Longitude Quotes

13 quotes by 13 authors

• 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… — Mark Twain
• When young Galileo, then a student at Pisa, noticed one day during divine service a chandelier swinging backwards and forwards, and convinced himself, by counting… — Hermann von Helmholtz
• Women, are a map, Avik. You've got to understand their longitude, and how much latitude you can take. — Walter Russell
• Earlier maps had underestimated the distances to other continents and exaggerated the outlines of individual nations. Now global dimensions could be set, with authority, by… — Dava Sobel
• 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
• Where in this small-talking world can I find A longitude with no platitude? — Christopher Fry
• People are using GPS systems to find millions of little hidden objects throughout the world - often as simple as a piece of Tupperware hidden… — Ken Jennings
• All over India, all over the world, as the sun or the shadow of darkness moves from east to west, the call to prayer moves… — Vikram Seth
• The history of religions, of which Christianity is a transcendent element, awaits the deepest study. It requires Bibles to free from Bibles. Comparative theology is… — Amos Bronson Alcott
• Scramblers deactivated, then? Well here's some good news. You feel no pain. You will go straight to a hospital. Remember nothing of this place. And… — Joss Whedon
• Three or four times only in my youth did I glimpse the Joyous Isles, before they were lost to fogs, depressions, cold fronts, ill winds,… — David Mitchell
• Scientists say every action initiates an equal and opposite reaction. I say that's just the start. I say every action initiates a most unequal and… — Ellen Hopkins
• Existing rules and principles can give us our present location, our bearings, our latitude and longitude. The inn that shelters for the night is not… — Benjamin Cardozo

Who Wrote These Longitude Quotes

13 authors contributed a total of 13 Longitude Quotes as follows:

• 1 Longitude Quote by Christopher Fry
• 1 Longitude Quote by Ken Jennings
• 1 Longitude Quote by Vikram Seth
• 1 Longitude Quote by Amos Bronson Alcott
• 1 Longitude Quote by Joss Whedon
• 1 Longitude Quote by David Mitchell
• 1 Longitude Quote by Ellen Hopkins
• 1 Longitude Quote by Benjamin Cardozo
• 1 Longitude Quote by Mark Twain
• 1 Longitude Quote by Hermann von Helmholtz
• 1 Longitude Quote by Walter Russell
• 1 Longitude Quote by Dava Sobel
• 1 Longitude Quote by L. Ron Hubbard