distance

If he knew where he was going, it is not apparent from this distance. He fell down a great deal during this period, because of a trick he had of walking into himself.

—Thurber,James Grover

At distance I forgive thee, go with that.

—Milton,John

Golf is a game that is played on a five inch courseöthe distance between your ears.

—Jones, Bobby (RobertTyre)

The distance does not matter; it is only the first step that counts.

—Deffand, Marquise du

'Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, And robes the mountain in its azure hue.

—Campbell,Thomas

The distance that the dead have gone Does not at first appearö Their coming back seems possible For manyan ardent year.

—Dickinson, Emily Elizabeth

Au contraire de l'Europe¤  en classique, le Ne¤  gro-Africain ne se distingue pas de l'objet, il ne le tient pas a'   distance, il ne le regarde pas, il ne l'analyse pas† Il le touche, il le palpe, il le sent. Unliketheclassical European, the Black-Africandoesnot distinguish himself from an object. He does not hold it at a distance, he does not look at it, he does not examine it† He touches it, he fingers it, he feels it.

—Senghor, Le¤  opold Se¤  dar

To watch a football game is to be in prolonged neurotic doubt as to what you're seeing. It's more like an emergency happening at a distance than a game.

—Barzun,Jacques

I'm hitting the driver so good,Igotta dial the operator for long distance after I hit it.

—Trevino, Lee Buck

Freedom is only the distance between the hunter and his prey.

—Zhao, Zhenkai pen name Beo Dao

With eyes up-raised, as one inspired, Pale Melancholy sate retired, And from her wild sequestered seat, In notes by distance made more sweet, Poured thro'the mellow horn her pensive soul.

—Collins,William

There may be dead ground in between; and I may not have got The knack of judging a distance; I will only venture A guess that perhaps between me and the apparent lovers, (Who, incidentally, appear by now to have finished,) At seven o'clock from the houses, is roughly a distance Of about one year and a half.

—Reed, Henry

The love of field and coppice, Of green and shaded lanes, Of ordered woods and gardens Mackellar whiteman likeshimor not.If thewhiteman says he does, he is instantlyöand usually quite rightlyömistrusted. Is running in your veins. Strong love of grey-blue distance Brown streams and soft, dim skiesöI know but cannot share it, My love is otherwise. I love a sunburnt country, A land of sweeping plains, Of ragged mountain ranges, Of droughts and flooding rains. I love her far horizons, I love her jewel-sea, Her beauty and her terrorö The wide brown land for me!

—Mackellar, (Isobel Marion) Dorothea

There's a hell of a distance between wise-cracking and wit.Wit has truth in it; wise-cracking is simply callisthenics with words.

—Parker, Dorothy ne¤  e Rothschild

I didn't go to the moon, I went much furtheröfor time is the longest distance between two places.

—Williams,TennesseeThomas Lanier

TheTyranny of Distance.

—Blainey, Geoffrey Norman

Die Szenen unsers Lebens gleichen den Bildern in groÞer Mosaik, welche in der N a« he keineWirkung tun, sondern von denen man fern stehn muss, um sie sch o« n zu finden. Thescenes ofour liferesemble picturesinrough mosaic; theyareineffective fromcloseup, and havetobe viewed from a distance if theyare to seem beautiful.

—Schopenhauer, Arthur

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, Or walk with Kingsönor lose the common touch, If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you, If all men count with you, but none too much; If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds' worth of distance run, Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it. Andöwhich is moreöyou'll be a Man, my son!

—Kipling, (Joseph) Rudyard