Quotes About Distance

No matter where you are in the world, the moon is never bigger than your thumb.

In the distance, he could see Molly lying in the tall grass off to the side of the house.

for the briefest instant, it almost feels like we're together again

If hers are the stars in the nighttime sky, mine are the haunted empty spaces in between.

She was sleeping in a quiet bedroom beside her brother, separated only by glass and sand from the young man she loved, a young man who loved her back

That staring at the stars was like staring backward in time, since some stars are so far away that their light takes millions of years just to reach us. That we see stars not as they look now, but as they were when dinosaurs roamed the earth.

Absence might make the heart grow fonder,' 'I don't think that's possible ... You have no idea how much I love you.

since some stars are so far away that their light takes millions of years just to reach us. That we see stars not as they look now, but as they were when dinosaurs roamed the earth.

But then again, he hadn't really been looking, had he? Both Valarie and Lori claimed that there was something inside of him they were unable to reach, something about the way he viewed himself that neither of them could really understand. An though he knew they meant well, their attempts to talk to him about this distance of his didn't – or couldn't – change anything.

always together, forever apart.

I don't keep any copies of my books in the house - they go to my mum's flat. I don't like them around.

I don't get to go home as much as I used to, which is a shame. But I don't mind because my mum moved over to London to look after me. I rented her a house just around the corner.

I would like to spend more time with my parents. I wish they could shift to Mumbai or I could go and spend time with them.

My sister is just three years older than me, but I never understood her, and I could never relate to her. In fact, I used to feel that I will never be able to like her. But when I came to Mumbai, I started missing her.

People are interested in crime fiction when they're quite distanced from crime. People in Darfur are not reading murder mysteries.

For a kid in London, Hollywood seems like such a mythical place.

I don't think I ever watched a movie without being totally immersed in the story. But at the same time, I had to keep some distance from it. I had to question what the narrative was trying to tell me or was injecting in my brain.

There is something about musical narrative and Australians. If you want to do something, you kind of have to do it at a level - because we're so far away from everywhere else - that exceeds what is just normal if you want to convince people that some guy from Australia is worth backing for an original musical.

I've always kind of gravitated toward characters who are a bit distant from the narrator or the point-of-view characters, so that's kind of important to me, to set up a different character who would be the point-of-view character for the story.

For years, I longed to hear Armstrong describe what it was like to contemplate Earth from 238,900 miles away. Former Space Center director George Abbey once told me that many NASA astronauts felt that looking at Earth was akin to a religious experience.

When I couldn't see the land out there, I forgot I wasn't at home. Sometimes I wished it was always night.

The ice was there. The distance between him and the rest of the world.

I am not functioning very well. Living with the knowledge that the baby is dead is painful. I feel so far away from you, God. I can only try to believe that you are sustaining me and guiding me through this. Please continue to stand by my side.

Absence doesn't make the heart grow fonder. It makes people think you're dead.