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I didn't go to the moon, I went much further—for time is the longest distance between two places


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For time is the longest distance between two places.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS For time is the longest distance between two places.
TENNESSEE (THOMAS LANIER) WILLIAMS Time is the longest distance between two places.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS Time is the Longest Distance Between Two People.
RAJROCKER The longest distance between two points is the distance from the heart to the head.
JIM GENOVESE For the longest time I was afraid I'd have to keep on working at the factories. There was a stee...
DANIEL JOHNSTON The shortest distance between two people is TIME.
JOHN B. BEJO I want to do a Tennessee Williams play.
COBIE SMULDERS I want to get to the moon. I want to go to Mars.
DAVID MACKAY I was a lusty kid who loved Tennessee Williams.
ST. VINCENT We'll go back to the moon by not learning anything new.
BURT RUTAN I'm very fond of Tennessee Williams' plays, and when my husband and I went to New Orleans in...
RUTH RENDELL When I was a teenager, I continued to visit imaginary places by spending all my free time at our loc...
MARY POPE OSBORNE Well, I don't think we should go to the moon. I think we maybe should send some politicians up t...
RON PAUL The distance between two minds is understanding.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO I love Tennessee Williams pieces; they are so poetic and I love period pieces.
RICHARD HATCH If you're going to go to the moon, you don't shoot the rocket right at the moon. You have to...
DREW HOUSTON I've always had an affinity for writers who have a poetry background, so I always liked Tennesse...
KENNY LEON Time-space as commonly understood, in the sense of the distance measured between two time-points, is...
MARTIN HEIDEGGER If you said good-bye to me tonight, There would still be music left to write.
BILLY JOEL "THE LONGEST TIME" Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.
YAKOV SMIRNOFF The shortest distance between two people is laughter.
SOURCE UNKNOWN Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.
VICTOR BORGE Laughter is the closest distance between two people.
VICTOR BORGE Poetry is the shortest distance between two humans.
LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI It’s amazing how much distance one truth can create between two people.
COLLEEN HOOVER I'd like to go to another planet, which I might live long enough to accomplish. Just get on a sp...
SHIRLEY MACLAINE This is a long way off, equivalent to two thirds of the distance from the Earth to the Moon.
HORST UWE KELLER The shortest distance between two points is often unbearable.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI The shortest distance between two points is under construction.
NOELIE ALITO The shortest distance between two points is under construction.
NOELIE ALTITO The shortest distance between two points is through Hell
BRIAN CLARK The shortest distance between two points is under construction.
LEO AIKMAN The shortest distance between two points is under construction.
NOELIE ALTITO A smile is the shortest distance between two people.
VICTOR BORGE The distance between two souls-one is infinity, outside.
MARIANA FULGER The shortest distance between two people is a smile.
VICTOR BORGE I went to a movie called 'Destination Moon,' and that was the beginning for me. I always wanted to g...
ROGER CROUCH I love Truman Capote, Tennessee Williams, Flannery O'Connor. I read a lot of American writers.
KIRAN DESAI It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained.
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QUEEN ELIZABETH II My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have to be seen to be believed.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughou...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana's loss, ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II The British constitution has always been puzzling and always will be.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but t...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in th...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass; it is almost exactly 13 years since ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II First, I want to pay tribute to Diana myself. She was an exceptional and gifted human being. In good...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something e...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts an...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Grief is the price we pay for love.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II At its heart, engineering is about using science to find creative, practical solutions. It is a nobl...
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QUEEN ELIZABETH II For many, Christmas is also a time for coming together. But for others, service will come first.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses w...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your s...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Therefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendor that are g...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the man...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Madam President, speaking here in Dublin Castle it is impossible to ignore the weight of history, as...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II These wretched babies don't come until they are ready.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of ...
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QUEEN ELIZABETH II In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II No one who knew Diana will ever forget her. Millions of others who never met her, but felt they knew...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have been aware all the time that my peoples, spread far and wide throughout every continent and o...
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NEIL DIAMOND The shortest distance between two points is a straight line.
ARCHIMEDES The closest distance between two people is a good laugh.
LEO BASCALIA The shortest distance between two points is always under construction.
REBECCA MCCLANAHAN The shortest distance between two puns is a straight line.
ANON AMUSS The shortest distance between two points is a straight line
PROVERB The same way i could live when I didnt know you, I can live without you after letting you go, But th...
DALEEN IRSHAID We'll sort of get over the marriage first and then maybe look at the kids. But obviously we want...
PRINCE WILLIAM Family is the most important thing in the world.
PRINCESS DIANA You philosophers are lucky men. You write on paper and paper is patient. Unfortunate Empress that I ...
CATHERINE THE GREAT With the right help, children have a good chance of overcoming their issues while they are still you...
KATE MIDDLETON As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.
KING SOLOMON I don't mind a big fascinator. I think there is more scope for artwork in a fascinator rather th...
ZARA PHILLIPS I was always told from the hat-makers that you should have your hair up because it shows the hat mor...
ZARA PHILLIPS I don't think I'll still be riding at 40. There are a couple of people who are still riding ...
ZARA PHILLIPS My dad's not a big talker.
ZARA PHILLIPS My dad can be pretty critical sometimes.
ZARA PHILLIPS I'd love to have kids, but not at the moment.
ZARA PHILLIPS You cannot make horses 'safe.'
ZARA PHILLIPS Virtually everything that gets printed about me is wrong anyway, so it doesn't really matter wha...
ZARA PHILLIPS It's stupid to say that I don't like being in the public eye, but I don't like doing stu...
ZARA PHILLIPS I'm an affectionate person.
ZARA PHILLIPS People still text me to say that there is something about me in the paper, and what really annoys me...
ZARA PHILLIPS Sometimes people will come up in the street and say: 'My daughter loves you, will you sign an au...
ZARA PHILLIPS Taking part in an Olympics on home ground is something you dream about.
ZARA PHILLIPS My brother and I have been able to get on and have been very lucky to do things with our family that...
ZARA PHILLIPS I don't think about the media.
ZARA PHILLIPS I love the sport and being competitive.
ZARA PHILLIPS The horses are all characters, all personalities. Some you get along with, some you don't, some ...
ZARA PHILLIPS

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TENNESSEE (THOMAS LANIER) WILLIAMS I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.
TENNESSEE (THOMAS LANIER) WILLIAMS Oh you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of ...
TENNESSEE (THOMAS LANIER) WILLIAMS All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
TENNESSEE (THOMAS LANIER) WILLIAMS The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It's inflammatory.
TENNESSEE (THOMAS LANIER) WILLIAMS You said, They're harmless dreamers and they're loved by the people. -- What, I asked you, is harmle...
TENNESSEE (THOMAS LANIER) WILLIAMS Everyone says he's sincere, but everyone isn't sincere. If everyone was sincere who says he's sincer...
TENNESSEE (THOMAS LANIER) WILLIAMS We're all of us sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life!
TENNESSEE (THOMAS LANIER) WILLIAMS We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to ...
TENNESSEE (THOMAS LANIER) WILLIAMS Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead.
TENNESSEE (THOMAS LANIER) WILLIAMS You can't cheat the public for long.
TENNESSEE ERNIE FORD