The ambitious will always be first in the crowd; he presseth forward, he looketh not behind him. More anguish is it to his mind to see one before hi….

The simplicity of the law by which the celestial bodies move, and the relations of their masses and distances, permit analysis to follow their motion….

This part of optics, when well understood, shows us how we may make things a very long distance off appear as if placed very close, and large near th….

It has been observed that the height of a man from the crown of the head to the sole of the foot is equal to the distance between the tips of the mid….

I never got tired of watching the radar echo from an aircraft as it first appeared as a tiny blip in the noise on the cathode-ray tube, and then grew….

Well, great authors are great people - but I believe that they are best seen at a distance..

It is easy for us to criticize the prejudices of our grandfathers, from which our fathers freed themselves. It is more difficult to distance ourselve….

Intimacy is not a happy medium. It is a way of being in which the tension between distance and closeness is dissolved and a new horizon appears. Inti….

The distance between the adolescent and the true adult is about five thousand miles, but the distance between the adult and the elder is almost as la….

I stand at a distance, like a person who comes from another world..

I enjoy traveling and playing baseball.Other than that, the minor leagues are tough. The wear and tear on your body.. and it's tough to stay on a nut….

From a building right in front of my windows, I can observe the speed of the sunrises and sunsets. The voices of children playing, laughing, yelling,….

The Earth is cylindrical, three times as wide as it is deep, and only the upper part is inhabited. But this Earth is isolated in space, and the sky i….

To see the greatness of a mountain, one must keep one's distance..

Of all the inventions that have helped to unify China perhaps the airplane is the most outstanding. Its ability to annihilate distance has been in di….

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 ….

My steamboat voyage to Albany and back, has turned out rather more favorable than I had calculated. The distance from New York to Albany is one hundr….

I've had a lot of glamour come my way in the last 10 years - you know, movie stars and mansions and red carpets and trips to Europe and crazy stuff I….

From Washington, proverbially "the city of distances," through all its cities, states, and territories, it is a country of beginnings, of projects, o….

It’s always more intriguing to imagine what’s happening, as opposed to seeing everything, because then you can use your imagination. I always wanted ….

It is sometimes said that because of our past we, as a people, expect too much and set our sights too high. That is not the way I see it. Rather it s….