Supersonic airplanes have carried men at more than 2,000 miles per hour and there are reasons to believe that this speed will… — Igor Sikorsky Copy Share Image
We connect through our dreams. Like we could be a thousand miles apart and I'd still know you were there. — Pete Hautman Copy Share Image
Skiing consists of wearing $3,000 worth of clothes and equipment and driving 200 miles in the snow in order to stand around… — P. G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
Today Homeland Security Chief Tom Ridge lowered the terror alert from orange to yellow. Does anybody need 16 miles of duct tape? — Craig Kilborn Copy Share Image
New York is only 97 miles from Philadelphia but was the Big Time as no other American city has ever been. — Ethel Waters Copy Share Image
I find painting a much slower process than comedy, where you can go a mile a minute verbally and hope to God… — Jonathan Winters Copy Share Image
Away down the river, A hundred miles or more, Other little children Shall bring my boats ashore. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Make friends with pain, and you will never be alone.~Ken Chlouber, Colorado miner and creator of the Leadville Trail 100 mile race — Christopher McDougall Copy Share Image
It is easier to sail many thousand miles through cold and storm and cannibals, ina government ship, with five hundred men and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In the four hundred and thirteenth year of the Christian era, some three hundred miles above Alexandria, the young monk Philammon was… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
Perfume companies ought to bottle the smell of crisp bacon. Forget pheromones. I’ll bet a woman with a little spot of bacon… — Blaize Clement Copy Share Image
There you are," he said when she bobbed up. "I was getting worried." "What are you doing?" "Waiting till you're ready to… — Susan Elizabeth Phillips Copy Share Image
When you arrive in Hiroshima you can look around and for 25 and perhaps 30 square miles you can see hardly a… — Wilfred Burchett Copy Share Image
I remember listening to Miles Davis in the car with my dad. I had just done my Grade 5 piano exam, and… — Laura Mvula Copy Share Image
In cross-country skiing, athletes propel themselves over distances of ten and twenty miles - a physical challenge that places intense demands on… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
I live in Leeds, which is about 200 miles north of London, and I get to go and do all the 'Harry… — Matthew Lewis Copy Share Image
SELF-DISCIPLINE, more than any other personal quality I can think of, is the one thing that separates successful people from the unsuccessful.… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
I have been battering away at Saturn, returning to the charge every now and then. I have effected several breaches in the… — James Clerk Maxwell Copy Share Image
There is my father whispering in my ear, Be still still still. And yet you change everything. What was the marsh like,… — Paul Harding Copy Share Image
Young people have been ill-educated, mis-educated, propagandized. I see it in everything I read written by young people. You can spot it… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
How could I tell the doctor what was wrong with me? I didn't understand it myself. I couldn't articulate the pain; it… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
From the perspective of someone with two grown and wonderful kids, that your instincts as parents are correct: a minute spent reading… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
and they shook hands, hit each other on the shoulder, then there was forty feet of distance between them and nothing to… — Annie Proulx Copy Share Image
Therefore all just persons are satisfied with their own praise. They refuse to explain themselves, and are content that new actions should… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
His name, Buzz, fits. He can buzz along at 40 miles an hour when his genetic memory moves him. — Joe Henderson Copy Share Image
I ran my first sub-4-minute mile in 1977 and since then have run 136 more. Nobody has run as many sub-4s as… — Steve Scott Copy Share Image
Why cross and ocean when you can cross a river? Why should we sail to Washington when we can meet right away… — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
You can never walk a mile in someone elses shoes, but you can walk a mile in your own and be proud… — Zach Anner Copy Share Image
You don't need jails, you get put a thousand miles into the middle of Australia, you can go wherever you want, go… — Gene Simmons Copy Share Image
You'd never think of taking a cab if you had to walk a mile down Chicago's Michigan Avenue. But in a bad… — Helmut Jahn Copy Share Image
I didn't really escape that gravity until I moved 300 miles south to go to college at 18, where authorship no longer… — David Knopfler Copy Share Image
Solitude is not measured by the miles of space that intervene between a man and his fellows. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A journey of 1000 miles begins with a single step - Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. — Laozi Copy Share Image
They bit you. You should've changed, too, you know." "Sometimes I wish I had," I told him. He closed his eyes, miles… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
The 6th of August in the morning we saw an opening in the land and we ran into it, and anchored in… — William Dampier Copy Share Image
I am convinced that there are more threats to American liberty within the 10 mile radius of my office on Capitol Hill… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
We're trying to do what Miles Davis would have wanted us to do, which is approach it as artists with his life… — Don Cheadle Copy Share Image
There is no use in your walking five miles to fish when you can depend on being just as unsuccessful near home. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Unhappy business men, I am convinced, would increase their happiness more by walking six miles every day than by any conceivable change… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
My family was always active, and our thing was family walks. Not walks around the block, but more like eight-mile hikes up… — Mika Brzezinski Copy Share Image
