this last establishment will probably be within a mile of Charlottesville, and four from Monticello, if the system should be adopted at… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
• People deserve a break. The stressed and unorganized person who doesn’t have the same priorities as you may be dealing with… — Guy Kawasaki Copy Share Image
I used to be sick of the backroads of Minnesota. I had to drive 30 miles to get home every day, take… — Garrett Hedlund Copy Share Image
Still, there are times I am bewildered by each mile I have traveled, each meal I have eaten, each person I have… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
Every time I ran the mile I was aware of my own weakness, there was some opponent who could give me a… — Roger Bannister Copy Share Image
The people come from everywhere, from five hundred miles, to find their fortunes. By fortune is an ugly, two-faced goddess. When you… — Glen Cook Copy Share Image
The world they live in now is in no way the world the Michelin system was set up to evaluate back in… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
While the very inhabitants of New England were thus fabling about the country a hundred miles inland, which was a terra incognitato… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The castle of Cair Paravel on its little hill towered up above them; before them were the sands, with rocks and little… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The greatest thing I could do is shoot that ship that's 30 miles offshore right out of the water. Everyone in this… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
The short English miles are delightful for walking. You are always pleased to find, every now and then, in how short a… — Karl Philipp Moritz Copy Share Image
[Kingston, Jamaica] is the city, it's not a beautiful beach. But at the same time when I go to Jamaica, that's the… — Kreesha Turner Copy Share Image
In moments when I question if I should be having kids, I think of all those phone calls from my sister-in-law, in… — Beth Ditto Copy Share Image
The latest developments in Iraq are deeply troubling, but as the United States considers military and diplomatic responses to the actions of… — Sean Patrick Maloney Copy Share Image
I don't think I've ever bench-pressed anything in my life. Until about two years ago I swam a mile almost every day.… — Nick Antosca Copy Share Image
As a scientist, my attention became totally focused on global warming some 15 years ago by the elegant and powerful measurements of… — John Olver Copy Share Image
I'm really just trying to hash out the next two weeks of my life...so, something that is potentially four months down the… — Adam Carolla Copy Share Image
Reardan is the rich white farm town that sits in the wheat fields exactly 22 miles away from the Rez. And it's… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
I was with the 101st Airborne Division in Iraq, really in the middle of nowhere, about 80 miles south of Baghdad. And… — Rick Atkinson Copy Share Image
But the law is an odd thing. For instance, one country in Europe has a law that requires all its bakers to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The weird set an example for the rest of us. They raise the bar. They show us through their actions that in… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
No man but feels more of a man in the world if he have a bit of ground that he can call… — Charles Dudley Warner Copy Share Image
I'm the guy who'll drive 250 miles tonight and be at the gym tomorrow at 10 A.M., when people are still sleeping… — John Cena Copy Share Image
“A thousand miles seems pretty far, but they've got planes and trains and cars. I'd walk to you if I had no… — Plain White T's Copy Share Image
Being on a set where the director has lost control is just sickening. No one goes the extra mile, theres a lot… — Christine Vachon Copy Share Image
(On upcoming racing plans) Right now I am going to go back into training and then I am going to resurface and… — Leonel Manzano Copy Share Image
The sound universe is also spectacular around here. In the evenings there's a cricket orchestra with frogs providing the bass line. In… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Wisdom is probably the ability to cope. That's why someone who has to walk seven miles every day to get water for… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
When I came there I found all my family gone, for the Indians had killed five people in the winter near that… — Christopher Gist Copy Share Image
My school was six miles away from where I lived on the farm. I had to walk and run, there and back… — Haile Gebrselassie Copy Share Image
And here I am, instead of there. I'm sitting in this library, thousands of miles from my life, writing another letter I… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
I can say that it's 10 miles from my home to Trinity, when in fact that's not quite right, it's off by… — D. A. Carson Copy Share Image
If Miles Davis hadn't died it would have been interesting to do an album with him, but there wasn't much else that… — Phil Collins Copy Share Image
To be seventy years old is like climbing the Alps. You reach a snow-crowned summit, and see behind you the deep valley… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
I think it's inevitable that New Zealand will become a republic and that would reflect the reality that New Zealand is a… — Helen Clark Copy Share Image
I've never had a huge circle of friends. I can't spread myself that thin and go 100 million miles an hour all… — Jeremy Northam Copy Share Image
They have worries, they're counting the miles, they're thinking about where to sleep tonight, how much money for gas, the weather, how… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Holy smoke! We lost our last match and there's a storm coming! Party On! A flash flood swept away all our gear… — Cody Lundin Copy Share Image
I don't think about the miles that are coming down the road, I don't think about the mile I'm on right now,… — Ryan Hall Copy Share Image
On one of my birthdays I did 1,000 chin-ups and 1,000 push-ups. For my 70th birthday I towed 70 boats with 70… — Jack LaLanne Copy Share Image