Quotes About Distance

The thing that is comforting about being a touring musician is whenever I say bye to my friends, I'm like, 'I don't know when I'll see you again but it'll be sooner than I think and if it's not soon then it won't matter.'

From where they stood, they could see the castle.

If you've got a camera that's two feet away from you, you have to bring it all back down. It's a lot more insular. It's different brush strokes. Whereas on stage, you're playing to people who, depending on the size of the theater, might be 40 meters away from you.

Those are the same stars, and that is the same moon, that look down upon your brothers and sisters, and which they see as they look up to them, though they are ever so far away from us, and each other.

The true artist is not proud: he unfortunately sees that art has no limits; he feels darkly how far he is from the goal, and though he may be admired by others, he is sad not to have reached that point to which his better genius only appears as a distant, guiding sun.

Painting is concerned with all the 10 attributes of sight; which are: Darkness, Light, Solidity and Colour, Form and Position, Distance and Propinquity, Motion and Rest.

Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them.

You know why I don't like that camera? Because it prevents me from seeing you!

George W. Bush is not preoccupied with his legacy - nor with his popularity. He never has been. He has always led based on core conviction and strong principles and has believed that time and distance would allow for context.

Prior to the 1976 Olympics, I was a 5,000m runner.

I would prefer to keep my distance a bit from the cameras. I want to keep a private life.

The Geometer has the special privilege to carry out, by abstraction, all constructions by means of the intellect. Who, then, would wish to prevent me from freely considering figures hanging on a balance imagined to be at an infinite distance beyond the confines of the world?

Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.

I think it's always good for the author to stay a good cattle prod's distance from the actual moviemaking.

Trying to keep a relationship going on the phone is disastrous.

Running away from something doesn't do anything except put distance.

You can't see all of a place until you look at it from a distance.

I don't want to leave New York and leave my family. I don't like the distance. I just did a movie in California and it's kind of excruciating to be away from them so I think there is that sense.

I always need to get away from whatever it is I've just finished, to feel a distance from it.

I was certainly no Maradona. I was a very fast player. When I saw a space, I used it. When I went past somebody, he didn't catch up with me again. I was a player who came with a run-up. What Maradona could see in a small space, I saw over long distances.

I know how to control the distance, I know how to counter real good.

I'm at my best when there's distance between me and a man.

If you knew the real me, you'd want to keep your distance from me. Seriously.

Do we need distance to get close?