Quotes About Distance

I'm close with my whole family, but it requires email and texting because they don't all live nearby!

I like missing someone and being missed; I like looking forward to seeing him again. I like getting emails and texts with lots of xxx's.

Thank God for Skype!

Reflecting on the past, where the film industry became united with 'national interest' and 'national policy,' I tend to think that keeping a clear distance from government authority is the right thing to do.

In the theatre, once you've gone about eight rows back, everybody else is just listening to you. You're very small, and nobody can really see what you're doing.

His idea of the perfect life, the best he could have in the universe, was sitting right next to him. So close, yet so far out of his reach.

I missed you," she said. "I thought you wouldn't make the effort. Just for me." "Just for you? For God's sake, I'm in love with you!" "That's what I hoped. But then you grew so distant. I didn't know if you were in some kind of pout, or you were letting go of me." "I'll be honest—I didn't want you to leave. It took you no time to spoil me, Muriel.

If you never let anyone get near you, they soon got the message you wanted to be left alone.

It was less than thirty minutes before her cell phone chimed. She glanced at the phone and saw it was Luke. She let him go to voice mail. Next was Sean, then Patrick and finally Colin. She smiled to herself; it was nice having all five boys in the United States. She let them all leave messages. She would entertain herself later by listening to them. Really, she thought with amusement, how did they think she got to be this old without knowing anything? Pups. They were just pups. *

like something you could get close to but never really have just for yourself.

All things look good from far away and it is man's eternally persistent childlike faith in the reality of that illusion that has made him the triumphant restless being he is.

The journey back is always longer than the forward run.

Sometimes I think people were meant to be strangers.Not to get to know one another,not to get close enough to damage the heart made older by each new encounter.

The royal bodyguard, ordered by Philip to hang back for the occasion, followed at a discreet distance.

distant as the death of grocery chickens.

Sometimes two people will regard each other over a gulf too wide to ever be bridged, and know immediately what could have happened, and that it never will.

One of the reasons I live abroad is because, as a writer, I can see England better when removed from it.

Tony and I had a good on and off screen relationship, we are two very different people, but we did share a sense of humor, we now live in different parts of the world but when we find ourselves in the same place it is more or less as if there had been no years in between.

La route est plus large que longue.

il fallait séparer nos souffles, s'écarter, s'espacer, se lever, se dédoubler, et c'est toujours autant de perdu. Quand on a deux corps, il vient des moments où l'on est à moitié. - Est-ce que je suis envahissante? - Terriblement, lorsque tu n'es pas là.

distance and imagination which is almost always indispensable to the birth of legends.

She knew that Fort Lamy was a long way away, on the other side of the Sahara, in the middle of Africa — another world. Another world — and that was exactly what she needed. There at last she would be able to satisfy her need for warmth — even at Tunis there were moments when the cold was more than she could take.

Tu as quelqu'un, quelque part ? A qui il faut écrire où on t'a enterré ? – C'est pas la peine de gaspiller un timbre. »

Off in the distance there were galleons of shock-white cumulus coulds gathering in the wide sky's cerulean harbor, and their azure shadows floated over the flatlands. Billy surprised himself by saying: "I love it here. I'll never leave.