Quotes About Distance

But why do you have to keep your distance from me, why can't you see me, talk to me like a real person…like Drew, not some kind of distant non-friend." "Non-friend?" Drew smiled drily at my choice of words. "I like the sound of that better than 'friends', Summer. It probably describes us best." - Perfect Summer

A few months apart and an ocean in between us couldn't keep our thoughts about each other from surfacing. - Taylor First

That night as I cried myself to sleep I knew that, somewhere in the sky, Karim was doing the same; and some of my tears were his tears, and some of his tears were mine.

I try to stay away from forced intimacy.

I don't think I'd ever start making a film until I had both the intimacy with the subject and the distance to make it live in a certain way.

What's amazing is - I actually have problems getting it into my head - Canada is so big, right? And Ireland's small, you know; you drive from coast to coast in three hours.

A lot of modern comedies are difficult to watch too, because they're so ironic and so detached and so quote-unquote clever. They kind of keep you at arm's length. They can be really funny, but they're not really nourishing.

Australia is the most isolated continent.

I do use FaceTime because I'm frequently isolated from friends and my boyfriend, so I get that.

I miss Italy; that's beyond doubt.

In Italy, some managers want distance from the players, the Fabio Capello style, but that is not my way. I am more like Carlo Ancelotti. There are aspects of the players' behaviour I do not understand, but I want them to respect our situation. If they do that, I have a lot of respect for them, too, and I will do everything to help them.

In Italy, where I live now, I have put some distance between myself and the world that has formed me.

In Japan, artists and fans are rather far apart from each other.

Satellite communications connect television screens in Japan with television cameras in England, and the distance of half a world loses its meaning.

The Japanese people treated me very well. They appreciated how I considered the martial arts, the jiu-jitsu and judo. There's some good points and bad points to fight there. The distance was too far from where I used to live in Brazil. It was a 27-hour flight.

I'm not an athlete dater, really. I would get too jealous. They're really gone all the time. Different hotel rooms.

We can't be guided - because we're so far from it. We've so destroyed it. We're so far from that that we can't use it. I mean, Jim Bakker heard from God. What a good job he did!

for some of us, one mile can be more to walk than thirty.

Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.

for it is very probable, that the motion of gravity worketh weakly, both far from the earth, and also within the earth: the former because the appetite of union of dense bodies with the earth, in respect of the distance, is more dull: the latter, because the body hath in part attained its nature when it is some depth in the earth. { Foreshadowing Isaac Newton 's Universal Law of Gravitation (1687)}

We represent300 also all multiplications301 of light, which we carry to great distance, and make so sharp as to discern small points and lines; also all colorations of light:

Ever absent, ever near; Still I see thee, still I hear; Yet I cannot reach thee, dear!

up or down from the infinite C E N T E R B R I M M I N G at the winking rim of time the voice in my head said LOVE IS THE DISTANCE BETWEEN YOU AND WHAT YOU LOVE

Nothing later equalled that first distant glimpse