Vertical thought likes to imagine the vast distances between the stars..

I'm superstitious about the paper that I use, for example. I've written all my novels on a paper of a particular size with lines of a particular dist….

Our values are defined by what we will tolerate when it is done to others. Everyone's sense of virtue is degraded by the present reality. A revolutio….

You will not believe me, but I am proud of your strength. Sometimes. . . sometimes the only way I can care for my children is to keep my distance..

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….

I believe firmly in plodding. Productivity is more a matter of diligent, long-distance hiking than it is one-hundred-yard dashing. Doing a little bit….

Doth not this Æthereal Medium in passing out of Water, Glass, Crystal, and other compact and dense Bodies into empty Spaces, grow denser and denser b….

I looked like a woman in glasses, but I had dreams of leading a very different kind of life, the life of a woman who would not wear glasses, the kind….

Long distance running is 90% mental and the other half is physical..

Prison experience puts distance between me and any person who hasn't been there, done that..

It's never a good time, when you're the president of the United States and your own party is finding lots of different ways to distance themselves fr….

Sometimes I have the strangest feeling about you. Especially when you are near me as you are now. It feels as though I had a string tied here under m….

Brooks too wide for our leaping, hedges far to high. Loads too heavy for our moving, burdens too cumbersome for us to bear. Distances far beyond our ….

The forces of Hannibal, Drake and Napoleon moved at best with the horses' gallop or the speed of wind on sail. Now, aviation brings a new concept of ….

The distance between me and Benny [Goodman], was that I was trying to play a musical thing, and Benny was trying to swing. Benny had great fingers; I….

It has the property of detonating very violently in certain circumstances. On one occasion a small amount of ether solution of pyroglycerin condensed….

I've never found that getting physical is ever the best response in a bar. You just have to make sure you keep your distance, and if it gets to a poi….

Because everyone is the same distance from the sun. Does it really lessen the distance if you live on top of a skyscraper?.

My own reaction from a distance is that Pol Pot's demise as the leader of the Khmer Rouge was inevitable, and that his own paranoia did him in as muc….

To regain our liberty (and our distance), we must slow the images down..

But then why, when talking on the phone, did they quarrel, on average at least once every four sentences? Maybe, though the inspector, it was an effe….