You could say that when you introduce humour to your work, you also step back a little from it. You create a distance.
Lars von Trier
WorkStepYouBackCreateDistance
My introduction to dissociation had been at Kenneth Cooper's clinic in January of 1975. Cooper had assembled a gaggle of top American distance runners and a half dozen top researchers, the intent being to figure out what the difference was - physiologically, biomechanically, psychologically - between elite and subelite runners.
Don Kardong
JanuaryAmericanDistanceTopOut
Writing in English made me become a foreigner in my own country. It helped me create the necessary distance to my homeland.
Hallgrimur Helgason
MeWritingCountryCreateDistance
Our culture is not this thing to be seen from a distance. We need to be embracing the friction of it all - that is where the energy is.
Doug Aitken
CultureEnergyDistanceNeedSeen
I have developed my most meaningful relationships online. None of them live within driving distance. None of them are about my own age.
Aaron Swartz
LiveAgeDrivingDistanceMy Own
I come from Montana, and in eastern Montana we have a lot of dirt between light bulbs. It is expensive trying to bring the new technologies to smaller schools to upgrade their technologies to take advantage of distance learning.
Conrad Burns
LearningLightTryingDistanceNew
The hazards posed by Near-Earth Asteroids are assessed by Sentry, a computer system developed by the Near-Earth Objects Group at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. The software factors together a cosmic rock's coordinates, distance, velocity, and gravitational influences to calculate its trajectory.
Brendan I. Koerner
TogetherDistanceNASAGroupRock
The shortest distance between two points is a straight line.
Archimedes
DistanceTwoLineStraight Line
What a strange distance there is between ill people and well ones.
Winifred Holtby
PeopleDistanceStrangeWellBetween
My own reaction from a distance is that Pol Pot's demise as the leader of the Khmer Rouge was inevitable, and that his own paranoia did him in as much as anything else.
Sydney Schanberg
LeaderDistanceInevitableMy Own
I wish I wrote more about the world at more distance from myself.
Sharon Olds
MyselfWorldWishDistanceMore
Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, and robes the mountain in its azure hue.
Thomas Campbell
NatureMountainViewDistanceHue
Thanh Hoa itself is a rich agricultural province. Rice fields, a pattern of many shades of green, stretch far into the distance along the road, which also winds through foothills and the fringes of heavy jungle where tigers are said to roam. The vegetation, wild or cultivated, is lush.
Noam Chomsky
GreenRoadRichDistanceJungle
To be able to go the distance with a brother or sister, to have them turn into your ally, is about the greatest thing that can ever happen to you.
Marie Brenner
BrotherSisterYouDistanceGoTurn
The shortest distance between two points is under construction.
Leo Aikman
ConstructionDistanceTwoBetween
I didn't realize I wanted to write about D.C. until after 2000. Even though I was a comedy writer, I stayed away from that subject on purpose. It took attaining some distance and perspective.
Kristin Gore
PerspectivePurposeComedyDistance
Nanosecond precision matters for worldwide communications systems. It matters for navigation by Global Positioning System satellite signals: an error of a billionth of a second means an error of just about a foot, the distance light travels in that time.
James Gleick
TimeLightDistanceMattersSystem
We humans are hard to deal with. We are a loud, complex and demanding bunch. Often, we are best dealt with from a safe distance and for only brief periods of time. This could be why a lot of marriages fail.
Henry Rollins
TimeBestDistanceWhyHardFail
Chimpanzees, typically, kiss and embrace after fights. They first make eye contact from a distance to see the mood of the others. Then they approach and kiss and embrace.
Frans de Waal
KissEyeDistanceMoodEmbraceSee
One rule that will work if it is used everywhere, is that when you have a free-kick, the referee puts the mark on the floor to make sure the defenders keep their distance.
Cristiano Ronaldo
WorkYouDistanceWillFloorRule
I usually kept everybody at arm's distance.
Charles Haley
DistanceEverybodyArmKept
We are just not made up to be middle distance runners.
Alberto Juantorena
DistanceUpMiddleJustMade
All of us are experts at practicing virtue at a distance.
Theodore Hesburgh
DistanceVirtuePracticingUs
One does not lash hat lies at a distance. The foibles that we ridicule must at least be a little bit our own. Only then will the work be a part of our own flesh. The garden must be weeded.
Paul Klee
WorkHatGardenDistanceWillOwn
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