Quotes about distance
distance thinking envy
I've noticed that, while I can't help but respect and sort of envy the moral nerve of people who truly do not care what others think of them, people like this also make me nervous, and I tend to do my admiring from a safe distance. David Foster
distance night light
The car shot forward straight into the circle of light, and suddenly Arthur had a fairly clear idea of what infinity looked like. It wasn’t infinity in fact. Infinity itself looks flat and uninteresting. Looking up into the night sky is looking into infinity—distance is incomprehensible and therefore meaningless. The chamber into which the aircar emerged was anything but infinite, it was just very very very big, so big that it gave the impression of infinity far better than infinity itself. Douglas Adams
distance simple imagination
The simple truth is that interstellar distances will not fit into the human imagination.
distance night sky
Looking up into the night sky is looking into infinity — distance is incomprehensible and therefore meaningless
distance lying science
Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-two million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.
distance war world
Time and distance from the first and second world wars doesn't seem to lessen their horrors. Doris Lessing
distance writing people
The whole process of writing is a setting at a distance. That is the value of it - to the writer, and to the people who read the results of this process, which takes the raw, the individual, the uncriticized, the unexamined, into the realm of the general.
distance events growing
Every new event—everything I did for the rest of my life—would only separate us more and more: days she was no longer a part of, an ever-growing distance between us. Every single day for the rest of my life, she would only be further away. Donna Tartt
distance america leader
I would not presume from this distance, nor would America presume to say who should be the leader of the Iraqi nation. Colin Powell
distance party mind
It's very hard from a distance to figure out who has lost their minds. One party, the other party, all of us, the president. Claire McCaskill
distance moving journey
Not only does a journey transport us over enormous distances, it also causes us to move a few degrees up or down in the social scale. It displaces us physically and also for better or for worse takes us out of our class context, so that the colour and flavour of certain places cannot be dissociated from the always unexpected social level on which we find ourselves in experiencing them. Claude Levi-Strauss
distance thinking pieces
I think doing period piece is easier, because after a certain distance, everybody is equal, I think. The relative contemporary is harder. I think that's the way it is. Ang Lee
distance
Never in history has distance meant less. Alvin Toffler
distance insomnia far-away
This is how it is with insomnia. Everything is so far away, a copy of a copy of a copy. The insomnia distance of everything, you can't touch anything and nothing can touch you Chuck Palahniuk
distance book mean
When someone writes a book review, they obviously already self-identify as a writer. I mean, they are. They're writers, they're critics, and they're writing about a book about a writer who's a critic. So I think it's really hard for people to distance themselves from what they're criticizing. Chuck Klosterman
distance book thinking
I think anyone who's not as good a writer as me is absolutely a hack, and I think anybody who's a slightly better writer than me is brilliant. So of course that makes me a horrible critic when it comes to books, because I can't distance my own experience from what I'm doing.
distance party home
Early on, I played one or two disturbed people, and I guess I must have been good at it, because it stuck. But, you know, I'm a regular guy. I stay home a lot, I make an effort to keep a distance from the whole social thing, the openings, the parties. I try to live in a calm way. Christopher Walken
distance play people
I play disturbed people a lot, but always with a bit of distance or tongue-in-cheek. Most of the villains I play are essentially harmless.
distance hands opposites
and they shook hands, hit each other on the shoulder, then there was forty feet of distance between them and nothing to do but drive away in opposite directions. Within a mile Ennis felt like someone was pulling his guts out hand over hand a yard at a time. He stopped at the side of the road and, in the whirling new snow, tried to puke but nothing came up. He felt about as bad as he ever had and it took a long time for the feeling to wear off. Annie Proulx
distance world another-world
I stand at a distance, like a person who comes from another world. Andreas Gursky
distance past comfort
The past is a candle at great distance: too close to let you quit, too far to comfort you. Amy Bloom
distance frustrated stories
A master was once unmoved by the complaints of his disciples that, though they listened with pleasure to his parables and stories, they were also frustrated for they longed for something deeper. To all their objections he would simply reply: 'You have yet to understand, my friends, that the shortest distance between a human being and truth is a story.' Anthony de Mello
distance sun doe
Because everyone is the same distance from the sun. Does it really lessen the distance if you live on top of a skyscraper?
distance stories humans
You have to understand, my dears, that the shortest distance between truth and a human being is a story.
distance names always-trying
Those in the margins are always trying to get to the center, and those at the center, frequently in the name of tradition, are trying to keep the margins at a distance. Anna Deavere Smith
distance believe humility
True belief is not about blind submission. It is about open-eyed acceptance, and acceptance requires persistent distance from the truth, and that distance is doubt. Doubt, in other words, can feed faith, rather than destroy it. And it forces us, even while believing, to recognize our fundamental duty with respect to God's truth: humility. We do not know. Which is why we believe. Andrew Sullivan
distance romantic-love space
For me, friendship has always been the most accessible of relationships - certainly far more so than romantic love. Friendship, I learned, provided a buffer in the interplay of emotions, a distance that made the risk of intimacy bearable, a space that allowed the other person to remain safely another person.
distance rich poor
Distance, n. The only thing that the rich are willing for the poor to call theirs and keep. Ambrose Bierce
distance technology devil
Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance.
distance long people
I'm very much a loner. I don't like long relationships with people and I always keep people at a distance. Anthony Hopkins
distance way intention
Time and distance have a way of playing tricks with your best intentions. Anthony Kiedis
distance years games
I don't push my luck. I don't worry about the results and therefore everything seems to work out well. That's something I've learnt over the years. The whole thing about the acting business is that it's a hit-or-miss game so I keep my distance from it.
distance long waiting
No matter how far you are. No matter how long it takes him. Through Distance And Time I'll be waiting .. Alicia Keys