Short Distance Quotes

I've got a house that's only 45 minutes from Monte Carlo.

Nothing has gotten me out of Philadelphia. I moved 20 minutes away from Philly. That's about it.

Good horses make short miles.

I grew up in northern New Jersey - the banlieue of New York - and I now live in Brooklyn. I am separated from my parents by about 50 miles, but really there is almost no distance between us. I speak to them nearly every day.

We haven't come a long way, we've come a short way. If we hadn't come a short way, no one would be calling us baby.

As a kid I could be in New Lodge in a minute. I'd go down our street, turn right and I was there.

The technology, called near-field communication, involves a microchip that can send and receive data across very short distances, about four inches. Instead of swiping a credit card, you hold your phone near a reader and let the data zip between the two devices.

Moral qualities rule the world, but at short distances the senses are despotic.

The 200 meters is my baby. To me, it's the perfect distance. It's still a true sprint, but it unravels more. You get to enjoy the race a little bit more than the 100.

A tap-in is a putt that is short enough to be missed one-handed.

Me, if I'm in a long-distance race, I have speed. In the sprint, I don't have so much speed.

I'm a sprinter man. We don't jog; we don't walk. It's full-out. It's big engines. You don't take a car that has 600 horsepower for a cross-country drive.

I'm a firm believer in the connection between the body and the mind: feed one, feed both. I like to run, but only short distances, and fast. I'm no good at long distance. More than six miles, and the knees start to go.

The distance between the limousine and the gutter is a short one.

The short English miles are delightful for walking. You are always pleased to find, every now and then, in how short a time you have walked a mile, though, no doubt, a mile is everywhere a mile, I walk but a moderate pace, and can accomplish four English miles in an hour.

I do love America. And LA is a very short commute to America its like half an hour on the plane.

It isn't unusual to see children climb into a car every morning to be ferried to the front door of a school that's just a few blocks away.

Faint not; the miles to heaven are but few and short.

I had four sandwiches when I left New York. I only ate one and a half during the whole trip and drank a little water. I don't suppose I had time to eat any more because, you know, it surprised me how short a distance it is to Europe.

It is always sad when someone leaves home, unless they are simply going around the corner and will return in a few minutes with ice-cream sandwiches.

I'm used to short distances and short bursts of energy; it was just fastest.

The 100m is never stressful.

The band is like a vintage car. You take it out to go for a spin for a couple miles, but you wouldn't drive across the country.

A lot of people do run well at 60m but can't transfer it to the 100m because there's still 40m to go, and anything can happen in that last section.

Floor exercise, the longest you run is two or three steps. In the vault, it's not a whole lot more than that.