Quotes About Distance

I've always been a very careful sailor. I know, me and being careful - doesn't really sound right, does it? But when I sail, I take it seriously and take along spares for everything. You have to be careful when you're 1,500 miles from land. There's no one you can call. You're on your own.

In my earlier paintings, I wanted the space between the picture plane and the spectator to be active.

Long runs improve your endurance but shorter intervals improve your speed. They are mutually beneficial for a distance runner. If you do 5k runs it will help your marathon.

The further we distance ourselves from the spell of the present, explored by our senses, the harder it will be to understand and protect nature's precarious balance, let alone the balance of our own human nature.

I've been fortunate enough to travel the world because of my career, but the downside has been spending long spells apart from my daughters.

Brian really kicked back on his own when Amanda was a baby. We had a long talk about it, and he was spending a lot of time in California working there and he didn't really want to spend all his time out there and have his children and his wife on the East Coast.

I have spent my life judging the distance between American reality and the American dream.

I've spent a long time avoiding painting and dealing with it from a distance. But as I get older, I'm more comfortable with it.

Since I was 15, I have not spent a Christmas or a New Year with my family.

The best way to create emotional or spiritual distance between me and another person is for them to come up to me and go, 'yaassssss.'

I guess if you split the difference between the U.K. and the U.S., you would get Canada. But that's just due to proximity. Just because of distance, we get a lot more cultural spillover from America.

I haven't actually spoken to my parents since the hurricane.

There is a path from me to you that I am constantly looking for.

I finally got a chance to talk to my daughter from my previous marriage. I just got married May 3 to my beautiful wife, but we don't see each other much.

Love is the veil between lover and lover.

My marriage has worked because I am not around much.

Impossible for anyone to conceive the torments of his nights in bed with his beloved one and estranged from her. That turning of backs, that cold space between their two unhappy bodies.

I felt that, in some ways, my novels lacked heart because of the distance between me and the subject matter. But no one wants to read a book based on good health, a happy upbringing, a long marriage.

A wise man told me don't argue with fools. Cause people from a distance can't tell who is who.

Sometimes, flying feels too godlike to be attained by man. Sometimes, the world from above seems too beautiful, too wonderful, too distant for human eyes to see .

If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.

A city that outdistances man's walking powers is a trap for man.

A man's illness is his private territory and, no matter how much he loves you and how close you are, you stay an outsider. You are healthy.

Every man can see things far off but is blind to what is near.