There was a windstorm in L.A., and the morning after there was no smog, and I could see the mountains. And I was like… ‘There’s mountains? Snowcap mountains?’ That’s insane; I’ve been there for thirteen years, and I’ve never seen that view before, seeing the mountains in the distance.
I’ve never tried to artificially create distance between myself and the players.
I’m not sure I can write about America for the same reason I’m not sure I can write about adults – I have no critical distance on either place.
Kyle Walker thinks he’s quicker than me. In games, it’s different: you run different distances, players are in different positions, so I don’t know. But one day, we will see!
Laughter is the closest distance between two people.
When you research prolific songwriters, it is usually later in their career they write songs that they distance themselves from, or it’s about other people.
As he enters his final term, with the elegiac music playing out there in the distance, Barack Obama will use the history that he has come to embody and, perhaps, even to fulfill, as part of a larger project that never will be completed but only finished, over and over again.
Get into the habit of imagining an alternate scenario. By posing such ‘imagine if’ questions… we can distance ourselves from the frames, cues, anchors and rhetoric that might be affecting us.
Thanh Hoa itself is a rich agricultural province. Rice fields, a pattern of many shades of green, stretch far into the distance along the road, which also winds through foothills and the fringes of heavy jungle where tigers are said to roam. The vegetation, wild or cultivated, is lush.
The fact that people can predict gravity wave sources that are within shouting distance makes me feel incredibly confident. Compared to monopoles, these sources are not just optimistic thinking.
We must judge our success on more than a person moving off a particular benefit, but rather in the distance they have travelled to meet their own ambitions.
I really admire Zinedine Zidane and Frank Lampard. They are really skilful, and I like the way they shoot from distance.
In 1978, the tradition of running from village to village with a message was revived. that first run was from Davis to Los Angeles, a distance of 500 miles.
Rose had some openings that I could fit my game in. Even though she was taller than me and had a longer reach, I was stronger in short distance, my strikes connect better.
The land of literature is a fairy land to those who view it at a distance, but, like all other landscapes, the charm fades on a nearer approach, and the thorns and briars become visible.
I’ve played at five World Cups, including one in the U.S. where the distances between the stadiums were also big.
The astronomer will believe that the most erratic comet will yet accomplish its journey and revisit our sphere; but we give up those for lost who have not wandered one-half the distance from the centre of light and life.
Be able to back up a car for a considerable distance in a straight line and back out of a driveway.
Cuba is only 90 miles from Florida, but for a long time, the distance between our two countries seemed a lot greater.
I wish I wrote more about the world at more distance from myself.
I perfectly understood President Obama’s attitude throughout the French presidential campaign. He had no reason to distance himself from Nicolas Sarkozy. It’s the basic solidarity that leaders who worked together owe to each other.
The waves are subtle, altering spacetime and the distance between objects as far apart as the Earth and the Moon by much less than the width of an atom. As such, gravitational radiation has not been directly detected yet. We hope to change that soon.
I’m a distance fighter – if you’ve seen me fight, I like ducking in and out.
The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.
We don’t know how to identify intelligence over interstellar distances, so what we do instead is use technology for a proxy.
Al Gore didn’t need to distance himself from Bill Clinton when he ran for president in 2000 because, when he ran, the country was in very good shape: strong economically and not at war. He did it anyway, and it was, in many people’s estimate, mine included, one of the reasons he lost.
In a social context, digital technology introduces you to neighbours of the mind – people who are separated by distance, but close to you in thought and interest.
When I was in school, we would always have running races. I was good at it. Always sprinting. I can run long distance, too.
From their breakout 2002 single, ‘Losing My Edge,’ LCD Soundsystem have offered a unique combination of geek knowledge, passion and intelligent, ironic distance.
I have worked out I can quite happily jog the distance to work as long as I hail a cab first and leave my high heels on the back seat.
The places I’ve been, or passed through, or seen at a distance, have had as much an impact on my life as the people I’ve known.
A lot of journalists like to suck up to celebrities, and then as soon as they’re a safe distance away at their computers, they take shots. But that’s the way society has become, especially in pop culture.
Every living being is an engine geared to the wheelwork of the universe. Though seemingly affected only by its immediate surrounding, the sphere of external influence extends to infinite distance.
Ive met people of all abilities and all ages. The groups are split accordingly; advanced groups are made up of swimmers keen on longer distances, intermediates who use swimming as part of their exercise routine, while many of the beginners havent even tried front crawl before.
My mother, at sixty, is one of those classic beauties: all neck and cheekbones, sharp lines that hide her wrinkles from a distance. She still gets whistles from construction workers from three stories up.
I think it would be hard to go the distance in this business without a sense of humor.
Everything has become so easy. It’s great that it’s at your fingertips, but I miss those good old days. And we’re connected, but it can be very alienating. There is this distance between all of us because we’re speaking to each other through cameras and monitors and icons and Emojis.
I drove long distances like the 24 hours of Le Mans for years. But even this racing is now over. I retired.
If your eyes are far apart, bringing the brow shape closer together gives the illusion of shorter distance between the eyes.
On immigration, the League and Five Star’s positions start from notable distances.
I’m not a real big wine drinker. I enjoy wine from a distance.
What a strange distance there is between ill people and well ones.
I don’t think I ever watched a movie without being totally immersed in the story. But at the same time, I had to keep some distance from it. I had to question what the narrative was trying to tell me or was injecting in my brain.
We’re going in really fresh. We’re going to have fresh legs and bodies, we’re going to be able to stay the distance, and that’s our goal.
A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to justify by logic, but justifying themselves as paths when they lead somewhere, since they open up for man his inner distance.
I am never out there just jogging for the heck of it. I never do that. I start to run with a goal in mind, whether it’s a certain time or certain distance or a specific heart-rate goal, and then I am done.
When you live in a country where your own language is considered foreign, you can feel a continuous sense of estrangement. You speak a secret, unknown language, lacking any correspondence to the environment. An absence that creates a distance within you.
The occult sciences were simply ancient technologies for making the occult or unseen manifest in the world – whether that was the influence of the stars and planets, the mysterious meanings of lines inscribed in your palm, or forms of action at a distance like magic and spells.
I start kind of stiff, and then I understand the movement, the distance, and then I can start loosening up. That’s how fighting should be. That’s how I try to keep my mind.
Writers who hedge their use of unfamiliar, infrequent, or informal words with ‘I know that’s not a real word,’ hoping to distance themselves from criticism, run the risk of creating doubt where perhaps none would have naturally arisen.
For time is the longest distance between two places.
My mother sees things but from the distance; she does not weigh them in regard to my position, and she judges me too harshly. But she is my mother, who loves me dearly; and when she speaks, I can only bow my head.
The distance between who you are and who you might be is closing.
I have spent my life judging the distance between American reality and the American dream.
The civilizing process has increased the distance between behavior and the impulse life of the animal body.
As soon as you know that someone is running for office, it puts a distance between you and that person.
At extreme distances, there is essentially no such thing as depth of field.
When you go to a World Cup, in midfield you need to have players who can score from distance, who can get in the box and obviously play-make.
