Distance Quotes - Page 17

• Twenty years is, after all, a long time. We are not the same people we were. Old friends, lovers, even family members: they are strangers who happen to wear a familiar face. We have no right to claim to know anyone after such a distance.

  Graham Joyce

  Years, Long, People

  Graham Joyce (2012). “Some Kind of Fairy Tale”, p.248, Hachette UK

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

  Suzan-Lori Parks

  Writing, Play, Love And Distance

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• For me, friendship has always been the most accessible of relationships - certainly far more so than romantic love. Friendship, I learned, provided a buffer in the interplay of emotions, a distance that made the risk of intimacy bearable, a space that allowed the other person to remain safely another person.

  Andrew Sullivan

  Romantic Love, Space, Risk

  Andrew Sullivan (1999). “Love Undetectable: Notes on Friendship, Sex, and Survival”, Vintage

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• You can be only a modest distance away from the gravity brane, and gravity will be incredibly weak.

  Lisa Randall

  Weak, Gravity, Modest

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• Editors and their authors seldom form deep friendships for the same reason that psychiatrists and their patients keep their distance: The relationship requires candor that mixes poorly with intimacy.

  Jason Epstein

  Editors, Patient, Intimacy

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• Physics should represent a reality in time and space, free from spooky action at a distance.

  Walter Isaacson

  Reality, Space, Action

  Walter Isaacson (2008). “Einstein: His Life and Universe”, p.533, Simon and Schuster

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• I grew up in northern New Jersey - the banlieue of New York - and I now live in Brooklyn. I am separated from my parents by about 50 miles, but really there is almost no distance between us. I speak to them nearly every day.

  Jonathan Ames

  New York, Parent, Brooklyn

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• From a building right in front of my windows, I can observe the speed of the sunrises and sunsets. The voices of children playing, laughing, yelling, and crying on the playground crawl up to the eighth floor, where I write. Their voices sound so innocent from a distance.

  Andrea Hirata

  Children, Writing, Sunset

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• Horses know how to be loyal but still keep their distance.

  Sadie Jones

  Horse, Loyal, Stills

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• There was no wind; there was no passing shadow on the deep shade of the night; there was no noise. The city lay behind him, lighted here and there, and starry worlds were hidden by the masonry of spire and roof that hardly made out any shapes against the sky. Dark and lonely distance lay around him everywhere, and the clocks were faintly striking two.

  Charles Dickens

  Lonely, Dark, Night

  Charles Dickens (2015). “Dealings with the Firm of Dombey and Son: Wholesale, Retail and for Export”, p.863, Jester House Publishing via PublishDrive

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• The great commander, who seemed by expression of his visage to be always on the look-out for something in the extremest distance, and to have no ocular knowledge of anything within ten miles, made no reply whatever.

  Charles Dickens

  Funny, Humorous, Expression

  Charles Dickens (2016). “Dombey and Son”, p.336, Xist Publishing

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• Personalities are like impressionistic paintings. At a distance, each person is 'all of a piece'; up close, each is a bewildering complexity of moods, cognitions, and motives.

  Theodore Millon

  Personality, Pieces, Cognition

  Theodore Millon, Roger Dale Davis (1996). “Disorders of personality: DSM-IV and beyond”, Wiley

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• It is not in the bright, happy day, but only in the solemn night, that other worlds are to be seen shining in their long, long distances. And it is in sorrow - the night of the soul - that we see farthest, and know ourselves natives of infinity, and sons and daughters of the Most High.

  William Mountford

  Daughter, Son, Night

  William Mountford (1858). “Euthanasy, Or Happy Talk Towards the End of Life”, p.379

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• We believe we're moving out of the Ice Age, the Iron Age, the Industrial Age, the Information Age, to the participation age. You get on the Net and you do stuff. You IM (instant message), you blog, you take pictures, you publish, you podcast, you transact, you distance learn, you telemedicine. You are participating on the Internet, not just viewing stuff. We build the infrastructure that goes in the data center that facilitates the participation age. We build that big friggin' Webtone switch. It has security, directory, identity, privacy, storage, compute, the whole Web services stack.

  Scott McNealy

  Believe, Moving, Ice

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• The writer is always to some extent in exile, wherever he is, because he is somehow outside, separated from others; there is always a distance.

  Ismail Kadaré

  Exile

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• A landline is an anchor - busy signals, long distance bills, missed connections and all.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Anchors, Long, Connections

  "The Lost Art Of Telephone Conversation" by Rainbow Rowell, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 7, 2014.

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• Love is the distance between reality and pain.

  Robyn Hitchcock

  Sad, Pain, Reality

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• Most guys I know are assholes. I have some great asshole friends, but that's not the point. Friendship has got nothing to do with that. It's can you hang, can you talk about this without any feeling of distance between you? Friendship is the diminishing of distance between people. That's what friendship is, and to me it's one of the most important things in the world.

  Keith Richards

  People, Guy, Feelings

  "Life". Book by Keith Richards, October 26, 2010.

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• ... we all know the wag's definition of a philanthropist: a man whose charity increases directly as the square of the distance.

  George Eliot

  Men, Squares, Charity

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.255, Penguin

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• Normally, the sciences distance themselves from life and the return to it via a detour.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Science, Detours, Return

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• We in astrophysics we think of the universe all the time. So to us, Earth is just another planet. From a distance, it's a speck. And I'm convinced that if everyone had a cosmic perspective you wouldn't have legions of armies waging war on other people because someone would say, "Stop, look at the universe."

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  War, Army, Thinking

  "Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson's one-man mission". "60 minutes" with Charlie Rose, www.cbsnews.com. March 22, 2015.

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• It may be that there is an afterlife and I'll look incredibly stupid, but at least I will have had a crammed pre afterlife, a crammed life, so to me the most important thing is you know as Kipling put it. [...] To fill every unforgiving minute with 60 seconds worth of distance run.

  Stephen Fry

  Running, Stupid, Afterlife

  "The Importance of Unbelief". Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. December 8, 2009.

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• I like the little bit of distance that London affords me and I like living in a world capital. I like having the culture at my fingertips.

  Cillian Murphy

  Culture, World, Littles

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• The great pines stand at a considerable distance from each other. Each tree grows alone, murmurs alone, thinks alone. They do notintrude upon each other. The Navajos are not much in the habit of giving or of asking help. Their language is not a communicative one, and they never attempt an interchange of personality in speech. Over their forests there is the same inexorable reserve. Each tree has its exalted power to bear.

  Willa Cather

  Thinking, Giving, Personality

  Willa Cather (2012). “The Song of the Lark”, p.189, Courier Corporation

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• To travel is to discover that everybody is wrong. The philosophies, the civilizations which seem, at a distance, so superior to those current at home, all prove on a close inspection to be in their own way just as hopelessly imperfect.

  Aldous Huxley

  Philosophy, Home, Civilization

  Aldous Huxley (2000). “Complete Essays: 1926-1929”, Ivan R Dee

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