Quotes About Distance

When we first started Glitch, there were four co-founders of the company. We built Flickr and worked together at Yahoo and then started Tiny Speck. We were split in Vancouver, New York, and San Francisco. So we used an old chat technology called IRC. Almost nothing went through email.

I don't visit my parents often because Delta Airlines won't wait in the yard while I run in.

I just found out about 10 days ago that I must live 300 or 400 yards from Britney Spears... so now I have to move.

Chicago's buoy was a couple of hundred yards astern of Arizona, and I was saddened to look at her.

In practice, I think I've thrown it 82 yards, one time. In a game, I don't think I've pushed it that far - probably 60, 65 yards in the air.

The furthest I have even thrown the ball was 85 yards. But I had a little wind at my back, so I don't claim that one.

The height of the pulleys from the ground was twelve yards, and consequently, when the weights had descended through that distance, they had to be wound up again in order to renew the motion of the paddle.

I can hit the whiskers on a cat with a football from a distance of forty yards.

Sometimes in a big theatre, you have about, probably, six yards sometimes between you and the first person in the audience. It's almost like you've got to jump across a little pond to get there and then keep moving.

I can't hit a ball more than 200 yards. I have no butt. You need a butt if you're going to hit a golf ball.

I've never played golf with Tiger Woods. To tell the truth, I'm not sure that watching him pound it 100 yards past me all day is something I'd like to do.

If you put me in the fairway at my average distance into a par 4, 175 to 180 yards, and you put another player in the rough 120 yards from the green, over time, I'm going to wear him out.

I need to improve my shorter stuff with my irons, from 100 to 175 yards. If I can hit a few more greens with those clubs and tighten up the proximity to the hole, that would help a lot.

If I could be like Happy Gilmore or Kyle Berkshire, hitting over 400 yards and hitting it straight? That is a massive, massive advantage. So I set out to do that, and I've been healthier and stronger ever since.

I live 300 yards away from my ex and son. I see them all the time. We all went away on safari recently.

My father has positional vertigo, and if he flies he gets really dizzy, so he has to drive out to California, which he does a couple times a year. We talk, but we e-mail mostly.

I have a long way to catch up. I have to start with the pros this year, about 20 seconds back.

I am one of those people who are out of touch with their emotions. I tend to treat my emotions like unpleasant relatives - a long-distance call once or twice or year is more than enough. If I got in touch with them, they might come to stay.

You feel quite distant by playing at huge stadiums year after year, where you only can see a great darkness in front of you.

When we look at human trafficking, we always think that it's far away from us.

There's this absurd situation on a movie set where your trailer's here and the set is here and the lunch tent is here, and you're not allowed to get yourself from these three places.

And there is the headlight, shining far down the track, glinting off the steel rails that, like all parallel lines, will meet in infinity, which is after all where this train is going.

To punish MPs because of the distance they live from London - those with fast train journeys quite close to London as well as those at some distance from both the capital or an appropriate airport - is perverse, but also dangerous to democracy.

They trained mostly by time periods, checking their pace for known distance only on special occasions.