Top 1200 Shortest Distance Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

With 'Nobody Knows,' I consciously set out to make a fiction film, which is a different approach from 'Distance,' but I still applied a lot of the things I learned from making 'Distance': for example, how to use the camera in relation to the children and how to create the right atmosphere on set.

Balzac, you know, our great Balzac, he wrote interesting things about how in literature you keep distance in order to express great feelings. You have to keep a distance - and it's exactly the same with acting.

Giving up your ego is the shortest way to unification with nature.

The oldest, shortest words - 'yes' and 'no' - are those which require the most thought.

Philosophy's work is finding the shortest path between two points.

I'm actually thinking about maybe, on a spacewalk, not wearing my glasses. I normally wear those both for reading and a little bit of a distance correction, but the distance vision seems like it's gotten a little bit better. So I might go without.

There may be dead ground in between; and I may not have got The knack of judging a distance; I will only venture A guess that perhaps between me and the apparent lovers, (Who, incidentally, appear by now to have finished,) At seven o'clock from the houses, is roughly a distance Of about one year and a half.

I'm not sure who invented dodgeball, but I can almost guarantee you that it wasn't the shortest kid in the class.

After you hear even the shortest great story, it should fill you with a little bit of fear.

It is our sacred obligation to eliminate the curse of poverty in the shortest possible time. This is non-negotiable for the Republic.

This fact was something I also learned from this first novel that I needed personal experience to invent, to fantasize, to create fiction, but at the same time I needed some distance, some perspective on this experience in order to feel free enough to manipulate it and to transform it into fiction. If the experience is very close, I feel inhibited. I have never been able to write fiction about something that has happened to me recently. If the closeness of the real reality, of living reality, is to have a persuasive effect on my imagination, I need a distance, a distance in time and in space.

Find the shortest, simplest way between the earth, the hands, and the mouth.

The shortest verse in the Bible is 'Jesus wept.' The only thing wrong with it is the past tense.

God reveals Himself in rearview mirrors. And I've an inkling that there are times when we need to drive a long, long distance, before we can look back and see God's back in the rearview mirror. Maybe sometimes about as far as heaven -- that kind of distance.

Smell is the shortest synaptic leap in the brain to our memory, and I'm amazed that people don't sniff everything.

I shoot my highest percentage from the right corner, and it's also the shortest shot.

The compass of accurate knowledge directs the shortest, safest, cheapest course to any destination

Truth is the shortest and nearest way to our end, carrying us thither in a straight line.

The shortest and best way to make your fortune is to let people see clearly that it is in their interest to promote yours.

The shortest way out of Manchester is notoriously a bottle of Gordon's gin.

Everyone who's in America spends the first few years not experiencing it. The person is frightened by the newness of the place and doesn't see things. Her emotional universe becomes the entire universe. And then when she thinks of home, her distance in space can seem like a distance in time.

The proper union of gin and vermouth is a great and sudden glory; it is one of the happiest marriages on earth, and one of the shortest lived.

I think transitions are never that noticeable, but they are always on their way. It has to do with distance and accessibility. People call it mellowing, but I think it's how available you are toward other people, or how much you distance yourself.

You said you're going far away," Tamaru said. "How far away are we talking about?" "It's a distance that can't be measured." "Like the distance that separates one person's heart from another's.

Now, I'm not suggesting we're going to wait 40 years or even four years, but I think we have to put in perspective the fact that we've come quite a distance. We have quite a distance to come - go, as well.

Express your most powerful thought in the shortest sentence.

Almost all of the stories in The Matchmaker, the Apprentice, and the Football Fan are told in the first person, yet, depending on the angle and distance of the narrator, they exert different effects. The best are those in which the speaker never poses as an objective outsider. (...) Other stories are damaged by the urge to distance the narrator.

The shortest thing I ever had to do was at Disney. A show called 'Bonkers.'

The shortest feedback loop I can think of is doing improvisation in front of an audience.

A writer strives to express a universal truth in the way that rings the most bells in the shortest amount of time.

Perhaps the shortest and most powerful prayer in human language is help.

It is one of the primary motives of modern art that it wants to abolish the distance which the viewer, the consumer, the audience maintain vis-a-vis a work of art. There is no doubt that the leaders of the creative artists of the last 50 years concentrated their efforts mainly on eliminating that distance.

The aim of every typographic work - the delivery of a message in the shortest, most efficient manner.

There is what is called the highway to posts and honor, and there is a cross and by way, which is much the shortest.

We sabotage our creative possibilities because the world revealed by our imagination may not fit well with the life we have taken so much trouble to construct over the years. Faced with the pain of that distance, the distance between desire and reality, we turn just for a moment and quickly busy ourselves.

Don't forget, I'm a dragon, I can fly, in the shortest amount of time, I'll bring all my members with me and we'll come to your side.

I envy people that have separate lives - that their job is one thing, their personal life is another. I've never been able to have that going on for me. I always try and keep some distance. I mean you can never give everything, so there is some distance, but it's pretty raw on some levels.

I can be impatient. I can be a bit short sometimes. You're nearly always shortest with those who are most important to you.

The American Constitution is the greatest governing document, and at some 7,000 words, just about the shortest.

Gratitude incorporates both the heart and mind, and instantly paves the shortest road to happiness.

I bet that the best thing about being a hermaphrodite is that you always get to use the bathroom with the shortest line.

The fiercest agonies have shortest reign; And after dreams of horror, comes again The welcome morning with its rays of peace.

Pain dies quickly, and lets her weary prisoners go; the fiercest agonies have shortest reign.

I guess I am basically most comfortable when I'm alone. As a kid, I was very much a loner. I love long distance running and long distance biking. A director once pointed out that those are all very isolated exercises you do for hours at a time.

I've never been the type of photographer to live with people I photograph. You know, shoot heroin with them, that kind of thing. I respect those photographers that work that way. But part of my personality is a certain amount of distance, and part of my attraction to the medium of photography is this distance where you're in the world, but you're removed from it.

When you constantly hear people talking about going the distance, going the distance, you can't help but wonder about it. I learned a lesson: next time I will fight my fight without that doubt.

Weariness is the shortest path to equality and fraternity-and finally liberty is bestowed by sleep.

I'm a strategist, not a motivator. I'm obsessed with finding strategies that create real results in the shortest period of time.

The finest words in the world are only vain sounds if you can't understand them. The best sentence? The shortest.

If I'm going dancing, then I wear the highest heels with the shortest dress.

...more than other senses, the eye objectifies and masters. it sets at a distance, maintains the distance. in our culture, the predominance of the look over smell, taste, touch, hearing, has brought about an improverishment of bodily relations...the moment domin ates the look dominates, the body loses its materiality” -luce irigaray

My advice to defensive players: Take the shortest route to the ball and arrive in a bad humor.

I'm surrounded by young people. I'm always now the oldest and the shortest person in the room.

A lot of companies are still using social as the world’s shortest press release.

Distance is everything, in a fight. When you lose your distance, you lose your timing.

The shortest road to ruin is to emulate the methods of your adversary.

I am paid by the word, so I always write the shortest words possible.

Anamorphic is very difficult because the distance from the lens to the person to focus is very long so you need a lot of distance from the camera to the person so that means that you need a lot of space.

For much of the Internet, the shortest path between two points doesn't exist.

If Hell were possible, it would be the shortest cut to the highest heaven. For verily God loveth.