Distances Quotes

153 Distances quotes by 133 unique authors

Many different planets are many different distances from their host star; we find ourselves at this distance because if we were closer or farther away,… — Brian Greene
The divisions of Perspective are 3, as used in drawing; of these, the first includes the diminution in size of opaque objects; the second treats… — Leonardo da Vinci
The philosophical idea that there are no more distances, that we are all just one world, that we are all brothers, is such a drag!… — Brian Eno
If you go back back a few hundred years, what we take for granted today would seem like magic - being able to talk to… — Elon Musk
Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they… — Rainer Maria Rilke
After a while I understood that, talking this way, everything dissolves: justice, pine, hair, woman, you and I. There was a woman I made love… — Robert Hass
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
I am lost if I attempt to take count of chronology. When I think over the past, I am like a person whose eyes cannot… — Andre Gide
To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for… — Charles Darwin
…Even the idea of a city never entered his mind. It was as if he had walked under the millimeter of haze just above the… — Michael Ondaatje
Tell me a story. / In this century, and moment, of mania, tell me a story. / Make it a story of great distances, and… — Robert Penn Warren
Keep walking, though there's no place to get to. Don't try to see through the distances. That's not for human beings. Move within, But don't… — Unknown Author
I'm often asked what I think about as I run. Usually the people who ask this have never run long distances themselves. I always ponder… — Haruki Murakami
But perhaps this is all to the good. Perhaps it’s best to live with the possibility that around any corner, at any time, may come… — Sue Miller
Night of Sleepless Love The night above. We two. Full moon. I started to weep, you laughed. Your scorn was a god, my laments moments… — Federico Garcia Lorca
Of all the delectable islands the Neverland is the snuggest and most compact, not large and sprawly, you know, with tedious distances between one adventure… — James M. Barrie
For the first time, he heard something that he knew to be music. He heard people singing. Behind him, across vast distances of space and… — Lois Lowry
Following straight lines shortens distances, and also life. — Antonio Porchia
In this way, Edwin Hubble worked out the distances to nine different galaxies. We now know that our galaxy is only one of some hundred… — Stephen Hawking
It is no secret. All power is one in source and end, I think. Years and distances, stars and candles, water and wind and wizardry,… — Ursula K. Le Guin
The upshot of all this is that we live in a universe whose age we can't quite compute, surrounded by stars whose distances we don't… — Bill Bryson
The night below. We two. Crystal of pain. You wept over great distances. My ache was a clutch of agonies over your sickly heart of… — Federico Garcia Lorca
The Stars. Jared slept beneath them, uneasy in the rustling leaves. From the battlements Finn gazed up at them, seeing the impossible distances between galaxies… — Catherine Fisher
The vast distances that separate the stars are providential. Beings and worlds are quarantined from one another. The quarantine is lifted only for those with… — Carl Sagan
You've always asked me to wait, as if we had time in abundance. But time is too precious, Perry. We've wasted years, when we could… — Lisa Kleypas

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