Quotes About Distance

Few things are as stimulating as other people's calamities observed from a safe distance.

No dignity without distance.

Always mind the distance between your dreams and your reality.

Distance may be the segregator but our thoughts and dreams are what keep us together.

I like to be approachable but I also like... I like to keep people at arm's length.

Being on the road is kind of lonely.

It gets very lonely out on the road some times.

I don't like being away from home for a long period of time.

It's hard to be a long-distance mother.

Being away from loved ones can be very hard. Taxing. With a tour, you don't know whether you'll see each other in three weeks, three months, or three days.

Among absent lovers, ardor always fares better.

It's funny; Luther and I have written many songs together, but we've never written songs in the same room.

I wasn't able to see my son as much as I wanted. I thought it would be easy living on my own, do what I want and then travel up to Manchester to see my son, but it wasn't like that.

Marriages that last are with people who do not live in Los Angeles.

that was the difference between an American and an Englishman. An Englishman thinks a hundred miles is a long way; an American thinks a hundred years is a long time.

Cliff swallows come back to Capistrano Mid-March. It takes them 3 weeks to fly 7,000 miles from Goya, Argentina.

El arte es más complejo, por supuesto. La emoción intensa crea tensión, y queremos que el artista la sienta por nosotros, que sufra, que goce y describa las cimas de su respuesta apasionada a la vida de modo que podamos apreciarla a distancia segura y podamos saber mejor cuáles son las dimensiones del espectro completo de la experiencia humana.

My mother and I were like two continents moving slowly but inexorably apart; my father, the bridge builder, constantly extending the fragile edifice he had constructed to connect us.

In the background is the hiss of the gas heater; we hear the sound without hearing it for, side by side, together and miles apart, we are deep in our books.

The events of six months ago seemed very distant now, for on a summer day winter always seems like something you have dreamt or heard spoken of and not a thing you have lived.

side by side, together and miles apart, we are deep in our books.

There was nothing to see; the mist that hung in the air made everything invisible that was more than a short distance away.

I stood on the outside of disaster, looking in.

Between the sun there is no one