- Myself
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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
- Short
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- Nov 07, 2020
A short story is the shortest distance between two points; a novel is the scenic route.
- Oppression
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- Nov 07, 2020
Oppression thrives on distance - on not actually meeting or seeing the oppressed.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
The best seat in the house often depends on the ballet. For instance, much of the first act of 'The Nutcracker' is domestic and small scale, so it's great to sit up close. But the second act features elaborate scenery and choreography, which are better to observe from a distance.
- Police
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- Nov 07, 2020
Along the borders to Ethiopia and Somalia, anarchy reigns, the police and military have retreated quite some distance.
- Erratic
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- Nov 07, 2020
The type of Alzheimer's Dad has is rare - posterior cortical atrophy or PCA - and it affects his spatial awareness and the way he judges distance. His first symptoms were erratic typing and spelling, but to talk to him, you'd never know there was a problem.
- Nov 07, 2020
I've gradually gained more confidence swimming for distance in the open sea, but I still return to the rock pools.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People are trading distance for dollars.
- Water
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- Nov 07, 2020
The water is alive. It is alive. If we could get a mask and fins and drop down off these docks, we'd see snook and redfish and probably goliath grouper. And it's an amazing world unto itself and a very thin demarcation between one world and the other. You know, the distance of the water surface.
- Good Old Days
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everything has become so easy. It's great that it's at your fingertips, but I miss those good old days. And we're connected, but it can be very alienating. There is this distance between all of us because we're speaking to each other through cameras and monitors and icons and Emojis.
- Grow
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- Nov 07, 2020
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 succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
A beam of light takes about two million years to reach from us to the Andromeda nebula. But my thought covers this distance in a few seconds. Perhaps some day some intermediate form of body and mind may permit us to say that we actually can travel faster than light.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I lived within walking distance of Harvard Square, and that's where I discovered my love of cinema. I saw a lot of foreign and independent films there.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
English people are famous for never speaking out but only saying what they really feel about you behind your back. Americans believe the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. I like exploring those, er, differences in national snippiness.
- Keep
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- Nov 07, 2020
From the neighborhoods that we grew up in, we had to learn how to deal with people. How to keep certain people at a distance, how to cut people off completely.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
The precise effects of lensing depend on the mass of the lens, the structure of space-time, and the relative distance between us, the lens, and the distant object behind it. It's like a magnifying glass, where the image you get depends on the shape of the lens and how far you hold it from the object you're looking at.
- Nov 07, 2020