"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 the celestial spheres. Indeed, King Louis XIV of France, confronted with a revised map of his domain based on accurate longitude measurements, reportedly complained that he was losing more territory to his astronomers than to his enemies."

-- Dava Sobel

#Kings Quotes #Distance Quotes #Enemy Quotes

“I toned down my accent at school; otherwise, people would pick on me.”

Source : Interview with Andrew Williams, metro.co.uk. October 26, 2009.
“I love photography, I love food, and I love traveling, and to put those three things together would just be the ultimate dream.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Well, I never heard it before, but it sounds uncommon nonsense.”
“The writer's first affinity is not to a loyalty, a tradition, a morality, a religion, but to life itself, and to its representation in language.”

Source : FaceBook post by Jayne Anne Phillips from Oct 12, 2012
“I said might. But that's a pretty small might. Tiny.”
“Violence and arms can never resolve the problems of men.”
“I take it that he is more than just a woodcutter. "No one is just a woodcutter, " replied Terence. "A person's always more than his present occupation.”

Source : Gerald Morris (2008). “The Savage Damsel and the Dwarf”, p.143, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Direction is a thousand choices, a thousand decisions a day. And having a vision of what you want, and then knowing what you want frame-by-frame, second-by-second... if you don't have it laid out in the design and in the way the actor performs it, it's not going to happen.”

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