Life has evolved to thrive in environments that are extreme only by our limited human standards: in the boiling battery acid of… — Jill Tarter Copy Share Image
I've recently noticed "as if for the first time" that when people pray they always look "upward" - i.e. perpendicular to whatever… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
Already renewable energy advocates are noting that the 42 miles of above-ground right-of-way between Yosemite and the city could be fitted with… — Matt Gonzalez Copy Share Image
Tara Reid is charging $3,500 for a personal appearance fee. So, for only $3,500 you can either buy a 1998 Jetta with… — Chelsea Handler 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
The Tour (de France) is essentially a math problem, a 2,000-mile race over three weeks that's sometimes won by a margin of… — Lance Armstrong Copy Share Image
Many of the questions we ask God can't be answered directly, not because God doesn't know the answers but because our questions… — Anonymous 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
I became religious and at 14 went to a boarding school 500 miles from home to begin theological studies. By the time… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
My fellow Americans, let us take that first step. Let us...step back from the shadow of war and seek out the way… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
“A South Carolina native, Miles was a lawyer, a mayor of Charleston, and a congressman. He was one of his state's "fire-eaters,"… — Clint Johnson Copy Share Image
Einstein was once asked how many feet are in a mile. Einstein's reply was "I don't know, why should I fill my… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Looking at life through the eyes of a Daddy long legs: Imagine walking on legs so long you could cover a mile… — Edwin Way Teale Copy Share Image
The operating management, providing as it does for the care of near thirty thousand miles of railway, is far more important than… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If the wind is blowing like stink and everything is working right, a twelve-meter sailboat can go eleven and a half or… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
I was working on the farm to get in shape, about a mile away from my parents. You know, I did everything… — Guy Lafleur Copy Share Image
The Nile, draining out into the Mediterranean. The bright lights of Cairo announce the opening of the north-flowing river’s delta, with Jerusalem’s… — Chris Hadfield Copy Share Image
I don't ride a sport bike. If I'm riding a sport bike and trying to do tricks, and going 200 miles down… — Ben Roethlisberger Copy Share Image
Marriage is rarely bliss But, surely it would be worse As particles to pelt At thousands of miles per sec About a… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
For here, am I sitting in a tin can, far above the world. Planet Earth is blue, and there's nothing I can… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
Why do you like books so much?” he asked. Miles answered without taking his face away from the window. “You never know… — Wendy Mass Copy Share Image
What? You mean to travel almost five hundred miles alone? No. I can’t let you do that. I . . . I… — Tessa Dare Copy Share Image
Distance changes utterly when you take the world on foot. A mile becomes a long way, two miles literally considerable, ten miles… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
That's the day's business. Thinking. Thinking and isolation, because it doesn't matter if you pass the time of day with someone or… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Whether you're moving to a new company or a new department within your current organization, I believe you'll end up miles ahead… — Pat Heim Copy Share Image
Did Muddy Waters play an acoustic? Well of course he did. But did he turn his back on being able to plug… — Billy Gibbons Copy Share Image
Back then, we could drive a mile from home and there was nothing. Now it's grown in every direction and is populated… — Matthew Sweet Copy Share Image
I think I was just trying to coast and you can't coast and try and win at the same time, you know?… — Carrie Tollefson Copy Share Image
I grew up on the edge of a national park in Canada - timberwolves, creeks, snow drifts. I really did have to… — Dan Aykroyd Copy Share Image
What's really driving the boom in coaching, is this: as we move from 30 miles an hour to 70 to 120 to… — John P. Kotter Copy Share Image
Still Caine hesitated. A big, warm bed. A beautiful girl to share it with. Food. Water. Everything he needed, just a few… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The world cannot be discovered by a journey of miles...only by a spiritual journey...by which we arrive at the ground at our… — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Copy Share Image
I always look at these superhero films, and I see people hurdling towards at a hundred miles per hour, and then they… — Martin Campbell Copy Share Image
I live in New York and got a call from my agent saying there was this new role on 'Mad Men,' it… — Cara Buono Copy Share Image
Death tripped down the corridor, changing step, struck out here and there, danced pirouettes; often I felt his breath on my face… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
Stations were built at intervals averaging fifteen miles apart. A rider's route covered three stations, with an exchange of horses at each,… — Buffalo Bill Copy Share Image
We will be producing supersonic planes which will go far, far faster than Concordes. New York to Tokyo could be less than… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
The hard part is believing it can happen to you. Most likely, my runners will never achieve a 3-minute mile. I think… — Gerry Lindgren Copy Share Image
Reading is a stout-hearted activity, disporting courage, keenness, stick-to-it-ness. It is also, in my experience, one of the most thrilling and enduring… — Irving Stone Copy Share Image
Our little Spaceship Earth is only eight thousand miles in diameter, which is almost a negligible dimension in the great vastness of… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
