Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Bryson

There seemed to be a mystifying universal conspiracy among textbook authors to make certain the material they dealt with never strayed too near the realm of the mildly interesting and was always at least a long-distance phone call from the frankly interesting.

Bill Bryson

Every twenty minutes on the Appalachian Trail, Katz and I walked farther than the average American walks in a week. For 93 percent of all trips outside the home, for whatever distance or whatever purpose, Americans now get in a car. On average the total walking of an American these days - that's walking of all types: from car to office, from office to car, around the supermarket and shopping malls - adds up to 1.4 miles a week, barely 350 yards a day.

Bill Bryson

Distance changes utterly when you take the world on foot. A mile becomes a long way, two miles literally considerable, ten miles whopping, fifty miles at the very limits of conception. The world, you realize, is enormous in a way that only you and a small community of fellow hikers know. Planetary scale is your little secret.

Beth Simone Noveck

The same technologies enabling us to work together at a distance are creating the expectation to do better at governing ourselves.

Bill Vaughan

Journalism, like history, has no therapeutic value; it is better able to diagnose than to cure, and it provides society with a primitive means of psychoanalysis that allows the patient to judge the distance between fantasy and reality.

That was the first time I've ever done distance running. Running 3.1 miles has massively helped with endurance.

That win in the 400 was huge for us. He is supposed to be a distance guy, but he has a lot of range. He had a great day.

We have an expanding position in the growth markets of the future ? wireless, data, broadband, long distance ? and we're executing extremely well in these areas,

I've gradually gained more confidence swimming for distance in the open sea, but I still return to the rock pools.

We have a lot more distance to travel; that's well known to people,

We just want to keep the flames away, otherwise there's really no trouble. We need to keep people at a safe distance because we need room to work so we can safely shut off the gas.

You have to distance yourself and keep your space.

We couldn't get all our times or distances in some of the events. We will have to wait until they send us the official results next week.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to justify by logic, but justifying themselves as paths when they lead somewhere, since they open up for man his inner distance.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

My senses of space, of distance, and of direction entirely vanished. When I looked for the ground I sometimes looked down, sometimes up, sometimes left, sometimes right. I thought I was very high up when I would suddenly be thown to earth in a near vertical spin. I thought I was very low to the ground and I was pulled up to 3,000 feet in two minutes by the 500-horsepower motor. It danced, it pushed, it tossed. . . . Ah! la la!

Becca Fitzpatrick

I was tired of admiring your legs from a distance.

Becca Fitzpatrick

Tell me what's going on here. Why can I hear your voice inside my head and why did you say you came to school for me?" "I was tired of admiring your legs from a distance.

We have a very young team. A lot of the young guys are distance runners and throwers, so hopefully a few will develop. We need to get some points in those events at dual meets especially.

Those are tough shots. It's one thing to make that putt in your office on your carpet. That same distance putt at Augusta's a little tougher.

Antawn Jamison

Those are teams that are looking like playoff-caliber teams, so for us, it's going to be a good test. We'll have the opportunity to distance ourselves or put ourselves in a hole. They're going to have the same mind frame facing us.

We are in the final stretch and heading toward a resolution overall, but there is still distance between us on the Marines' relocation cost.

I was hooked. I figured if I can do that, an Olympic distance triathlon, then I could do better the more events I did,

I think on fillies, seven pounds is huge. You might not think so, but on fillies going a distance of ground, it is.

To go the distance like that, that's a good win for us. And it feels good in overtime.

We didn't run as well as we wanted to, but some of us ran pretty effectively. Our short sprinters struggled, but our distance guys faired better.

We don't have long distance missiles or many bombers, but we will deploy thousands of suicide attackers ... the martyrs,

William Shakespeare

Absence doth sharpen love, presence strengthens it; the one brings fuel, the other blows it till it burns clear.

Because of the power of the Tolkien name, people will travel from remarkable distances to see this production.

Joseph Kennedy

If it got up that high, I'd back out of tournaments (far away), just for distance alone. It's not worth it.

I think it makes a big difference. Especially going a distance and on fillies, it helps fillies out a lot.

I think it makes a big difference, ... Especially going a distance and on fillies, it helps fillies out a lot.

Rob Blake

We just have to hope we're in striking distance near the end (of the season).

He has done some good things for us. We would like to see some more distance with his punting.