With Hyperloop One, we are on the brink of the first great breakthrough in transportation technology of the 21st century, eliminating the barriers of time and distance and unlocking vast economic opportunities.
Vanity can apply to both insecurity and egotism. So I distance myself, because I feel everything.
Estrangement shows itself precisely in the elimination of distance between people.
Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, and robes the mountain in its azure hue.
We can take some gratification at having come a certain distance in just a few thousand years of our existence as language users, but it should be a deeper satisfaction, even an exhilaration, to recognize that we have such a distance still to go.
I once tried standing up on my toes to see far out in the distance, but I found that I could see much farther by climbing to a high place.
What is the distance between here and there, between now and then, between right and wrong? In Greg Baxter's pellucid first novel, 'The Apartment,' it may be simply the length of a day - but a day in which one travels surprisingly far, literally and figuratively.
I am a distance runner, a marathoner... literally and figuratively.
The number of medals on an officer's breast varies in inverse proportion to the square of the distance of his duties from the front line.
My problem happens to be near-sightedness - inability to see distance. And this is pretty tough on a golfer.
We tell stories. We talk about statistics. And in 1978, we added an element of the show that gave it its heartbeat: the long distance dedication.
In '82, I was a little too young, I was a little inexperienced, and I was more concerned with going the distance in the fight than going out and taking Holmes out.
The Shat-el-Arab is a noble river or estuary. From both its Persian and Turkish shores, however, mountains have disappeared, and dark forests of date palms intersected by canals fringe its margin heavily, and extend to some distance inland.
Interstate highways dull the reality of place and distance almost as effectively as jetliners do: I loathe their scary monotony.
My introduction to dissociation had been at Kenneth Cooper's clinic in January of 1975. Cooper had assembled a gaggle of top American distance runners and a half dozen top researchers, the intent being to figure out what the difference was - physiologically, biomechanically, psychologically - between elite and subelite runners.
When I want to quickly take a measurement, I use my Stanley Laser Distance Measurer. You just put it on the wall, and it shoots a laser and instantly tells you the exact distance to the other wall within a fraction of an inch.
Reduce the layers of management. They put distance between the top of an organization and the customers.
Time and distance from the first and second world wars doesn't seem to lessen their horrors.
When I was a lieutenant in Special Forces many many years ago, I thought I was getting fat. And I started running, and I started running distance, which I enjoyed.
For time is the longest distance between two places.
