From A Distance Quotes

The two-piece ball I switched to spun too much. One shot would go the distance I thought it should, then the next one would fall short, and then the next one would go long.

At age 22 I set what I insist is an all-time record for distance hitchhiking in Bermuda shorts: 3,700 miles in three weeks.

At a distance this fine oak seems to be of ordinary size. But if I place myself under its branches, the impression changes completely: I see it as big, and even terrifying in its bigness.

Dating is a social brain teaser, as it requires constantly changing ratios of intimacy and distance, an erotic mental cha-cha choreographed by chemistry, insight, and fear.

There IS more criticism of puritanism, and more distance from Christian morality, than there has been before.

I can look at my books with pleasure from a distance. Four feet is close enough.

I thought that if you come across as a freak, there will be some kind of distance. Maybe the distance became excessive. I realized that people were afraid of me without knowing me.

I hate the uncultivated crowd and keep them at a distance. Favour me by your tongues (keep silence). [Lat., Odi profanum vulgus et arceo. Favete linguis.]

Poetry is like painting: one piece takes your fancy if you stand close to it, another if you keep at some distance.

You can measure distance by time. 'How far away is it?' 'Oh about 20 minutes.' But it doesn't work the other way. 'When do you get off work?' 'Around 3 miles.'

Why does the past look so enticing to us? For the same reason why from a distance a meadow with flowers looks like a flower bed.

They throw their clubs backwards, and that's wrong. You should always throw a club ahead of you so that you don't have to walk any extra distance to get it.

Eventually companion animals would be phased out, and we would return to a more symbiotic relationship - enjoyment at a distance.

What a strange distance there is between ill people and well ones.

Children leave. And parents stay behind. Still, some things are deeper than time and distance. And your father will always be your father. And he will always leave a light on for you.

Filmmaking is always about keeping the right distance, and it's always a struggle. You struggle for more access. It's a little bit of a seduction process, trying to get more access.

Writing is nothing less than thought transference, the ability to send one's ideas out into the world, beyond time and distance, taken at the value of the words, unbound from the speaker.

Editors and their authors seldom form deep friendships for the same reason that psychiatrists and their patients keep their distance: The relationship requires candor that mixes poorly with intimacy.

Some pain you can distance yourself from, but a headache sits right where you live.

Part of why I started a band was due to feelings of shyness and social ineptitude. I saw it as some way of being able to interact with people from a safe distance.

You shall become the person you are.

Nowadays the host does not admit you to his hearth, but has got the mason to build one for yourself somewhere in his alley, and hospitality is the art of keeping you at the greatest distance.

There is magic in long-distance friendships. They let you relate to other human beings in a way that goes beyond being physically together and is often more profound.

Actually, ambition won't get you that far. You'll shift gears. You'll see something that's shinier. But if you believe... then you're the long-distance runner.

Distance might not solve anything, no matter how far you run.

A friend of mine is in a long-distance relationship. They have dates on Skype. They'll both watch the same movie and...play.

What a splendid thing watercolour is to express atmosphere and distance, so that the figure is surrounded by air and can breathe in it.

I admit I keep a clichéd ironic distance with many things in the world, but Brooklyn is not one of them.

It takes a long while for a naturally trustful person to reconcile himself to the idea that after all God will not help him

There are no limits to either time or distance, except as man himself may make them. I have but to touch the wind to know these things.

You know why the road curves as you're driving along? It curves because if God showed us the distance from where we are to where we’re going, we’d think it was too far.

The responsiveness of a firm to the consumer is directly proportionate to the distance on the organization chart from the consumer to the chairman of the board.

To watch a football game is to be in a prolonged neurotic doubt as to what you're seeing. It's more like an emergency happening at a distance than a game. I don't wonder the spectators take to drink.

I think I came up in fighting in a really technical way. If you've ever seen my fights, you know I love distance, I love technique.

The single biggest change in middle-distance running, from the 1500 metres to 10,000 metres, has been the track surface.

I firmly believe that everyone deserves to live within walking distance of either beauty or convenience, if not both.

One sees qualities at a distance and defects at close range.

Magellan went around the world in 1521, which is not too many strokes when you consider the distance.

Poetry must find ways of breaking distance.... all languages are dialects that are made to break new grounds.

We have to admit that there is an immeasurable distance between all that we read in the Bible and the practice of the Church and of Christians.

But what seems like a reasonable distance to one person might feel too far to somebody else.

Distance sometimes endears friendship, and absence sweeteneth it.

I may not be great at geometry but I know one theorum. The longest distance between two points is you and your parents.

The straightest line between a straight distance is two points.

There were two free public libraries within walking distance of my home; I remember taking six books home from every visit, the limit set by the library.

When I started you were more in touch with the people you were playing to. There wasn't the distance or the separation that there is now.

Perspective, as its inventor remarked, is a beautiful thing. What horrors of damp huts, where human beings languish, may not become picturesque through aerial distance!

Where there is love, distance doesn't matter.

In general, any form of exercise, if pursued continuously, will help train us in perseverance. Long-distance running is particularly good training in perseverance.

I am a lonely runner, but I am a long-distance runner.