Quotes About Distance

Heroes are a way to remove yourself from what may be difficult concepts to talk about in your life. They're a way to get some distance and have an experience in a theater where you're confronting those issues in a way that's safer for your psyche.

If one is reported as having set up camp overseas, it's as if one has made oneself unavailable.

It's like why people read scary books or go see scary movies. Because it creates a distance. They're scared, but they're not going to get hurt.

Don't get too close, it hurts.

I dont think any of the players will ever say they got close to me. Id never sit down and have a coffee with them.

I love L.A. and feel attached to this city, but I don't identify myself as being a part of it.

I don't watch 'American Idol' - that'd be like getting divorced from somebody and then hanging out with them.

I don't think ignorance is a way that you gain distance on something.

Until I was seven, I was very close to my mother because I was so ill and she had to teach me how to walk and talk. But then she had another child, a little girl called Fleur, who died. When she came home from hospital there was a bit of a distance between us. It was never talked about again.

If your eyes are far apart, bringing the brow shape closer together gives the illusion of shorter distance between the eyes.

I'd always maintained an image so that people wouldn't approach me.

Baseball is a game of inches.

Inches matter. That's why they measure first downs. That's why they have a crew down there with those chains.

Almost everything looks better from a distance, Long Island included.

My guess is many top athletes, distance runners included, use performance-enhancing drugs, enough so that the problem must be tackled.

Ogni suo passo parlava di angoscia e di abnegazione, ed il figlio alto e lontano sentiva che non avrebbe mai potuto ripargarlo, nemmeno in parte centesimale, nemmeno col conservarsi vivo.

The far you've come from estimates twice your destination

When Men fly from danger, it is natural for them to run farther than they need.

If I do have to sight land, I like it to be from as far off as possible.

To be honest, it felt so distant from us, we din't give it much thought. Our world was made up of our immediate neighbours and foreign meant the people of the midlands or fenlands.

I sense a space around him. He has a manner of eyeing people, even if he's standing face to face, as though he sees them from a distance.

Love travels long miles.

Use the distance between the facts and your yearning to change those facts as your personal redemption.

Facebook may connect us across the world and throughout eternity, but it won't deliver a pot roast.