I’m not a social animal, and I had a reputation that came before me of being very difficult, of screaming at everybody, so people tended to keep their distance.
The squares of the periodic times are to each other as the cubes of the mean distances.
The scene then as now was centered in New York. For the most part, I’ve kept a bit apart from that attractive and seductive city. I’ve done it by living in the country within commuting distance.
When somewhat at a distance, I cannot hear the high tones of instruments, voices. In speaking, it is not surprising that there are people who have never noticed it, for as a rule I am absent-minded, and they account for it in that way.
When I’m doing kitchen planning as well as bathroom design, I try to walk through the day with the homeowner. If we’re talking about a kitchen, it will be: So, we are walking in with the groceries. When we are taking them out of the car, where will they go? What is the distance to fridge, to pantry?
‘Mr. Peanut’ is not about a man who dreams of killing his wife; that’s jacket copy, to me. ‘Mr. Peanut’ is about the dynamism of marriage and the distances – some tragic, some redemptive – that marriages travel over time, and those travels ain’t always pretty.
For a rapper as well-known as Drake, there remains an essential element of mystery about him. For one so open, there’s a distance, and he prefers it that way. But then there’s something beneath the exterior that reveals itself with urgency in conversation: Drake’s raw ambition.
A landline is an anchor – busy signals, long distance bills, missed connections and all.
I would love to tell you I’ve found the secret to eternal youth. I go to the gym and avoid too many chips. I love to eat, hate to work out, but if you can’t count all your ribs from a distance you’re considered obese.
The Tigris in parts is wonderfully tortuous, and at one great bend, ‘The Devil’s Elbow,’ a man on foot can walk the distance in less than an hour which takes the steamer four hours to accomplish.
But Hopes are Shy Birds flying at a great distance seldom reached by the best of Guns.
It’s like why people read scary books or go see scary movies. Because it creates a distance. They’re scared, but they’re not going to get hurt.
The hardest thing about being a woman is different for everyone. For me, it’s the mirage of ‘having it all’ somewhere off in the distance. I think in many ways you do have to choose.
When I was in high school. I was considered really weird and strange, and people kind of kept their distance.
So much of my poetry begins with something that I can describe in visual terms, so thinking about distance, thinking about how life begins and what might be watching us.
Long runs improve your endurance but shorter intervals improve your speed. They are mutually beneficial for a distance runner. If you do 5k runs it will help your marathon.
To edit someone from your life must be a properly evaluated decision. After all, the act of distancing yourself is difficult and, if executed improperly, could prove even more troublesome than if you were to have done nothing at all. The key is to create the distance gradually – a ‘fade out’ as I like to call it.
I live my everyday life as a person, and I react to my photos from a certain distance. When I look at a photo, I detach myself and look at it as a product – not as me, Isabella.
Being the composer of ‘Minecraft’ is basically like imagining the distance between earth and moon.
In Italy, where I live now, I have put some distance between myself and the world that has formed me.
If you want to know how Hillary Clinton could try to distance herself from President Obama’s much-criticized foreign policy, listen closely to the words of her former top strategist, Anne-Marie Slaughter.
I don’t read articles about myself. I try to distance myself from it. Reading about yourself is nice, but in the long run, it doesn’t help. Concentration has to be in the right place.
What is the distance between here and there, between now and then, between right and wrong? In Greg Baxter’s pellucid first novel, ‘The Apartment,’ it may be simply the length of a day – but a day in which one travels surprisingly far, literally and figuratively.
The number of medals on an officer’s breast varies in inverse proportion to the square of the distance of his duties from the front line.
The best way to create emotional or spiritual distance between me and another person is for them to come up to me and go, ‘yaassssss.’
When I want to quickly take a measurement, I use my Stanley Laser Distance Measurer. You just put it on the wall, and it shoots a laser and instantly tells you the exact distance to the other wall within a fraction of an inch.
The best seat in the house often depends on the ballet. For instance, much of the first act of ‘The Nutcracker’ is domestic and small scale, so it’s great to sit up close. But the second act features elaborate scenery and choreography, which are better to observe from a distance.
Invoking Nature always measures the distance we have yet to travel to achieve real progress on environmental issues.
A perfect run has nothing to do with distance. It’s when your stride feels comfortable.
It’s a big thing now: A lot of people want to be assistants to celebrities. If you’re pursuing that, you’re an idiot. You’re a moron. The shortest distance between two points is not a celebrity, or being next to a celebrity.
For the cause that lacks assistance, the wrong that needs resistance, for the future in the distance, and the good that I can do.
Derek Brunson is aggressive, knows how to close the distance, but couldn’t do anything against Anderson.
Distance and difference become irrelevant as our technology connects youth from Vancouver, Toronto, Iqaluit, Attawapiskat, Delhi, Nairobi – anywhere – to learn from and about each other.
Well, the great thing for me about poetry is that in good poems the dislocation of words, that is to say, the distance between what they say they’re saying and what they are actually saying is at its greatest.
It serves anyone, when they’re going into some project, to try to distance themselves from the material so you can really have an objective viewpoint.
One does not lash hat lies at a distance. The foibles that we ridicule must at least be a little bit our own. Only then will the work be a part of our own flesh. The garden must be weeded.
I like to keep a distance between me and the players because the biggest responsibility I have is to make decisions.
Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not. The church is going to have to become the conscience of the free market if it’s to have any meaning in this world – and stop being its apologist.
I love a period drama – the theatricality of going into work and having that distance between yourself and the character you’re playing.
Let man live at a distance from God, and the universe remains neutral or hostile to him. But let man believe in God, and immediately all around him the elements, even the irksome, of the inevitable organize themselves into a friendly whole, ordered to the ultimate success of life.
I’ve always felt that I shot the ball well from distance, but it’s just having the opportunity to finally do so. It’s great and I’m trying to take advantage of it.
If I’m really jet-lagged and need to get to sleep, I just try and watch cartoons. As long as it’s animated, I don’t care – it has to have that distance from real life.
What a director really does is set the emotional temperature and the mood and the level, amount, or lack of, distance between the action and the character, and the character and the audience.
I come from Montana, and in eastern Montana we have a lot of dirt between light bulbs. It is expensive trying to bring the new technologies to smaller schools to upgrade their technologies to take advantage of distance learning.
My mother used to call me everyday after moving to Mumbai and would tell me to take up this course or join some distance learning course and to please do my Masters, but, yeah… I didn’t do it.
The distance between me and my readers is the Internet. I can communicate with them and respond to every email I get or every mention on Twitter.
As a species of animal that evolved to make connections and work together, it feels strange to suppress our desire for contact. People enjoy touching each other, and find joy in seeing each other in person – but now we have to keep our physical distance.
I remember the first time I saw Robert De Niro at a party. I didn’t want to run over and shake his hand. I wanted to admire him from a distance. Later, I ended up making a movie with him, and that was fantastic.
Age, like distance lends a double charm.
Love, like poems, knows no boundaries. Religions, race, distance not even age can restrict someone from falling in love.
Chiron is so distant from the person I am; it’s important for me to distance myself from that so people can understand that was the character. Hopefully, I’ll find another opportunity that allows me to stretch like that again.
I had to travel long distances to train on a synthetic track, which added to residual fatigue.
When I was seven, I went on a school trip to Blankenberge on an overnight ferry and I remember watching the White Cliffs of Dover disappear into the distance. After that trip, our family always spent holidays in Britain and Ive been to nearly every cathedral in Britain.
