As the Earth continues to slow, leap seconds will grow more common. Eventually we will need one every year, and then even more. Scientists could have avoided these awkward skips by choosing instead to adjust the duration of the second itself. Who would notice? That is what they did, in fact, until 1955.
James Gleick
SlowGrowYearEarthWillLeap
The most dangerous thing in the world is to try to leap a chasm in two jumps.
David Lloyd George
WorldDangerousTryLeapTwoMost
It is by attempting to reach the top in a single leap that so much misery is produced in the world.
William Cobbett
WorldReachLeapTopSingleMisery
I've wanted to write ever since I've gotten into comics. I wrote little things for myself when I was doing mini-comics and things, before becoming a professional. But I just figure at some point or another, I've got to make the leap. I just have to do it.
Lee Bermejo
MyselfLittle ThingsDoingLeap
Sometimes a leap of faith doesn't pan out.
Edwin Catmull
FaithSometimesLeapOutPan
Since 9/11, there has been a huge leap in people wanting to get personally involved in public service and international affairs.
Samantha Power
ServicePeoplePublic ServiceLeap
I once pitched this show that was just like 'Quantum Leap,' in terms of the set-up, and I got a pass because they said 'Quantum Leap' didn't work, even though it was on for six or seven seasons. You can't say 'Quantum Leap' didn't work!
Adam Green
WorkSeasonsYouSaidSayLeap
Doing is a quantum leap from imagining.
Barbara Sher
LeadershipDoingLeapQuantum
Godspell was a good leap for me, it was a good shop window.
Jeremy Irons
GoodMeWindowLeapShop
I remember watching 'Quantum Leap' when I was a kid with my family, so I think that's fun and nostalgic.
Matt Lanter
FamilyFunThinkRememberLeapKid
Cohabitation seems a greater leap in cities because it's all the harder to extract oneself if things turn sour. It's what keeps otherwise functional adults living with their mothers.
Sloane Crosley
LivingLeapTurnThingsMothers
Never try to leap from a standstill.
Mason Cooley
TryLeapNeverStandstill
To this day, 'The Duke and I' remains particularly close to my heart; I felt it was the novel in which my writing took a huge leap forward.
Julia Quinn
HeartDayWritingForwardLeapDuke
I'm happy to feed the squirrels - tree rats with the agility of point guards - but in fair weather, they frighten my finches. They leap from snowbank to porch to feeder and stuff their cheek pouches with chickadee feed.
Donald Hall
TreeHappyWeatherLeapFairPorch
Just in relation to women, it's not that huge an imaginative leap to see the connection between the Taliban and the Catholic Church.
Peter Mullan
WomenChurchConnectionLeapSee
'Vert' is, like, straight to the top, like a vertical leap.
Lil Uzi Vert
LeapTopVerticalLikeStraight
Making the leap from the best sunglasses company in the world to a world-class brand is a natural transition.
James Jannard
BestWorldSunglassesBrandLeap
Once we become a multiplanet species, our chances to live long and prosper will take a huge leap skyward.
David Grinspoon
LiveLongWillBecomeLeapChances
You grow up in a Sicilian household, becoming an actor is not a big leap.
Vincent Schiavelli
GrowYouActorLeapGrow UpBig
Philosophy used to be a field that had content, but then 'natural philosophy' became physics, and physics has only continued to make inroads. Every time there's a leap in physics, it encroaches on these areas that philosophers have carefully sequestered away to themselves, and so then you have this natural resentment on the part of philosophers.
Lawrence M. Krauss
TimePhilosophyYouPhysicsLeap
It really is no different in the way that we make records and shoot music videos. I don't think of the movie as being a great leap out of my current profession.
Wayne Coyne
MusicGreatThinkWayLeapOut
When I see things in the world that leap out at me, I want to make use of them in fiction. Maybe every writer does that. It just depends on what you claim or appropriate as yours.
Rachel Kushner
MeWorldYouWantLeapSee
Anybody can leap off a building.
Daniel Craig
BuildingLeapOffAnybody
What I'm suggesting to you is that this could be a renaissance. We may be on the cusp of a future which could provide a tremendous leap forward for humanity.
Jeremy Rifkin
FutureForwardHumanityYouLeap
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