Distance Measurement Quotes

Kilometers are shorter than miles. Save gas, take your next trip in kilometers.

We laid the track on a smooth stretch of ground about one hundred feet north of the new building.

Ninety feet between home plate and first base may be the closest man has ever come to perfection.

Being the composer of 'Minecraft' is basically like imagining the distance between earth and moon.

You know if you walked around the world, your hat would travel thirty-one feet farther than your shoes?

A doctor says to a man, "You want to improve your love life? You need to get some exercise. Run ten miles a day." Two weeks later, the man called the doctor. The doctor says, "How is your love life since you have been running?" "I don't know, I'm 140 miles away!"

I am lost if I attempt to take count of chronology. When I think over the past, I am like a person whose eyes cannot properly measure distances and is liable to think things extremely remote which on examination prove to be quite near.

It should take you about four seconds to walk from here to the door. I'll give you two.

There is two feet of space between us, and about a mile of separation.

We live in a modest system, a galaxy called the Milky Way. If we named every star in the Milky Way and put them in the Hollywood telephone directory and stacked those telephone directories up, we'd have a pile of telephone directories 70 miles high.

Our impatience of miles, when we are in a hurry; but it is still best that a mile should have seventeen hundred and sixty yards.

There is a very modest side to me too. How far away from me is the image? It's about 20 steps away.

The ref was vertically 15 yards away.

Time-space as commonly understood, in the sense of the distance measured between two time-points, is the result of time calculation.

My son's 18, 142 pounds and hits it 40 (yards) by me. Instead of to the pin, he's lasering the distance between me and him.

We don't know how to identify intelligence over interstellar distances, so what we do instead is use technology for a proxy.

When I want to quickly take a measurement, I use my Stanley Laser Distance Measurer. You just put it on the wall, and it shoots a laser and instantly tells you the exact distance to the other wall within a fraction of an inch.

A wrong understanding is interested in precisionism. That is it tries to say that the Bible can't be telling the truth if it says that Jesus was such and such a distance from some place or other and in fact the distance is off by 15% or something like that. There are all kinds of grounded figures and so forth.

The shortest distance between two points is under construction.

You can measure distance by time. 'How far away is it?' 'Oh about 20 minutes.' But it doesn't work the other way. 'When do you get off work?' 'Around 3 miles.'

By my reckoning, I'm about 100 kilometers from Pathfinder. Technically it's called “Carl Sagan Memorial Station.” But with all due respect to Carl, I can call it whatever the hell I want. I'm the King of Mars.

The Nike Fuel Band is interesting - it measures your movements and how far you've walked and how hard you've worked that day. I prefer using when I travel. It's a fun way to see how far I've walked - how many steps I've taken when I'm walking around different cities.

Sailed this day nineteen leagues, and determined to count less than the true number, that the crew might not be dismayed if the voyage should prove long.

The distance between the limousine and the gutter is a short one.

They trained mostly by time periods, checking their pace for known distance only on special occasions.