The characteristic of Chaucer is intensity: of Spencer, remoteness: of Milton elevation and of Shakespeare everything. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Let us turn to our own childhoods-no further-if we will renew our sense of remoteness, and of the mystery of change. — Alice Meynell Copy Share Image
My remoteness from women's affairs could be seen from my surprise when I heard that needles had holes in them. — Buwei Yang Chao Copy Share Image
Let a man turn to his own childhood - no further - if he will renew his sense of remoteness, and of… — Alice Meynell Copy Share Image
I draw great comfort from remoteness and wildness. I suppose that is why I have always felt the lure of the Arctic… — Alexander Armstrong Copy Share Image
We need above all, I think, a certain remoteness from urban confusion. — Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Copy Share Image
“The remoteness of nature reveals the tragedy of man's isolation and his weakness in the face of vast, impersonal forces.” — John F. Lynen Copy Share Image
“There should be a little gap between you and your friends, though you'll miss their companionship and you'll also miss their disrespect.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Herschel removed the speckled tent-roof from the world and exposed the immeasurable deeps of space, dim-flecked with fleets of colossal suns sailing… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Those who dislike fantasy are very often equally bored or repelled by science. They don't like either hobbits, or quasars; they don't… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Perspective, as its inventor remarked, is a beautiful thing. What horrors of damp huts, where human beings languish, may not become picturesque… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The hiss was now becoming a roar - the whole world was a vast moving screen of snow - but even now… — Conrad Aiken Copy Share Image
The very remoteness kindles the imagination of the adventurous hunter. From the top of any mountain the challenge extends far and wide,… — Fred Bear Copy Share Image
For many people, Timbuktu has long represented the essence of remoteness: a mythical, faraway place located on the boundaries of our collective… — Antonio Guterres Copy Share Image
The increasing remoteness of consanguinity is everyday diminishing the force of the family compact between France and Spain. And politicians have ever… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Painting is concerned with the ten things you can see: these are darkness and brightness, substance and color, form and place, remoteness… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
The world worlds, and is more fully in being than the tangible and perceptible realm in which we believe ourselves to be… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
Perspective, as its inventor remarked, is a beautiful thing. What horrors of damp huts, where human beings languish, may not become picturesque… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“And as no man knows the ubicity of his tumulus nor to what processes we shall thereby be ushered nor whether to… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
Gazing around, looking up at the lofty pinnacles above, which seemed to pierce the sky, looking down upon the world,-\-\it seemed the… — Helen Hunt Jackson Copy Share Image
I could not help feeling that they were evil things-- mountains of madness whose farther slopes looked out over some accursed ultimate… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In strict science, all persons underlie the same condition of an infinite remoteness. Shall we fear to cool our love by mining… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“What was it - this implacable remoteness, this inability to surrender herself to the warmth and comradely feelings of others? Could being… — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
“What horrors of damp huts, where human beings languish, ma not become picturesque through aerial distance? What hymning of cancerous vices may… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Whenever I start thinking of my love for a person, I am in the habit of immediately drawing radii from my love… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
There are 60 million of us [britains] crammed into an area the size of a state. So you don't have that feeling… — John Gimlette Copy Share Image
The Australians, it seems to me, thrive on their remoteness from the world and see it as a way of keeping up… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
It would seem as if the very language of our parlors would lose all its nerve and degenerate into palaver wholly, our… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
With ideas it is like with dizzy heights you climb: At first they cause you discomfort and you are anxious to get… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
Either... the moving intelligences of the planets are weakest in those that are farthest from the sun, or... there is one moving… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
“As long as the firmament of the You is spread over me, the tempests of causality cower at my heels, and the… — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
After a day on Mykines, I changed my mind about life not going on. A sort of life was going on, beating… — Lawrence Millman Copy Share Image
Science boasts of the distance of its stars; of the terrific remoteness of the things of which it has to speak. But… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
No, he probably wouldn't mention it - except to another flier. Then they will talk for hours. They will re-create all the… — Percy Knauth Copy Share Image
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