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Quotes About Distance

Enfrente, a su espalda, a sus costados, estaban las otras cumbres: Oz, Cuatro Cruces, los agudos colmillos de Sagrado, Vientoduro. Más allá, la lejanía del Negromonte. Casí transparente, más allá de los pinares y las hayas, se adivinaba la ingrata zona de las Artámilas, con su hambre y su miseria.
~ Ana María Matute
Uzakl?k ya da ölüm, ku?ku ya da ihanetten daha az zarar verir a?ka.
~ Andre Maurois
Coming?" Dennis held his arm out for her, a patient smile in his voice. She peered up at him, but he was just a tall, blurry shadow. There was talk and laughter and music coming from inside the house. Above it the stars were in a black sky. That black, black sky. "You all right?" All those stars so far apart. None of them close. From far away they just looked it.
~ Andre Dubus III
But then why, when talking on the phone, did they quarrel, on average at least once every four sentences? Maybe, though the inspector, it was an effect of the distance between them becoming less and less tolerable with each passing day, since as we grow old - for every now and then one must, yes, look reality in the eye and call things by their proper names - we feel more keenly the need to have the person we love beside us.
~ Andrea Camilleri
Well, we don't have to work often for this to be much trouble." The Padrone smiled. "Besides, even Dante described the Florentines as greedy, envious, and arrogant people. It is good to keep a bit of distance from this city.
~ Andreas Eschbach
If the Sun were reduced to the size of a basketball, Earth would be a small apple seed about 30 meters from the ball.
~ Andrew Fraknoi
They faced each other at opposite ends of an illusion.
~ Andrew Holleran
You can literally tour all around Australia in two weekends.
~ Courtney Act
We are eager to tunnel under the Atlantic and bring the Old World some weeks nearer to the New, but perchance the first news that will leak through into the broad, flapping American ear will be that the Princess Adelaide has the whooping cough.
~ Henry David Thoreau
I'm thankful God has given us the technology where we can see each other through Skype on the computer. It's not the same thing, but at least we can see each other. Imagine the time before when that wasn't available and people had to go defend our country. It's really hard. I go two weeks without seeing my family and I go crazy.
~ Albert Pujols
My mother sees things but from the distance; she does not weigh them in regard to my position, and she judges me too harshly. But she is my mother, who loves me dearly; and when she speaks, I can only bow my head.
~ Marie Antoinette
Fame is a weird one. You need to distance yourself from it. People see a value in you that you don't see yourself.
~ Benedict Cumberbatch
The weird thing with 'Kismet' is that Vincente Minnelli didn't know what to do with a Cinemascope camera for that film - so he never moved it! It's like in the old days when sound first came in and was so complicated that the camera just sat there. There are hardly any close-ups in 'Kismet,' so everything's at a bit of a distance.
~ Robert Osborne
I've lived in my house for 20 years and, while I love to travel, I don't dream of moving abroad. Give me home comforts and shops, schools and friends' welcoming kitchens within walking distance any day.
~ Susanna Reid
It's possible to love a human being if you don't know them too well.
~ Charles Bukowski
I felt like I might as well have been living in another part of the solar system.
~ Bob Dylan
When she was in United States, we maintained contact, we talked to each other on the phone, almost every night. And there was one occasion I tried to fix this video conferencing but somehow it did not come out very well enough so better to talk on the phone.
~ Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
Skyping with your spouse works well enough, but apparently it is hard to get the kids to hang out on Skype for long.
~ Fred Wilson
Eugene is located in western Oregon, approximately 278 billion miles from anything.
~ Dave Barry
The kind of pace that you want to use in a Western - just to acknowledge the land in the distance that everyone has to travel, and the way things develop sort of slowly - it's almost the antithetical of what's currently going on in the movies, you know.
~ Lawrence Kasdan
While all democratic systems are works in progress, ours started rather late and therefore has a longer distance to cover. But democratic transformation for us is not mimicking some facets of Western governance. The focus has been on building institutions of democratic governance.
~ Meles Zenawi
If you think about the practical difficulties of having a relationship with somebody on the other side of the world, it defies all logic.
~ Andrew Strauss
I'm far from immune to the American, perhaps historically male, prejudice toward practical and physical competence; I hope I've also considered that prejudice enough to have some distance from it.
~ Robert Pinsky
I had always been interested in race and racial justice, but mostly it was with my nose pressed up against the glass, looking at the South from a long way away.
~ Tom Brokaw