World Single Distance

Famous quotes containing the words world, single and/or distance:

    “Professor: War is hell, Mr. Thornhill, even if it’s just a cold one.
    Roger Thornhill: If you fellows can’t lick the Vandamms of this world without asking girls like her to bed down with them, and fly away with them, and probably never come back, perhaps you ought to start learning how to lose a few cold wars.
    Professor: I’m afraid we’re already doing that.”
    —Ernest Lehman (b.1920)

    “An error the breadth of a single hair can lead one a thousand miles astray.”
    —Chinese proverb.

    “And then he heard some old forgotten talk
    At a short distance like a hundred miles
    Filling the air with its secrecy,
    And was afraid of all the living air....”
    —Allen Tate (1899–1979)