Miles Quotes

1630 Miles quotes by 1176 unique authors

Five hours after presenting a ...lecture on cancer before an audience of about 400 in L.A., the windshield was shot out of my car on… — Ernst T. Krebs
We can never totally return to the indefensible pre-1967 borders, ... We simply cannot afford to make Israel 14.48 km (9 miles) wide again at… — Ehud Olmert
There are certainly numberless women of fashion who consider it perfectly natural to go miles down Fifth Avenue, or Madison Avenue, yet for whom a… — Jules Romains
I don't see why I can't listen to Miles Davis and Slipknot in the same afternoon. — Steve Lukather
I was walking an average of about two and a half miles a day, which is still more than most Americans. Most Americans don't even… — Morgan Spurlock
The short English miles are delightful for walking. You are always pleased to find, every now and then, in how short a time you have… — Karl Philipp Moritz
Frankly, I fail to see how going for a six-month, thousand-mile walk through deserts and mountains can be judged less real than spending six months… — Colin Fletcher
Of course it is of no use to direct our steps to the woods, if they do not carry us thither. I am alarmed when… — Henry David Thoreau
I used to be friends with Miles Davis. He didn't like many folks. I lived across the street from him. — Rip Torn
The result was that, if it happened to clear off after a cloudy evening, I frequently arose from my bed at any hour of the… — Simon Newcomb
A journey of four hundred and thirty miles can be made in any part of the United States, but in Turkey it takes as many… — Ellsworth Huntington
Out there in the spotlight you're a million miles away and every ounce of energy you try to give away as the sweat pours out… — Jon English
There were no shortcuts, I realized. It took years of racing to build up the mind and body and character until a rider had logged… — Lance Armstrong
The current anger at the march of turbines and pylons across the hills of Britain is not from nimbys. Government money has lubricated most backyard… — Simon Jenkins
So that's why I said, if you look at the average, you would see the money New York got this year was in line with… — Michael Chertoff
My dinner party,' Miles grated. 'It's just breaking up.' And sinking. All souls feared lost. — Lois McMaster Bujold
It's the pool where we all go down to drink, to swim, to catch a little fish from the edge of the shore; it's also… — Stephen King
About fifteen miles above New Orleans the river goes very slowly. It has broadened out there until it is almost a sea and the water… — Frank Yerby
Once I even took the train to Utrecht, forty miles from Amsterdam, with my yellow star, this star which I still have. Why did I… — Abraham Pais
To indicate how large a part of the Earth is covered by the oceans, we might call attention to the fact that a whole hemisphere,… — Paul J. H. Schoemaker
You see layers as you look down. you see clouds towering up. You see their shadows on the sunlit plains, and you see a ship's… — Joseph P. Allen
Deep beneath the surface of the Sun, enormous forces were gathering. At any moment, the energies of a million hydrogen bombs might burst forth in… — Arthur C. Clarke
... the only other place comparable to these marvelous nether regions, must surely be naked space itself, out far beyond atmosphere, between the stars, where… — William Beebe
Now we're like planets, holding to each other from a great distance. [...] Now we're hundreds of miles apart, our short arms keep us lonely,… — Anne Michaels
We never announced a scorched-earth policy; we never announced any policy at all, apart from finding and destroying the enemy, and we proceeded in the… — Michael Herr

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