Famous Quotes & Sayings

State and Homeland Security are still resolving if this will be a proximity or distance read.

Our goal going down there was to be within striking distance of top (4A) team in the state.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to justify by logic, but justifying themselves as paths when they lead somewhere, since they open up for man his inner distance.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

My senses of space, of distance, and of direction entirely vanished. When I looked for the ground I sometimes looked down, sometimes up, sometimes left, sometimes right. I thought I was very high up when I would suddenly be thown to earth in a near vertical spin. I thought I was very low to the ground and I was pulled up to 3,000 feet in two minutes by the 500-horsepower motor. It danced, it pushed, it tossed. . . . Ah! la la!

Becca Fitzpatrick

I was tired of admiring your legs from a distance.

Becca Fitzpatrick

Tell me what's going on here. Why can I hear your voice inside my head and why did you say you came to school for me?" "I was tired of admiring your legs from a distance.

Bill Bryson

There seemed to be a mystifying universal conspiracy among textbook authors to make certain the material they dealt with never strayed too near the realm of the mildly interesting and was always at least a long-distance phone call from the frankly interesting.

Bill Bryson

Every twenty minutes on the Appalachian Trail, Katz and I walked farther than the average American walks in a week. For 93 percent of all trips outside the home, for whatever distance or whatever purpose, Americans now get in a car. On average the total walking of an American these days - that's walking of all types: from car to office, from office to car, around the supermarket and shopping malls - adds up to 1.4 miles a week, barely 350 yards a day.

Bill Bryson

Distance changes utterly when you take the world on foot. A mile becomes a long way, two miles literally considerable, ten miles whopping, fifty miles at the very limits of conception. The world, you realize, is enormous in a way that only you and a small community of fellow hikers know. Planetary scale is your little secret.

Beth Simone Noveck

The same technologies enabling us to work together at a distance are creating the expectation to do better at governing ourselves.

Bill Vaughan

Journalism, like history, has no therapeutic value; it is better able to diagnose than to cure, and it provides society with a primitive means of psychoanalysis that allows the patient to judge the distance between fantasy and reality.

That was the first time I've ever done distance running. Running 3.1 miles has massively helped with endurance.

That win in the 400 was huge for us. He is supposed to be a distance guy, but he has a lot of range. He had a great day.

Thats the thing about the Internet. You can put a lot of distance between yourself and the person youre trying to rip off.

I was pretty excited when The Little Red Wagon set the world's distance record in 1967.

Harry Shearer

I think it's the distance between what we're supposed to think their job entails and what their job really entails.

It has been a long time since a shot putter has thrown that kind of distance for Lead-Deadwood.

I think this is more this filly's deal. The distance is what she's going to appreciate. We got away with it last time because she was very fresh.

Dan Quayle

Mars is essentially in the same orbit. Mars is somewhat the same distance from the Sun, which is very important. We have seen pictures where there are canals, we believe, and water. If there is water, that means there is oxygen. If there is oxygen, then we can breathe.

I was hooked. I figured if I can do that, an Olympic distance triathlon, then I could do better the more events I did,

I think on fillies, seven pounds is huge. You might not think so, but on fillies going a distance of ground, it is.

I don't feel a real distance from people, so I don't think that there is a lack of links. I do sense, at least where I live, a lot of rudeness.

Sathya Baba

I am in You,You are in Me,There is no distance or distinction.

Alex Honnold

I feel that a lot of human spirituality stems from the belief that we are unique and special in the universe, but maybe we are just what happens when there is proper temperature and proper distance from the right type of star.

From near thy vicinity, from near thy distance (do I call), remain here, do not follow; do not follow the Fathers of yore! Firmly do I fasten thy life's breath.

I think it makes a big difference. Especially going a distance and on fillies, it helps fillies out a lot.

I think it makes a big difference, ... Especially going a distance and on fillies, it helps fillies out a lot.

Because of the power of the Tolkien name, people will travel from remarkable distances to see this production.

I thought we would be okay if we stayed within striking distance in the first quarter and we did. We were able to take the lead in the second half. This will be such a great learning experience for the younger girls on the team.

It is a long distance that the seismic waves have to travel before they reach Mexico City, ... and that reduces the amplitude of the waves. It is very much reduced at this distance.

Hogs are extremely sensitive to hunting pressure, and they can move quite a distance in a short time. If hogs receive a lot of hunting pressure, they'll pick up and move, often a mile or two away. So when you have hogs on your property, all your neighbors soon will have hogs on their lands too, whether they want them or not.

He's a threat to take it the distance every snap. That's a special gift to have on offense. He's an explosive player.

Joseph Kennedy

If it got up that high, I'd back out of tournaments (far away), just for distance alone. It's not worth it.