Quotes About Distance

My family still lives in Chicago: my mother, my sister, my nephew, my family is there. So even though I am not living there, I feel very close to it, and I visit very often.

The moon's a nice place to visit, but you wouldn't want to live there.

My childhood best friend moved to Kenya when we were still young, and since I missed her so much, I always hoped to visit Kenya.

For all the splendours of the world's greatest galleries, visitors are likely to be kept at arm's length, spectators of a world that can seem too rarefied to let them in.

Once you're in space, you don't get visitors very often.

All of Bengal knows about my differences with my father. He's based in Mumbai. I never visit him. He never visits me. We are not enemies. But neither are we friends.

We see parts of each other, and we put them together. But if I want to see you in totality, you need to move away; we need space between us. Across the street, I can see all of you at once, but then I also see this huge vista of space surrounding you, coming in and compressing you.

We all accept the visual shorthand used throughout comics: if something's farther away, it'll be drawn with a thinner, simpler line, eventually leaving out most visual information and becoming a gesture, a skeletal representation of a thing.

You fall in love differently when you are young and far from home in a seductive place. You fall in love with the very air you breathe, and the vivid colours and the unbearably sweet sensation of distance and unaccustomedness.

Neighbor is no longer confined to the vocabulary of the individual. It is a national word. Modern inventions have annihilated distance. Commercial relations have broken down barriers of race and religion, and the family of nations is a recognized fact.

Voice comes to you through a spell, a trance. The best voices are not you... they're a little away from you.

Having a conversation on a landline is more intimate than talking to someone in person. Your voices are so clear and close - you're in each other's heads.

One lesson astronomy tells us is that we're a tiny mote in a hostile void, and help is too far away.

I'm good at shapes. If I'm not close, even if it's big, I can't read it.

Yes, I am in touch with Priyanka Chopra but not very often. There was more communication between us before she shifted to the US. However, she knows what is happening in my life and with my work.

I think humor is used a lot of the time to keep people from getting too close. Humor side-steps and shifts the meaning.

I was a little ahead of him but that didn't matter after awhile.

If you're not in a major city, many bands don't come your way, and you have to really travel to see them.

I have barely seen my son since he came into the world. Even though I hear his voice on the phone almost every day, it is very tough to not be present while he is growing up.

Shooting from outside the box, it would be nice to get a few more goals from outside the box.

I could always hit the ball really far, but you don't need to be strong to do that.

Everyone thinks L.A. is the beach. And actually, Hollywood is really far from the beach.

From my estate, where my mum still lives now, from my bedroom you could see Wembley. I go back a lot, my brothers are still there and she does a lot of cooking for me. To try to get a coach doesn't make sense, Willesden to Wembley. You can't do that really.

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