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.

Authority doesn't work without prestige or prestige without distance.

Unhappy is that Grandeur which makes us too great to be good and that Wit which sets us at a distance from true Wisdom.

We should not judge people by their peak of excellence but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.

There is no morality in war. Morality is the privilege of those judging from the distance. War is only death and destruction.

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.

You know it's only 50 miles from Grand River to Canton but it took me 67 years to travel that distance.

The last couple relationships I had were long distance. It's not like I can make much of an effort to travel and see anybody. The guy had to do all the work unfortunately.

Traveling you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities places exchange their form order distances a shapeless dust cloud invades the continents.

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

For time is the longest distance between two places.

Time is the longest distance between two places.

Technology gives us the facilities that lessen the barriers of time and distance - the telegraph and cable the telephone radio and the rest.

Telephone n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance.

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.

I do feel like I have always in my life been inclined to be on the outside walk a different path or something. Because of that and increasingly over the years my sense of distance from mainstream society or from the way culture works I have a different kind of perception of it.

We sometimes laugh from ear to ear but it would be impossible for a smile to be wider than the distance between our eyes.

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.

The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.

Sorrows are like thunderclouds in the distance they look black over our heads scarcely gray.

There are some people who become best friends with everyone they photograph. There are people that I really like and admire and respect but in a way I think it's better to keep a distance. I think you get better pictures of people that you don't know very well.

My goal is to get another 30 years out of this business. So I need to figure out the fuel to do that. And so far I think it's respect and quality and company not celebrity or box office or stardom. It's not a sprinter's approach. It's more like a long-distance thing. You can stick around a lot longer if you kind of slow-play it.

Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.

Every relationship I've been in becomes long-distance because of work. It's never worked out. It puts an intense strain on the relationship and at a certain point it becomes too difficult.