Distance Quotes - Page 12

• A circle is the longest distance to same point.

  Tom Stoppard

  Art, Philosophy, Circles

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• The shortest distance between two points is your mind. It's not a straight line.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Science, Two

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• I've thrown or broken a few clubs in my day. In fact, I guess at one time or another I probably held distance records for every club in the bag.

  Tommy Bolt

  Golf, Broken, Facts

  Tommy Bolt, William C. Griffith (1969). “How to keep your temper on the golf course”

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• The actual distance a bad golfer is going to hit the ball with any club obviously depends on many factors, not the least of which is whether the ball was actually hit at all.

  Leslie Nielsen

  Golf, Balls, Clubs

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• I'm actually not star-struck... I like to give people their own space and admire them from a distance.

  Bethany Hamilton

  Stars, Space, People

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Comedy is a wonderful device for distance that allows us to look at what we're talking about with some degree of distance and hopefully with a bit more perspective and honesty. With many exceptions, a movie with no jokes is far less appealing to me.

  Alexander Payne

  Honesty, Talking, Perspective

  "Q&A: Alexander Payne on his life at the movies". Interview with Jake Coyle, yhoo.it. November 15, 2013.

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• Ocean privilege does not exist anymore. The world is small. We cannot rely on distance anymore.

  Greg Gutfeld

  Ocean, Doe, World

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• It's like losing a son because I loved Michael and Michael loved me. But you know, as when people grow up and they make their own decisions and they move forward, there's a distance, and I think that Michael in some cases might have gone too far with some of the things he was doing.

  Berry Gordy

  Growing Up, Moving, Son

  "Motown's Gordy On Michael Jackson". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. June 27, 2009.

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• One thing I like about the United States, and I kind of miss about the United States, is there's an election coming up here in England, but no one's going to have a sign in front of their house. Nobody's going to wear buttons. And in France, same thing. In America I like that people have signs and buttons and bumper stickers. Sometimes you'll smile at someone from a distance, then you'll get up close and you'll see their pin, and you're like, "Oh my god. I wasted a smile on you?"

  David Sedaris

  America, People, Missing

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• The distance between yourself and another person is the same as the distance between yourself and yourself.

  Richard Moss

  Persons

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• Let the risen Jesus enter your life, welcome him as a friend, with trust: he is life! If up till now you have kept him at a distance, step forward. He will receive you with open arms. If you have been indifferent, take a risk: you won’t be disappointed. If following him seems difficult, don’t be afraid, trust him, be confident that he is close to you, he is with you and he will give you the peace you are looking for and the strength to live as he would have you do.

  Pope Francis

  Jesus, Giving, Risk

  Pope Francis (2016). “The Joy of Discipleship: Reflections from Pope Francis on Walking with Christ”, p.33, Loyola Press

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• What's happening is the language. Not only in the usual sense of being interesting (which it is), but in the new sense that words are events, as real and important in themselves as wars and lovers... It is to the word, then, that the mind moves, and the word responds by taking on a physicality, even a sensuality, we have all been trained to ignore. Words have weight, and the distance between two can be a chasm filled with forces of association... What Clark is doing is genuinely new.

  Ron Silliman

  Real, War, Moving

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• There's a very old recording maxim that goes, 'Distance makes depth.' I've used that a hell of a lot-whether it's tracking guitars or the whole band. People are used to close-miking amps, but I'd have a mic out around the back, as well, and then balance the two. Also, you shouldn't have to use EQ in the studio if the instruments sound right. You should be able to get the right tones simply with the science of microphone placement.

  Jimmy Page

  Guitar, Two, People

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• I am persuaded that we are all surrounded by an atmosphere - a separate, sensitive, distinct envelope extending some distance from our visible persons - and whenever my invisible atmosphere is invaded, it affects my whole nervous system. The proximity of any bodies but those I love best is unendurable to my body.

  Fanny Kemble

  Love Is, Atmosphere, Body

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• I hate the uncultivated crowd and keep them at a distance. Favour me by your tongues (keep silence).
  [Lat., Odi profanum vulgus et arceo.
  Favete linguis.]

  Horace

  Hate, Silence, Crowds

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• I abhor the profane rabble and keep them at a distance.

  Horace

  Profane

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• People who live at a distance are naturally less faulty than those immediately under our own eyes.

  George Eliot

  Eye, People, Shortcomings

  George Eliot (2012). “The Mill on the Floss”, p.166, Courier Corporation

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• There was an immeasurable distance between the quick and the dead: they did not seem to belong to the same species; and it was strange to think that but a little while before they had spoken and moved and eaten and laughed.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Thinking, Littles, Strange

  W. Somerset Maugham (2016). “Of Human Bondage (Diversion Classics)”, p.363, Diversion Books

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• In a few hours one could cover that incalculable distance; from the winter country and homely neighbours, to the city where the air trembled like a tuning-fork with unimaginable possibilities.

  Willa Cather

  Country, Winter, Air

  Willa Cather (2011). “Lucy Gayheart”, p.20, Vintage

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• High culture always isolates, always drives men out of their class, and makes it more difficult for them to share naturally and easily the common class-life around them. They seek the few companions who can understand them, and when these are not to be had within a traversable distance, they sit and work alone.

  Philip Gilbert Hamerton

  Men, Class, Culture

  Philip Gilbert Hamerton (1873). “The Intellectual Life: With a portrait of Leonardo da Vinci, etched by Leopold Flameng”, p.328

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• If you study Japanese art you see a man who is undoubtedly wise, philosophic and intelligent, who spends his time how? In studying the distance between the earth and the moon? No. In studying the policy of Bismarck? No. He studies a single blade of grass. But this blade of grass leads him to draw every plant and then the seasons, the wide aspects of the countryside, then animals, then the human figure. So he passes his life, and life is too short to do the whole.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Wise, Art, Life Is Too Short

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• Some men at the approach of a dispute neigh like horses. Unless there be an argument, they think nothing is doing. Some talkers excel in the precision with which they formulate their thoughts, so that you get from them somewhat to remember; others lay criticism asleep by a charm. Especially women use words that are not words,--as steps in a dance are not steps,--but reproduce the genius of that they speak of; as the sound of some bells makes us think of the bell merely, whilst the church chimes in the distance bring the church and its serious memories before us.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Horse, Memories, Men

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• A melancholy sound is in the air,
  A deep sigh in the distance, a shrill wail
  Around my dwelling. 'Tis the Wind of night.

  William C. Bryant

  Night, Air, Wind

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• The distance between capital and labor is not a great gulf over which is swung a Niagara suspension bridge; it is only a step, and the laborers here will cross over and become capitalists and the capitalists will cross over and become laborers. Would to God they would shake hands while they are crossing, these from one side, and those from the other side.

  Thomas De Witt Talmage

  Hands, Bridges, Labor Day

  Thomas De Witt Talmage (1886). “The Battle for Bread: A Series of Sermons Relating to Labor and Capital”

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• Worship demands the far distances of God; it protests against the little, the near, the material. It must love but it must look up. It cannot live without the note of spirituality and universality, if not mystery. The ascension, the passing of Christ within the veil, answers this need. So does a full-robed Christianity add to definiteness of knowledge the outreach of imagination and home.

  Maltbie Davenport Babcock

  Home, Imagination, Veils

  Maltbie Davenport Babcock (1901). “Thoughts for Every-day Living from the Spoken and Written Words of Maltbie Davenport Babcock”

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