#distance

Laughter is the shortest distance between two people. ↗

— Yakov Smirnoff

#distance #laughter #people #shortest #shortest distance

I have spent my life judging the distance between American reality and the American dream. ↗

— Bruce Springsteen

#american dream #between #distance #dream #i

The two-piece ball I switched to spun too much. One shot would go the distance I thought it should, then the next one would fall short, and then the next one would go long. ↗

— Payne Stewart

#distance #fall #go #i #long

Each of us has a very rich nature and can look at things objectively, from a distance, and at the same time can have something more personal to say about them. I am trying to look at the world, and at myself, from many different points of view. I think many poets have this duality. ↗

— Wislawa Szymborska

#am #different #different points #distance #duality

The Geometer has the special privilege to carry out, by abstraction, all constructions by means of the intellect. Who, then, would wish to prevent me from freely considering figures hanging on a balance imagined to be at an infinite distance beyond the confines of the world? ↗

— Evangelista Torricelli

#balance #beyond #carry #confines #considering

An Oscar means a lot of things because it's like the ultimate award for a filmmaker so it feels great. But I think you have to consider awards with some distance and not get obsessed with it. When you're creating you shouldn't think about it. ↗

— Alejandro Amenabar

#award #awards #because #consider #creating

We had to be parents by long distance, which is far from satisfactory. ↗

— Jeffrey Hunter

#far #had #long #long distance #parents

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. ↗

— Charles Edward Montague

#duties #front #his #inverse #line

Liberalism seems to be related to the distance people are from the problem. ↗

— Whitney M. Young

#liberalism #people #problem #related #seems

I imagine a line, a white line, painted on the sand and on the ocean, from me to you. ↗

— Jonathan Safran Foer

#longing #love #imagination