In 1978, the tradition of running from village to village with a message was revived. that first run was from Davis to Los Angeles, a distance of 500 miles. – Dennis Banks
In ’82, I was a little too young, I was a little inexperienced, and I was more concerned with going the distance in the fight than going out and taking Holmes out. – Gerry Cooney
When you’re shooting with long lenses, even if you’re shooting a close-up, you feel the air, the distance between the camera and the subject. – Emmanuel Lubezki
Intensity like signal strength will generally fall off with distance from the source, although it also depends on the local conditions and the pathway from the source to the point. – Charles Francis Richter
As he enters his final term, with the elegiac music playing out there in the distance, Barack Obama will use the history that he has come to embody and, perhaps, even to fulfill, as part of a larger project that never will be completed but only finished, over and over again. – Charlie Pierce
Now, I’m not suggesting we’re going to wait 40 years or even four years, but I think we have to put in perspective the fact that we’ve come quite a distance. We have quite a distance to come – go, as well. – Michael Chertoff
Sometimes a person has to go a very long distance out of his way to come back a short distance correctly. – Edward Albee
Reading the several thousand pages of Christopher Isherwood’s complete journals is an instructive corrective to the prissiness of reading fiction. Isherwood had faults that we’d say were unforgiveable in a novel (he was careful to distance himself from these in his autobiographical fiction). – Edmund White
You have to keep your sanity as well as know how to distance yourself from it while still holding onto the reins tightly. That is a very difficult thing to do, but I’m learning. – Diahann Carroll
In 1952, I had gone to England on a literary pilgrimage, but what I also saw, even at that distance from the blitz, were bombed-out ruins and an enervated society, while the continent was still, psychologically, in the grip of its recent atrocities. – Cynthia Ozick
Get into the habit of imagining an alternate scenario. By posing such ‘imagine if’ questions… we can distance ourselves from the frames, cues, anchors and rhetoric that might be affecting us. – Noreena Hertz
The idea of a ‘happening’ is that there is little distance between the viewer and it, whatever ‘it’ is. It’s an experience that’s on-going and evolving. – Doug Aitken
Our culture is not this thing to be seen from a distance. We need to be embracing the friction of it all – that is where the energy is. – Doug Aitken
In all of my work, I think I’m exploring the idea that we are aliens to each other, how there is a huge distance that separates us all. – Michel Faber
In a strange way, you have to have a certain amount of distance from a thing in order to be able to write about it. – Phil Klay
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
There is no object so large but that at a great distance from the eye it does not appear smaller than a smaller object near. – Leonardo da Vinci
I’d much rather win in three or four sets than go the distance all the time; I seem to put everyone through the wringer quite a bit. – Lleyton Hewitt
Interstate highways dull the reality of place and distance almost as effectively as jetliners do: I loathe their scary monotony. – Jonathan Raban
I know from the middle distance I give off the look of being prolific, which is a funny compliment to receive. – Joseph Epstein
I decided that I wanted a farm back in 1940 when I was with the Dodgers. I tried to find one within commuting distance of New York. – Larry MacPhail
You can be only a modest distance away from the gravity brane, and gravity will be incredibly weak. – Lisa Randall
The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still small voice of conscience. – Mahatma Gandhi
I would be writing while I was breastfeeding. I didn’t want the computer to be too close to her, so it was at an arm’s distance away while I was clickety-clack typing away. – Kay Cannon
You have to, at least from a distance, look as if you know what you’re doing, and I can manage that. – Morrissey
I like to get within handshaking distance of the crowd. If it happens, they know it, we know it, and that’s all we came here for. – Levon Helm