Latitude Quotations

All movies, when they're about the music business, tend to have a bit of a wide latitude in terms of how things really were.

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.

The First Lady is such a fascinating office to hold. You're not elected, but it's very much official. You can see the latitude of power of that office.

The teller of a mirthful tale has latitude allowed him. We are content with less than absolute truth.

The latitude and longitudinal lines of where you are born determine your opportunity in life, and it's not equal. We may have been created equal, but we're not born equal. It's a lot to do with luck and you have to pass that on.

The regions of the North Pole situated within the eighty-fourth degree of north latitude have not yet been utilized, for the very good reason that they have not yet been discovered.

I wish the Legislature would give us the latitude to take these raises at a later date or take a smaller amount. It really puts the monkey on our backs. If we don't take the raise, we run the risk of not receiving another one for four or five years. But if we take them, there's always going to be this perception from the public that we're stuffing our pockets full of money when we have bills to pay.

On Earth, the bottoms of these cracks can house organisms in a much more pleasant environment than the surface at large. Obviously, if such communities thrive or thrived on Mars, some of the evidence may well be at the bottom of these cracks. We have much imaging evidence of these terrains on Mars for comparison to the similar terrains here on Earth, not just at the poles but many other high latitude and high altitude places.

Policy does not state pepper spray is prohibited. Schools have wide latitude how they deal with it.

Imagine how curious it would be if beyond Earth's poles, clouds existed only at the latitude that crosses New Zealand, Argentina and Chile.

I will have no circles except the zodiac, on which I will have the true latitude and longitude of each planet pointed out by its proper index.

I wrote my first books the way people would write science fiction, because they gave me much more latitude to invent situations.

It can only be categorized as par for the course in the N.B.A.. It's been a wild year. Antonio is under contract so he really doesn't have a whole lot of latitude right now.

Members of the board, I think you need to give me the latitude to do what I see is fit, ... You can trust me. I've proven that to you.

We have a little bit more latitude this year. We want to stay with the best player available. Everybody says it, but we really want to stay true to that.

When you're writing personal stories, you have to be totally uncompromising - to the extent that you can be - about yourself. I know that if I am uber-uncompromising with myself, that gives me some latitude to write about others.

We believe that it's no coincidence that Titan's south polar cap of smog extends from the pole to 40 degrees south latitude -- exactly where the methane cloud band appears.

When you walk in that theater, you know it's entertainment, you know you have to suspend your disbelief. You're allowed greater latitude in filmed entertainment. Look at (Steven) Spielberg's new movie, Munich . It's anchored to a book (George Jonas' Vengeance ) that has largely been discredited.

We think that array of issues in each student's admission will give us the kind of latitude we need to recruit a world-class tuba player, a world-class designer, a world-class athlete to our program.

Often they don't take advantage of the latitude they have. They spend a lot of their early career trying to be the - official version - of a reporter. It's all about replicating a kind of stodgy form that already exists.

Despite ground fog that obscures part of the surface in these images, we can see much more surface detail than we've ever seen before, which suggests that the 75-degree south latitude landing zone is quite a bit more rugged and geologically diverse than we had previously thought.

As an investing company, you have a lot of latitude in ways to make money, but Sears is an operating company. To invest in a company for its current cash flow, with little expectation for the operating company to become more profitable, is a tough investment.

always allowed local policy-makers wide latitude in determining how best to achieve legitimate public goals.

In many ways, it's easier to write a book. You have more latitude with structure, and you have the freedom to luxuriate within the internal lives and musings of your characters. But where a screenplay does not always demand great prose, a novel lives or dies by it.

I learned a highly valuable lesson in Vancouver about European players. You have to give your stars . . . the latitude to do extraordinary things.

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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 the journey's end. The law, like the traveler, must be ready for the morrow. It must have a principle of growth.

The Fed chairman has a lot of latitude to do things the way he wants to. I don't see why he wouldn't carry the day the way he wants to.

Generally once someone takes the stand, most judges allow a wide latitude for cross-examination and certainly anything that bears on their credibility is often fair game.

This is a very favorable report. In the context of what we've seen in the recent past, the Fed is right to say that inflation has been quiescent. It gives them more latitude to forestall an inevitable rate hike.

They will still go. Absolutely. Definitely. There's no question about it. They now have a little latitude to space the timing of the increases, but there's no question they will move.

The great thing I like about the sci-fi genre is there's a lot of different latitude for a lot of different kinds of behavior. You can be a very larger-than-life villain, or a very naturalistic villain, and all of it seems to fit.

This morning 40,000 of them turned up missing. Reports indicate that the birds have abandoned their wintering grounds in Delaware and that snow geese are showing up in New York. It is unclear whether the birds that stopped here briefly and then left recently still are somewhere at this same latitude or if they have pushed north. It would be somewhat early for large numbers of snows to be north of us but the movements of these birds is hard to predict. As soon as conditions permit they will usually try to push north, but if they encounter much snow or ice they will again retreat southward.

There's been a long-term interest in why it is that high latitude climate seems to be warming more rapidly than the rest of the world. Basically, I thought that maybe vegetation would be having a large influence, but the bottom line of that paper is that snowmelt swamps the vegetation.

It's a unique phenomenon because hurricanes don't normally form at that latitude and with those temperatures.

We had the latitude to negotiate any additional right of way if we wanted to change the alignment of road, which we did. That was a new experience, and it worked out pretty well.

We give our firefighters broad latitude to make decisions regarding their safety.

It's basically a troop call from the chairman. Some commanders will have latitude to let their troops come out and take part in the event. But it'll be based on the ops tempo for that particular unit.

No navigator has yet traced lines of latitude and longitude on the conjugal sea.

I think overall it is better for businesses to stay private because you have more latitude, more freedom.

They say your attitude determines your latitude ...

Women, are a map, Avik. You've got to understand their longitude, and how much latitude you can take.