Distant Quotes

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Goals are good. Laboring with a distant aim sets the mind in a higher key and puts us at our best. — Spencer W. Kimball
Quinquireme of Nineveh from distant Ophir, Rowing home to haven in sunny Palestine, With a cargo of ivory, And apes and peacocks, Sandalwood, cedarwood, and… — John Masefield
Writing fantasy lets me imagine a great deal more than, say, writing about alligators, and lets me write about places more distant than Florida, but… — Terry Brooks
Unlike prose writing, the strange process of writing with pictures encourages associations and recollections to accumulate literally in front of your eyes; people, places, and… — Chris Ware
The night crept on apace, the moon went down, the stars grew pale and dim, and morning, cold as they, slowly approached. Then, from behind… — Charles Dickens
It is not too farfetched that soon it will be possible for a physician to send the electrocardiogram and the heart sound via communication satellite… — Hubertus Strughold
Behind him the Master of Ceremonies cleared his throat. His eyes took on a distant, glazed look.The Stealer of Souls, he said in the faraway… — Terry Pratchett
Quietly, like a night bird, floating, soaring, wingless. We glide from shore to shore, curving and falling but not quite touching; Earth: a distant memory… — Alfred Worden
Of several bodies all equally larger and distant, that most brightly illuminated will appear to the eye nearest and largest. — Leonardo da Vinci
History, like a vast river, propels logs, vegetation, rafts, and debris; it is full of live and dead things, some destined for resurrection; it mingles… — Jacques Barzun
Dead voices, lost sounds, forgotten noises, vibrations lockstepping into the abyss and now too distant ever to be recaptured!...What sort of arrows would be able… — Auguste de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam
The dawn came - not the flaming sky that promises storm, but a golden dawn of infinite promise. The birds came flying up out of… — Elizabeth Goudge
In the laboratory, we call this the six-degrees-of-separation-from-cancer rule: you can ask any biological question, no matter how seemingly distant-what makes the heart fail, or… — Siddhartha Mukherjee
People who record birdsong generally do it very early-before six o'clock-if they can. Soon after that, the invasion of distant noise in most woodland becomes… — Richard Adams
I'd visit the near future, close enough that someone might want to talk to Larry Niven and can figure out the language; distant enough to… — Larry Niven
A stars rich in europium; of distant galaxies analyzed through the collective light of a hundred billion constituent stars. Astronomical spectroscopy is an almost magical… — Carl Sagan
We don't turn back. We leave no one behind. We pull each other up. We draw strength from our victories, and we learn from our… — Barack Obama
Ralph Nader choose the man with whom to share the responsibility of running a distant third, California activist Peter Camejo. You may remember that Camejo… — Jon Stewart
To the vulgar eye, few things are wonderful that are not distant — Thomas Carlyle
As distant prospects please us, but when near We find but desert rocks and fleeting air — Samuel Garth

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