We're still with the Stones, and nothing moon-related (or earth related either really, I might have got a bit creative with one of my word descriptions).
At a fixed point in time you find yourself in a place legendarily founded by descendants of Numitor, it is becoming to behave in a fashion reminiscent of the people who inhabit the onetime seat of a great empire.
(No googling, it'd be too easy)
I'm not bad, I'm just drawn that way. - Jessica Rabbit
Is that the one you were looking for, or was she doing a riff on an earlier quote?
This got me delving into quantum physics, but it can't be that abstruse.
Is it something about Show and Tell?
1.146 days is a thousandth of a leap-year cycle (1461 days).
So, to rephrase:
If one were to assign time as a value to renderings in both visual expression and direct communication, the former could be said to be valued at a thousand times the latter.