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Distance Quotes

I repeat that the distance between the earth and her satellite is a mere trifle, and undeserving of serious consideration. I am convinced that before twenty years are over, one-half of our earth will have paid a visit to the moon.

I Am Moon Earth Distance Serious

Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance.

Technology Devil Distance Person His

I once tried standing up on my toes to see far out in the distance, but I found that I could see much farther by climbing to a high place.

Place Distance See Out High Up

In her previous novels, Maggie O'Farrell has often measured the distance between intimates and the unexpected intimacy of distance - geographic, temporal, cultural. In 'The Hand That First Held Mine' and 'The Distance Between Us,' characters separated by many miles or many years turn out to be joined in ways they never anticipated.

Stacey D'Erasmo

Unexpected Distance Hand Never First

I started with paragliding. Paragliding is taking off from mountains with a paraglider, with the possibility to fly cross-country, distance, just with the use of thermals to soar. Also, different aerobatic maneuvers are possible with a paraglider. From there, I started with skydiving.

Ueli Gegenschatz

Mountains Fly Soar Distance Possible

So much of my poetry begins with something that I can describe in visual terms, so thinking about distance, thinking about how life begins and what might be watching us.

Life Poetry Thinking I Can Distance

My silver cord - the link between my body and my spirit - was extremely sensitive. It was what allowed me to sense dreamscapes at a distance. It could also snap me back into my skin.

Samantha Shannon

Me Body Back Distance Skin Silver

Big plays are such a huge factor in the outcome of games. It is so difficult to go the distance on a defense.

Distance Go Games Difficult Big

When you research prolific songwriters, it is usually later in their career they write songs that they distance themselves from, or it's about other people.

People Research You Career Distance

We sometimes laugh from ear to ear, but it would be impossible for a smile to be wider than the distance between our eyes.

Malcolm de Chazal

Smile Eyes Impossible Laugh Distance

I think as journalists, we have to keep our distance from power.

Power Think Distance Keep I Think

When you run the marathon, you run against the distance, not against the other runners and not against the time.

Haile Gebrselassie

Time You Distance Run Marathon

Time and distance from the first and second world wars doesn't seem to lessen their horrors.

Time World Distance First Seem Wars

Scarce any problem will appear more hard and difficult, than that of determining the distance of the Sun from the Earth very near the truth: but even this... will without much labour be effected.

Truth Sun Problem Earth Distance

The ideological distance between Jim Webb and Bertrand Russell can be measured in light years. An author who reaches both of them exerts something like universal appeal.

Christopher Buckley

Light Distance Years Something Like

I've never found that getting physical is ever the best response in a bar. You just have to make sure you keep your distance, and if it gets to a point where it gets aggressive, then the best thing to do is go get a bouncer and get the situation resolved intelligently.

Best You Situation Distance Go Bar

I'm not a real big wine drinker. I enjoy wine from a distance.

Apollonia Kotero

Wine Enjoy Distance Real Big

When I was about 12, I had my first paying gig - 8 dollars to play rhythm guitar in a polka band. Pretty soon, I ended up playing in all the bars within driving distance of Abbott, Texas.

Texas Guitar Driving Distance Play

Every play I write is about love and distance. And time. And from that we can get things like history.

Suzan-Lori Parks

Love History Time Distance Play Get

While human space travel is daunting, machines - with their indefinitely long lifetimes - could travel the galaxy. It might make little difference to them that bridging the distance from one star to the next could take hundreds of thousands of years or more.

Travel Space Long Distance Galaxy

I knew I was born at the North but hoped nobody would find it out. I looked upon the misfortune as something so shrouded by time and distance that maybe nobody remembered it.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Time Find Born Distance Nobody Out

Fantasy is usually considered an escape, but it's also a way to deal with weighty real-world issues from a safe distance and in a context where you usually have some kind of power that you don't have in real life.

Noelle Stevenson

Life Power You Distance Escape Kind

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

Mother Me I Can Distance Judges She

One of the things about Fleetwood Mac is, when we're not together, we don't talk a lot or keep in touch. We keep a healthy distance.

Lindsey Buckingham

Together Distance Healthy Touch Talk

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