Distance Quotes - Page 28

• I'd much rather win in three or four sets than go the distance all the time. I seem to put everyone through the wringer quite a bit.

  Lleyton Hewitt

  Winning, Three, Four

  Lleyton Hewitt's Wimbledon Press Conference, www.asapsports.com. June 27, 2014.

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• Perspective is nothing more than a rational demonstration applied to the consideration of how objects in front of the eye transmit their image to it, by means of a pyramid of lines. The Pyramid is the name I apply to the lines which, starting from the surface and edges of each object, converge from a distance and meet in a single point.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Eye, Mean, Names

  Leonardo da Vinci (1938). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, Complete”, p.49, Library of Alexandria

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• A photograph is both a pseudo-presence and a token of absence. Like a wood fire in a room, photographs-especially those of people, of distant landscapes and faraway cities, of the vanished past-are incitements to reverie. The sense of the unattainable that can be evoked by photographs feeds directly into the erotic
  feelings of those for whom desirability is enhanced by distance.

  Susan Sontag

  Past, Fire, Cities

  Susan Sontag (2011). “On Photography”, p.17, Macmillan

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• We can never put enough distance between ourselves and what we love. To think that God is, is still to think of him as present; this is a thought according to our measure, destined only to console us. It is much more fitting to think that God is not, just as we must love him purely enough that we could be indifferent to the fact that he should not be. It is for this reason that the atheist is closer to God than the believer.

  Maurice Blanchot

  Atheist, Thinking, Facts

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• In Jesus Christ, there is no distance or separation between the medium and the message: it is the one case where we can say that the medium and the message are fully one and the same.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Jesus, Messages, Separation

  Marshall McLuhan (2010). “The Medium and the Light: Reflections on Religion and Media”, p.103, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• Here is the infallible test. Imagine yourself in a situation where you are alone, wholly alone on earth, and you are offered one of the two, books or men. I often hear men prizing their solitude but that is only because there are still men somewhere on earth even though in the far distance. I knew nothing of books when I came forth from the womb of my mother, and I shall die without books, with another human hand in my own. I do, indeed, close my door at times and surrender myself to a book, but only because I can open the door again and see a human being looking at me.

  Martin Buber

  Mother, Book, Men

  Martin Buber (1963). “Pointing the way: collected essays. Edited and translated with an introd. by Maurice S. Friedman”

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• I am in a job where you always look in front of you. Unfortunately, the older you get, the less distance there is in front of you...

  Arsene Wenger

  Soccer, Jobs, Looks

  "Arsène Wenger dismisses personal landmark to focus on AZ Alkmaar" by David Hytner, www.theguardian.com. October 19, 2009.

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• Calling something exotic emphasizes its distance from the reader. We don't refer to things as exotic if we think of them as ordinary. We call something exotic if it's so different that we see no way to emulate it or understand how it came to be. We call someone exotic if we aren't especially interested in viewing them as people - just as objects representing their culture.

  N.K. Jemisin

  Thinking, People, Ordinary

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• Long distance is the next best thing to being there. But a dove in love would rather reach out and touch someone. Spring is in the air and all lines are busy with local calls as the wooing and cooing commences.

  Charley Harper

  Spring, Air, Long

  Charley Harper (1994). “Beguiled by the wild: the art of Charley Harper”, Flower Valley Pr

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• You can be only a modest distance away from the gravity brane, and gravity will be incredibly weak.

  Lisa Randall

  Weak, Gravity, Modest

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• Personalities are like impressionistic paintings. At a distance, each person is 'all of a piece'; up close, each is a bewildering complexity of moods, cognitions, and motives.

  Theodore Millon

  Personality, Pieces, Cognition

  Theodore Millon, Roger Dale Davis (1996). “Disorders of personality: DSM-IV and beyond”, Wiley

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• Physics should represent a reality in time and space, free from spooky action at a distance.

  Walter Isaacson

  Reality, Space, Action

  Walter Isaacson (2008). “Einstein: His Life and Universe”, p.533, Simon and Schuster

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• Horses know how to be loyal but still keep their distance.

  Sadie Jones

  Horse, Loyal, Stills

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• The great commander, who seemed by expression of his visage to be always on the look-out for something in the extremest distance, and to have no ocular knowledge of anything within ten miles, made no reply whatever.

  Charles Dickens

  Funny, Humorous, Expression

  Charles Dickens (2016). “Dombey and Son”, p.336, Xist Publishing

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• The writer is always to some extent in exile, wherever he is, because he is somehow outside, separated from others; there is always a distance.

  Ismail Kadaré

  Exile

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• A landline is an anchor - busy signals, long distance bills, missed connections and all.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Anchors, Long, Connections

  "The Lost Art Of Telephone Conversation" by Rainbow Rowell, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 7, 2014.

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• We may produce at will, from a sending station. an electrical effect in any particular region of the globe; we may determine the relative position or course of a moving object, such as a vessel at sea, the distance traversed by the same, or its speed.

  Nikola Tesla

  Moving, Sea, May

  Nikola Tesla (2016). “My Inventions: And Other Writings”, p.123, Courier Dover Publications

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• ... we all know the wag's definition of a philanthropist: a man whose charity increases directly as the square of the distance.

  George Eliot

  Men, Squares, Charity

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.255, Penguin

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• It may be that there is an afterlife and I'll look incredibly stupid, but at least I will have had a crammed pre afterlife, a crammed life, so to me the most important thing is you know as Kipling put it. [...] To fill every unforgiving minute with 60 seconds worth of distance run.

  Stephen Fry

  Running, Stupid, Afterlife

  "The Importance of Unbelief". Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. December 8, 2009.

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• I like the little bit of distance that London affords me and I like living in a world capital. I like having the culture at my fingertips.

  Cillian Murphy

  Culture, World, Littles

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• To travel is to discover that everybody is wrong. The philosophies, the civilizations which seem, at a distance, so superior to those current at home, all prove on a close inspection to be in their own way just as hopelessly imperfect.

  Aldous Huxley

  Philosophy, Home, Civilization

  Aldous Huxley (2000). “Complete Essays: 1926-1929”, Ivan R Dee

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• 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.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Flower, Past, Bed

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• Your wits can't thicken in that soft moist air, on those white springy roads, in those misty rushes and brown bogs, on those hillsides of granite rocks and magenta heather. You've no such colours in the sky, no such lure in the distances, no such sadness in the evenings. Oh the dreaming! the dreaming! the torturing, heart-scalding, never satisfying dreaming, dreaming, dreaming, dreaming!

  George Bernard Shaw

  Dream, Sadness, Heart

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “George Bernard Shaw: The Collected Plays (Illustrated): 60 plays including Caesar and Cleopatra, Pygmalion, Saint Joan, The Apple Cart, Cymbeline, Androcles And The Lion, The Man Of Destiny, The Inca Of Perusalem and Macbeth Skit”, p.1235, e-artnow

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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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• On those remote pages [of 'a certain Chinese encyclopedia'] it is written that animals are divided into (a) those that belong to the Emperor, (b) embalmed ones, (c) those that are trained, (d) suckling pigs, (e) mermaids, (f ) fabulous ones, (g) stray dogs, (h) those that are included in this classification, (i) those that tremble as if they were mad, (j) innumerable ones, (k) those drawn with a very fine camel's hair brush, (l) others, (m) those that have just broken a flower vase, (n) those that resemble flies from a distance.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Dog, Flower, Animal

  "The Analytical Language of JohnWilkins" (1942) (translation by Ruth L. C. Simms)

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