When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a considerable and often a radical distortion. The complex is made over into the simple, the hypothetical into the dogmatic, and the relative into an absolute.
Walter Lippmann

Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.
Saul Bellow

Writing fantasy lets me imagine a great deal more than, say, writing about alligators, and lets me write about places more distant than Florida, but I can tell you things about Florida and alligators, let you make the connection all on your own.
Terry Brooks

You feel quite distant by playing at huge stadiums year after year, where you only can see a great darkness in front of you.
Robert Plant

You know, our ratings after this match will be very close - I think I can also become the world number one in the not too distant future. However, I'm sure that Garry will also have something to say about this!
Vladimir Kramnik

You will seek not a near but a distant objective, and you will not be satisfied with what you may have done.
Abbott L. Lowell