Source: A Fine Balance
Nick Drake (poet) (1961) British writer
ibid
The Rahotep series, Book 2: Tutankhamun
Context: Rhetoric is a dangerous art. It is the manipulation of the difference, one might say the distance, between truth and image [... ] And in our times, that distance has become the means by which power is exercised [... ] Rhetoric has been a force for persuasion since man began to speak, and to convince his enemy that he was indeed his friend.
Eliezer Yudkowsky (1979) American blogger, writer, and artificial intelligence researcher
Beware of Other-Optimizing (April 2009) http://lesswrong.com/lw/9v/beware_of_otheroptimizing/
“The shortest distance between two people is a smile.”
Victor Borge (1909–2000) Danish and US-American comedian and musician
Variant: Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.
Terry Pratchett (1948–2015) English author
Source: Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
“She shone for me like the Evening Star. I loved her dearly — but at a distance.”
Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
On his mother, Lady Randolph Churchill, Chapter 1 (Childhood).
My Early Life: A Roving Commission (1930)
“A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.”
Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960) American folklorist, novelist, short story writer
Source: Tell My Horse: Voodoo and Life in Haiti and Jamaica
“In L. A., the only thing within walking distance is your car.”
Rene Balcer (1954) screenwriter, producer and director
Quoted in The Hollywood Reporter, September 9, 2010, TV's Top 50 Showrunners: On Los Angeles.
“When no point of a line is at a finite distance, the line itself is at an infinite distance.”
Girard Desargues (1591–1661) French mathematician and engineer
Brouillion project (1639) as quoted by Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter, Projective Geometry (1987)
