Distant Objects

Famous quotes containing the words distant and/or objects:

“Adventure is making the distant approach nearer
but romance is having what is where it is which is not
where you are stay where it is.”
—Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)

“Little minds mistake little objects for great ones, and lavish away upon the former that time and attention which only the latter deserve. To such mistakes we owe the numerous and frivolous tribe of insect-mongers, shell-mongers, and pursuers and driers of butterflies, etc. The strong mind distinguishes, not only between the useful and the useless, but likewise between the useful and the curious.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)