Distance Light Travels

Famous quotes containing the words distance, light and/or travels:

“Small, black, as flies hanging in heat, the Boys,
Until the distance throws them forth, their hum
Bulges to thunder held by calf and thigh.”
—Thom Gunn (b. 1929)

“When it is dark in the east, it is light in the west; when things are dark in the south there is still light in the north.”
—Chinese proverb.

“In all my travels I never met with any one Scotchman but what was a man of sense: I believe everybody of that country that has any, leaves it as fast as they can.”
—Francis Lockier (1668–1740)