Distance Quotes - Page 3

• It was a lone voice in the middle of the ocean, but it was heard at great depth and great distance.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Ocean, Voice, Depth

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• Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Technology, Devil, Telephones

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.225, University of Georgia Press

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• Odd how much it hurts when a friend moves away- and leaves behind only silence.

  Pam Brown

  Relationship, Goodbye, Hurt

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• Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on.

  Bob Newhart

  Happiness, Smile, Moving On

  Bob Newhart (2006). “I shouldn't even be doing this: and other things that strike me as funny”

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• The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.

  Stendhal

  Years, Eyebrows, Fifty

  Stendhal “The Red and the Black: A Chronicle of the 19th Century”, Curated Classics

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• Once we get into the groove, we're kind of like long-distance runners - that adrenalin kicks in for me and I just keep running - and I don't stop!

  Keith Urban

  Running, Long, Kind

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I think we dream so we don't have to be apart so long. If we're in each other's dreams, we can play together all night.

  Bill Watterson

  Love, Friendship, I Miss You

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• Absence makes the heart grow fonder, but it sure makes the rest of you lonely.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Love, Relationship, Lonely

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• The simple lack of her is more to me than others' presence.

  Edward Thomas

  Love, Life, Relationship

  Edward Thomas (2012). “Poems of Edward Thomas”, p.150, Other Press, LLC

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• Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  I Miss You, Missing You, Broken Heart

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• Distance is temporary, but our love is permanent.
  This may be the last time I see you, but if you keep me in your heart, together we shall be eternal; if you believe, we shall never part.

  Ben Harper

  Relationship, Believe, Heart

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• Love is missing someone whenever you're apart, but somehow feeling warm inside because you're close in heart.

  Kai Knudsen

  Love, I Miss You, Boyfriend

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• In true love the smallest distance is too great, and the greatest distance can be bridged.

  Unknown

  Love, Relationship, I Miss You

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• You know it's only 50 miles from Grand River to Canton, but it took me 67 years to travel that distance.

  Don Shula

  Travel, Years, Nfl

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• I wish I wrote more about the world at more distance from myself.

  Sharon Olds

  Wish, World

  Interview with Dwight Garner for Salon Magazine, www.english.illinois.edu. July 1, 1996.

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• We sometimes laugh from ear to ear, but it would be impossible for a smile to be wider than the distance between our eyes.

  Malcolm De Chazal

  Happiness, Smile, Laughter

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• My own reaction from a distance is that Pol Pot's demise as the leader of the Khmer Rouge was inevitable, and that his own paranoia did him in as much as anything else.

  Sydney Schanberg

  Leader, Demise, Paranoia

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• When you practice reporting for as long as I have, you keep yourself at a distance from True Believers. Either conservatives or liberals or Democrats or Republicans.

  Bob Woodward

  Practice, Long, Republican

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• We're going in really fresh. We're going to have fresh legs and bodies, we're going to be able to stay the distance, and that's our goal.

  Serena Williams

  Long, Goal, Body

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• Our hours in love have wings; in absence, crutches.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Long Distance Relationship, Wings, Distance Love

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• We criticize mothers for closeness. We criticize fathers for distance. How many of us have expected less from our fathers and appreciated what they gave us more? How many of us always let them off the hook?

  Ellen Goodman

  Mother, Father, Parenting

  Ellen Goodman (1983). “At Large”, Fawcett Books

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• A petty reason perhaps why novelists more and more try to keep a distance from journalists is that novelists are trying to write the truth and journalists are trying to write fiction.

  Graham Greene

  Fake People, Writing, Reality

  Graham Greene (1993). “Mornings in the dark: the Graham Greene film reader”, Carcanet Press Ltd.

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• We tell stories. We talk about statistics. And in 1978, we added an element of the show that gave it its heartbeat: the long distance dedication.

  Casey Kasem

  Dedication, Long, Stories

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• Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement.

  Michael Korda

  Success, Achievement, Finals

  "Success!". p. 272. Book by Michael Korda, 1977.

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• Reduce the layers of management. They put distance between the top of an organization and the customers.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Organization, Layers, Management

  FaceBook post by Donald Rumsfeld from Aug 17, 2011

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