#distance

Well, the great thing for me about poetry is that in good poems the dislocation of words, that is to say, the distance between what they say they're saying and what they are actually saying is at its greatest. ↗

— Harry Mathews

#actually #between #dislocation #distance #good

I maintain my sanity by keeping my distance. ↗

— Luis Miguel

#i #keeping #maintain #sanity

When I'm acting, I'm two beings. There's the one monitoring the distance between myself and the camera, making sure I hit my marks, and there is the one driven by this inner fire, this delicious fear. ↗

— Jeanne Moreau

#beings #between #camera #delicious #distance

You have to, at least from a distance, look as if you know what you're doing, and I can manage that. ↗

— Steven Patrick Morrissey

#doing #i #i can #know #least

When I started you were more in touch with the people you were playing to. There wasn't the distance or the separation that there is now. ↗

— Van Morrison

#i #more #now #people #playing

My father kept his distance from working-class American blacks. ↗

— Constance Baker Motley

#blacks #distance #father #his #kept

This Congress has promised all manner of border security and port security to the tune of billions of dollars... yet we have - to date - funded our promises for port security at only $900 million. That's quite a distance between what we say and what we actually do. ↗

— Solomon Ortiz

#between #billions #border #border security #congress

Do we need distance to get close? ↗

— Sarah Jessica Parker

#distance #get #need

I think that Indy is special to me. The greater the distance between the last time I drove an Indy car and the next time, I wouldn't like that to be too big. ↗

— Danica Patrick

#big #car #distance #drove #greater

The man who says he is willing to meet you halfway is usually a poor judge of distance. ↗

— Laurence J. Peter

#halfway #judge #man #meet #poor