Distance Quotes - Page 35

• Our thoughts, our language, are always at a distance from whatever they're trying to describe. We have other kinds of languages, like mathematics, like music, like art, but there's always that gap.

  John Edgar Wideman

  Art, Trying, Gaps

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• People make fun of cybersex, but it's really something to take into account: it is a drama, a split of the human being! The human being can now be changed into some kind of spectrum or ghost who has sex at a distance. That is really scary because what used to be the most intimate and the most important relationship to reality is being split. This is no simulation but the coexistence of two separate worlds.

  Paul Virilio

  Sex, Fun, Drama

  Source: ctheory.net

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• Moreover, I would like to say that the sort of polar inertia we witnessed in the Kosovo War, the polar inertia involving 'automated war' and 'war-at-a-distance' is also terribly weak in the face of terrorism. For instance, in such situations, any individual who decides to place or throw a bomb can simply walk away. He or she has the freedom to move. This also applies to militant political groups and their actions.

  Paul Virilio

  War, Moving, Political

  Source: ctheory.net

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• My father would conclude his dissertations by saying, "Of course, [Albert] Einstein never believed in gravity. It was a distortion of space." And so my father couldn't believe that an attraction at a distance was a reality.

  Paul Laffoley

  Father, Believe, Reality

  Source: www.paranoiamagazine.com

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• I do feel there is a certain amount of distance and apathy that's created when you feel like there's a distance between you and the other people. So it's very easy to... when you have an app that sets it up where you very clearly swipe somebody's face off of your screen because you don't like the way they look, you're asking people to not appeal to their best selves. You're asking people to be brutal.

  Rashida Jones

  Self, People, Apathy

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• I think that distance is good for some people for certain projects. I mean this is sort of a dynamic question. Some projects require more distance than others, some don't require it at all. Sometimes you need it and sometimes you don't.

  Junot Diaz

  Mean, Thinking, People

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• With couture you have faithfulness - people are faithful to you. In couture, you will see that the cut looks like a lace dress from a distance, but it's only when you get nearer you understand that it's layers of lace, hand stitched in a certain shape, all the work - the zips, the buttons, the hooks... it goes on.

  Riccardo Tisci

  Cutting, Hands, People

  Source: www.dazeddigital.com

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• Sometimes educators suffer from the "I already do that" syndrome. In those cases, we feel inadequate if we admit we have a distance to go as learners of our craft.

  Carol Ann Tomlinson

  Suffering, Crafts, Sometimes

  Source: blogs.edweek.org

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• People don't understand, yeah I'm alright as a wrestler, but I beat people in the takedown because of my distance control - because of my Karate. This is something I learned since I'm 7 years old.

  Georges St-Pierre

  Years, People, Karate

  Source: www.bloodyelbow.com

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• I used my Karate footwork to control the distance, and I use is as a penetration drill that I do, this is my speciality, the way I penetrate on people, the explosiveness and the timing. It all started with Kyokoshin and Sports Karate.

  Georges St-Pierre

  Sports, People, Way

  Source: www.bloodyelbow.com

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• There is really no fiction or non-fiction; there is only narrative. One mode of perception has no greater claim on the truth than the other; that the distance has perhaps to do with distance - narrative distance - from the characters; it has to do with the kind of voice that is talking, but it certainly hasn't to do with the common distribution between fact and imagination.

  E. L. Doctorow

  Character, Voice, Talking

  Source: theharvardadvocate.com

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• I'm absolutely not an athletic person, but I used to be married to a runner. He would say that, especially in long-distance races, you could tell who was going to win and who wasn't, and if the person was present behind his eyes, if he was looking around and paying attention, you could be pretty sure he wasn't going to win. The person who was tranced out had a much better chance of winning. Because he or she had lost his or her governing self.

  Carolyn See

  Eye, Winning, Self

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• I remember being fascinated by the graduated sizes and perspective on the sets [of Star Wars]. And how they put shorter people and kids in the uniforms and placed them in the distance to give the idea that these sets had more depth than they really did.

  John Ratzenberger

  Stars, War, Kids

  Source: www.starwars.com

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• The distance between a gene and a behavior is of greatest interest to me. The relative contributions of nature and nurture, of nucleotide and nuclear family, are perpetually fascinating to me.

  John Medina

  Nuclear Families, Behavior, Genes

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Past tense offers authority, distance, and present tense offers emotional immediacy.

  Tim Winton

  Past, Emotional, Authority

  Source: www.compulsivereader.com

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• I do identify with Olympic athletes quite a lot because they have to push to reach a certain plateau and some of them go on and some of them give up and some art - you know, some people are very talented in art and do a few amazing things and then give it up and go on and do other things, and others are in it for the long haul, more or less long-distance runners.

  Lawrence Jordan

  Art, Giving Up, Athlete

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• There are definitely parts of me in most of the protagonists I write, but I find a bit of distance can be useful, so I often find myself better able to write from a point of view that isn't exactly my own.

  John K. Samson

  Writing, Views, Able

  Source: www.independent.co.uk

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• I think no matter where we go in space to me the important thing is not only getting there and getting back, but it's also doing research, because that opens up as a possibility with that new distance of travel in space.

  John Glenn

  Thinking, Space, Important

  Source: beforeitsnews.com

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• In the First World War, people would be receiving letters from loved ones who had been dead for weeks, and they would not know until that black-bordered telegram arrived. I remember, of course, when it was letters only, or the telephone, and you did not make expensive long-distance calls unless it was, "Come home to the funeral," or the like.

  Margaret Atwood

  War, Home, Long

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I am a lonely runner, but I am a long-distance runner.

  Louise Bourgeois

  Lonely, Long, Runners

  Source: www.procuniarworkshop.com

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• Once you become somebody, that don't mean you distance yourself from people. There is no such thing as no one can walk the streets or go outside. That I will never believe. There might be some fanfare. There might be some paparazzi, but you can control that. All you have to do is maintain the person you were before that when you would tell someone to back up or get out of my way or just stop and address people. Give them what they want. Have a smile, kick a few lyrics, and be out.

  Michael Bivins

  Believe, Mean, People

  Source: www.cyinterview.com

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• Today, we have come a distance. We have made a lot of progress. That cannot be denied. You cannot dispute the fact that our country is so different from 50 years ago. But we still have problems. There are too many people that have been left out and left behind, and they are African American, they are White, Latino, Asian American, and Native American.

  John Lewis

  Country, Native American, Years

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• I think it is a must for young people and generations yet to come, to understand, to feel, to touch, to almost smell the drama of what happened a few short years ago [the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s]. So maybe, just maybe, we will never ever repeat this unbelievable time in our history. We have to tell it all, and make it plain, and make it clear, so people will never ever forget the distance we have come, and the progress we have yet to make.

  John Lewis

  Drama, Thinking, Rights

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• There's something I have about being Canadian - there's a distance it gives you when you live in the States and operate in American culture. You approach familiar things a different way; you come at it from a different angle. It's a trait that runs through a lot Canadian artists' work and actors' work and musicians' - that kind of special remove.

  Michael J. Fox

  Running, Artist, Giving

  Source: www.cbc.ca

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• If you want to draw people into the story, you really have to write as if you're writing a novel and make these actually-existing people, including the actually-existing person with my name, into a believable person on the page. And that requires distance. That requires not being right up against the events you're talking about.

  Salman Rushdie

  Writing, Names, Talking

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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