#afar

A movie camera is like having someone you have a crush on watching you from afar - you pretend it's not there. ↗

— Daryl Hannah

#camera #crush #having #like #movie

I think: 'Wouldn't it be great to work with Bill Murray?' And then I'm like, 'You know what, just appreciate Bill Murray from afar, don't find out that maybe he's not the dude you want to work with.' ↗

— Kevin Smith

#appreciate #bill #dude #find #great

A movie camera is like having someone you have a crush on watching you from afar - you pretend it's not there. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#camera #crush #having #like #movie

In an interview with a journalist, you look petty taking the pot shot but in a slick ad you can really do damage - including unfair damage - from afar. It is not that much different than waging a war by a drone than by hand-to-hand combat. ↗

— Greta Van Susteren

#afar #combat #damage #different #including

Seek not for fresher founts afar, just drop you bucket where you are. ↗

— Sam Walter Foss

#bucket #drop #fresher #just #seek

Fame, like the river, is narrowest where it is bred, and broadest afar off. ↗

— William Davenant

#bred #broadest #fame #like #narrowest

Last year I built a Courage Machine, but I thought it might be noisy and was too afraid to turn it on. So I coated it with glue, covered it with cat hair, mounted it on my wall, and started claiming it was an exotic animal I killed on a Safari in Africa. I'd like to believe people believe me, on account of it being so strange that it has to be true. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#africa #cat-hair #courage #exotic-animal #fear

She found out that having something to do prevented you from feeling seasick, and that even a job like scrubbing a deck could be satisfying, if it was done in a seamanlike way. She was very taken with this notion, and later on she folded the blankets on her bunk in a seamanlike way, and put her possessions in the closet in a seamanlike way, and used 'stow' instead of 'tidy' for the process of doing so. After two days at sea, Lyra decided that this was the life for her. ↗

— Philip Pullman

#pirates #sail #sailing #sea #seafaring

I am afraid that it will all be ruined. It is like stepping out into the darkness when one has a world of light and warmth behind one. ↗

— Mary Balogh

#love #warmth #love

If education, culture, the higher life were shining things to be worshiped from afar, he had still a means left whereby he could draw one step nearer to them. ↗

— Mary Antin

#could #culture #draw #education #had