Distance Quotes - Page 25

• We underestimate the distance between ourselves and others. Not just inferential distance, but distances of temperament and ability, distances of situation and resource, distances of unspoken knowledge and unnoticed skills and luck, distances of interior landscape.

  Eliezer Yudkowsky

  Skills, Luck, Landscape

  "Beware of Other-Optimizing". lesswrong.com. April 10, 2009.

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• Voyaging great distances -- through forests, from island to island, across plains and into the mountains -- is all about finding ourselves.

  Tim Lebbon

  Islands, Mountain, Forests

  Tim Lebbon (2009). “Fallen”, Spectra

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• Law of Airlines: The shorter the time between flights, the greater the distance between gates.

  Doug Larson

  Law, Flight, Airline

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• Any strategy that involves crossing a valley accepting short-term losses to reach a higher hill in the distance will soon be brought to a halt by the demands of a system that celebrates short-term gains and tolerates stagnation, but condemns anything else as failure. In short, a world where big stuff can never get done.

  Neal Stephenson

  Loss, Valleys, Done

  FaceBook post by Neal Stephenson from Oct 02, 2011

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• Speak not of guilt, speak not of responsibility. When the Regiment of the Senses parades by, with music, and with banners; when the senses shiver and shudder, it is only a fool and and an irreverent person that will keep his distance, who will not embrace the good cause, marching towards the conquest of pleasures and passions. All of morality's laws - poorly understood and applied - are nil and cannot stand even for a moment, when the Regiment of the Senses parades by, with music, and with banners.

  C.P. Cavafy

  Responsibility, Passion, Law

  "The Regiment of the Senses". Poem by Constantine P. Cavafy, transl. by Manuel Savidis, www.cavafy.com.

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• However, I think a plain space near the eye gives it a kind of liberty it loves; and then the picture, whether you choose the grand or beautiful, should be held up at its proper distance. Variety is the principal ingredient in beauty; and simplicity is essential to grandeur.

  William Shenstone

  Beautiful, Eye, Thinking

  William Shenstone (1775). “The Select Works in Verse and Prose of William Shenstone ... The Third Edition”, p.121

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• Jeb Bush has to distance himself from what they call the Bush brand. So he keeps saying, 'I am my own man.' But when Governor Chris Christie is out on the campaign trail, he's always saying, 'I'm my own man, plus another guy.'

  David Letterman

  Men, Guy, Campaigns

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• Either the distances betweem the distant quarters of the globe are diminished, or you have extended the powers of human action.

  Hugh Elliot

  Action, Quarters, Globes

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• Typical horror movies of the 1930s were often given a period setting in what looked like a kind of stylized 19th century... the sense of 'elsewhen', of distance, lent to many of these movies by their settings. They exist, as it were, in a 19th century of the mind.

  Andrew Tudor

  Mind, Typical, Hollywood

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• The actual distance a bad golfer is going to hit the ball with any club obviously depends on many factors, not the least of which is whether the ball was actually hit at all.

  Leslie Nielsen

  Golf, Balls, Clubs

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• I'm actually not star-struck... I like to give people their own space and admire them from a distance.

  Bethany Hamilton

  Stars, Space, People

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Comedy is a wonderful device for distance that allows us to look at what we're talking about with some degree of distance and hopefully with a bit more perspective and honesty. With many exceptions, a movie with no jokes is far less appealing to me.

  Alexander Payne

  Honesty, Talking, Perspective

  "Q&A: Alexander Payne on his life at the movies". Interview with Jake Coyle, yhoo.it. November 15, 2013.

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• Ocean privilege does not exist anymore. The world is small. We cannot rely on distance anymore.

  Greg Gutfeld

  Ocean, Doe, World

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• One thing I like about the United States, and I kind of miss about the United States, is there's an election coming up here in England, but no one's going to have a sign in front of their house. Nobody's going to wear buttons. And in France, same thing. In America I like that people have signs and buttons and bumper stickers. Sometimes you'll smile at someone from a distance, then you'll get up close and you'll see their pin, and you're like, "Oh my god. I wasted a smile on you?"

  David Sedaris

  America, People, Missing

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• The distance between yourself and another person is the same as the distance between yourself and yourself.

  Richard Moss

  Persons

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• What's happening is the language. Not only in the usual sense of being interesting (which it is), but in the new sense that words are events, as real and important in themselves as wars and lovers... It is to the word, then, that the mind moves, and the word responds by taking on a physicality, even a sensuality, we have all been trained to ignore. Words have weight, and the distance between two can be a chasm filled with forces of association... What Clark is doing is genuinely new.

  Ron Silliman

  Real, War, Moving

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• There's a very old recording maxim that goes, 'Distance makes depth.' I've used that a hell of a lot-whether it's tracking guitars or the whole band. People are used to close-miking amps, but I'd have a mic out around the back, as well, and then balance the two. Also, you shouldn't have to use EQ in the studio if the instruments sound right. You should be able to get the right tones simply with the science of microphone placement.

  Jimmy Page

  Guitar, Two, People

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• 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.]

  Horace

  Hate, Silence, Crowds

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• I abhor the profane rabble and keep them at a distance.

  Horace

  Profane

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• In a few hours one could cover that incalculable distance; from the winter country and homely neighbours, to the city where the air trembled like a tuning-fork with unimaginable possibilities.

  Willa Cather

  Country, Winter, Air

  Willa Cather (2011). “Lucy Gayheart”, p.20, Vintage

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• High culture always isolates, always drives men out of their class, and makes it more difficult for them to share naturally and easily the common class-life around them. They seek the few companions who can understand them, and when these are not to be had within a traversable distance, they sit and work alone.

  Philip Gilbert Hamerton

  Men, Class, Culture

  Philip Gilbert Hamerton (1873). “The Intellectual Life: With a portrait of Leonardo da Vinci, etched by Leopold Flameng”, p.328

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• Some men at the approach of a dispute neigh like horses. Unless there be an argument, they think nothing is doing. Some talkers excel in the precision with which they formulate their thoughts, so that you get from them somewhat to remember; others lay criticism asleep by a charm. Especially women use words that are not words,--as steps in a dance are not steps,--but reproduce the genius of that they speak of; as the sound of some bells makes us think of the bell merely, whilst the church chimes in the distance bring the church and its serious memories before us.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Horse, Memories, Men

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• Love is a landscape the long mountains
  define but don't
  shut off from the
  unseeable distance.

  Denise Levertov

  Love, Long, Mountain

  Denise Levertov (1983). “Poems of Denise Levertov, 1960-1967”, p.76, New Directions Publishing

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• I take a sun bath and listen to the hours, formulating, and disintegrating under the pines, and smell the resiny hardihood of the high noon hours. The world is lost in a blue haze of distances, and the immediate sleeps in a thin and finite sun.

  Zelda Fitzgerald

  Time, Sleep, Blue

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• Sound--
  That stealeth ever on the ear of him
  Who, musing, gazeth on the distance dim,
  And sees the darkness coming as a cloud--
  Is not its form--its voice--most palpable and loud?

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Clouds, Voice, Darkness

  Edgar Allan Poe (2015). “Edgar Allan Poe: Poetry and Tales”, p.45, Library of America

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