Miles Quotes
1630 Miles quotes by 1176 unique authors
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For 50 years bike racers have been taking stimulants. Obviously we can do without them in a race, but then we will pedal 15 miles…
— Jacques Anquetil
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So much destruction in modern war takes place miles and miles away from the source of the destruction, the human being who has caused it.
— James Dickey
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As horrific as this impact has been on my constituents, it is only a small part of the overwhelming destruction covering 90,000 square miles of…
— Jo Bonner
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Karate cannot be adequately learned in a short space of time. Like a torpid bull, regardless of how slowly it moves, it will eventually cover…
— Anko Itosu
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Friday was Atlanta. That was fifteen bucks. Once a month, we made a six hundred mile trip from Indianapolis down to Atlanta, and at fifteen…
— Lou Thesz
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The more I think about it, the more there is to be said for the sloth. He sleeps fifteen to eighteen hours a day and…
— Erma Bombeck
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An expert is somebody who is more than 50 miles from home, has no responsibility for implementing the advice he gives, and shows slides.
— Edwin Meese
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The day after that wedding night I found that a distance of a thousand miles, abyss and discovery and irremediable metamorphosis, separated me from the…
— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
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We're at 103,000 feet. Looking out over a very beautiful, beautiful world . . . a hostile sky. As you look up the sky looks…
— Joseph Kittinger
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The only very rugged part of the route is in crossing the Big Horn mountain, which is about 30 miles wide.
— William Henry Ashley
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Stella: I got a nose for trouble. I can smell it ten miles away. . . . I can smell trouble right here in this…
— Thelma Ritter
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Like a great poet, Nature produces the greatest results with the simplest means. These are simply a sun, trees, flowers, water and love. Of course,…
— Heinrich Heine
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On the return trip home, gazing through 240,000 miles of space toward the stars and the planet from which I had come, I suddenly experienced…
— Edgar Mitchell
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Miles'd got killed if he hit me.
— Thelonious Monk
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How do I know why Miles walks off the stage? Why don't you ask him? And besides, maybe we'd all like to be like Miles,…
— Dizzy Gillespie
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Well, I got pretty good and went on the road with a group. We starved. At that time I didn't realize that you'd work one…
— Wes Montgomery
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I'm going to tell you the story about the geese which fly 5,000 miles from Canada to France.
— Alex Ferguson
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Some time ago we heard a strange story. The pilot of a small plane said that he had been caught in a one hundred fifty…
— James Keller
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When you arrive in Hiroshima you can look around and for 25 and perhaps 30 square miles you can see hardly a building. It gives…
— Wilfred Burchett
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One skill that separates good from almost-good runners is an ability to concentrate for an entire race, whether it is a mile or a marathon.
— Kara Goucher
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A tourist is a fellow who drives thousands of miles so he can be photographed standing in front of his car.
— Unknown Author
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Golf is a terrible, hopeless addiction, it seems: it makes its devotees willing to trudge miles in any manner of weather, lugging a huge, incommodious…
— Mike Seabrook
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If you ever find yourself walking a mile in my shoes, I hope that you would be at least be given the same choice.
— Brittany Maynard
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If I could start again, a million miles away, I would keep myself, I would find a way.
— Trent Reznor
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I've got five kids and I'm married, Tommy's got two kids and he's been married, Vince just got married again, Mick's out of a relationship,…
— Nikki Sixx
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