Longitude Act Quotes & Sayings

For even the best err in words when they are meant to mean most delicate and almost inexpressible things. — Rainer Maria Rilke

For a heterosexual man - I know that's a hotly debated topic, but only among those who don't know me - I have grown to really appreciate fashion. — Rodger Berman

When politicians like Sen. Joseph Lieberman target video game violence, perhaps it is to distract attention from the material conditions that give rise to a culture of domestic violence, the economic policies that make it harder for most of us to own our own homes, and the development practices which pave over the old grasslands and forests. Video games did not make backyard play spaces disappear; rather, they offer children some way to respond to domestic confinement. — Henry Jenkins

What do we mean by setting a man free? You cannot free a man who dwells in a desert and is an unfeeling brute. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

With every project you do, you bring out a part of yourself, and it seems to be quite a good way of expanding a person. — Kate Beckinsale

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

I really look to past generations. I think my grandparents, friends' grandparents, or even parents of my older friends grew up in a time when they used everything. There was a more mindful way of moving through life. You didn't waste. — Elizabeth Rogers

In the wake of the Longitude Act, the concept of "discovering the longitude" became a synonym for attempting the impossible. — Dava Sobel

You're a sandwich short of a picnic, mate. — Jennifer Bernard

His education had been neither scientific nor classical - merely "Modern." The severities both of abstraction and of high human tradition had passed him by: and he had neither peasant shrewdness nor aristocratic honour to help him. He was a man of straw, a glib examinee in subjects that require no exact knowledge (he had always done well on Essays and General Papers) and the first hint of a real threat to his bodily life knocked him sprawling. — C.S. Lewis

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