#distance

The Nautilus was piercing the water with its sharp spur, after having accomplished nearly ten thousand leagues in three months and a half, a distance greater than the great circle of the earth. Where were we going now, and what was reserved for the future? ↗

— Jules Verne

#after #circle #distance #earth #future

You could say that when you introduce humour to your work, you also step back a little from it. You create a distance. ↗

— Lars von Trier

#back #could #create #distance #humour

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. ↗

— Serena Williams

#bodies #distance #fresh #goal #going

For time is the longest distance between two places. ↗

— Tennessee Williams

#distance #longest #places #time #two

When I was younger I probably didn't understand something basic about tact, but I think it kept faint-hearted people at arm's distance and that's not such a bad thing, because life is short and I know the kind of people I want to work with. ↗

— Debra Winger

#arm #bad #bad thing #basic #because

In general, anyone who paid the long distance telephone tax will get the refund on their 2006 federal income tax return. This includes individuals, businesses and non-profit organizations. ↗

— Virgil Goode

#businesses #distance #federal #general #get

We criticize mothers for closeness. We criticize fathers for distance. How many of us have expected less from our fathers and appreciated what they gave us more? How many of us always let them off the hook? ↗

— Ellen Goodman

#always #appreciated #closeness #criticize #distance

A petty reason perhaps why novelists more and more try to keep a distance from journalists is that novelists are trying to write the truth and journalists are trying to write fiction. ↗

— Graham Greene

#fiction #journalists #keep #more #more and more

Age, like distance lends a double charm. ↗

— Oliver Herford

#charm #distance #double #lends #like

I drove long distances like the 24 hours of Le Mans for years. But even this racing is now over. I retired. ↗

— Jacky Ickx

#drove #even #hours #i #like