A Quote by Tom Clancy

Washington D.C. is about 300 square miles surrounded by realty.

Tom Clancy

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About Miles Square Surrounded Washington

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Tom Clancy
American - Novelist
April 12, 1947 - October 1, 2013

Washington, or as I like to call it, 68 square miles surrounded by reality.

Scott Walker

Why would you want to shut down a nuclear plant, which requires at most about 1 square mile of land, to replace that power source with windmills, which would require 300 square miles of land to be paved over?

Stephen Moore

It is the vice of a vulgar mind to be thrilled by bigness, to think that a thousand square miles are a thousand times more wonderful than one square mile, and that a million square miles are almost the same as heaven.

E. M. Forster

San Francisco is 49 square miles surrounded by reality.

Paul Kantner

Washington, DC is 12 square miles bordered by reality.

Andrew Johnson

No investment on earth is so safe, so sure, so certain to enrich its owners as undeveloped realty. I always advise my friends to place their savings in realty near a growing city. There is no such savings bank anywhere.

Grover Cleveland

With 1 million square miles of the Arctic melting unexpectedly this summer, these are warning signs that we have to act and act now. Our addiction to Middle Eastern oil obviously has security implications, and we think it's about time to be generating Eastern Washington wind energy instead of sending our money to the sheikhs.

Jay Inslee

In New York, you are competing with Times Square lights and all of that, so you've got to be 300 pounds and crazy to get anyone's attention. Then, you can refine yourself. I always knew under those 300 pounds and tracksuits was a refined, slim, dignified man.

Al Sharpton

When I was a little kid, I used to walk miles and miles and miles and miles and miles and miles of railroad tracks.

Pam Houston

About the same time, I realized that it was suddenly going away from me and there I was, running at about 300 miles per hour. I tracked it for a little way, and then all of a sudden the damn thing just took off. It pulled about a 45 degree climbing turn and accelerated and just flat disappeared.

Deke Slayton

Don't plan to drive more than 300 miles a day.

Michael Frome

We have 45,000 square miles of geography in Ohio.

Kenneth Blackwell

Beliefs, and the feelings that we have about them, are the language that "speaks" to the quantum stuff that makes our realty.

Gregg Braden

General Washington had rather incautiously encamped the bulk of his army on Long Island - a large and plentiful district about two miles from the city of New York.

Mercy Otis Warren

General Washington had rather incautiously encamped the bulk of his army on Long Island - a large and plentiful district about two miles from the city of New York

Mercy Otis Warren

If you look into the past of the successful painter you will find square miles of canvas behind him.