“He was my distant cousin. Not only was he 50 miles away and 50 years away, but he was just very aloof.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
God be thanked for books! They are the voices of the distant and the dead. — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
Take no revenge that you have not pondered beneath a starry sky, or on a canyon overlook, or to the lapping of… — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
People tell me all the time that I look forbidding or aloof. That doesn't bother me much - I am fairly private,… — Ric Ocasek Copy Share Image
The farther we peer into space, the more we realize that the nature of the universe cannot be understood fully by inspecting… — Robert Lanza Copy Share Image
If parents are the fixed stars in the child's universe, the vaguely understood, distant but constant celestial spheres, siblings are the dazzling,… — Alison Gopnik Copy Share Image
During exposure, interference takes place between the incident rays and those reflected by the mirror, with the formation of interference fringes half… — Gabriel Lippmann Copy Share Image
Is it true that the American people are war-weary? Absolutely. We are tired of sending our sons and daughters to distant lands… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
It seemed like most of the memories faded before they had time to form. And after a while, my life with my… — Kara Swisher Copy Share Image
Sometime in the not too distant future, denying gays the right to marry will be viewed as historically corrupt - as corrupt… — Mark McKinnon Copy Share Image
If you go far enough out you can see the Universe itself, all the billion light years summed up time only as… — Rolf Jacobsen Copy Share Image
Why should Congresspeople have to visit D.C.? Thanks to Skype, meetings are possible across the country. Thanks to email, communications are simple.… — Ben Shapiro Copy Share Image
It's always the big question in our lives if you have a lot of success. What do you do with it? Buy… — Kevin Spacey Copy Share Image
“Do you know who your grand grand grand grand grand father is? Probably you don’t! If you want to know your very… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
We citizens of the affluent countries tend to discuss our obligations toward the distant needy mainly in terms of donations and transfers,… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
She passed these years in a distant corner of her mind. A dry, barren field, out beyond wish and lament, beyond dream… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“Tell him this one thing. Distant rivers always reach the sea. Being far is just like being near. Would I think of… — Annamayya Copy Share Image
The house burned an hour before midnight on the last day of April. The wild, distant ringing of the fire bells woke… — John Jakes Copy Share Image
When you really get it right in acting, it's an act of empathy. You feel less distant from others, and that is… — Claire Danes Copy Share Image
We look at distant exploding stars called supernovae, and we've developed techniques to measure how far away they are and how fast… — Adam Riess Copy Share Image
Another thing I learned is that novels, even those from apparently distant times and places, remain current and enlightening, and also comforting. — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
“The children watch a distant point. Lamps go out. Some blind girls question the moon and spirals of grief rise in the… — Federico García-Lorca Copy Share Image
This whole earth which we inhabit is but a point in space. How far apart, think you, dwell the most distant inhabitants… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I used to think that, given enough goodwill, anybody would be able to 'get' any music, no matter how distant the culture… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
No matter how distant you are to me, Ill keep waiting for you here until we will be together forever. Missing you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't particularly like being pregnant. I like the baby at the end. Pregnancy is a very distant thing for me. I… — Mary Beth Whitehead Copy Share Image
“Some people think the stars must look closer from up here. They don't. When you're up here, you realize how distant they… — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
I'm one of those people who happen to like trees. I don't know why - I just do. As a kid, I… — Ian Frazier Copy Share Image
The most difficult idea to reconcile in war is the notion that anything is going to be solved by killing a stranger,… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
Love has nothing to do with being near or distant, cause it takes birth deep inside your heart. The one you love… — Senoraroy Copy Share Image
“Though I may seem at times somewhat distant from you, through the gray mist of philology, I am never far, my thoughts… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“I care so much that I do not know how to tell you without seeming inconsequential compared to how I feel. Even… — Aimée Carter Copy Share Image
The attacks of September 11 persuaded many Americans that what might seem to be obscure or distant potential threats can very quickly… — Michael Mandelbaum Copy Share Image
When people think of slavery, they think of an era from the distant past. Grainy photographs from Civil War times. And yet… — Lisa Kristine Copy Share Image
The days of languorous shore leave are long gone. Overnight stays are unheard of and sailor towns a distant memory. In better… — Rose George Copy Share Image
“God does not live in a dogmatic scripture or in a distant throne in the sky, but instead abides very close to… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Even though you're so close to me, you're still so distant and I can't bring back. It's true the way I feel,… — Linkin Park Copy Share Image
When I was in middle school, and teachers lectured about World War II, the conflict seemed impossibly distant and irrelevant. And it… — Don Kardong Copy Share Image
Lots of science fiction deals with distant times and places. Intrepid prospectors in the Asteroid Belt. Interstellar epics. Galactic empires. Trips to… — Edward M. Lerner Copy Share Image
Television broadcasts have, in the main, been more suggestive, less specific, more distant in their images than the print press: often you… — Bruce Jackson Copy Share Image
