Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

- Georges Bataille

A filmmaker can never be distant from his roots.

- Walter Salles

There are charms made only for distant admiration.

- Samuel Johnson

I am more exempt and more distant than any man in the world.

- Pierre de Fermat

I've grown up, luckily, with only a distant relationship to war and soldiering.

- Michael Winter

There are many young Americans that are very distant from our political process.

- Kurt Angle

I had a very distant relationship with my father. It was always just me and my mother. It was a shattering blow when she died. I was 16.

- Joan Lingard

For any actor, it's a great privilege to play a character that is very distant from yourself.

- James Norton

The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.

- John Burroughs

Death is a distant rumor to the young.

- Andy Rooney

There was part of me that wanted to see the world and travel to distant places, but I could only do it in my imagination, so I read ferociously and imagined things.

- George R. R. Martin

Me and my dad are kind of distant since my mom and him separated.

- Gabby Douglas

Biodiversity starts in the distant past and it points toward the future.

- Frans Lanting

A distant enemy is always preferable to one at the gate.

- Emile M. Cioran

Everyone is related to Africa; everyone comes from Africa. We are all distant relatives.

- Damian Marley

I'll tell you, I've never particularly been a 'Trek' person. I feel about 'Trek' the way one feels about known, vaguely liked, but rather distant members of one's family.

- China Mieville

Roy Acuff's from Maynardville, and that's where a lot of my family's from. So he's, I've been told, a distant cousin, as well.

- Ashley Monroe

My father was aloof, very strange and very distant.

- Anthony Horowitz