Quotes of: Distances Keyword

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

For people who live in the suburbs and must commute long distances to work, their wealth will sink as energy prices rise.

Robert Kiyosaki

You must tell Lady Alanna that sometime. I'd do it from a distance.

Emperor Mage

Melodrama is one of the most stunning art forms. These are stories where the emotions are big, and the situations are big, and the artists believe in the situation dramatically. There's no irony or distance.

James Gray

Beauty is nature’s way of acting at a distance.

The Art Instinct: Beauty, Pleasure, and Human Evolution

Don't get me wrong. I'm happy to be your morning lollipop, but I need to eat, too.

Striking Distance

a story always sounds clear enough at a distance, but the nearer you get to the scene of events the vaguer it becomes.

Shooting an Elephant

A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.

Tell My Horse: Voodoo and Life in Haiti and Jamaica

Poetry is a naked woman, a naked man, and the distance between them.

Poetry as Insurgent Art

I do not wish to avoid the walk. The distance is nothing when one has a motive.

Pride and Prejudice

When you research prolific songwriters, it is usually later in their career they write songs that they distance themselves from, or it's about other people.

Paloma Faith

Magicians from the nineteenth century threw cards distances, but I think I'm the first one who made a thing about using them as weapons.

Ricky Jay

I do have some books, but in all the distance flights I've made I've never opened the books. I've been too busy.

Steve Fossett

To be consistently effective, you must put a certain distance between yourself and what happens to you on the golf course. This is not indifference, it's detachment.

Sam Snead

Never underestimate the distance that one simple act of kindness can carry you.

Thurman P. Banks Jr.

Many run primarily for the exercise, but others run to condition themselves for well-publicized races of various distances.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Painting is concerned with all the 10 attributes of sight; which are: Darkness, Light, Solidity and Colour, Form and Position, Distance and Propinquity, Motion and Rest.

Leonardo da Vinci

Painting is concerned with all the 10 attributes of sight; which are: Darkness and Light, Solidity and Color, Form and Position, Distance and Propinquity, Motion and Rest.

Leonardo da Vinci

Separation isn’t time or distance it’s the bridge between us finer than silk thread sharper than swords

Nazim Hikmet

No doubt it is true that science cannot study God, but it hardly follows that God had to keep a safe distance from everything that scientists want to study.

Phillip E. Johnson

There's a tired notion that the photojournalist has to be disengaged to be able to shoot what he shoots, and that's such a cliched idea of what the experience is. Of course they're engaged, and they're not distanced.

Michael Mann