Quotes About Distance

How do you know if something is real? That's easy. Does it change you? Does it form you? Does it give you wings? Does it give you roots? Does it make you look back at a month ago? And say, I am a whole different person right now. If yes, then it's real. The evidence of truth and reality lies in how much something can touch you, can change you, even if it's from very far away. Distance is the only evidence of what can be surpassed.

There are undoubtedly princesses out there with beautiful singing voices. Harriet was not one of them. She was good at hitting monsters with swords. Hitting notes was a little beyond her. Mumfrey made it through twenty minutes of tuneless singing and was very glad when he saw someone in the distance.

Sex can be estranging; it can drive two otherwise compatible people apart.

Remember, if you hold something close enough, you lose your ability to see it.

A poet, Hephaestion, sings not to narrate human events as they occur, but to make sure that we have the opportunity of living the emotions and the passions of our heroes even at a distance of centuries.

Sing little box Don't let sleep overtake you The world's awake within you In your four-sided emptiness We turn distance into nearness Forgetfulness into memory Don't let your nails come loose For the very first time We watch sights beyond this world Through your keyhole Turn your key in our mouths Swallow words and numbers Out of your song Don't let your lid fly open Your bottom drop Sing little box

our day is a green apple cut in two i look at you you dont see me between us is the blind sun on the steps our torn embrace you call me i dont hear you between us is the deaf air in the shop windows my lips are seeking your smile at the crossroads our trampled kiss i have given you my hand you dont feel it emptiness has embraced you in the squares your tear is seekinng my eyes in the evening my day dead meets with your dead day only in sleep we walk the same paths

Even the air between them seemed to be dented, waiting to be straightened again.

Maybe I am staring into a piece of paper like it is a pond, hoping one day that what looks back is not my own reflection, but my great-grandmother's face. Maybe poetry is the distance between my face and her face. Maybe it's the difference between how the moon looks in the sky and how it contorts when a mayfly travels across the pond.

When you are risen on the eastern horizon You have filled every land with your beauty... Though you are far away, your rays are on Earth.

Most American cities shop to their best advantage when seen from a height or from a distance, at a point where the ugliness of the buildings dissolves into the beauty of an abstraction.

Anything more than 500 yards from the car just isn't photogenic.

The poorest people either don't have cars or actually don't drive very far in many cases.

There's nothing worth photographing more than 100 yards from the car

It's shocking to say, but the cinema is quite a while away from me, and I haven't got a car yet.

It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the dog's owner - and the distance you are from your car.

The courteous driver keeps a safe distance between cars and doesn't drive like one plane trying to refuel another.

The car has made our lives more difficult. If not for it, we would have everything we needed within walking distance.

In L.A., the only thing within walking distance is your car.

No novo ano, o futuro continuava tão longe como no ano velho.

Let's not even touch life with the tips of our fingers. Let's not even know the love in our minds. May we never know the feel of a women's kiss, not even in our dreams.

Seeing and hearing are the only noble things in life. The other senses are plebeian and carnal. The only aristocracy is never to touch. Avoid getting close – that's true nobility.

When we were apart and I thought of her, I left words out of it. What came to mind instead were flashes of bold color in sunlight. And always an impression of wide-open country and the pair of us traveling, alone together, great distance at great speed.

In human affairs, the distance between the leaders and the average is a constant.