Ray Brown Quotes

People are trading distance for dollars.

Ray Brown

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• If there are negative people around me, I just try to distance myself from that.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • People
  • Me
  • Myself

• A novelist's lack of awareness of and critical distance to his own body of work is due to a phenomenon that I have noticed in myself and many others: as soon as it is written, every new book erases the last one, leaving me with the impression that I have forgotten it.

  

  Patrick Modiano
  • Work
  • Book
  • Myself

• We sometimes laugh from ear to ear, but it would be impossible for a smile to be wider than the distance between our eyes.

  

  Malcolm de Chazal
  • Eyes
  • Smile
  • Distance

• A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.

  

  Zora Neale Hurston
  • Time
  • Distance
  • Big

• One of the most unsettling things about 'Monologue' is its long silences, in which the man sits alone, staring into the middle distance, without grip of his narrative, lost to the past.

  

  Samantha Harvey
  • Long
  • Man
  • Past

• The land of literature is a fairy land to those who view it at a distance, but, like all other landscapes, the charm fades on a nearer approach, and the thorns and briars become visible.

  

  Washington Irving
  • Literature
  • Distance
  • View

• The poet's other readers are the ancient poets, who look upon the freshly written pages from an incorruptible distance. Their poetic forms are permanent, and it is difficult to create new forms which can approach them.

  

  Salvatore Quasimodo
  • Look
  • Difficult
  • Distance

• I had grown up as an Irish poet in a country where the distance between vision and imagination was not quite as wide as in some other countries.

  

  Eavan Boland
  • Up
  • Country
  • Imagination

• Somewhere on the other side of this wide nightand the distance between us, I am thinking of you.The room is turning slowly away from the moon.

  

  Carol Ann Duffy
  • Thinking
  • Moon
  • Distance

• The world evades us because it becomes itself again. That stage scenery masked by habit becomes what it is. It withdraws at a distance from us.

  

  Albert Camus
  • World
  • Habit
  • Distance

• We talk about heaven being so far away. It is within speaking distance to those who belong there. Heaven is a prepared place for a prepared people.

  

  Dwight L. Moody
  • People
  • Heaven
  • Distance

• Long-distance train conversations are unlike the perfunctory exchanges one normally associates with strangers, or the truncated, cut-to-the-chase kind that sometimes take place between seatmates on a plane.

  

  Alan Huffman
  • Long
  • Distance

• What a director really does is set the emotional temperature and the mood and the level, amount, or lack of, distance between the action and the character, and the character and the audience.

  

  James Gray
  • Character
  • Action
  • Emotional

• It's not a sprinter's approach. It's more like a long-distance thing. You can stick around a lot longer if you kind of slow-play it.

  

  Jason Bateman
  • Long
  • Distance

• There were two free public libraries within walking distance of my home; I remember taking six books home from every visit, the limit set by the library.

  

  Martin Lewis Perl
  • Home
  • Remember
  • Free

• At Penn State, I ran distance and cross country as a walk-on. I wound up running a lot of marathons, 30-plus. I was okay. I won one in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. I think it was around 2:30. I could crank those out all day.

  

  Mark Parker
  • Up
  • Country
  • Running

• The next time I write a play - in order to get audience trust for a particular sort of tragic line, I'll try to bring the audience a good distance before that. Part of that is allowing comic moments to occur. I had been afraid of that - that once the audience started laughing in the play, they would never stop.

  

  Colm Toibin
  • Time
  • Good
  • Stop

• Civilization is the distance man has placed between himself and his excreta.

  

  Brian Aldiss
  • Distance

• There was a physical quality in us resembling the power of electricity or of the magnet, by which when a pair approached within a striking distance they flew together like the needle to the pole or like two objects in electric experiments.

  

  John Adams
  • Power
  • Together
  • Quality

• In Indonesia, Qualcomm, in a joint project with Grameen Foundation, has provided a range of mobile phone-based services to individuals. This project facilitates the creation of businesses for those living at the bottom of the economic pyramid and, at the same time, extends telecommunication access to people who cannot afford a mobile phone.

  

  Peggy Johnson
  • People
  • Time

• I am nothing if not a loyalist. After 46 years in the Labour party, I've grown weary of the cry: 'If only we had a new, shining, revamped leader, all would be well.'

  

  David Blunkett
  • Party

• As difficult as it can be to find genuine inner calm, it is the key to creating peace in the world as we know it. The world will not change until we do, and there is nothing the world can deliver to us that will give us the peace we crave. Peace comes not from the world, but from God.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • World
  • God
  • Peace

• Half of Syria's refugees are children, and we know what can happen to children who grow to adulthood without hope or opportunity in refugee camps. The camps become fertile recruiting grounds for violent extremists.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Children
  • Hope
  • Opportunity

• People are trading distance for dollars.

  

  Ray Brown
  • Distance
  • Dollars
  • Trading