“My mother and I had many conversations, but most of them were about her, her upbringing, her development and how I could please her. And my sister is great, but we were never emotionally close. So I think that a lot of my inability to get close with people is based on all of that. I was always an ou…”— Howard Stern, rollingstone.com
“Simon: It’s odd knowing someone so well, isn’t it, that you never see? Gemma: Maybe not so well anymore.”— Mike Bartlett, Dr Gemma Foster, Suranne Jones, imdb.com
“Simon: Do you think about me? Gemma: What? Simon: Going on fifteen years of knowing you and you can just switch it off, huh? I even dream about you sometimes.”— Mike Bartlett, Dr Gemma Foster, Suranne Jones, imdb.com
“There’s nothing more isolating than not being able to feel time. To not feel the distance between hours, days.”— Brit Marling, Dominic Orlando, Prairie Johnson, Brit Marling, imdb.com
“The immense distances to the stars and the galaxies mean that we see everything in space in the past – some as they were before the Earth came to be. Telescopes are time machines.”— Carl Sagan, amazon.com
“New and inexhaustible sources of general prosperity have been opened; the effects of distance have been averted by the inevitable genius of our people.”— Martin Van Buren, amazon.com
“Coming up unto them, there has passed some cannon shot between some of our fleet and some of them, and so far as we perceive they are determined to sell their lives with blows.”— Francis Drake, en.wikiquote.org
“There is a sort of gulf between the older and younger generations. This gulf will have be bridged. There is the feeling that the older and younger generations are quite apart from each other. This is something that should not happen. Whether young or old the entire people should be united.”— Aung San Suu Kyi, amazon.com
“I wonder where it will go, whether it will survive, will be cast back here on Rota, or taken hundreds, perhaps thousands, of miles to another island in the Pacific. Ten minutes more ad I can no longer see it--it is launched, like a little ship, on its journey on the high seas.”— Oliver Sacks, amazon.com
“It was astonishing that for some considerable distance around the mould growth the staphococcal colonies were undergoing lysis. What had formerly been a well-grown colony was now a faint shadow of its former self...I was sufficiently interested to pursue the subject.”— Alexander Fleming, amazon.com
“How far would I travel To be where you are? How far is the journey From here to a star?”— John Coltrane, genius.com
“She’s sitting right in front of me, but at the same time she’s a million miles away.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“If I love you that’ll always be the case, even if it’s from the distance.”— ALEXANDRA ELLE, goodreads.com
“I envy the cup of coffee that gets to kiss your sleepy lips awake every cold and bitter morning.”— Sade Andria Zabala, sadeandriazabala.com
“They say when you are missing someone that they are probably feeling the same, but I don’t think it’s possible for you to miss me as much as I’m missing you right now.”— Edna St. Vincent Millay, goodreads.com