Top 35 Long-Distance Quotes

When you’re dealing with long-distance relationships, it’s a relationship played out over technology. When you’re in high school, it’s because you’re not supposed to act on those impulses yet. So some of my favorite relationships in drama are based in people that can’t really be together.

Before I went to Liverpool, I was a striker and then sometimes a No. 8 or No. 10, and my thing was shooting, finishing, and long-distance shots.

The moment I escaped to China, I didn’t have any money; I only had one address in my hand of some long-distance Chinese relatives. I didn’t know China was that big. I thought I can find their home very easily, and I would come back one week later. But then I found out the address was a 10-hour drive away.

I was in a long-distance relationship. There’s a lot of heartache in distance, and in proximity – those ideas you have when you’re next to someone who you haven’t seen in a month.

When I was 19, I went door to door selling long-distance phone service to put myself through school. I was studying to become a computer graphic technician. I always got strangers saying, ‘You should model; you should act.’ A co-worker finally said, ‘Go see this acting coach.’

I swam at school a lot. Long-distance swimming in pools, and diving, then when we moved to Hastings when I was 13 I used to swim in the sea all the time; I loved it out of season and when it was rough.

I really admire people who have long-distance relationships. It’s an incredible achievement. I couldn’t do it.

I like the storytelling and reading the letters, the long-distance dedications. Anytime in radio that you can reach somebody on an emotional level, you’re really connecting.

I personally prefer long-distance walking, but we are talking about pre-tournament preparation. During a tournament I make do with walking, mainly to concentrate before a game.

Smell is a long-distance sense, a way of stretching time and finding out in advance what lies ahead.

The universal utilization of water power and its long-distance transmission will supply every household with cheap power and will dispense with the necessity of burning fuel. The struggle for existence being lessened, there should be development along ideal rather than material lines.

About once a year, I do these long-distance relays with some friends of mine, and it takes about 27 or 28 hours to complete it.

For theater I am like a long-distance runner. For movies I am a sprinter! Same playing field, different approach.

It’s not a sprinter’s approach. It’s more like a long-distance thing. You can stick around a lot longer if you kind of slow-play it.

In general, any form of exercise, if pursued continuously, will help train us in perseverance. Long-distance running is particularly good training in perseverance.

I do a lot of biking. I need that mileage and the long-distance stuff because tennis demands it. My fitness trainer is always trying to convince me to do an Ironman. I can probably run the marathon, I can make the 112 miles on the bike, but I will never swim for 2.4 miles. I will die after 100 meters.

Long-distance relationships are hard no matter what. When you don’t have face-to-face time, it’s just different.

Unfortunately, I’m more experienced than I care to admit on long-distance relationships. Just because that is my life. I travel because I love to. As a result, I have to sort of make it work when a relationship kind of comes into view.

It’s hard to be a long-distance mother.

Where I grew up, we had the three TV networks, maybe two radio stations, no cable TV. We still had a long-distance party line in our neighborhood, so you could listen to all your neighbors’ phone calls. We had a very small public library, and the nearest bookstore was an hour away.

As a writer, I spend a lot of time alone, and I like it. I’m also a long-distance runner, and I love long, solo road trips; I can drive literally all night, drinking coffee, and not even listening to the radio, just strangely content sifting through the random thoughts in my own head.

When I was a kid trying to communicate with family in the Soviet Union, it was very difficult. You had to go through the long-distance phone companies like MCI, which were difficult to navigate and expensive to make calls through.

There’s random people calling my phone: ‘Your mother gave me your number.’ My mother has tried to set me up so many times long-distance.

It was actually drumming that gave me the stamina to get into sports later. I started playing drums at 13, and when I got to the international touring level… I got interested in cross-country skiing, long-distance swimming, bicycling… things that require stamina, not finesse.

Every relationship I’ve been in becomes long-distance because of work. It’s never worked out. It puts an intense strain on the relationship, and at a certain point, it becomes too difficult.

Obviously, a long-distance relationship is hard. But, like anything worth having, you make it work.

Me, if I’m in a long-distance race, I have speed. In the sprint, I don’t have so much speed.

After having polio, my right leg was weaker, so I wasn’t great at football. But I swam lots and even did long-distance running.

I am one of those people who are out of touch with their emotions. I tend to treat my emotions like unpleasant relatives – a long-distance call once or twice or year is more than enough. If I got in touch with them, they might come to stay.

Personal relationships become really hard when you’re away from home and long-distance.

I have certainly had my share of long-distance love affairs.

My second marriage was to a girl I met in Manchester, kept a long-distance relationship going for two years, then we got married… disaster.

Making a movie is like sprinting. Nightclub work is a long-distance event. You have to pace yourself and sustain it for a long period.

‘The Distance’ is the most visceral for me because I was in a long-distance relationship for two years, and that wears on you for sure, whether you’re in the industry or not, traveling and trying to get to that other person.

I like the storytelling and reading the letters, the long-distance dedications.