Miles Quotes
1630 Miles quotes by 1176 unique authors
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Twenty miles on, we have spotted a roadside sign: 'CHAINSAW CARVED MUSHROOMS'. Troubles promptly forgotten, Stuart falls to gawping at the road ahead. What could…
— Alexander Masters
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I am alarmed when it happens that I have walked a mile into the woods bodily, without getting there in spirit.
— Henry David Thoreau
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Are you willing to go the extra mile in this new year to know God?
— Mark Hart
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Get eight hours of sleep regularly. Keep your weight down, run a mile a day.
— Stan Musial
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Detroit is largely composed, today, of seemingly endless square miles of low-density failure.
— Jane Jacobs
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Sometimes it seems as though not a moment has moved, but then you look up and you're already old or you already have a household…
— Jacqueline Woodson
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When you went into a Boston Chicken and ordered quarter-chicken, white, with mash and corn, when that was rung up, that would signal all the…
— Stephen Elop
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If the only way you could read an email was to run a mile first, the urge would quickly die. Human beings constantly do subconscious…
— Andrew Weil
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Miles Davis, his parents migrated from Arkansas to Illinois, where he had the luxury of being able to practice for hours upon hours. He never…
— Isabel Wilkerson
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Until we as a gender refuse to wear any shoe that would be uncomfortable to walk a mile in, we’re perfectly screwed.
— Cheryl Strayed
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If you asked Rahul Dravid to walk on glass for his team, his only question would be - 'How many miles?' That just shows you…
— Harsha Bhogle
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Buy boots you can walk in. Walk in them. Even if you lessen the income of the General Omnibus Company, or your family doctor; you…
— Vincent McNabb
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People rise and fall to meet your level of expectations for them. If you express skepticism and doubt in others, they will return your lack…
— John C. Maxwell
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In the space of one hundred and seventy-six years the Mississippi has shortened itself two hundred and forty-two miles. Therefore, in the Old Silurian Period…
— Mark Twain
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We scientists are clever — too clever — are you not satisfied? Is four square miles in one bomb not enough? Men are still thinking.…
— Richard P. Feynman
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It evoked Picasso and Miles Davis for me — two great artists who totally indulged themselves in their work and who they were, but they…
— Rodney Crowell
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I am, in fact, a medical doctor; I am a world expert in mechanical heart technology; and I am an athletically fit man who takes…
— Robert Jarvik
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Clearly it's not easy for women in modern society, no matter where they live. We still have to go the extra mile to prove that…
— Benazir Bhutto
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How could I tell the doctor what was wrong with me? I didn't understand it myself. I couldn't articulate the pain; it was the pain…
— Alice Hoffman
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A man must generally get away some hundreds or thousands of miles from home before he can be said to begin his travels. Why not…
— Henry David Thoreau
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The name Alaska is probably an abbreviation of Unalaska, derived from the original Aleut word agunalaksh, which means "the shores where the sea breaks its…
— Corey Ford
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First you learn to drive fast. Next, you learn to drive fast in traffic. Then, you learn how to do it for 500 miles.
— Alan Kulwicki
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Reardan is the rich white farm town that sits in the wheat fields exactly 22 miles away from the Rez. And it's a hick town…
— Sherman Alexie
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I live 50 miles from London and we've got some of the highest levels of teenage and childhood poverty in the country. It's disgusting. Just…
— Roger Daltrey
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Why should I trade one tyrant three thousand miles away for three thousand tyrants one mile away?
— Benjamin Martin
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