Quotes About Distance

It was nice to hear the voices of little children at play, provided you took care to be far enough away not to hear what they were actually saying.

He could think in italics . Such people need watching. Preferably from a safe distance.

It's a strange thing about determined seekers-after-wisdom that, no matter where they happen to be, they'll always seek that wisdom which is a long way off. Wisdom is one of the few things that looks bigger the further away it is.

Maybe it's because I can't have him that I feel safe wanting him. He's beyond my reach, so he won't hurt me.

I had decided the best way to breach our distance was to forget the past and start new.

The fields stretch out in long unbroken rows. We walk aware of what is far and close. Here distance is familiar as a friend. The feud we kept with space comes to an end.

Who sighs from far away?

You have to be away a long time, a long way, to miss someone like that, and me, I'd been farther away than anyone ought to be for too long plus six weeks. I kissed her and squeezed her until she yelled for mercy, and when I got to where I realized she was yelling we were clear back to the terrace, the whole length of the apartment away from the door. I guess I was sort of enthusiastic, but as I said Ã¢â'¬Â¦ oh, who can say a thing like that and make any sense?

If words are to be uttered, they would be from behind the partition. Unaccountable is distance, time to transport from this present minute. If words are to be sounded, impress through the partition in ever slight measure to the other side the other signature the other hearing the other speech the other grasp.

To the others, these accounts are about (one more) distant land, like (any other) distant land, without any discernable features in the narrative, (all the same) distant like any other.

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

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

My role in the business is to use my judgment. All these years of experience have given me a clear head, and I can give a nonpartisan view with a sense of distance.

The best thing to do is just leave them alone. Alligators want to be away from you just as much as you want to be away from them.

I just love the idea of never seeing a city before and seeing the glow in the distance, and it just looking frightening, like you're driving into a fire.

Something about writing needs a sort of distance not to be involved as a writer - just something that makes it easier to write. You have to make choices all the time - what to tell and what not to tell.

Oh, I try to stay as far away from karaoke as humanly possible!

I maintain my sanity by keeping my distance.

I've gone very far, far away, but my character keeps me close to home.

I have family in Italy that my mother keeps in contact with, but I don't because I don't speak Italian.

I had fallen in love with Cherry as a junior in high school. When I discovered she was going to go to Auburn, I was vacillating between Alabama and Kentucky because of Babe. I eliminated Kentucky because I wanted to be as close to Auburn as I could, and Tuscaloosa is a lot closer than Lexington is.

I usually kept everybody at arm's distance.

The scene then as now was centered in New York. For the most part, I've kept a bit apart from that attractive and seductive city. I've done it by living in the country within commuting distance.

My mother is not a naturally happy person and is very complex. She won't allow any of us to touch her. Not even my father hugs her. And, as a family, we never kiss each other. Yet we do have a close relationship.