Distance Quotes - Page 35

• I wonder if it is Australia's great distance from more populated land masses that allows its inhabitants to be left to their own devices, to be incredibly creative and, at times, to be wonderfully weird.

  Henry Rollins

  Australia, Land, Creative

  4 Copy quote

• When you hear about what someone else is going through, and you are unable to distance yourself from it or in any way muzzle your empathy and are inspired to actually do something, these are moments to learn from.

  Henry Rollins

  Empathy, Muzzle, Way

  4 Copy quote

• Question the images. Take them by the hand and don't let the sweet distancing they offer you vanquish you; do away with the distance's comfort or the soft indifference you derive from concentrating on the quality of the framing, the use of light and shadows, the successful composition. Force these images to bring you to the Mexican Southeast, to history, to the struggle, to this taking sides, to choose a faction.

  Subcomandante Marcos

  Sweet, Struggle, Successful

  34 Copy quote

• The shortest distance between two idiots is a conga line.

  Demetri Martin

  Two, Lines, Idiot

  7 Copy quote

• Life's tallest order is to keep the feelings up, to make two dollars' worth of euphoria go the distance. And life can't do that. So fiction does.

  Stanley Elkin

  Order, Two, Feelings

  9 Copy quote

• The distance between me and Benny [Goodman], was that I was trying to play a musical thing, and Benny was trying to swing. Benny had great fingers; I'd never deny that. But listen to our two versions of 'Star Dust.' I was playing; he was swinging.

  Artie Shaw

  Stars, Swings, Dust

  6 Copy quote

• Pies were invented 12,000 years ago by the Egyptians. It was an easy way to preserve food that would be carried over long distances. They were like ancient Slim Jims.

  Craig Ferguson

  Years, Pie, Long

  5 Copy quote

• When I was a kid, all of the parents and grandparents came out of the Depression Era. They were all freezing bread in their freezer, they were covering their sofas with plastic, and they had plastic runners on the floor. There was a great distance between them and anything authentic.

  Lance Henriksen

  Kids, Grandparent, Covering

  Source: collider.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• If I had to fall in love with all the actresses I play with and live the situations I have to play, I would be lost ! I need to be solid and know who I really am to have fun in making something else. I noticed, while talking with other actors, that they often let ambiguity float. I don't like ambiguity, it's dangerous. I need distance. I also think that the result would prevent the audience from identifying to the characters. If you feel the things too strongly, you simply close the doors.

  Olivier Martinez

  Falling In Love, Fun, Character

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

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I got a brother who calls me Hollywood. Sisters kind of keep their distance. Even my mom is kind of like ahhh with me. Yeah dude, it really sucks. And I wish things were different. Unfortunately, they don't understand everything I go through on a day to day basis to be able to maintain what I'm doing.

  Gabriel Iglesias

  Mom, Brother, Wish

  4 Copy quote

• We continue to build temples. We desire that as many members as possible have an opportunity to attend the temple without having to travel inordinate distances.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Opportunity, Desire, Temples

  4 Copy quote

• Nudity in photography, whether involving adults or children, is a subject sinking under a freight of political and moral disapproval it could never hope to support, and this is not the place for me to get out the bilge pump. I will only say that critics who tremble so fiercely at the thought of the voyeuristic male gaze miss the point that distance generates mystery and enchantment, and expresses the awe with which the male imagination regards all women.

  J. G. Ballard

  Photography, Children, Imagination

  7 Copy quote

• I want to show the event at the very moment it takes place.... My body must be anchored to the ground and seek the best point of view, without any visual taboos. But then, at the heart of the event, my effort is to disappear, I introduce a distance that borders on indifference.

  Luc Delahaye

  Heart, Views, Effort

  4 Copy quote

• I wanted to make photographs that were immediate and revealing - different from traditional portraiture that called for formal distance between artist and subject.

  Wendy Ewald

  Artist, Different, Portraiture

  Wendy Ewald, Adam D. Weinberg, Urs Stahel (2000). “Collaborative works with children 1969-1999”, Scalo Verlag Ac

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I don't know about other people's cameras. Mine is a thing I had cobbled up, it holds together with tape and is always losing parts. All I need to set is the distance and that other thing - what do you call that other thing?

  Mario Giacomelli

  People, Together, Cameras

  6 Copy quote

• The moment you make a photograph you consign whatever you photograph to the past as that specific moment no longer exists, it is history. The photography that I practice takes place in a specific time and place, depicting real moments in people's lives. In some ways I think of myself as a historian, but not of the word. History is most often written from a distance, and rarely from the viewpoint of those who endured it.

  Chris Killip

  Photography, Real, Thinking

  7 Copy quote

• To be a champion long-distance runner you have to run on the edge of death.

  Toshihiko Seko

  Running, Long, Champion

  4 Copy quote

• There are two ways to tell the story. Funny or sad. Guys like it funny, with lots of gore and a grin on your face when you get to the end. Girls like it sad, with a thousand-yard stare out to the distance as you gaze upon the horrors of war they can't quite see. Either way, it's the same story.

  Phil Klay

  Girl, War, Two

  Phil Klay (2014). “Redeployment”, p.36, Penguin

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• In solitude we find psychic distance, the perspective from which we can see, in the light of eternity, the created things that trap, worry, and oppress us.

  Dallas Willard

  Light, Psychics, Perspective

  10 Copy quote

• I've been a long-distance father.

  Phil Collins

  Father, Long Distance, Long

  4 Copy quote

• The function of the painter is to render... the visible surface so that at a certain distance... and position it appears... like the body itself.

  Leon Battista Alberti

  Body, Function, Surface

  17 Copy quote

• In the United States, cheap fossil fuel has eroded communities. We're the first people with no real practical need for each other. Everything comes from a great distance through anonymous and invisible transactions. We've taken that to be a virtue, but it's as much a curse. Americans are not very satisfied with their lives, and the loss of community is part of that.

  Bill McKibben

  Real, Taken, Loss

  14 Copy quote

• I am not much interested in discovering new territories to photograph. Instead, what I wish my pictures could do is lessen the distance one often feels when looking at landscape photographs... The longer I work, the more important it is to me to make photographs that tell my story as a participant, and not just an observer of the land.

  Mark Klett

  Land, Wish, Important

  4 Copy quote

• Most of all, the ultra distance leaves you alone with your thoughts to an excruciating extent. Whatever song you have in your head had better be a good one. Whatever story you are telling yourself had better be a story about going on. There is no room for negativity. The reason most people quit has nothing to do with their body.

  Scott Jurek

  Song, People, Negativity

  Scott Jurek, Steve Friedman (2012). “Eat and Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness”, p.136, A&C Black

  23 Copy quote

  Show source

• As your perspective of the world increases not only is the pain it inflicts on you less but also its meaning. Understanding the world requires you to take a certain distance from it.

  Karl Ove Knausgard

  Pain, Perspective, Understanding

  17 Copy quote