Long distance hiking is not a vacation, it's too long for that. It's not recreation, too much toil and pain involved. It is, we decide, a way of life….

A certain degree of ceremony is a necessary outwork of manners, as well as of religion; it keeps the forward and petulant at a proper distance, and i….

It is not in the bright, happy day, but only in the solemn night, that other worlds are to be seen shining in their long, long distances. And it is i….

In long-distance running the only opponent you have to beat is yourself, the way you used to be..

The most meaningful way to differentiate your company from your competitors, the best way to put distance between you and the crowd is to do an outst….

Distance is where people get really confused. If you stand really far away from someone you're like, "That's not me. I'm so far away from that person….

Human beings make a strange fauna and flora. From a distance they appear negligible; close up they are apt to appear ugly and malicious. More than an….

I may have been 15 or 16 years old when, on a Sunday morning, I was sitting at home together with my mother and sister, and the floor began to move u….

Speedwork is terribly overrated! I remember talking to runners after distance races and someone is sure to say they were able to run fast off base wo….

Poetry must find ways of breaking distance.... all languages are dialects that are made to break new grounds..

I was on my own, living in Los Angeles, and I didn't know my way around, so I thought I'd walk everywhere. Well, that certainly got me noticed. Any w….

We are just not made up to be middle distance runners..

And just as music is the space between notes, just as the stars are beautiful because of the space between them, just as the sun strikes raindrops at….

In abstract mathematics or abstract art, the purpose is to describe inner states of our mind, and to explore the limits of our own imagination and ou….

What a wonderful and amazing Scheme have we here of the magnificent Vastness of the Universe! So many Suns, so many Earths, and every one of them sto….

I play disturbed people a lot, but always with a bit of distance or tongue-in-cheek. Most of the villains I play are essentially harmless..

Hello, Grace's parents. I'm Grace's boyfriend. Please notice the chaste distance between us. I am very responsible and have never had my tongue in yo….

Ah! I need solitude. I have come forth to this hill at sunset to see the forms of the mountains in the horizon - to behold and commune with something….

A miser is sometimes a grand personification of fear. He has a fine horror of poverty; and he is not content to keep want from the door, or at arm's ….

"I'm going back!" I shouted, standing to put some distance between us in case I was yanking her chain too hard and she came after me. "I'll show him,….

There is something magical about running; after a certain distance, it transcends the body. Then a bit further, it transcends the mind. A bit further….