Time And Distance Quotes - Page 2

• Writing is nothing less than thought transference, the ability to send one's ideas out into the world, beyond time and distance, taken at the value of the words, unbound from the speaker.

  Arthur M. Jolly

  Distance, Taken, Writing

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The forces of Hannibal, Drake and Napoleon moved at best with the horses' gallop or the speed of wind on sail. Now, aviation brings a new concept of time and distance to the affairs of men. It demands adaptability to change, places a premium on quickness of thought and speed of action.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Horse, Distance, Men

  "Aviation, Geography, and Race". Reader's Digest, pp. 64-67, November 1939.

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• Between highway sounds I heard waves and thought how the curve of the coastline here had sheltered and nurtured live-born sharks, humans, and migrating whales. Here, at the edge of the continent, time and distance stopped; in the lull between sets of waves I could get a fresh start.

  Gretel Ehrlich

  Distance, Ocean, Curves

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• If you can capture a womans imagination, then you will have her. But imagination is a strange creature. It needs time and distance to function properly.

  Kathleen Tessaro

  Love, Distance, Imagination

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• For those of us who have been diagnosed with cancer, time is a precious commodity. The time and distance from the scientist's lab bench to the patient's bedside must be shortened.

  Larry Lucchino

  Distance, Cancer, Benches

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• Fiction is a particularly effective way for strangers to connect across time and distance

  Jonathan Franzen

  Distance, Fiction, Way

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