Distance Quotes

2234 Distance quotes by 1472 unique authors

Poetry is a naked woman, a naked man, and the distance between them. — Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Romance takes place in the middle distance. Romance is looking in at yourself through a window clouded with dew. Romance means leaving things out: where… — Margaret Atwood
Jesus said several times, “Come, follow me.” His was a program of “do what I do,” rather than “do what I say.” His innate brilliance… — Spencer W. Kimball
Always mind the distance between your dreams and your reality. — ZoÃ« Heller
Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your work your judgment will be surer. Go some… — Leonardo da Vinci
Only poetry can measure the distance between ourselves and the Other. — Charles Simic
People tend to stick to their own size group because it's easier on the neck. Unless they are romantically involved, in which case the size… — Miranda July
Become simple and live simply, not only within yourself but also in your everyday dealings. Don’t make ripples all around you, don’t try to be… — Etty Hillesum
There's a taste in the air, sweet and vaguely antiseptic, that reminds him of his teenage years in these streets, and of a general state… — Ian Mcewan
It’s possible, I’m moving through the hard veins of heavy mountains, like an arc, alone; I’m so deep inside, I see no end in sight,… — Rainer Maria Rilke
Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting… — Douglas Adams
I hate horses. I know people who think that they are noble, graceful animals, but regardless of what a horse looks like from a distance,… — Megan Whalen Turner
I really beleive that if the political leaders of the world could see their planet from a distance of, let's say 100,000 miles, their outlook… — Michael Collins
Her visits to her former hometown were infrequent and often painful. Pilgrimages fueled by the tepid oxygen of family duty, unease, guilt. The more Esther… — Joyce Carol Oates
The first night Stephen and I slept together, he whispered numbers into my ear: long, high numbers -- distances between planets, seconds in a life.… — Peter Cameron
The sun sliced through the windshield, sealing me in light. I closed my eyes and felt the warmth on my eyelids. Sunlight traveled a long… — Haruki Murakami
If self is a location, so is love: Bearings taken, markings, cardinal points, Options, obstinacies, dug heels, and distance, Here and there and now and… — Seamus Heaney
He felt like a man who, after straining his eyes to peer into the remote distance, finds what he was seeking at his very feet.… — Leo Tolstoy
If it wasn’t for the mist we could see your home across the bay," said Gatsby. "You always have a green light that burns at… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
It is possible to be honest every day. It is possible to live so that others can trust us-can trust our words, our motives, and… — Gordon B. Hinckley
She has her own glamour, Willy lad. All poets do, all the bards and artists, all the musicians who truly take the music into their… — Emma Bull
She watched the prairies the rivers, the towns slipping past at an untouchable distance below - and she noted that the sense of detachment one… — Ayn Rand
There seemed to be a mystifying universal conspiracy among textbook authors to make certain the material they dealt with never strayed too near the realm… — Bill Bryson
This wasn't the sea of the inexorable horizon and smashing waves, not the sea of distance and violence, but the sea of the etenally leveling… — Denis Johnson
Memory was supposed to fill the time, but it made time a hole to be filled. Each second was two hundred yards, to be walked,… — Jonathan Safran Foer

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