- Europe
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- Nov 07, 2020
Distance Quotes
How distance changes what we see and feel.
Several of these quotes treat distance as a matter of perspective - a fairy-land view of literature that loses its charm on closer approach, and a photographer describing every horizon as revealing another beyond it. See Far quotes for a related angle.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sorrows are like thunderclouds, in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely gray.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
As an adult, I had to accept that I was not a natural distance runner. Anything more than about 400 metres had me gasping and wheezing like a broken accordion.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our team has always believed that neither cost and distance should ever prevent people from connecting with their friends and loved ones, and won't rest until everyone, everywhere is empowered with that opportunity.
- Height
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- Nov 07, 2020
The height of the pulleys from the ground was twelve yards, and consequently, when the weights had descended through that distance, they had to be wound up again in order to renew the motion of the paddle.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I actually want to write a treatise in defence of pretension. I think the word 'pretension' has become like the word 'ironic' - just this catch-all term to distance people from interesting experiences and cultural engagement and possible embarrassment.
- Magic
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- Nov 07, 2020
The second principle of magic: things which have once been in contact with each other continue to act on each other at a distance after the physical contact has been severed.
- Light
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nanosecond precision matters for worldwide communications systems. It matters for navigation by Global Positioning System satellite signals: an error of a billionth of a second means an error of just about a foot, the distance light travels in that time.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
What a director really does is set the emotional temperature and the mood and the level, amount, or lack of, distance between the action and the character, and the character and the audience.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
Melodrama is one of the most stunning art forms. These are stories where the emotions are big, and the situations are big, and the artists believe in the situation dramatically. There's no irony or distance.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Anybody can play decent golf like me, but people trip on their own minds. They need to create a little distance between what they think and what they do.
- Governed
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- Nov 07, 2020
This weakening is worsened by the widening distance between the governed and their governments.
- Done
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- Nov 07, 2020