Miles Quotes · Page 14

The true peace of God begins at any spot a thousand miles from the nearest land.

— Joseph Conrad

When I'm not involved in an acting job I try to run 10 miles a day.

— Joan Van Ark

I don't see why I can't listen to Miles Davis and Slipknot in the same afternoon.

— Steve Lukather

If I'm going to be a jazz player, I need to understand Miles Davis.

— Ice T

Miles' sessions were not typical of anybody else's sessions. They were totally unique.

— Herbie Hancock

I write about nerds who go the extra mile and become rock stars.

— Ben Mezrich

It's simple ... go the extra mile and you will stand out from the crowd

— Robin Crow

Anyone can run 20 miles. It's the next six that count.

— Barry Magee

I grew up in a small town about 40 miles outside London, but it was a fairly cosmopolitan household.

— Jacqueline Bisset

If you can ride through Texas with somebody, which is 700 miles of just straight, flat freeway riding, then you can be…

— Katee Sackhoff

The Gulf Stream waters of Woody Guthrie's famous song were strung with columns of oil that were several miles long.

— Anonymous

A cannonball travels only two thousand miles an hour; light travels two hundred thousand miles a second. Such is the superiority of…

— Victor Hugo

It was so quiet, a reservation kind of quiet, where you can hear somebody drinking whiskey on the rocks three miles away.

— Sherman Alexie

Natural erosion had reduced the critical barrier islands in the Gulf, the result of the destruction of some 300,000 acres of wetlands.…

— Mortimer Zuckerman

We've sent a man to the moon and that's 29,000 miles away. The center of the Earth is only 4,000 miles away.…

— Andy Rooney

Moving around is good for creativity: the next line of dialogue that you desperately need may well be waiting in the back…

— Will Shetterly

I drove 3,500 miles this summer on our family holiday, we drove across 10 countries. I have driven across the United States…

— Geoff Hoon

Footballers can be like artists when the mind and body are working as one. It is what Miles Davis does when he…

— Lilian Thuram

Miles Davis, his parents migrated from Arkansas to Illinois, where he had the luxury of being able to practice for hours upon…

— Isabel Wilkerson

On the 31st of August, 1846, I left Concord in Massachusetts for Bangor and the backwoods of Maine,... I proposed to make…

— Henry David Thoreau

every seven miles, in America, there is at least one McDonald's. Not a hospital, mind you, or a police station, but a…

— Meg Cabot

If you believe you have a just cause, an important message, or a key contribution to make, you will be just as…

— Laurie Beth Jones

I grew up in the Midwest, quite far from any ocean or any beach, a million miles. I think for kids who…

— John Malkovich

We just have to go at 100 miles an hour in all our businesses, be they television broadcasting, be they magazine publishing,…

— James Packer

It should be noted that people in the free market rarely bear false witness; integrity is the rule. The morning mile, phone…

— Leonard Read

Now she realized that she was not peering at a so-dark-blue-it-looked-black ocean, but rather she was looking straight through miles of incredibly…

— Fuyumi Ono

But yeah, Ann [Trason] insisted, running was romantic; and no, of course her friends didn't get it because they'd never broken through.…

— Christopher McDougall

Your vision of your future will help you press forward. Take a few minutes to envision where you want to be in…

— Elaine S. Dalton

Now when you cut a forest, an ancient forest in particular, you are not just removing a lot of big trees and…

— E. O. Wilson

This tug-of-war often obscures what's also happening between us. I am your mother, the first mile of your road. Me and all…

— Kelly Corrigan

To lovers of the wild, these mountains are not a hundred miles away. Their spiritual power and the goodness of the sky…

— John Muir

My first banjo? My mother's sister, my aunt, lived about a mile from where we did, and she raised some hogs. And…

— Ralph Stanley

All the miles of a hard road are worth a moment of true happiness.

— Arnold Lobel

I live about six miles from where I was born and raised.

— Ralph Stanley

I dont know why life always seperates the closest hearts by putting miles between them.

— Anonymous

If you run a thousand miles a minute, you can expect to wear out a few pairs of shoes.

— Ellis

I grew up with a twin brother on a farm miles away from everybody else.

— Matt Hughes

Between the head and feet of any given person is a billion miles of unexplored wilderness.

— Gabrielle Roth

And yet I'll walk thousands of miles just to be next to you

— Anonymous

I can spot someone with similar fashion sense to me a mile off.

— Martin Freeman