Quotes About Distance

Though there are only inches between them, for an instant his father is a stranger, a man who has kept a secret, has survived a tragedy, a man whose past he does not fully know. A man who is vulnerable, who has suffered in an inconceivable way.

I became a writer in America, but I set my first stories in Calcutta, a city where I have never lived, far from the country where I grew up, and which I knew much better. Why? Because I needed distance between me and the creative space.

In a sense I'm used to a kind of linguistic exile. My mother tongue, Bengali, is foreign in America. When you live in a country where your own language is considered foreign, you can feel a continuous sense of estrangement. You speak a secret, unknown language, lacking any correspondence to the environment. An absence that creates a distance within you.

Throughout the experience, in spite of her growing discomfort, she'd been astonished by her body's ability to make life, exactly as her mother and grandmother and all her great-grandmothers had done. That it was happening so far from home, unmonitored

When he pictured her so many thousands of miles away he plummeted, so much so that he had an overwhelming urge to wrap his arms around her, to freeze with her, even for an instant, in an embrace witnessed by his favorite Surya.

I didn't like the distance between my family and myself that I was experiencing from having to work all the time.

I find it really disturbing to be watching a lot of the medium that I'm trying to work in. I prefer to be doing things that are farther away.

Our work is directly proportional to the distances our dreams travel across, as force (power) is a constant factor

Don't allow distance to truly separate you. Make your love last beyond the distance.

So many a time, I would find myself stuck in my studio while, in another country, my exhibitions were opening and I was being celebrated.

I'm not disinterested in the rest of the world, but studies show the rest of the world is really freaking far away.

Melodrama is one of the most stunning art forms. These are stories where the emotions are big, and the situations are big, and the artists believe in the situation dramatically. There's no irony or distance.

In the old days, a con man would be good looking, suave, well dressed, well spoken and presented themselves real well. Those days are gone because it's not necessary. The people committing these crimes are doing them from hundreds of miles away.

When you're shooting with long lenses, even if you're shooting a close-up, you feel the air, the distance between the camera and the subject.

The closer the source of light is to a subject, the broader the beams are.

As a member of the audience I don't like it that I can't see what's going on in the eyes and in the face and in the most subtle responses of a performer when I'm more than a few rows back. I find it very frustrating.

A mother's love is stronger than distance, more powerful than time and can transcend the grave.

The distant rear of an army engaged in battle is not the best place from which to judge correctly what is going on in front.

You can't run away from trouble. There ain't no place that far.

A heart truly in love never loses hope but always believes in the promise of love, no matter how long the time and how far the distance.

Each year it seems to take less time to fly across the ocean and longer to drive to work.

Though dreams can be deceiving, like faces are to hearts, they serve for sweet relieving, when fantasy and reality lie too far apart.

Distance doesn't ruin a relationship. Doubts do.

Distance is not for the fearful, it is for the bold. It's for those who are willing to spend a lot of time alone in exchange for a little time with the one they love. It's for those knowing a good thing when they see it, even if they don't see it nearly enough.