Distance Quotes - page 29

Having seen TED from a distance, I always thought if ever there was a place for someone like me, the outcasts, people who maintained who they are despite being told what they were, it was TED. (Shane Koyczan)
We kid ourselves that we're trying to be empathetic with the human condition from a distance, but I don't think that is it at all. It's stupid; it's a waste of time. But when the earth flexes its muscles, that's rather different. That's a powerful reminder of where we are. View quote
Simon Winchester
To get the feel of how the slider should roll off of your index finger, use this grip and practice at half speed and roughly half the distance to the mound. View quote
Steve Carlton
I do have some books, but in all the distance flights I've made I've never opened the books. I've been too busy. View quote
Steve Fossett
Im like the painter with his nose to the canvas, fussing over details. Gazing from a distance, the reader sees the big picture. View quote
Steven Saylor
With 'Eagle of the Ninth,' every shot was extremely planned and organized. The director was like, 'Do this!' And I say, 'How was it?' and he says, 'Good.' It was very odd. I would never know where he was headed, or even if he was shooting me at a close-up or from a distance. View quote
Tahar Rahim
I thought that if you come across as a freak, there will be some kind of distance. Maybe the distance became excessive. I realized that people were afraid of me without knowing me. View quote
Thomas Kretschmann
The blackness of space was a big shock to me. It is a deep, three-dimensional, oily blackness. You can feel the distance. View quote
Thomas Marshburn
I started with paragliding. Paragliding is taking off from mountains with a paraglider, with the possibility to fly cross-country, distance, just with the use of thermals to soar. Also, different aerobatic maneuvers are possible with a paraglider. From there, I started with skydiving. View quote
Ueli Gegenschatz
Recreational shopping is the shortest distance between two points: you and broke. View quote
Victoria Moran
While we were at work there came nine or 10 of the natives to a small hill a little way from us, and stood there menacing and threatening of us, and making a great noise. At last one of them came towards us, and the rest followed at a distance. (William Dampier)
Laughter is the shortest distance between two people. View quote
Yakov Smirnoff
Here I am in a rabbit run, here I am in a valley of pine, waiting for you to find me. I could pretend I'm speaking to everyone-assume a middle distance and transcend myself-but I'm taking to you and you know it. View quote
Richard Siken
If we have two spherical bodies of equal mass at a given distance from each other and insert a third spherical body of the same mass half way between the two we do not double the mass attraction between any two of the three. We increase the attraction by 2 to the second power which is 4. View quote
Buckminster Fuller
Four circles to the kissing come, The smaller are the benter. The bend is just the inverse of The distance from the centre. Though their intrigue left Euclid dumb There's now no need for rule of thumb. Since zero bend's a dead straight line And concave bends have minus sign, The sum of squares of all four bends Is half the square of their sum. View quote
Frederick Soddy
It was now the hour that turns back the longing of seafarers and melts their heart the day they have bidden dear friends farewell and pierces the new traveller with love if he hears in the distance the bell that seems to mourn the dying day. View quote
Dante Alighieri
There were two free public libraries within walking distance of my home; I remember taking six books home from every visit, the limit set by the library. View quote
Martin Lewis Perl
We have food deserts in our cities. We know that the distance you live from a supplier of fresh produce is one of the best predictors of your health. And in the inner city, people don't have grocery stores. They have to get on a bus and take a long ride to get to a source of fresh produce. View quote
Michael Pollan
We're going in really fresh. We're going to have fresh legs and bodies, we're going to be able to stay the distance, and that's our goal. View quote
Serena Williams
Distance doesn't exist, in fact, and neither does time. Vibrations from love or music can be felt everywhere, at all times. View quote
Yoko Ono
If you can repair your future child's myopia with preemptive genetic tinkering, you might also want to increase her I.Q. by a few dozen points. Will it lead to a world as utopian as Lake Wobegon, where all the children are above average? Of course not. It will just add genetic manipulation of embryos and child cloning to the means by which affluent, fussy people try to distance themselves from bad luck, disappointment, menial work, death, and poor people. (David Quammen)
I have spent my life judging the distance between American reality and the American dream. View quote
Bruce Springsteen
Arizonans should not be judged disdainfully and from a distance by people whose closest contacts with Hispanics are with fine men and women who trim their lawns and put plates in front of them at restaurants, not with illegal immigrants passing through their backyards at 3 A.M. View quote
George Will
Last two soldiers on the battlefield survivors of the war they aim at one another while their mothers beg the lord "if you're listening, I'm missing him so somehow bring him home" how did it come to this? so the soldiers lift their rifles and they're aiming at the head they think of their first love before they take a final breath and somewhere in the distance they hear something someone said how did it come to this? View quote
Tomas Kalnoky
I could not answer the ceaseless inward question-why I thus suffered; now, at the distance of-I will not say how many years, I see it clearly. View quote
Charlotte Brontë