitude or Longitude I've got to?
Lewis Carroll
#23. We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line.
Langston Hughes
#24. There is no other way to start the season than to win the Daytona 500.
Jimmie Johnson
#25. When you live in Texas, every single time you see snow it?s magical.
Pamela Ribon
#26. 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
#27. She shook her head in perplexity. "I'll never know where you got the idea that you were destined for greatness." She dropped the rest of the rabbit in the pot and begun to clean the underside of its skin. She would use the fur. "You certainly didn't inherit it from your forebears.
Ken Follett
#28. Women, are a map, Avik. You've got to understand their longitude, and how much latitude you can take.
Walter Russell
#29. In my imagination, the Editor meditated in a mountain-cave, espoused the rules of grammar, and frowned upon speculative fiction.
Josh Malerman
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