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Quotes About Distance

At extreme distances, there is essentially no such thing as depth of field.
~ Trevor Paglen
Long-distance relationships are hard no matter what. When you don't have face-to-face time, it's just different.
~ Vanessa Hudgens
Especially today, with the Internet, you have people who have best friends that they never met, with Facebook and Twitter and stuff. If you're really friends, it doesn't matter if I'm on the other side of the world. We'll still be friends and find a way to connect.
~ Astro
Me being so comfortable being abroad is due to the fact I've always been away from home.
~ Jadon Sancho
Fame, like the river, is narrowest where it is bred, and broadest afar off.
~ William Davenant
This is Massachusetts, we're supposed to be one of the tech centers of the world. We have MIT within walking distance of the state house.
~ Charlie Baker
'Seba' Veron was one of the best players I shared a dressing room with. Not only was he technically gifted and could pass the ball accurately over distance, not only could he anticipate where players would run, but he also ran himself.
~ Diego Forlan
We look at distant exploding stars called supernovae, and we've developed techniques to measure how far away they are and how fast they're moving away from us.
~ Adam Riess
Several technological and political forces have converged, and that has produced a global, Web-enabled playing field that allows for multiple forms of collaboration without regard to geography or distance - or soon, even language.
~ Thomas Friedman
Technological change is essential, but to a natural historian it often feels cold and distancing.
~ George Monbiot
Research into manned spaceflight is shifting from low-Earth orbit to destinations much further away, like Mars and the asteroid belt. But society will have to invent many new technologies before it can plausibly send people to those distances.
~ Andy Weir
I'm going to be in another city when my kids are teenagers. I'll be like, 'Give me a call when you're done with all that.'
~ Justine Bateman
Even though I've been an avid consumer of contemporary music since my early teens, the world of rock music has always been at something of a distance - I listen to it, read about it, I talk about it, but I've had little or no contact with its denizens.
~ William Boyd
Despite our ever-connective technology, neither Skype nor Facebook - not even a telephone call - can come close to the joy of being with loved ones in person.
~ Marlo Thomas
The Next Generation Space Telescope, which will be located much further away from the Earth than the Hubble Space Telescope presently is, will also explore the infrared part of the spectrum.
~ Claude Nicollier
What a director really does is set the emotional temperature and the mood and the level, amount, or lack of, distance between the action and the character, and the character and the audience.
~ James Gray
She discovered how distant pity was from hate, how very far it was from love.
~ Robert Cormier
Now love also becomes a reward so remote from me I have only made it with my mind.
~ Robert Creeley
Avance rápido. ¿No estaría escribiendo estas mismas palabras a 800 kilómetros al norte, dentro de doce años?
~ Robert Fisk
Should one therefore regard Auschwitz as a place to understand evil or as a shrine to the dead and all their sufferings? Or merely as a measure of distance between the experience of those who survived Auschwitz and those who can never comprehend what that meant? In
~ Robert Fisk
how very small London was once you reached a certain altitude; once you had left behind those who could not easily secure tables at the best restaurants and clubs. 'Couldn't
~ Robert Galbraith
It's a sad thing to watch your best friend turn into somebody you don't know anymore. Or even want to know.
~ Robert Goolrick
She heard melody and harmony and counterpoint; he heard something calling him from far, far away.
~ Robert Hellenga
How difficult it was to hold the eyes focused on that far horizon when this world lay in the foreground so compelling in its splendour and its strength!
~ ROBERT HUGH BENSON