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Distance Quotes

I lived within walking distance of Harvard Square, and that's where I discovered my love of cinema. I saw a lot of foreign and independent films there.

Rachel Morrison

Love Walking Cinema Distance Within

I always felt that when people found things that they didn't like about me, it seemed to distance them from me.

People Me Distance Always Things

The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still small voice of conscience.

Small Voice Reach Distance Never

I know from the middle distance I give off the look of being prolific, which is a funny compliment to receive.

Funny Look Distance Know Compliment

It is one of the primary motives of modern art that it wants to abolish the distance which the viewer, the consumer, the audience maintain vis-a-vis a work of art.

Hans-Georg Gadamer

Work Art Distance Audience Modern

You have to keep your sanity as well as know how to distance yourself from it while still holding onto the reins tightly. That is a very difficult thing to do, but I'm learning.

Diahann Carroll

Learning Yourself You Distance Know

Plays are the marathon of scriptwriting. You fix on a point somewhere in the middle distance, and you start running, and you don't stop until you get to the end. The theory is that you have something you cannot not say: this is the engine that propels you through to the last page.

Start End You Stop Distance Page

I don't know what's the matter with me, why I'm so adept at distance, why I feel so remote from things, why life feels like a rumor.

Life Me Feel Distance Know Why

The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.

Barbara Kingsolver

Life Live Hope You Distance Admire

Many different planets are many different distances from their host star; we find ourselves at this distance because if we were closer or farther away, the temperature would be hotter or colder, eliminating liquid water, an essential ingredient for our survival.

Water Survival Find Distance Star

The places I've been, or passed through, or seen at a distance, have had as much an impact on my life as the people I've known.

Bryan Lee O'Malley

Life People Impact My Life Distance

At a certain stage in his evolution, man himself had been able to lay hold upon a higher order of things, which raised him above the level of the beasts that perish, and enabled him to see, at least in the distance, the shining towers of the City of God.

God Man City Distance Evolution See

I had to bring the idea of journalistic distance to writing about myself.

Susannah Cahalan

Myself Writing Distance Bring Idea

It is very possible that I could have ended up on 80 acres of land by myself, and fallen in love at a distance with a gorgeous woman I could never have been with.

Peter Sarsgaard

Love Myself Woman Distance Possible

I thought that if you come across as a freak, there will be some kind of distance. Maybe the distance became excessive. I realized that people were afraid of me without knowing me.

Thomas Kretschmann

People Me Thought You Distance Kind

Along the borders to Ethiopia and Somalia, anarchy reigns, the police and military have retreated quite some distance.

Police Distance Military Borders

The distance between Don Quixote and the petty bourgeois victim of advertising is not so great as romanticism would have us believe.

Great Advertising Believe Distance

At Penn State, I ran distance and cross country as a walk-on. I wound up running a lot of marathons, 30-plus. I was okay. I won one in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. I think it was around 2:30. I could crank those out all day.

Day Think Country Distance Okay Out

I need a distance to my characters when I write.

Distance Write Need Characters

The height of the pulleys from the ground was twelve yards, and consequently, when the weights had descended through that distance, they had to be wound up again in order to renew the motion of the paddle.

James Prescott Joule

Distance Height Through Ground Up

Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.

Henry David Thoreau

Friends Earth Distance Nothing Seem

Arizonans should not be judged disdainfully and from a distance by people whose closest contacts with Hispanics are with fine men and women who trim their lawns and put plates in front of them at restaurants, not with illegal immigrants passing through their backyards at 3 A.M.

Women Men People Immigrants Distance

We criticize mothers for closeness. We criticize fathers for distance. How many of us have expected less from our fathers and appreciated what they gave us more? How many of us always let them off the hook?

Parenting Distance More Appreciated

The number of medals on an officer's breast varies in inverse proportion to the square of the distance of his duties from the front line.

Charles Edward Montague

Distance Line Medals Square Front

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