Quotes About Distance

Kenneth's shadow is a thin ghost on the quay. But there are thousands and thousands of miles inside him.

He wishes to be far away, either at sea or on the shore. In between, he realizes, is the most difficult of all places to be.

Like I said before, kids were okay from a distance, but I didn't think they'd ever replace hamsters.

You could stand her on a corner, in a fog, at midnight, and she'd be visible for three miles.

I could hear the icy winds of Sweden, but he didn't seem to feel the chill.

We tried not to be in the same room at the same time when Starr was home, we set the air on fire between us.

I wanted to put words between us, like spikes, to keep myself from falling into him like a girl without bones.

I would always know what time it was in California.

She yearned to call him, but hated the sound of the phone ringing, ringing, knowing that he might be standing right there, not picking up, knowing it was her.

So often when I was with her, she was unreachable. Whenever she turned her steep focus to me, I felt the warmth that flowers must feel when they bloom through the snow, under the first concentrated rays of the sun.

High-voltage wires stretched between steel towers like giants holding jump ropes into the distance.

There is no way in my right mind I would contemplate running 26 miles-plus unless it involved a chase with Pamela Anderson.

From a distance, the American political system is a remarkable success. We have accomplished the peaceful transfer of power for more than two hundred years, and that's unmatched by any civilization in human history. Up close, our political system still has all the ugliness and bad actors that you might suspect.

You become so encapsulated in this world of being a star. People listen to what you say, you have this voice, it becomes unreal and you become far removed from the people you came from.

When I first started shooting 'Sharpe,' back in the early 1990s, I'd kiss my two elder daughters goodbye at the end of August - Evie wasn't even born then - and I wouldn't see them again until Christmas. That was tough. They were hard times.

We used to live in this little house where the whole of the upper floor was used for chickens. It was four days' walk to the nearest road.

Six months away from family and friends is a long time. Emotionally, you go through some ups and downs. Life changes on the ground, and you have to ready for that. Life changes for you up here as well.

I grew up in a super small town in upstate New York; my nearest neighbour was really far away.

In an urban area, you're not going to be an hour away from another post office.

We need above all, I think, a certain remoteness from urban confusion.

You can measure distance by time. 'How far away is it?' 'Oh about 20 minutes.' But it doesn't work the other way. 'When do you get off work?' 'Around 3 miles.'

I can't fax you my love, I can't email my heart.

I start kind of stiff, and then I understand the movement, the distance, and then I can start loosening up. That's how fighting should be. That's how I try to keep my mind.

Memories are like stones, time and distance erode them like acid.