Kay Ryan Quotes

BAIT GOAT There is a distance where magnets pull, we feel, having held them back. Likewise there is a distance where words attract. Set one out like a bait goat and wait and seven others will approach. But watch out: roving packs can pull your word away. You find your stake yanked and some rough bunch to thank.

Kay Ryan

• Distance
• Wait
• Bait
• Magnets Pull
• Words Attract

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

  

  Zach LaVine
  • People
  • Me
  • Myself

• This old notion that work is drudgery is nonsense. Most days, even back when Xerox was under siege, I could not wait to get to the office.

  

  Ursula Burns
  • Work
  • Office
  • Wait

• One sees qualities at a distance and defects at close range.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Distance
  • Qualities
  • Close

• A landline is an anchor - busy signals, long distance bills, missed connections and all.

  

  Rainbow Rowell
  • Long
  • Distance
  • Busy

• 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

• Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Human
  • Distance
  • Wonderful

• 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

• I have noticed that the people who are late are often so much jollier than the people who have to wait for them.

  

  E. V. Lucas
  • People
  • Wait
  • Late

• 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

• I think you only see experiences as defining moments with distance.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Think
  • Moments
  • Distance

• I tend to see my characters from inside and outside at once; this is a technique I use to retain a slight distance. It means my characters can act in unexpected ways on two axes: physical and mental. It isn't just, 'I thought this and then I did this,' which is the technique of the modern psychological novel.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • Thought
  • See
  • Distance

• He knew her too well to see her from the distance that pity requires. He loved her because he admired her. For bearing without complaint the burden the queen put on her. For still being gentle and loving when she had ample reason to be bitter.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • She
  • Distance
  • Bitter

• The message of 'The Distance To Here' is no secret. It is a message of love and an invitation to myself and to those who want to come along to ask the big questions and not feel uncool doing it.

  

  Ed Kowalczyk
  • 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

• The reason I'm in San Diego is not because I want distance from South Africa but because I want proximity to the people I love. But I don't envy growing up in America. As ugly as aspects of it were, my biggest blessing was to be born a South African.

  

  Athol Fugard
  • People
  • Up
  • America

• 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

• The ideological distance between Jim Webb and Bertrand Russell can be measured in light years. An author who reaches both of them exerts something like universal appeal.

  

  Christopher Buckley
  • Light
  • Distance
  • Author

• Once, I went to the roof of a project and saw a hawk perched on the rail; always, you see the city in the near distance, its towers and spires studded with lights, both stately and slapdash, like the crazy geometry of rock crystal. There were many days when you felt sorry for people who worked inside.

  

  Edward Conlon
  • Distance
  • Sorry
  • Project

• Freedom of thought and the right of private judgment, in matters of conscience, driven from every other corner of the earth, direct their course to this happy country as their last asylum.

  

  Samuel Adams
  • Country
  • Happy
  • Earth

• This sounds horribly pretentious, but I like to think that if music hadn't existed, I could have invented it.

  

  Harrison Birtwistle
  • Music
  • Think
  • Like

• On the whole, I have quite a low opinion of men.

  

  Kate O'Mara
  • Men
  • Opinion
  • Low

• A young man of pleasure is a man of pains.

  

  Neil Young Buffalo Springfield
  • Pleasure
  • Pains
  • Young Man

• BAIT GOAT There is a distance where magnets pull, we feel, having held them back. Likewise there is a distance where words attract. Set one out like a bait goat and wait and seven others will approach. But watch out: roving packs can pull your word away. You find your stake yanked and some rough bunch to thank.

  

  Kay Ryan
  • Distance
  • Wait
  • Bait