distance quotes

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.

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

TheTyranny of Distance.

- Geoffrey Norman Blainey
  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.

-Thomas Campbell
  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.

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

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

- Marquise du Deffand
  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 appear Their coming back seems possible For manyan ardent year.

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

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

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

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, Or walk with Kingsnor 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. Andwhich is moreyou'll be a Man, my son!

- (Joseph) Rudyard Kipling
  Rewards and Fairies,'If'.

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 instantlyand usually quite rightlymistrusted. Is running in your veins. Strong love of grey-blue distance Brown streams and soft, dim skiesI 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 terror The wide brown land for me!

- (Isobel Marion) Dorothea Mackellar
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.

-John Milton
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.

- Dorothy ne  e Rothschild Parker
  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.

- Henry Reed
  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.

- Arthur Schopenhauer
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.

- Le  opold Se  dar Senghor
  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.

-James Grover Thurber
  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.

- Lee Buck Trevino
Attributed.

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

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

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

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