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Quotes About Distance

The pinpoints of starlight we see with the naked eye are photons that have been streaming toward us for a few years or a few thousand.
~ Brian Greene
A mistress should be like a little country retreat near the town, not to dwell in constantly, but only for a night and away.
~ William Wycherley
If you take any populated place - any major city in America - and drive 45 minutes from that spot directly out of town you'll be in about as country a place as you'll ever find.
~ Bubba Sparxxx
Whenever you're out of town, no matter modern communications, you feel a little bit out of touch.
~ Richard Armitage
A sudden dart when a little over a hundred feet from the end of the track, or a little over 120 feet from the point at which it rose into the air, ended the flight.
~ Orville Wright
The commentary track became a lot like the movie and there are some funny, long, awkward pauses that you can tell we're just trying to find stuff to say. None of us had gotten to really talk about the movie until that moment and they were in New York and we were in L.A.
~ Jay Roach
People are trading distance for dollars.
~ Ray Brown
The Screaming flashed me back to a time when mom and dad were still together if you could call miles apart together.
~ Ellen Hopkins
Everything's got space between it, the planets, trees, your eyes. Your eyes get too close together, it's a whole different world. You can lose perspective.
~ Mos Def
Yeah, to bring families together I need to go away.
~ Pete Docter
That's what seems the most sad to me—that neither of them even think there's a possibility they can be together.
~ Jessi Kirby
Souls bound together can't be forever torn apart by distance and neither by death.
~ Patti Callahan Henry
Instead, we just sat there, together but really apart, watching a show about a stranger and all her secrets, while keeping our own to ourselves, as always.
~ Sarah Dessen
It is by the benefit of letters that absent friends are in a manner brought together.
~ Seneca the Younger
In the seven or eight years we were together, we were never together.
~ Shaquille O'Neal
The glue of mutual need that bonded us so tightly together for all those years is melting away. Dark patches, not light, show in the spaces between us.
~ Suzanne Collins
He was beautiful and still is, we just couldn't flow within the same constellation.
~ Dominic Riccitello
It's very far away/It takes about a half a day to get there/ If we travel by-dragonfly.
~ Jimi Hendrix
People travel to faraway places to watch, in fascination, the kind of people they ignore at home.
~ Dagobert D. Runes
No matter how far we travel, the memories will follow in the baggage car.
~ August Strindberg
Sometimes you have to travel a long way to find what is near
~ Paulo Coelho
Kilometers are shorter than miles. Save gas, take your next trip in kilometers.
~ George Carlin
The fabric of my faithful love No power shall dim or ravel Whilst I stay here - but oh, my dear, If I should ever travel!
~ Edna St. Vincent Millay
She watched the gap between ship and shore grow to a huge gulf. Perhaps this was a little like dying, the departed no longer visible to the others, yet both still existed, only in different worlds.
~ Susan Wiggs, The Charm School