Though my stabilization chute opens at 96,000 feet, I accelerate for 6,000 feet more before hitting a peak of 614 miles an… — Joseph Kittinger Copy Share Image
Did we put our kids in 0.5-mile-per-gallon (mpg) tanks and 17 feet per gallon aircraft carriers because we failed to put them… — Hunter Lovins Copy Share Image
I have a cottage near Aldeburgh, and from there its a sturdy two-mile walk across farmland to an empty beach, where I… — Diana Quick Copy Share Image
My friend wants to get moving and so do I,' Eddie said. 'We've got miles to go yet.' I know that. It's… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, the Best Lord had condemned both vehicles as unsafe and instead I now leased a Pack Jeep I called Hector. Equipped… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
Even though I was chronologically 21, I was pretty immature and naive for my age, having grown up in a small, isolated… — Susan Schneider Copy Share Image
The future of human society. Had it made an irrevocably false start? The compass error that gets harder to correct with every… — Sybille Bedford Copy Share Image
I enjoy sports movies that don't sugarcoat. One thing that irritates me about sports movies is that they're like, 'The magic of… — Terry Crews 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
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 Copy Share Image
I confess, I do have to remind myself almost daily that there are people on this earth capable of reading, writing, eating… — Dick Cavett Copy Share Image
My vision of the border with Mexico is that a truck from the United States going into Mexico and a truck coming… — Gary Johnson Copy Share Image
Breathing, n You had asthma as a child, had to carry around an inhaler. But when you grew older, it went away.… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
I don't have great running technique, but I like to run. I've heard from countless people that the last six miles of… — Apolo Ohno Copy Share Image
To this day, my mom's unsinkable spirit is an inspiration to me. For nearly thirty years, she's worked at the Library of… — Hoda Kotb Copy Share Image
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
A tourist is a fellow who drives thousands of miles so he can be photographed standing in front of his car. — Emile Genest Copy Share Image
Everybody knows that the great reversed triangle of land, with its base in the north and its apex in the south, which… — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
Who was it recently invented some machine that will enable her to sign a book from 5,000 miles away? Margaret Atwood. Get… — Nicholas Royle Copy Share Image
The sport of skiing consists of wearing three thousand dollars worth of clothes and equipment and driving two hundred miles in the… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
As a planetary scientist, I don't know what else to call Pluto: It's big and round and thousands of miles wide. — Alan Stern Copy Share Image
The band is like a vintage car. You take it out to go for a spin for a couple miles, but you… — Robyn Hitchcock Copy Share Image
Add there was that moment when my mother and father walked in the door disguised as old people. I thought the miles… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
Decisions are being made a mile a minute while you're making the work, and it has to come out of experience and… — Jules Olitski Copy Share Image
Locally produced foods - defined as those harvested within a 100-mile radius of one's home - have a lesser impact on the… — Tyler Florence Copy Share Image
