Distance Quotes

• It is as though the space between us were time: an irrevocable quality. It is as though time, no longer running straight before us in a diminishing line, now runs parallel between us like a looping string, the distance being the doubling accretion of the thread an not the interval between.

  

  William Faulkner
  • Running
  • Space
  • Quality

• Plays are the marathon of scriptwriting. You fix on a point somewhere in the middle distance, and you start running, and you don't stop until you get to the end. The theory is that you have something you cannot not say: this is the engine that propels you through to the last page.

  

  Abi Morgan
  • Running
  • Stop
  • Distance

• 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
  • Elements
  • Dedication

• You need something that puts a little distance between what you really are and what you want to show; it's a shield, a protection.

  

  Nicolas Ghesquiere
  • Want
  • Distance
  • Protection

• Sometimes you just need to distance yourself from people. If they care, they'll notice. If they don't, you know where you stand.

  

  Ziad Abdelnour
  • People
  • Care
  • Notice

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

  

  George Will
  • People
  • Safe
  • Calamity

• I found I could also be good in cross country. I don't think my running style has anything to do with it. If you have speed and your body feels good, you can do any distance.

  

  Catherine Ndereba
  • Country
  • Running
  • Body

• Although the attorney general is a part of the president's team, you're really separate and apart. You have a special responsibility as the nation's chief law enforcement officer. There has to be a distance that you keep - between this department and the White House.

  

  Eric Holder
  • Responsibility
  • White House
  • Attorney

• 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

• I had used my sense of humor; I had called it proportion, perspective. But perspective is distance.

  

  Bel Kaufman
  • Perspective
  • Proportion
  • Sense Of Humor

• I'm glad you came here and got the help you needed," Neil says, and he shakes my hand in that way that people do in here to remind themselves that you're the patient and they're the doctor/volunteer/ employee. They like you, and they genuinely want you to do better, but when they shake your hand you feel that distance, that slight disconnect because they know that you're still broken somewhere, that you might snap at any moment.

  

  Ned Vizzini
  • Moments
  • Patient
  • Glad

• There are a lot of things that you can like at a distance without spending a huge amount of time pondering. It's not so complicated.

  

  Elvis Costello
  • Distance
  • Complicated
  • Pondering

• We need to make sure our children travel to see things. Not necessarily long distances but at least out of the neighborhood. On a train. A boat. An airplane.

  

  Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.
  • Children
  • Distance
  • Airplane

• 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

• Letters had always defeated distance, but with the coming of e-mail, time seemed to be vanquished as well.

  

  Thomas Mallon
  • Distance
  • Letters
  • Defeated

• There was only so much space between us, not even a real distance if measured in miles or feet or even inches, all the things that told you how far you'd come or had left to go. But it was a big space, if only for me. And as I moved forward to him covering it, he waited there on the other side. It was only the last little bit I has to go, but in the end, I knew it would be all I would truly remember. So as I kissed him, bringing this summer and everything else full circle, I let myself fall, and was not scared of the ground I knew would rise up to meet me.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Real
  • Remember
  • Fall

• But a piece of paper can be a powerful presence. I have always had enormous respect for the written word and invariably find a letter more revealing than a face-to-face conversation. In a strange way I suspect I will get to know you better at a distance than I would if you had stayed at home.

  

  Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey
  • Respect
  • Strange
  • Conversation

• Those old ages are like the landscape that shows best in purple distance, all verdant and smooth, and bathed in mellow light.

  

  Edwin Hubbell Chapin
  • Light
  • Distance
  • Landscape

• The hardest distance is always from the sofa to the front door

  

  Erki Nool
  • Distance
  • Smoking
  • Hardest

• It is distance that creates nostalgia.

  

  Georges Rodenbach
  • Distance
  • Creates
  • Nostalgia

• Normally, the sciences distance themselves from life and the return to it via a detour.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Life
  • Distance
  • Sciences

• I think as journalists, we have to keep our distance from power.

  

  Jorge Ramos
  • Power
  • Distance
  • Journalists

• The Bad Seeds are a band I will travel a great distance to see whenever possible.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Band
  • Distance
  • Seeds

• I had to bring the idea of journalistic distance to writing about myself.

  

  Susannah Cahalan
  • Writing
  • Distance
  • Journalistic

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