I want to be a lawyer, a dancer, an actress, a mother, a wife, a children's author, a distance runner, a poet, a pianist, a pet store owner, an astronaut, an environmental and humanitarian activist, a psychiatrist, a ballet teacher, and the first wom...
I've always been hopeful about Scotland's prospects. And I now believe more than ever that Scotland is within touching distance of achieving independence and equality.
Upon the whole it was a Glorious day-Our men are in the Spirits-and I am confident we shall give them a total defeat the next Action; which is at no great distance.
I wonder if it is Australia's great distance from more populated land masses that allows its inhabitants to be left to their own devices, to be incredibly creative and, at times, to be wonderfully weird.
There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either.
I'm not a good Samaritan, I'm a businessman... The goal is to read and react. If we sign an artist that has potential for a shelf life way out in the distance, then we'll stay. But if not, then we won't.
Unhappy is that Grandeur which makes us too great to be good; and that Wit which sets us at a distance from true Wisdom.
Intimacy is not a happy medium. It is a way of being in which the tension between distance and closeness is dissolved and a new horizon appears. Intimacy is beyond fear.
When I'm acting, I'm two beings. There's the one monitoring the distance between myself and the camera, making sure I hit my marks, and there is the one driven by this inner fire, this delicious fear.
All novelists I speak to about how they started usually say it was by pulling up their roots and going to live somewhere else. You see the shape of your life at a distance.
Chimpanzees, typically, kiss and embrace after fights. They first make eye contact from a distance to see the mood of the others. Then they approach and kiss and embrace.
The distance to the corner shops of childhood becomes unfathomable, immeasurable; the candy bars have changed. And change has changed.
The mass of your visions depends on the size of your dreams and distance they can cover within a given period of your life.
Our work is directly proportional to the distances our dreams travel across, as force (power) is a constant factor
I don't think I'd ever start making a film until I had both the intimacy with the subject and the distance to make it live in a certain way.
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.
But I'm not the girl who changes into flats because my feet are tired at the end of the night. I go the distance. I go all the way.
My guess is many top athletes, distance runners included, use performance-enhancing drugs, enough so that the problem must be tackled.
If you distance yourself from reality and just cling to cliches about democracy find yourself a different job than analyzing politics
Interstate highways dull the reality of place and distance almost as effectively as jetliners do: I loathe their scary monotony.
When you are nearer, you will understand how much your eyesight is deceived by distance. Therefore, push yourself a little harder.
