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Distance Quotes

The Carrion Crow and Turkey-Buzzard possess great power of recollection, so as to recognise at a great distance a person who has shot at them, and even the horse on which he rides.

John James Audubon

Power Great Horse Distance Person

To the wrongs that need resistance, To the right that needs assistance, To the future in the distance, Give yourselves.

Carrie Chapman Catt

Future Distance Need Right Give

Sorrows are like thunderclouds, in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely gray.

Sad Black Look Distance Gray Over

Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board.

Zora Neale Hurston

Man Wish Distance Ships Board Every

The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.

Distance Always Years Fifty Imitate

Recreational shopping is the shortest distance between two points: you and broke.

Shopping You Distance Two Broke

Everywhere is within walking distance if you have the time.

Time Humor Walking You Distance

To be consistently effective, you must put a certain distance between yourself and what happens to you on the golf course. This is not indifference, it's detachment.

Yourself Golf You Distance Must

Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.

Rudyard Kipling

Worth Distance Run Sixty Minute

I'm a long distance runner, and I get my best ideas when I'm out running. It also helps that I can't write it down immediately - if you hold onto an idea, other things will stick on it.

Best Ideas Long You Down Distance

When somewhat at a distance, I cannot hear the high tones of instruments, voices. In speaking, it is not surprising that there are people who have never noticed it, for as a rule I am absent-minded, and they account for it in that way.

Ludwig van Beethoven

I Am People Distance Way Never High

How individuals of the same species surpass each other in these sensations and in other bodily faculties is universally known, but there is a limit to them, and their power cannot extend to every distance or to every degree.

Power Distance Same Limit Degree

Part of why I started a band was due to feelings of shyness and social ineptitude. I saw it as some way of being able to interact with people from a safe distance.

People Feelings Distance Why Way

I don't think I'd ever start making a film until I had both the intimacy with the subject and the distance to make it live in a certain way.

Live Start Think Distance Way Film

It's too hard a life for me. I could only do it - check out in that sense - if I checked out somewhere that was luxurious and within hailing distance of civilization.

Life Me Distance Civilization Hard

Beauty set up distance between other people and me. It warped their behavior.

Beauty People Me Behavior Distance

Bureaucratic advancement means fewer peers, more span of control, generally an increasing information-pump function, and increased distance from the actual implementation of whatever it is the organization does.

Organization Control Distance More

Reading the several thousand pages of Christopher Isherwood's complete journals is an instructive corrective to the prissiness of reading fiction. Isherwood had faults that we'd say were unforgiveable in a novel (he was careful to distance himself from these in his autobiographical fiction).

Reading Distance Say Fiction Careful

My own position is, that it is largely up to the work itself to suggest the nature of these referential points without dimensions in and through the processes by which the distance between them is maintained.

Brian Ferneyhough

Work Nature Distance My Own Without

I wouldn't describe that 'position' as 'parasitic.' I'd describe that experience as 'edifying.' I don't merely write from a critical intellectual distance. I actually live around here.

Live Experience Distance Intellectual

As far as I'm concerned, ageing is humanity's worst problem, by some serious distance.

Problem Humanity Distance Serious

In a strange way, you have to have a certain amount of distance from a thing in order to be able to write about it.

You Distance Strange Way Write Able

If you have distance from the events, then your story can work as an analogy or parable rather than its literal narrative.

Work Story You Distance Events Your

A perfect run has nothing to do with distance. It's when your stride feels comfortable.

Perfect Distance Run Nothing Your

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