Quotes About Distance

Il devient quelque chose de déjà perdu, et je souffre moins. De tout. Comme de son silence. « Je t'appellerai dès que je rentre. » Mais sait-il le sens exact de « dès que » ? Il doit être rentré hier. Tout de même. Dominique L. me parle de La Havane : il y a des boîtes de nuit, petites, où il fait presque noir.

Calculaba cuántas veces habíamos hecho el amor. Tenía la impresión de que, cada vez se había añadido algo más a nuestra relación, pero también de que precisamente esa acumulación de gestos y de placer era sin duda lo que iba a alejarnos el uno del otro. Estábamos agotando un capital de deseo".

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

What a wonderful thing is the mail, capable of conveying across continents a warm human hand-clasp.

I didn't know that people compared Bill Hicks and I but certainly I'm flattered if they do. I knew Bill a bit. We had dinner a couple of times and played guitar together once. I really tried to keep my distance from him professionally.

I do intend to achieve my education goals and obtain my college degree through distance programs.

I float from one project to another project, so you miss people and you don't see them for years.

My home was 25 miles from the gulf, and I did not want to see it become a shorefront property.

To me, 'Educating Rita' is the most perfect performance I could give of a character who was as far away from me as you could possibly get and of all the films I have ever been in, I think it may be the one I am most proud of.

ATT. Venus, who hath her station at thy gates. HIPP. I, who am chaste, salute her at a distance. ATT. Venerable is she, however, and of note among mortals. HIPP. Different Gods and men are objects of regard to different persons.

We don't have anything in common. We just complement each other. You don't have to do everything together; you need some distance between you. But there's no ideal distance and there are only two possibilities: either you reduce the distance or you enlarge it. And because we want to reduce the distance, we're going to get married. Some time or another.

He lit his cigar and sat back at peace with the world; I, too, was at peace in another world than his. We both were happy. He talked of Julia and I heard his voice, unintelligible at a great distance, like a dog's barking miles away on a still night.

Ah, she cried, you look so cool. Their eyes met, and they stared together at each other, alone in space. With an effort she glanced down at the table. You always look so cool, she repeated. She had told him that she loved him, and Tom Buchanan saw.

I thought of Gatsby's wonder when he first picked out the green light at the end of Daisy's dock. He had come a long way to this lawn and his dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it. He did not know that it was already behind him. [- Nick Carroway]

The lights grow brighter as the earth lurches away from the sun.

People disappeared, reappeared, made plans to go somewhere, and then lost each other, searched for each other, found each other a few feet away.

We haven't met for many years, said Daisy, her voice as matter-of-fact as it could ever be. Five years next November. The automatic quality set us all back at least another minute.

Involuntarily I glanced seaward and distinguished nothing except a single green light, minute and far away, that might have been the end of a dock. When I looked once more for Gatsby, he had vanished, and I was alone again in the unquiet darkness.

It had seemed as close as a star to the moon.

He stretched out his arms towards the dark water in a curious way, and,far as I was from him I could have sworn he was trembling involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguishing nothing except a single green light, minute and faraway, that might have been the end of a dock.

He did not know that it was already behind him, somewhere back in that vast obscurity beyond the city, where the dark fields of the republic rolled on under the night.

A girl who could send tear-stained telegrams.

No podíamos vernos, sin embargo, nos hemos estado queriendo todo el tiempo.

Gatsby bought that house so that Daisy would be just across the bay.