Mile Quotes
470 Mile quotes by 398 unique authors
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Not just beautiful, though — the stars are like the trees in the forest, alive and breathing. And they’re watching me. What I’ve up till…
— Haruki Murakami
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There you are," he said when she bobbed up. "I was getting worried." "What are you doing?" "Waiting till you're ready to drown." He smiled…
— Susan Elizabeth Phillips
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You got the impression that he never needed to sleep - just ten-thousand-mile checkups and dust him off occasionally.
— Robert A. Heinlein
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Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable. How many hours are in a…
— C.S. Lewis
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He is the playfulness of creation, scandal and utter goodness, the generosity of the ocean and the ferocity of a thunderstorm; he is cunning as…
— John Eldredge
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and they shook hands, hit each other on the shoulder, then there was forty feet of distance between them and nothing to do but drive…
— Annie Proulx
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You sound worked up. Really worked up. No, that's not it. You sound agitated...flustered...aroused." I could feel her eyes widen. "He kissed you, didn't he?"…
— Becca Fitzpatrick
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Other letters simply relate the small events that punctuate the passage of time: roses picked at dusk, the laziness of a rainy Sunday, a child…
— Jean-Dominique Bauby
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Every mile is two in winter
— George Herbert
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To stutter through it with you or even stop stuttering and say nothing, was so lucky and soft, better talk than mile-a-minute with anyone. After…
— Daniel Handler
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Why did so many grown-ups want to be young, she wondered, when it took so long to grow old? It was like going on a…
— Pseudonymous Bosch
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Many of the questions we ask God can't be answered directly, not because God doesn't know the answers but because our questions don't make sense.…
— N. T. Wright
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That's impossible," Gwen gasped. "The fastest I've ever run on a treadmill was ten and a half minutes and I nearly died. And it was…
— Karen Marie Moning
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Sugar," Tara said in a voice that was pure Pissed-Off South. "You need to go far, far away." A few weeks ago, he'd have taken…
— Jill Shalvis
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This unlikely story begins on a sea that was a blue dream, as colorful as blue-silk stockings, and beneath a sky as blue as the…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Before you criticize a man, walk a mile in his shoes. That way, when you do criticize him, you'll be a mile away and have…
— Steve Martin
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Of course, the underlying structure of everything in England is posh. There is no in between with these people. You have to walk a mile…
— Neal Stephenson
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When you're doing something for yourself, or your best friend or family, you're not going to cheese out. If you don't love something, you're not…
— Steve Jobs
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A man on a thousand mile walk has to forget his goal and say to himself every morning, 'Today I'm going to cover twenty-five miles…
— Leo Tolstoy
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I see all this talent, all this...this energy and brightness and...potential. Yes. Potential. And I cannot for the life of me see how you can…
— Jojo Moyes
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Rincewind had always been happy to think of himself as a racist. The One Hundred Meters, the Mile, the Marathon -- he'd run them all.
— Terry Pratchett
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There is little or no magic about them, except the ordinary everyday sort which helps them to disappear quietly and quickly when large stupid folk…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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• People deserve a break. The stressed and unorganized person who doesn’t have the same priorities as you may be dealing with an autistic child,…
— Guy Kawasaki
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In another universe I probably came out OK, ended up with mad novias and jobs and a sea of love in which to swim, but…
— Junot Diaz
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What's this?" She pulled out a card and held it away from her face. "I can't read what it says." I took it from her…
— Maria Semple
Who Wrote These Mile Quotes
398 authors contributed a total of 470 Mile Quotes, led by these top contributors: