Famous quotes containing the words distance and/or formula:
“One sees qualities at a distance and defects at close range.”
—Victor Hugo (1802–1885)
“But suppose, asks the student of the professor, we follow all your structural rules for writing, what about that “something else” that brings the book alive? What is the formula for that? The formula for that is not included in the curriculum.”
—Fannie Hurst (1889–1968)