Quotes About Distance

When I write, I tend to read it out loud to myself after. I'm a very uncomfortable reader, so it creates a distance between the text and me - it is a new way to see it.

Cats and I have an understanding, but we choose not to interact often.

I'd love to be an astronaut. I bet you get a better understanding of our planet seeing it from a distance.

In her previous novels, Maggie O'Farrell has often measured the distance between intimates and the unexpected intimacy of distance - geographic, temporal, cultural. In 'The Hand That First Held Mine' and 'The Distance Between Us,' characters separated by many miles or many years turn out to be joined in ways they never anticipated.

Once trust is built, distance cannot kill it. Time and space alone cannot destroy authentic connection.

She cannot: but must do it by distance of time.

An apple only falls far from its tree when carried away by divine winds.

Wind has no feet, but travels great distances, and has no hands, but carries great objects.

The greater your wisdom, the shorter the distance to success.

Now that I have found thee, I know that in the first step I took, I moved away from thee.

Absence does not make the heart grow fonder, but it sure heats up the blood.

Football is a contact sport. So, on the pitch, it isn't possible to maintain distance like you can in an office job.

If you're the person living closest to the parent who's going to need help, and you take on the whole role of primary caregiver, you can be pretty sure your sibling who lives farthest away is going to call you and say, 'You don't know what you're doing.' Because they're not on the spot, and they probably feel guilty.

If I can just live further from the spotlight I think that'll be better for all really.

The 200 meters is my baby. To me, it's the perfect distance. It's still a true sprint, but it unravels more. You get to enjoy the race a little bit more than the 100.

If I run 100 meters 30 times, that is 3 kilometers and no longer a sprint.

I lived within walking distance of Harvard Square, and that's where I discovered my love of cinema. I saw a lot of foreign and independent films there.

St. Louis still is going to be a special place for me, whether I'm playing 3,000 miles away or 5,000 miles away.

St. Louis is closer to Minneapolis than Milwaukee is.

I am very practical. It's not like I will fall in love with someone standing far away.

The God I do believe in is the God who doesn't care: James Joyce's God who stands back, paring his fingernails.

Civilization is the distance man has placed between himself and his excreta.

Ninety feet between the bases is the nearest thing to perfection that man has yet achieved.

Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board.