Tape Measure Passed

Famous quotes containing the words tape, measure and/or passed:

    “We shall see but little way if we require to understand what we see. How few things can a man measure with the tape of his understanding! How many greater things might he be seeing in the meanwhile!”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “I candidly confess that I have ever looked on Cuba as the most interesting addition which could ever be made to our system of States. The control which, with Florida, this island would give us over the Gulf of Mexico, and the countries and isthmus bordering on it, as well as all those whose waters flow into it, would fill up the measure of our political well-being.”
    —Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)

    “People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around—the music and the ideas.”
    —Bob Dylan [Robert Allen Zimmerman] (b. 1941)