Distantly Quotes

#1. The wind wove the ribbon between Eureka's fingers and blew a sudden lightness into her chest.

She recognized the sensation distantly - it was an old friend, returned after a long prodigal journey: hope.

Lauren Kate

#2. He felt water run down his back from the damp brickwork he was sitting against, and as he worried distantly about corrosion he realised you can always fall a little further. A moment ago he thought he'd bottomed out, but now he was concerned about personal rust. Mother of fuck.

Christopher Brookmyre

#3. When money gets too far away from actual, physical, real equity and property it gets too abstract and too distantly derived and then suddenly it's not worth anything anymore. And the same is true of language.

Roy Blount Jr.

#4. Although elephants are far more distantly related to us than the great apes, they seem to have evolved similar social and cognitive capacities.

Frans De Waal

#5. Already the pitch has been reached in Great Britain where it is considered bigoted or reactionary to do other than praise the Jews for their industry and ability. Few papers will risk any attack on the Jews, however well-founded, for fear of appearing even distantly anti-Semitic.

Sidney Robertson Cowell

#6. He held out the bottle. Clarice's hand was steady as she took it from him. It is poison, she thought distantly. It will kill her. She tried to be horrified at the thought, but she couldn't manage it.

Mercedes Lackey

#7. Observation is the telescope of human nature. It is the tele of watching distantly. But taking an action is the result of Self-regulation and interference. It is going beyond boundaries in aiming to achieve a considerable ambitions.

Mohammed Rasmi

#8. Men touch their horses to calm them," she said distantly. "They caress their falcons to remind them that they are bound. Touch smacks of ownership, and I am weary of being a possession.

Courtney Milan

#9. In the eyelid-blue betweenness the wordy sounds of the whiskey-drinkers spilled distantly.

Truman Capote

#10. She had found the Tears of Idihet.
As she stared, they began to blur. Distantly she marveled at this: the wisdom of her body, which already understood the consequences of this discovery - the conclusions which her mind revolved and revolved around, but refused to grasp.

Meredith Duran

#11. The music slowed. She pulled away first, slinking back the required four steps. Merik didn't look away from her face, and he only distantly noticed that, as she pulled away, his Windwitchery seemed to settle. Her skirts stopped swishing, her hair fluttered back to her shoulders.

Susan Dennard

#12. I become distantly aware of my own grief, and I realize how easily I'm able to force it away.

Lauren DeStefano

#13. She merely looked at her distantly, as one does at someone who has come too close.

Paulo Coelho

#14. What the eye delights in, no longer dictates My greed to enjoy: boys, grass, the fenced-off deer. It leaves those figures that distantly play On the horizon's rim: they sign their peace, in games.

Stephen Spender

#15. We shouldn't even be here, I think distantly as I raise my weapon and take aim, we're management, not heroes.

Charles Stross

#16. As the Epic Film, Noah, debuts this weekend, those of you who have read Samrajni of Pemako know about the Noah subplot in the novel.
Yes, Safiya, the protagonist is distantly related to Noah...

Roy C. Marien

#17. We are all connected directly or indirectly.
We are all related closely or distantly.
We are all the offspring of the same family.
Better an individual and you better society.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#18. Occasionally, he would exclaim over a view or regard with admiration some passing marvel of nature, but mostly to him hiking was a tiring, dirty, pointless slog between distantly spaced comfort zones.

Bill Bryson

#19. Fight well," he said distantly, "and remember you are Englishmen!"
"Welshmen," someone intervened. Sir Roger visibly flinched at that and then, without another word, led his three men-at-arms from the church.

Bernard Cornwell

#20. Well, it's no good jumping at conclusions."
"Jump? You don't even crawl distantly within sight of a conclusion. I believe if you caught the cat with her head in the cream-jug you'd say it was conceivable that the jug was empty when she got there.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#21. I do tend to eat healthily most of the time, but I don't restrict myself. I believe in eating anything and everything in moderation and doing some exercise.

John Barrowman

#22. He hurt me more than anyone ever has, but he loved me better than anyone ever did, too.

Nyrae Dawn

#23. The happiness and the joy that I see in the eyes of the children. They saved my life so I want to, give it back. I'm not joking.

Michael Jackson

#24. There is no increase without possession.

Sunday Adelaja

#25. A good quotation is a very strong wind; it can change a man's direction!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#26. I can do more good outside of prison ... This country is worth dying for.

Edward Snowden

#27. For me, fashion begins in New York.

Carolina Herrera