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
Quoted in Colin  Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

TheTyranny of Distance.

-Blainey, Geoffrey Norman
  Title of book. English barrister. She is married to Prime Minister Tony Blair.

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

-Campbell,Thomas
  The Pleasures of Hope, pt.1, l.7^8.

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
  'The Passions,  An Ode for Music', l.57^61.

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

-Deffand, Marquise du
  Commenting on the legendof St Denis, said to have carried his severed head for six miles following his execution. Letter, 7  Jul.

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

-Dickinson, Emily Elizabeth
Complete Poems, no.1742 (first published1896).

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

-Jones, Bobby (RobertTyre)
Quoted in Colin  Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

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
  Rewards and Fairies,'Ifö'.

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
England, Half English, 'A Short Guide for  Jumbles'. 1905  'Core of My Heart', first published in the London Spectator. Collected as'My Country' in The Closed Door, and Other Verses (1911).

At distance I forgive thee, go with that.

-Milton,John
Samson  Agonistes, l.954.

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
  In the Paris Review, Summer.

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
  Lessons of theWar, pt.2,'Judging Distances'.

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
Parerga und Paralipomena, ch.11 (translated by R J Hollingdale).

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
  Au Congr e' s de l'Union nationale de laJeunesse du Mali, Dakar.

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
  Of his young self. TheThurber Carnival, preface.

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

-Trevino, Lee Buck
Attributed.

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

-Williams,TennesseeThomas Lanier
  Tom.The Glass Menagerie, sc.7.

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

-Zhao, Zhenkai pen name Beo Dao
c.1989  'Answer', collected in Donald Finkel A Splintered Mirror (1991).