I actually want to write a treatise in defence of pretension. I think the word 'pretension' has become like the word 'ironic'… — James Murphy Copy Share Image
Today, we have come a distance. We have made a lot of progress. That cannot be denied. You cannot dispute the fact… — John Lewis Copy Share Image
There are two ways to tell the story. Funny or sad. Guys like it funny, with lots of gore and a grin… — Phil Klay Copy Share Image
The more tournament rounds you play, everything improves: your distance control, focus and comfort level. — Patrick Cantlay Copy Share Image
Estrangement shows itself precisely in the elimination of distance between people. — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
The person from whom you are maintaining distance is the person who has special place in your heart. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I wish I never met you so I wouldn't have fallen for you and I wouldn't have to struggle with my feeling… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The precise effects of lensing depend on the mass of the lens, the structure of space-time, and the relative distance between us,… — Priyamvada Natarajan Copy Share Image
The endings for all my characters seem sufficiently human and messy for me to feel comfortable with them. In some ways they… — David O. Russell Copy Share Image
Yon foaming flood seems motionless as ice;Its dizzy turbulence eludes the eye,Frozen by distance. — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
Success isn't how far you got, but the distance you traveled from where you started. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Things should be judged by distance traveled rather than by current position. — Andrew Davidson Copy Share Image
Friendship is a promise of the heart, unbroken by distance, unchanged by time. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Balzac, you know, our great Balzac, he wrote interesting things about how in literature you keep distance in order to express great… — Isabelle Huppert Copy Share Image
Writers who hedge their use of unfamiliar, infrequent, or informal words with 'I know that's not a real word,' hoping to distance… — Erin McKean Copy Share Image
...the geometrician teaches me how to work out the size of my estates rather than how to work out how much a… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
The canyon country does not always inspire love. To many it appears barren, hostile, repellent - a fearsome mostly waterless land of… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Our thoughts, our language, are always at a distance from whatever they're trying to describe. We have other kinds of languages, like… — John Edgar Wideman Copy Share Image
My age fallen away like white swaddling Floats in the middle distance, becomes An inhabited cloud. — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
I think no matter where we go in space to me the important thing is not only getting there and getting back,… — John Glenn Copy Share Image
The superior man undergoes three changes. Looked at from a distance, he appears stern; when approached, he is mild; when he is… — Confucius Copy Share Image
Concentrate on small segments of your race at a time. For example, rather than obsessing about the distance that remains, simply complete… — Jerry Lynch Copy Share Image
I love traditional music. But in any culture around the world, there is the historic and cultural music and everything that's been… — Robbie Robertson Copy Share Image
the senses alone are not implicitly to be depended on. We must correct their evidence by reason, and by considerations, derived from… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Distance was a dangerous thing, she knew. Distance changed people. — Rohinton Mistry Copy Share Image
