85 Distance Quotes

About six months ago, I listened to Siamese Dream. That was the first time I'd ever really heard my own album, because I had separated from the experience of making the record. And it really moved me. It made me cry, it's so beautiful.

May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air.

Space isn't remote at all. It's only an hour's drive away if your car could go straight upwards.

Of all the peoples whom I have studied, from city dwellers to cliff dwellers, I always find that at least 50 percent would prefer to have at least one jungle between themselves and their mothers-in-law.

Enough. Sudden enough. Sudden all far. No move and sudden all far. All least. Three pins. One pinhole. In dimmost dim. Vasts apart. At bounds of boundless void. Whence no farther. Best worse no farther. Nohow less. Nohow worse. Nohow naught. Nohow on.

As lines, so loves oblique may well Themselves in every angle greet; But ours so truly parallel, Though infinite, can never meet.

While the womanly god demands our veneration, the godlike woman kindles our love; but while we allow ourselves to melt in the celestial loveliness, the celestial self-sufficiency holds us back in awe.

You know why I'm pulling your leg? Because I can't touch it from where I am. (February 4, 2002 interview by Terry Gross with Gene Simmons on NPR's Fresh Air)

We are dancing in the hollow of the cup of nothingness. We are of one flesh, but separated like stars.

The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater the distance from which it looks back.

Will the love I have for you be enough....? To reach out to you when I'm in need, and to try to be here for you when you need me back. And to feel such tenderness when I look at you that I want to stand between you and all the world: and yet also lift you up and carry you above the strong currents of life; and at the same time, I would be glad to stand always like this, at a distance watching you, the beauty of you, your energy as you look up at these [people], speaking to them as an equal even though every movement of your hands, every fluttering syllable of your speech cries out that you're a child - is it enough for you that I feel these loves for you? Because it's enough for me. And enough for me that when my hand touched your shoulder, you leaned on me; and when you felt me slip away, you called my name.

If I could put my hand on the north star, would it be as beautiful? The sea is lovely, but when we bathe in it, the beauty forsakes all the near water. For the imagination and senses cannot be gratified at the same time.

I leaned right over to kiss your stoney book A little jealous of the ships with whom you flirt A billion lovers with their cameras Snap to look and in my fantasy I sail beneath your skirt

I'm a - I'm a, um, a godmother which is just, that's fun to be a godmother, she is so precious, she's the light of my life, she's two... or five or something, and she's, uh... I don't know, I've never seen her - the pictures are precious, she just seems so, y'know... She lives clear across town, I don't have that kind of time, but, um... Well, I send money and stuff, it's not like I don't have a connection....

Separation isn't time or distance it's the bridge between us finer than silk thread sharper than swords

Far in a western brookland That bred me long ago The poplars stand and tremble By pools I used to know.

Where the remote Bermudas ride, In th' ocean's bosom unespied.

To develop proper distance and penetration against a moving target, use a partner equipped either with a body protector or an air bag. He can either stand still and take the brunt of the kick, or he can back away from the attack. The former teaches proper application of the kick, especially valuable in teaching beginners. The latter training is to teach penetration. As soon as your partner thinks you will attack, he tries to back away as fast as possible. This practice is valuable to both men; one learns to penetrate and the other to back away quickly. The body protector is sometimes used for sharpening the attack. The partner will not attack but will maintain a correct distance in a ready fighting pose. As you begin to attack, he will try to counter, block, or move away. You will have almost the actual feeling of hitting your opponent in a real situation.

It's said that Chaplin wanted you to like him, but Keaton didn't care. I think he cared, but was too proud to ask.

Leonard Washington : G-G-G-G-G-G-Goodbye! If you need money, sell rocks. I heard that's what they do out here. Say hi to your people for me and if they ask about Leonard Washington tell them I got my ass out of here!

We cannot fathom why people would stand across the street, easily a hundred feet away, when they could be so close, near us. 'Suckers.' I tell Toph, thumbing toward those watching from so far away. It is important, I feel, that the boy knows what suckers look like.'

Hoyle: A star is basically a pretty simple object. Voice from Audience: You'd look pretty simple too, Fred, from a distance of ten parsecs.

Wide was his parish, and houses fer asonder.

Avoir sa belle-mere en province quand on demeure a Paris, et vice versa, est une de ces bonnes fortunes qui se rencontrent toujours trop rarement.

After a time Niggle turned towards the Forest. Not because he was tired of the Tree, but he seemed to have got it all clear in his mind now, and was aware of it, and of its growth, even when he was not looking at it. As he walked away, he discovered an odd thing: the Forest, of course, was a distant Forest, yet he could approach it, even enter it, without its losing that particular charm. He had never before been able to walk into the distance without turning it into mere surroundings.

It was a very spasmodic courtship, conducted mainly at long distance with a great clanking of coins in dozens of phone booths.

And Kay wrote to me from Bielefeld, where he or she is stationed. He or she or uncommited, I don't know.

Maybe you're lonely, And only want a little company, But keep your recipes For the rats to eat, And may they rest in peace with coffee homeground.

Things heard from a distance appear bigger than they are.

There are no remote places. Under instant circuitry, nothing is remote in time or in space. It's now. (1965)

Without distance there is no dialogue between the two.

Our hopes, like towering falcons, aim At objects in an airy height; The little pleasure of the game Is from afar to view the flight.

When you are next out of doors on a summer night, turn your head towards the zenith. Almost vertically above you will be shining the brightest star of the northern skies - Vega of the Lyre, twenty-six years away at the speed of light, near enough to the point of no return for us short-lived creatures. Past this blue-white beacon, fifty times as brilliant as our sun, we may send our minds and bodies, but never our hearts. For no man will ever turn homewards beyond Vega, to greet again those he knew and loved on Earth.

Don't be so amazing or I'll miss you too much.

Bugsby's reach is long as time, His reach is wide as wind is, He can pick you nettles in Greenwich Marsh And docks in the East Indies.

I never cared about whatever tragic event happened in China. It's faraway decoration, even if in blood and plague.

L'absence diminue les mediocres passions, et augmente les grandes, comme le vent eteint les bougies et allume le feu.

Sometimes the little boy who calls me father brings me an invitation from his mother: 'I shall be so pleased if you will come and see me,' and I always reply in some such words as these: 'Dear madam, I decline.' And if David asks why I decline, I explain that it is because I have no desire to meet the woman. 'Come this time, father,' he urged lately, 'for it is her birthday, and she is twenty-six,' which is so great an age to David, that I think he fears she cannot last much longer.

Send home my long strayed eyes to me, Which (Oh) too long have dwelt on thee.

Dull sublunary lovers' love (Whose soul is sense) cannot admit Absence, because it doth remove Those things which elemented it.

Sir, more than kisses, letters mingle souls; For, thus friends absent speak.

Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.

We are 12 billion light-years from the edge. That's a guess - no-one can ever say it's true, but I know that I will always be with you.

From the sublime to the ridiculous is but a step.

I got a woman way over town, That's good to me, Oh yeah!

The whole world is about three drinks behind.

Absence, hear thou my protestation Against thy strength, Distance, and length; Do what thou canst for alteration