Quotes About Distance

The probability of separate worlds meeting is very small. The lure of it is immense. We send starships. We fall in love.

I'm a woman. And I'm a man. That's how it is for me. I am in a body that I prefer. But the past, my past, is not subject to surgery. I didn't do it to distance myself from myself. I did it to get nearer to myself.

My mother's eyes were like cold stars. She belonged in a different sky.

Why doesn't she want me? The sun is rising now, but it is 93,000,000 miles away and I can't get warm... She won't be cold. She has the sun inside her.

In the sky, Planet Moon is 239,000 miles away. That's not far when you remember that the sun is 93 million miles away.

Existence is not something which lets itself be thought of from a distance; it must invade you suddenly, master you, weigh heavily on your heart like a great motionless beast - or else there is nothing at all.

When she was in Djibouti and I was in Aden, and I used to go and see her for twenty-four hours, she managed to multiply the misunderstandings between us until there were exactly sixty minutes before I had to leave; sixty minutes, just long enough to make you feel the seconds passing one by one.

I shall have to get used all over again to speaking to people without touching them.

How far away from them I feel, up on this hill. It seems to me that I belong to another species.

Photography is a way of putting distance between myself and the work which sometimes helps me to see more clearly what it is that I have made.

I come from a rural state. People drive 50, 100 miles to and from work every single day. That is true all over America.

Moving eight miles a minute for months at a time.

A school out of Canberra sends me a term's worth of work. I sit on the couch by myself and complete it and send it back.

I used to date Kellan Lutz. We were together for two and a half years, but the distance and travel really kept us apart. In the end we decided it wouldn't work, but we're still good friends.

If you have distance from the events, then your story can work as an analogy or parable, rather than its literal narrative.

You could say that when you introduce humour to your work, you also step back a little from it. You create a distance

I've always felt England was a great place for a comic to work. It's an island and the audience can't run very far.

The same technologies enabling us to work together at a distance are creating the expectation to do better at governing ourselves.

I cannot judge my work while I am doing it. I have to do as painters do, stand back and view it from a distance, but not too great a distance. How great? Guess.

When you are far away from reality, your fantasy won't work.

I tried to keep my distance, but my world doesn't work without you in it.

Chiron is so distant from the person I am; it's important for me to distance myself from that so people can understand that was the character. Hopefully, I'll find another opportunity that allows me to stretch like that again.

Love is the most elusive thing I know. Always an arm's length away, teasing me and asking me to stretch a bit more and grab it.

I never see Oti! I see her on the dance floor, I see her shortly at the after party but that's it. In the week she's doing her 'Strictly' zoom and I hardly ever see her.