#distance

It is of course the nature of historical contraction that the shortest distance to a historical destination is never a straight line. ↗

— Ibrahim Babangida

#course #destination #distance #historical #line

Technology gives us the facilities that lessen the barriers of time and distance - the telegraph and cable, the telephone, radio, and the rest. ↗

— Emily Greene Balch

#cable #distance #facilities #gives #lessen

Sometimes you're trapped in writing songs and you don't have enough distance from what you do anymore and you need the talent and the years of other people to come and jump in. ↗

— Keren Ann

#come #distance #enough #jump #need

People tend to keep their distance. ↗

— Adam Ant

#keep #people #tend #their

My goal is to get another 30 years out of this business. So I need to figure out the fuel to do that. And so far, I think it's respect and quality and company, not celebrity or box office or stardom. 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. ↗

— Jason Bateman

#approach #around #box #box office #business

Beauty set up distance between other people and me. It warped their behavior. ↗

— Candice Bergen

#behavior #between #distance #me #other

Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#clearly #dimly #distance #hand #lies

My own position is, that it is largely up to the work itself to suggest the nature of these referential points without dimensions in and through the processes by which the distance between them is maintained. ↗

— Brian Ferneyhough

#dimensions #distance #itself #largely #maintained

Actually, the curious thing is that the more you become a subject of admiration or loathing, the more you're examined under a microscope, the distance seems to open up between who you really are and the portrayals that people impose on you. ↗

— Nick Clegg

#admiration #become #between #curious #distance

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. ↗

— Washington Irving

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