Distance Quotes

• I get asked, 'How can you have such failures in your films?' Well, what else is life about? There's some sense of constant failure in something. Humor gives you a distance from it.

  

  Alexander Payne
  • Life
  • Failure
  • Distance

• The way to heaven out of all places is of length and distance.

  

  Thomas More
  • Way
  • Heaven
  • Length

• One of the chief reasons for the widespread fear of the Huns rested on their ability to travel very long distances in relatively short periods. This ability may well have been based on their use of horseshoes.

  

  Carroll Quigley
  • Long
  • Reason
  • Ability

• Perspective, as its inventor remarked, is a beautiful thing. What horrors of damp huts, where human beings languish, may not become picturesque through aerial distance! What hymning of cancerous vices may we not languish over as sublimest art in the safe remoteness of a strange language and artificial phrase! Yet we keep a repugnance to rheumatism and other painful effects when presented in our personal experience.

  

  George Eliot
  • Experience
  • Language
  • Safe

• The distance thing is partially due to the fact that I'm pretty shy and I've struggled with extreme stage fright in the past. So I just have to go onstage in a different head space so I'm not as self-aware.

  

  Douglas Glenn Colvin Ramones
  • Space
  • Distance
  • Stage

• With The Exorcist we said what we wanted to say. Neither one of us view it as a horror film. We view it as a film about the mysteries of faith. It's easier for people to call it a horror film. Or a great horror film. Or the greatest horror film ever made. Whenever I see that, I feel a great distance from it.

  

  William Friedkin
  • People
  • Film
  • Mystery

• Every play I write is about love and distance. And time. And from that we can get things like history.

  

  Suzan-Lori Parks
  • Love
  • History
  • Write

• Earlier maps had underestimated the distances to other continents and exaggerated the outlines of individual nations. Now global dimensions could be set, with authority, by the celestial spheres. Indeed, King Louis XIV of France, confronted with a revised map of his domain based on accurate longitude measurements, reportedly complained that he was losing more territory to his astronomers than to his enemies.

  

  Dava Sobel
  • Individual
  • Authority
  • Losing

• Everywhere is within walking distance if you have the time.

  

  Steven Wright
  • Time
  • Walking
  • Distance

• My best ideas come when I distance myself from day-to-day operations. It gives me more focus.

  

  Ziad K. Abdelnour
  • Ideas
  • Distance
  • Operations

• The aim of my writing is to utterly remove the distance between author and reader so that the book becomes a sort of semipermeable membrane through which feelings, ideas, nutrients pass.

  

  Erica Jong
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Ideas

• Men at a distance, who have admired our systems of government unfounded in nature, are apt to accuse the rulers, and say that taxes have been assessed too high and collected too rigidly.

  

  Henry Knox
  • Men
  • Government
  • Taxes

• For some members of the radical Left, particularly in the West, people in developing countries are an ideological abstraction, on whom fantasies of liberation are projected from a comfortable distance.

  

  Amitava Kumar
  • Distance
  • Countries
  • Liberation

• They say the breaks even up in the long run, and the trick is to be a long-distance runner.

  

  Chuck Knox
  • Distance
  • Run
  • Trick

• With the strength of his spiritual sight and insight the distance, and as it were the space, around man continually expands: his world grows deeper, ever new stars, ever new images and enigmas come into view.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Distance
  • View
  • Inages

• I've never found that getting physical is ever the best response in a bar. You just have to make sure you keep your distance, and if it gets to a point where it gets aggressive, then the best thing to do is go get a bouncer and get the situation resolved intelligently.

  

  Chuck Liddell
  • Distance

• We all know that we Africans just win medals in middle and long distance, and walking in their footsteps makes me feel proud, you know.

  

  Caster Semenya
  • Long
  • Win
  • Middle

• Authority doesn't work without prestige, or prestige without distance.

  

  Charles de Gaulle
  • Work
  • Distance

• The hand opens to the word, opens to distance.

  

  Edmond Jabes
  • Hand
  • Distance
  • Word

• Few things are as stimulating as other people's calamities observed from a safe distance.

  

  George Will
  • People
  • Safe
  • Calamity

• Distance is meaningless. No one's that far away unless they choose to be.

  

  Nick Burd
  • Distance
  • Far
  • Meaningless

• We tell stories. We talk about statistics. And in 1978, we added an element of the show that gave it its heartbeat: the long distance dedication.

  

  Casey Kasem
  • Long
  • Dedication
  • Elements

• The world glitters in the distance... but the closer I get the more I see that everyone is fragile and clumsy... and trying their hardest.

  

  Bisco Hatori
  • Distance
  • Fragile
  • Glitters

• Do we need distance to get close?

  

  Sarah Jessica Parker
  • Distance
  • Close

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