Distantly Quotes
- After Gibbs, one the most distinguished [American scientists] was Langley, of the Smithsonian. ... He had the physicist's heinous fault of professing to know nothing… — Henry Adams
- Already the pitch has been reached in Great Britain where it is considered bigoted or reactionary to do other than praise the Jews for their… — Sidney Robertson Cowell
- When money gets too far away from actual, physical, real equity and property it gets too abstract and too distantly derived and then suddenly it's… — Roy Blount, Jr.
- Although elephants are far more distantly related to us than the great apes, they seem to have evolved similar social and cognitive capacities. — Frans de Waal
- I tensed for the spring, my eyes squinting as I cringed away, and the sound of Edward's furious roar echoed distantly in the back of… — Stephenie Meyer
- But his face had that hollow look, as if there was something gone... you know that look. The inward focus. Distantly attentive to the home… — Gregory Maguire