I wouldn’t describe that ‘position’ as ‘parasitic.’ I’d describe that experience as ‘edifying.’ I don’t merely write from a critical intellectual distance. I actually live around here. – Bruce Sterling
The distance between me and my readers is the Internet. I can communicate with them and respond to every email I get or every mention on Twitter. – Bob Mayer
I think doing period piece is easier, because after a certain distance, everybody is equal, I think. The relative contemporary is harder. I think that’s the way it is. – Ang Lee
The ideological distance between Jim Webb and Bertrand Russell can be measured in light years. An author who reaches both of them exerts something like universal appeal. – Christopher Buckley
One minute we can be in a small club, the next minute we can be in a coliseum, and the next minute we can be in a small auditorium. It varies, depending on the promoter, the budget, and the travelling distance. – Ben E. King
My guess is many top athletes, distance runners included, use performance-enhancing drugs, enough so that the problem must be tackled. – Bill Rodgers
I don’t see my movies. I think it’s healthier and safer to keep a bit of distance. I’m afraid to be disappointed. – Bernardo Bertolucci
I play disturbed people a lot, but always with a bit of distance or tongue-in-cheek. Most of the villains I play are essentially harmless. – Christopher Walken
We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done. – Alan Turing
When I write, I tend to read it out loud to myself after. I’m a very uncomfortable reader, so it creates a distance between the text and me – it is a new way to see it. – Bill Clegg
As far as I’m concerned, ageing is humanity’s worst problem, by some serious distance. – Aubrey de Grey
Sometimes it’s necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly. – Edward Albee
It’s too hard a life for me. I could only do it – check out in that sense – if I checked out somewhere that was luxurious and within hailing distance of civilization. – Derek Jacobi
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
I suggested that we might compare earthquakes in terms of the measured amplitudes recorded at these stations, with an appropriate correction for distance. – Charles Francis Richter
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
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
I think I came up in fighting in a really technical way. If you’ve ever seen my fights, you know I love distance, I love technique. – Gina Carano
My introduction to dissociation had been at Kenneth Cooper’s clinic in January of 1975. Cooper had assembled a gaggle of top American distance runners and a half dozen top researchers, the intent being to figure out what the difference was – physiologically, biomechanically, psychologically – between elite and subelite runners. – Don Kardong
You need to become more than one type of athlete. You have to be a sprinter, a weight man and a distance guy all in one. – Dan O’Brien
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. – Francois Hollande
As prime minister, I was the Israeli leader who walked the greatest distance in his offers to the Palestinians. – Ehud Barak
Big plays are such a huge factor in the outcome of games. It is so difficult to go the distance on a defense. – Mike McCarthy
I feel enough distance from the person I used to be. I’m not ashamed about my life anymore, because I’ve learnt from it. – Natalie Cole
We talk about heaven being so far away. It is within speaking distance to those who belong there. Heaven is a prepared place for a prepared people. – Dwight L. Moody
I guess if you split the difference between the U.K. and the U.S., you would get Canada. But that’s just due to proximity. Just because of distance, we get a lot more cultural spillover from America. – Chad Kroeger
For this reason, strangers are not really conceived as individuals, but as strangers of a particular type: the element of distance is no less general in regard to them than the element of nearness. – Georg Simmel
To the wrongs that need resistance, To the right that needs assistance, To the future in the distance, Give yourselves. – Carrie Chapman Catt
Time and distance from the first and second world wars doesn’t seem to lessen their horrors. – Doris Lessing
