Distance Quotes

Time is the longest distance between two places.

Liberalism seems to be related to the distance people are from the problem.

Sometimes a person has to go a very long distance out of his way to come back a short distance correctly.

Civilization is the distance man has placed between himself and his excreta.

An Oscar means a lot of things because it's like the ultimate award for a filmmaker so it feels great. But I think you have to consider awards with some distance and not get obsessed with it. When you're creating you shouldn't think about it.

People tend to keep their distance.

A perfect run has nothing to do with distance. It's when your stride feels comfortable.

Memories are like stones, time and distance erode them like acid.

Laughter is the closest distance between two people.

People are trading distance for dollars.

This weakening is worsened by the widening distance between the governed and their governments.

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.

I think it's important for one to take a certain distance from oneself.

All of us are experts at practicing virtue at a distance.

I think it's always good for the author to stay a good cattle prod's distance from the actual moviemaking.

What a strange distance there is between ill people and well ones.

We had to be parents by long distance, which is far from satisfactory.

Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board.

The height of the pulleys from the ground was twelve yards, and consequently, when the weights had descended through that distance, they had to be wound up again in order to renew the motion of the paddle.

We are just not made up to be middle distance runners.

One minute we can be in a small club, the next minute we can be in a coliseum, and the next minute we can be in a small auditorium. It varies, depending on the promoter, the budget, and the travelling distance.

I maintain my sanity by keeping my distance.

Everybody is improving but I am improving slowly, which seemingly widens our distance.

The number of medals on an officer's breast varies in inverse proportion to the square of the distance of his duties from the front line.

Recreational shopping is the shortest distance between two points: you and broke.

Distance not only gives nostalgia, but perspective, and maybe objectivity.

You have to, at least from a distance, look as if you know what you're doing, and I can manage that.

My father kept his distance from working-class American blacks.

Sorrows are like thunderclouds, in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely gray.

I suggested that we might compare earthquakes in terms of the measured amplitudes recorded at these stations, with an appropriate correction for distance.

I don't think ignorance is a way that you gain distance on something.

Weekends are a bit like rainbows; they look good from a distance but disappear when you get up close to them.

You know it's only 50 miles from Grand River to Canton, but it took me 67 years to travel that distance.

Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.

The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.

I think you only see experiences as defining moments with distance.