Quotes About Distance

The key is in remaining just aloof enough from a painting so that you know when to stop.

Over the years, things got so bad between my mother and I, we stopped talking to each other and started communicating by putting Ann Landers articles on the refrigerator.

I get homesick driving to the grocery store.

If you look at a map, you see that Hawaii is in the middle of nowhere. It's 17 hours of straight flying from London. It's very far away, and sometimes you feel as if you're on another planet. But I like that. Also, that's ideal for writing.

The Long Island experience is so strange. You're a satellite around the city, so the presence of the city is always looming.

What a strange distance there is between ill people and well ones.

I mean, I'm pretty sad that I have to leave all of my home friends and I can't see them for basically half a year. That's not a great thing, but we'll FaceTime and stuff. What I'm excited for is to be on the set with all the 'Stranger Things' cast.

Admiration and familiarity are strangers.

If you go away on location for three months and your wife stays at home, you've made a whole new load of friends and she's made a whole new load of friends and you get home and you're kind of strangers.

To an outsider, Abilene was like a small landfall in the Sargasso Sea - remote, laconic, and forever closed to strangers.

Another concept was that there were infinite Hubble volumes, each a universe—a number given the name googolplex—and that the similar alternate Earth they could see was so far away that it would take longer than the age of our universe to write that distance down. Both incredible ideas and, for Jonah, both beautiful.

When Steve and I die, we are going to be buried in the same cemetery, 60-feet 6-inches apart.

Winning is an investment. It's the result of making "selfish" choices that empower your goals, separate you from limitations and insecurities, and create distance between

Now, thinking back on my exes is like looking at a flowerbed on the other side of a window. They're beautiful, but you can't touch them.

Freeh knew the estrangement undermined the FBI. "The lost resources and lost time alone were monumental," he wrote. "So much that should have been straightforward became problematic in the extreme." But he felt compelled to keep a distance from the president. It deepened as the years went by. It became a danger to the United States.

Three criteria must be met. The pilot must be (1) cleared for the approach by air traffic control, (2) within the prescribed distance, and (3) on a published segment of the approach (i.e., positive course guidance).

if X and Y are two topological spaces and if f : X ? Y is a function between them, then we simply define f to be continuous if f-1 (U) is open for every open set U ? Y. Remarkably, we have found a useful definition of continuity that does not rely on a notion of distance.

You and I We do not talk anymore And all our asterisks Are turning Into flowers.

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The farther it gets from the bench it was worked on, the more real the real world becomes.

Because of their rejection of the public law, cynical subjects feel as if they have no investment in the big Other, as if they have distanced themselves from its power, but this is belied by their investment in the fantasmatic underside of that law.

Each day the pair would meet at 2pm at the exact halfway point between the villages and stand a hundred yards apart, staring longingly at each other, yearning for the time when the pestilence would pass.

I do miss home, especially my parents, but my work keeps me occupied most of the time.

I miss the ocean; I miss Fenway.