Ashlan Gorse Cousteau Quotes

Eugene is located in western Oregon, approximately 278 billion miles from anything.

I suppose the place where I live is fairly remote, it would seem remote to some people.

Yes, I guess I am bi-coastal.

If you look at a map, you see that Hawaii is in the middle of nowhere. It's 17 hours of straight flying from London. It's very far away, and sometimes you feel as if you're on another planet. But I like that. Also, that's ideal for writing.

Early on the next morning we reached Kansas, about five hundred miles from the mouth of the Missouri.

There's a real purity in New Zealand that doesn't exist in the states. It's actually not an easy thing to find in our world anymore. It's a unique place because it is so far away from the rest of the world. There is a sense of isolation and also being protected.

Our little house was way back in the country. We had one house close to us, and hell the next one would've been a mile. If you got sick, you could holler and wouldn't nobody hear you.

At the outset, at least, all three groups had something else to recommend them, as well: They were headquartered 3,000 miles away from the East Side of Manhattan.

The best thing I know between France and England is- the sea.

The roaring seas and many a dark range of mountains lie between us.

Why cross and ocean when you can cross a river? Why should we sail to Washington when we can meet right away 10 miles from here?

The Great Man is a man who lives a long way off.

I've never even been to Long Island

Canada is so far away it hardly exists.

All looked distant and peaceful and strange. The shore seemed refined, far away, unreal. Already the little distance they had sailed had put them far from it and given it the changed look, the composed look, of something receding in which one has no longer any part.

We cannot road trip to Paris.

The world is a globe — the farther you sail, the closer to home you are.

No woman has ever stepped on Little America - and we have found it to be the most silent and peaceful place in the world.

I'm a thousand miles from nowhere, time don't matter to me. I'm a thousand miles from nowhere and there's not place that I want to be.

It's very far away/It takes about a half a day to get there/ If we travel by-dragonfly.

There is something about silence and being in the middle of nowhere that is really very attractive.

Money is to Everything as an Aeroplane is to Australia. The aeroplane isn't Australia, but it remains the only practical way we know of reaching it. So perhaps, metonymically, the aeroplane is Australia after all.

For whatever you're doing, for your creative juices, your geography's got a hell of a lot to do with it. You really have to be in a good place, and then you have to be either on your way there or on your way from there.

We're all like the little sailor. From the harbors we hear the strains of accordions and the murky soapy noises of the docks, from the mountains we receive the dish of silence that the shepherds eat, but we don't hear more than our own distances. And what distances without end and without doors and without mountains!

This is how it is with insomnia. Everything is so far away, a copy of a copy of a copy. The insomnia distance of everything, you can't touch anything and nothing can touch you.