Quotes About Distance

I don't think we ever clash but we do become frosty.

My lens of choice was always the 35 mm. It was more environmental. You can't come in closer with the 35 mm.

The things you're closest to are often the things you know least about.

When I look at the clouds over the Earth, and I know how high clouds are, I get a sense we are really, really far above those clouds. I wouldn't call it scary, but I am aware I am in space.

I coached Afghanistan for seven months. Out of those, I spent five and a half away from home.

A lot of guys can shoot two, three, four, five, six, seven, 10 feet behind the 3-point line. A lot of people can do it. It's just, when is it going to be considered a good shot? When are coaches going to encourage you to shoot that shot?

I've never even watched one of my films since they're completed.

I need a guy who's confident and is secure in himself, because we're always apart.

Sometimes the person furthest away from the audience doesn't connect with them as much.

Me and my mum didn't see eye-to-eye for a lot of years, and I've never really felt connected with my dad, because he wasn't there.

In most specials, the performer's up - not only not surrounded, but up on a stage - and there's a distance between them and the audience, and I think my comedy doesn't work as well in that way.

Being away from my family for six months a year - even if it was in the beautiful surroundings of Guadeloupe in the Caribbean - was just too hard.

Glamour is an imaginative process that creates a specific emotional response: a sharp mixture of projection, longing, admiration, and aspiration. It evokes an audience's hopes and dreams and makes them seem attainable, all the while maintaining enough distance to sustain the fantasy.

I've gradually gained more confidence swimming for distance in the open sea, but I still return to the rock pools.

Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.

I had to travel long distances to train on a synthetic track, which added to residual fatigue.

Atheism is so senseless. When I look at the solar system, I see the earth at the right distance from the sun to receive the proper amounts of heat and light. This did not happen by chance.

no need for you to get involved, Elenita.

For many years, I have been moved by the blue at the far edge of what can be seen, that color of horizons, of remote mountain ranges, of anything far away. The color of that distance is the color of an emotion, the color of solitude and of desire, the color of there seen from here, the color of where you are not. And the color of where you can never go.

so mom got the postcard today

Ninety feet between home plate and first base may be the closest man has ever come to perfection.

Ninety feet between bases is perhaps as close as man has ever come to perfection.

But he could see only two ways past his fear of loving Beth—drawing closer or pulling away, and neither was tenable.

Obscure faith enlightens us somewhat like the night, which, though surrounding us with shadows, allows us to see the stars, and by them the depths of the firmament. There is here a mingling of light and shade which is extremely beautiful. That we may see the stars, the sun must hide, night must begin. Amazingly, in the obscurity of night we see to a far greater distance than in the day; we see even the distant stars, which reveal to us the immense expanse of the heavens.