Quotes about distance
distance ocean talking
My friend asked me I ever swam with dolphins. I was like, 'Yeah, of course. What distance are we talking about from the dolphins? Because the last time I was in the ocean, I'm pretty sure I swam with most of them.' Demetri Martin
distance two lines
The shortest distance between two idiots is a conga line.
distance school long
Members of your family might say they are working hard all day long, while you are off at school or clarinet lessons, but the only way to know this for sure is to follow them at a discreet distance. Daniel Handler
distance years pie
Pies were invented 12,000 years ago by the Egyptians. It was an easy way to preserve food that would be carried over long distances. They were like ancient Slim Jims. Craig Ferguson
distance sadness intuition
I want the following word: splendor, splendor is fruit in all its succulence, fruit without sadness. I want vast distances. My savage intuition of myself. Clarice Lispector
distance way los-angeles
I was on my own, living in Los Angeles, and I didn't know my way around, so I thought I'd walk everywhere. Well, that certainly got me noticed. Any woman who walks any distance at all is automatically regarded as a hooker! Ashley Jensen
distance writing intellectual
I wouldn't describe that "position" as "parasitic." I'd describe that experience as "edifying." I don't merely write from a critical intellectual distance. I actually live around here. Bruce Sterling
distance drifted expect found people places quite search
She could be a lot of places right now, it could be a very big search area. We have found people before that have drifted quite a distance out here, places where you just wouldn't expect them to be, and it's never been surefire.
distance events middle surprise
She has been a surprise in the middle distance and distance events.
distance nearly news short spot whatsoever
She disappeared at a spot just a short distance from our home. We had no news whatsoever about her for nearly 20 years.
distance informed level line needs script sort walk
She maintains that sort of distance, and I think that's the kind of distance one needs to walk that line with that humor. So the script is informed on every level by it.
distances dreams dynamism jacket man marriage marriages time travel travels
'Mr. Peanut' is not about a man who dreams of killing his wife; that's jacket copy, to me. 'Mr. Peanut' is about the dynamism of marriage and the distances - some tragic, some redemptive - that marriages travel over time, and those travels ain't always pretty. Adam Ross
distance two balance
Two magnitudes whether commensurable or incommensurable, balance at distances reciprocally proportional to the magnitudes. Archimedes
distance weight equilibrium
Equal weights at equal distances are in equilibrium and equal weights at unequal distances are not in equilibrium but incline towards the weight which is at the greater distance.
distance men giving
Upon the whole it was a Glorious day-Our men are in the Spirits-and I am confident we shall give them a total defeat the next Action; which is at no great distance. Anthony Wayne
distance home three
Emerson,' I said, choosing my words with care, 'it is a sheer drop from the cleft down to the base of the cliff. If you are bent on breaking your arm or your leg or your neck or all three, find a place closer to home so we won't have to carry you such a distance. Barbara Mertz
distance father pride
[My father] loved me tenderly and shyly from a distance, and later on took a naive pride in seeing my name in print. Arthur Koestler
distance two evil
Whether for good or evil, it is sadly inevitable that all political leadership requires the artifices of theatrical illusion. In the politics of a democracy, the shortest distance between two points is often a crooked line. Arthur Miller
distance past rivers
She watched the prairies the rivers, the towns slipping past at an untouchable distance below - and she noted that the sense of detachment one feels when looking at the earth from a plane was the same sense she felt when looking at people: only her distance from people seemed longer. - Dagny Taggart Ayn Rand
distance two unbearable
The shortest distance between two points is often unbearable. Charles Bukowski
distance extra help hot
The extra distance is going to help him, too. It could be a hot pace.
distance lends robes tis
Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, and robes the mountain in its azure hue. Thomas Campbell
distance kids work-out
Simplicity is always a virtue. One kid on a riverbank working out a Stephen Foster tune on his new harmonica heard from the correct esthetic distance projects more magic and power than the entire Vienna Philharmonic and Chorus laboring (once again) through the Mozart Requiem or Bach's B Minor Mass. Edward Abbey
distance interesting forever
There are some good things to be said about walking. Not many, but some. Walking takes longer, for example, than any other known form of locomotion except crawling. Thus it stretches time and prolongs life. Life is already too short to waste on speed. I have a friend who's always in a hurry; he never gets anywhere. Walking makes the world much bigger and thus more interesting. You have time to observe the details. The utopian technologists foresee a future for us in which distance is annihilated. … To be everywhere at once is to be nowhere forever, if you ask me.
distance goal way
That which is in locomotion must arrive at the half-way stage before it arrives at the goal. (Travel over any finite distance can neither be completed nor begun, and so all motion must be an illusion.) Aristotle
distance trying zips
Pop and metal aren't friends. Each knows exactly where the other lives and tries to keep its distance. They choose different streets, neighborhoods, zip codes. Dave Mustaine
distance mean writing
Letters, from absent friends, extinguish fear, Unite division, and draw distance near; Their magic force each silent wish conveys, And wafts embodied though, a thousand ways: Could souls to bodies write, death's pow'r were mean, For minds could then meet minds with heav'n between. Aaron Hill
distance far hard horse run running seven step toughest work
Seven furlongs is, maybe, the toughest distance because you have to run hard every step of the way. I like to try and work a horse that far before running him.
distance impressed natural truly
She truly is a jumper. I am really impressed with her distance without the practice. I know she is just a natural athlete.
distance move passes sake singing takes time twice
Time passes and you must move onHalf the distance takes you twice as longSo you keep on singing for the sake of the song.
distance half move passes sake singing takes time twice
Time passes and you must move on Half the distance takes you twice as long So you keep on singing for the sake of the song.
distance men sight
Man is very much a creature of habit. A thing that rarely strikes his senses will generally have but little influence upon his mind. A government continually at a distance and out of sight, can hardly be expected to interest the sensations of the people. The inference is, that the authority of the Union, and the affections of the citizens towards it, will be strengthened rather than weakened by its extension to what are called matters of internal concern. Alexander Hamilton
distance believe long
I love to believe that there's one god but there's many different religions so there's just the question of which long distance company you pick. Adam Ferrara