People that trust themselves a dozen miles from the city, in strange houses, with servants they don't know, needn't be surprised if… — Mary Roberts Rinehart Copy Share Image
Pride of one's work is not improper, unladylike, or vain. We can all take a lesson from the sea turtle. She does… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I was born in Saratoga, Texas, a little town there in the Big Thicket about 60 miles north of Beaumont. Needless to… — George Jones Copy Share Image
Maybe love was superstition, a prayer we said to keep the truth of loneliness at bay. I tilted my head back. The… — Leigh Bardugo Copy Share Image
When I was in the gunner's bubble of a B25 bomber, taking off from an aircraft carrier 100 miles off the coast… — Eric Christian Olsen Copy Share Image
We have need to be as sturdy pioneers still as Miles Standish, or Church, or Lovewell. We are to follow on another… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I have a lightsaber at my front door for home protection. I have an 800-watt electric skateboard that I use to run… — Nathan Fillion Copy Share Image
There wasn't a funeral per se. I buried [Gilda Radner] 3 miles from her house that she had bought just shortly before… — Gene Wilder Copy Share Image
It is a fact that scientists have deposited dye in certain lakes around Orlando and tracked the effluent to Florida Bay. There… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Secure Fence Act, which authorizes the construction of 700 miles of security barriers along the southwest border, has now been sent… — Randy Neugebauer Copy Share Image
There is always a certain amount of 'transmission loss.' You can have a power generator and if the power is going on… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There is a Precious Mountain Even the Seven Treasures cannot compare A cold moon rises through the pines Layer upon layer of… — Hanshan Copy Share Image
It evoked Picasso and Miles Davis for me — two great artists who totally indulged themselves in their work and who they… — Rodney Crowell Copy Share Image
I spent the first twenty years of my running career trying to run as many miles as I could as fast as… — Jeff Galloway Copy Share Image
I totally let myself indulge, but I make little deals with myself. If I have an extra cupcake, I'll run a couple… — Megan Hilty Copy Share Image
Children, taught either years beneath their intelligence or miles wide of relevance to it, or both: their intelligence becomes hopelessly bewildered, drawn… — James Agee Copy Share Image
What's a space elevator? Simply described, it's a thin ribbon, about 3 feet wide and 60 thousand miles long, stretching upwards from… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
It is possible that in the 21st Century the Earth will not be inhabited by humans. One of the great mystics of… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
New York to Tokyo could be less than an hour. You could be traveling at 19,000 miles per hour orbitally. After we've… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
I'm in my apartment in trendy Tribeca. I've been down here for 37 years, from before it was a fashionable neighbourhood. It's… — Mark Margolis Copy Share Image
Mile tracks put more emphasis on the driver. On the longer tracks, you can drive flat out all the way around, so… — Buddy Rice Copy Share Image
If the economy is still going forward, even at 40 miles an hour, 50 miles an hour, I think most people will… — Dick Gephardt Copy Share Image
When I hear people watched my film and then got on their own bikes and rode, whether a few miles or across… — Phil Keoghan Copy Share Image
I felt that I could swim for miles, out into the ocean: a desire for freedom, an impulse to move, tugged at… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
I believe that a hundred years from now, when people look back at the 20th century, they will look at Miles, Bird,… — Quincy Jones Copy Share Image
Being outside during the space walk, the view of the Earth is just spectacular, and getting a chance to do that is… — Michael J. Massimino Copy Share Image
And the sound of your heart," he continued. "It's the most significant sound in my world. I'm so attuned to it now,… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
Now we're like planets, holding to each other from a great distance. [...] Now we're hundreds of miles apart, our short arms… — Anne Michaels Copy Share Image
Trees go wandering forth in all directions with every wind, going and coming like ourselves, traveling with us around the sun two… — John Muir Copy Share Image
Both me and my wife's extended family all live within a 50-mile radius. Like me, a lot of them did time in… — Robert Smith Copy Share Image
They say the average bank robber lives within say about 20 miles of the bank that he robs There's this little bank… — Todd Snider Copy Share Image
I live 50 miles from London and we've got some of the highest levels of teenage and childhood poverty in the country.… — Roger Daltrey Copy Share Image
What is wine? It is the grape present in another form; its essence is there, though the fruit which produced it grew… — Samuel Lover Copy Share Image
When I turned 30, I started to feel all those miles. At times, you want to turn the faucet off a bit,… — Brandi Carlile Copy Share Image
Miles Davis was a part of my life from 1947 on. I was born in 1941 and I first heard him in… — Chick Corea Copy Share Image
This is not a dictatorship, this is based upon scientific evidence to support a given project. If you want to put up… — Jacque Fresco 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
Traveling, I am finding, teaches you a lot of things about yourself. For instance, I never thought myself to be the kind… — John Green Copy Share Image
My first visit to West Berlin was in February 1983. The drive through East Berlin, the fact that West Berlin was surrounded… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
There was nothing unusual about my victory. The entire story was back in eighth place. There is simply no way to imagine… — Dyrol Burleson Copy Share Image