Latitude Quotes - Page 4

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

  Honore de Balzac

  Twelve, Widows, Handsome

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• I think that trying to invest through 535 people is a tough job, you know, and so I would give more latitude.

  Warren Buffett

  Jobs, Thinking, People

  "Warren Buffett: I Haven't Seen As Much Economic Fear In My Adult Lifetime". Interview With Charlie Rose, www.cnbc.com. October 1, 2008.

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• The president and the executive branch are always going to have greater latitude and greater authority when it comes to protecting America because sometimes you just have to respond quickly and not everything that is a danger can be publicized and be subject to open debate, but there have to be some guardrails.

  Barack Obama

  America, President, Branches

  "NPR's Exit Interview With President Obama". Interview with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. December 19, 2016.

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• I don't think fast enough on my feet in terms of the writing to change the script too much when I'm shooting it. I like to have it set and done and know that I feel good about it and I might add a few lines here and there while we're shooting, if I think of a new joke, I might toss it in, but for the most part, I try to stick to the written script and have all the latitude exist within that.

  Kenneth Lonergan

  Writing, Thinking, Feet

  "When the world feels dangerous, films showing the human experience are key, directors say". Interview with Mark Olsen and Yvonne Villarreal, www.latimes.com. January 5, 2017.

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• The Danes don't take themselves seriously at all and look for the joke in everything. Us Scots are on the same line of latitude and have the same amount of light, which may be why we have a similar sense of humour.

  Jamie Sives

  Light, Looks, Lines

  "On the verge" by Tom Templeton, www.theguardian.com. November 22, 2003.

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• But only that soul can be my friend which I encounter on the line of my own march, that soul to which I do not decline, and which does not decline me, but, native of the same celestial latitude, repeats in its own all my experience.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Soul, Encounters, Doe

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.315, Library of America

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• I actually take images of things and put them up around the wall and in a room. I set a room aside. It might be colors, it might be animals, or energy and words. And I'll just leave it there, so it begins to work on my subconscious when I think about the character. Which gives me some latitude to be really flexible and spontaneous but within the context of the character and the world of the character without having to think about it. Or I'll look at something or read something and let it work on my subconscious mind.

  Wesley Snipes

  Wall, Character, Animal

  Source: collider.com

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• Metaphysics, in whatever latitude the term be taken, is a science, or complement of sciences, exclusively occupied with mind.

  Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet

  Taken, Mind, Metaphysics

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• The states have authority to interpret the Constitution, enforce it, and protect the people from violations of it by the federal government In the first place, there is not a syllable in the plan under consideration which directly empowers the national courts to construe the laws according to the spirit of the Constitution, or which gives them any greater latitude in this respect than may be claimed by the courts of every State.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Law, Government, Giving

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• While the principles of our Constitution give just latitude to inquiry, every citizen faithful to it will deem embodied expressions of discontent and open outrages of law and patriotism as dishonorable as they are injurious

  Thomas Jefferson

  Expression, Law, Giving

  Thomas Jefferson, Richard Holland Johnston, Thomas Jefferson Memorial Association of the United States “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson”

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• With a historical novel you know that liberties are being taken. Since Walter Scott, we know that poetic license, dramatic license, that events been conflated and that liberties have been taken, characters ditto, dates rearranged. But people don't seem to understand that movies are fictions, they are dramatizations, at least historical movies, and we should accord the moviemakers some of the same understanding and latitude. When you go to a movie you know it's a dramatization and not history.

  Nicholas Meyer

  Taken, Character, Poetic License

  Source: collider.com

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• A bad guy in a movie has a lot of latitude for acting. He can walk up the wall, crawl across the ceiling, go piss in the corner and everybody will say, "Fantastic!" But somebody's going to have to catch that sucker. Somebody's going to have to play the guy who gets him in the end. And that's a better part.

  Harrison Ford

  Wall, Play, Guy

  "Star Wars Archive: Harrison Ford, Solo Artist". Interview with William Thomas, www.empireonline.com. June, 2002.

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• In civilization, as in a southern latitude, man degenerates at length, and yields to the incursion of more northern tribes.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Yield, Civilization

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.39, Xist Publishing

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• Incidentally, I am intrigued by how many European and Latin American writers expressed their political views in the columns they routinely wrote or write in the popular press, like Saramago, Vargas Llosa, and Eco. This strikes me as one way of avoiding opinionated fiction, and allowing your imagination a broader latitude. Similarly, fiction writers from places like India and Pakistan are commonly expected to provide primers to their country's histories and present-day conflicts. But we haven't had that tradition in Anglo-America.

  Pankaj Mishra

  Country, Latin, Writing

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The universe is no narrow thing and the order within it is not constrained by any latitude in its conception to repeat what exists in one part in any other part. Even in this world more things exist without our knowledge than with it and the order in creation which you see is that which you have put there, like a string in a maze, so that you shall not lose your way. For existence has its own order and that no man’s mind can compass, that mind itself being but a fact among others.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Men, Order, Mind

  Cormac McCarthy (2015). “Blood Meridian: Picador Classic”, p.258, Pan Macmillan

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• 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, and contrary tides... I mistook them for adulthood. Assuming they were a fixed feature in my life's voyage, I neglected to record their latitude, their longitude, their approach. Young ruddy fool. What wouldn't I give now for a never-changing map of the ever-constant ineffable? To possess, as it were, an atlas of clouds.

  David Mitchell

  Fog, Wind, Clouds

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• Below the 40th latitude there is no law; below the 50th no god; below the 60th no common sense and below the 70th no intelligence whatsoever.

  Kim Stanley

  Law, Common Sense, Common

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