Relative Distance Quotes

There was Uncle Ken of mine about whom I wrote a lot of stories. I can always write stories about uncles and aunts and distant relatives. They have to be distant, though; otherwise, you'll be in trouble.

It's pretty far, but it doesn't seem like it.

The distance from nothing to a little, is ten thousand times more, than from it to the highest degree in this life.

When you're average, you're just as close to the bottom as you are the top.

And now Jacques Laffitte is as close to Surer as Surer is to Laffitte

Space is about 100 kilometers away. That’s far away—I wouldn’t want to climb a ladder to get there—but it isn’t that far away. If you’re in Sacramento, Seattle, Canberra, Kolkata, Hyderabad, Phnom Penh, Cairo, Beijing, central Japan, central Sri Lanka, or Portland, space is closer than the sea.

The society of my relatives can only be enjoyed with frequent intervals.

But what seems like a reasonable distance to one person might feel too far to somebody else.

We went our separate ways, but within walking distance of one another.

The precise effects of lensing depend on the mass of the lens, the structure of space-time, and the relative distance between us, the lens, and the distant object behind it. It's like a magnifying glass, where the image you get depends on the shape of the lens and how far you hold it from the object you're looking at.

Because everyone is the same distance from the sun. Does it really lessen the distance if you live on top of a skyscraper?