Kate Chopin Author “She looked into the distance, and the old terror flamed up for an instant, then sank again. Edna heard her father's voice and her sister Margaret's. She heard the barking of an old dog that was chained to the sycamore tree. The spurs of the cavalry officer clanged as he walked across the porch. There was the hum of bees, and the musky odor of pinks filled the air. (last lines)” Father Dog Distance ♥ 6
Marc Forster Film Director, Producer “It's important to keep up with technology, to constantly move with it. Striving to do so keeps me alert and creates a sense of fluidity but at the same time I like to distance myself from it. It's key for my process to try and remain outside the bubble.” Moving Technology Distance ♥ 6
Haruki Murakami Writer “Distance might not solve anything, no matter how far you run.” Running Might ♥ 6
George Carlin Comedian, Actor “The straightest line between a straight distance is two points.” Two Lines ♥ 6
Isaac Newton Mathematician, Physicist, Astronomer “Doth not this Æthereal Medium in passing out of Water, Glass, Crystal, and other compact and dense Bodies into empty Spaces, grow denser and denser by degrees, and by that means refract the Rays of Light not in a point, but by bending them gradually in curve Lines? And doth not the gradual condensation of this Medium extend to some distance from the Bodies, and thereby cause the Inflexions of the Rays of Light, which pass by the edges of dense Bodies, at some distance from the Bodies?” Mean Space Distance ♥ 6
Isaac Newton Mathematician, Physicist, Astronomer “That one body may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum, without the mediation of any thing else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity, that I believe no man, who has in philosophical matters a compentent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it.” Fall Distance Philosophical ♥ 6
Haruki Murakami Writer “I'm often asked what I think about as I run. Usually the people who ask this have never run long distances themselves. I always ponder the question. What exactly do I think about when I'm running? I don't have a clue.” Thinking Running Distance ♥ 6
Haruki Murakami Writer “But what seems like a reasonable distance to one person might feel too far to somebody else.” Might Feels Distance ♥ 6
Haruki Murakami Writer “I began to draw an invisible boundary between myself and other people. No matter who I was dealing with. I maintained a set distance, carefully monitoring the person’s attitude so that they wouldn’t get any closer. I didn’t easily swallow what other people told me. My only passions were books and music” Book Attitude Distance ♥ 6
George Eliot Novelist, Poet, Journalist “Perspective, as its inventor remarked, is a beautiful thing. What horrors of damp huts, where human beings languish, may not become picturesque through aerial distance! What hymning of cancerous vices may we not languish over as sublimest art in the safe remoteness of a strange language and artificial phrase! Yet we keep a repugnance to rheumatism and other painful effects when presented in our personal experience.” Art Beautiful Distance ♥ 6
George Eliot Novelist, Poet, Journalist “Perspective, as its inventor remarked, is a beautiful thing. What horrors of damp huts, where human beings languish, may not become picturesque through aerial distance!” Beautiful Distance Perspective ♥ 6
GH George Herbert Poet “Envy not greatness: for thou mak'st thereby Thyself the worse, and so the distance greater.” Distance Greatness Envy ♥ 6
