Miles Quotes

1630 Miles quotes by 1176 unique authors

The people come from everywhere, from five hundred miles, to find their fortunes. By fortune is an ugly, two-faced goddess. When you have lived with… — Glen Cook
People in London think of London as the center of the world, whereas New Yorkers think the world ends three miles outside of Manhattan. — Toby Young
I don’t use an exposure meter. My personal advice is: Spend the money you would put into such an instrument for film. Buy yards of… — Alfred Eisenstaedt
Eighteen thousand miles from the moon is some slide, but I'll get up there again some way! — Winsor McCay
You can measure distance by time. 'How far away is it?' 'Oh about 20 minutes.' But it doesn't work the other way. 'When do you… — Jerry Seinfeld
Our little Spaceship Earth is only eight thousand miles in diameter, which is almost a negligible dimension in the great vastness of space. . .… — R. Buckminster Fuller
When you can throw 97 miles an hour and put the ball over the plate anytime you want, it's fun. — Randy Johnson
A railroad station? That was sort of a primitive airport, only you didn't have to take a cab 20 miles out of town to reach… — Russell Baker
If we can send a guy to the moon we can certainly go a quarter of a mile and not get hurt. — Unknown Author
If I'm going to be a jazz player, I need to understand Miles Davis. — Ice T
Miles got a mystique about him-plus he's at the top of his profession. And he's got way, way, way more money. — Dizzy Gillespie
I used to try to play like [Miles Davis], and Miles caught me copying him one night at Birdland. He said, 'Hey man, why don't… — Freddie Hubbard
[Miles Davis] learned from everyone. He was incredible. He took the best from everyone and threw away the rest. He was brilliant. One of the… — Helen Merrill
I believe in knowing all you can about the music and the people who made the music. I think it's much more important to know… — Sonny Sharrock
People behind the Iron curtain have such an incredible image of America and jazz. I expected to find a Gerry Mulligan or Miles Davis on… — Gabor Szabo
You know, John Coltrane has been sort of a god to me. Seems like, in a way, he didn't get the inspiration out of other… — Wes Montgomery
As I looked down, I saw a large river meandering slowly along for miles, passing from one country to another without stopping. I also saw… — Unknown Author
I may be expediting the attainment of an object that will in time be found of great importance to mankind; so much so, that a… — George Cayley
Railroad carriages are pulled at the enormous speed of fifteen miles per hour by engines which, in addition to endangering life and limb of passengers,… — Martin Van Buren
Supersonic airplanes have carried men at more than 2,000 miles per hour and there are reasons to believe that this speed will be doubled by… — Igor Sikorsky
New York to Tokyo could be less than an hour. You could be traveling at 19,000 miles per hour orbitally. After we've done the space… — Richard Branson
When I go fishing I like to know that there's nobody within five miles of me. — Norman MacCaig
I was taught that everything is attainable if you are prepared to give up, to sacrifice, to get it. Whatever you want to do, you… — Stirling Moss
I don't know. Maybe we're all chaos theorists. Lovers of pattern and predictability, we're scared shitless of explosive change. But we're fascinated by it, too.… — Wally Lamb
A country that cannot count its own illegal aliens - estimates range from 8-12 million - with a porous 2,000 mile border is not secure… — Victor Davis Hanson

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