Miles Quotes
1630 Miles quotes by 1176 unique authors
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Death and disaster are at our shoulders every second of our lives, trying to get at us. Missing, a lot of the time. A lot…
— Hugh Laurie
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Someone told me the delightful story of the crusader who put a chastity belt on his wife and gave the key to his best friend…
— Anais Nin
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The Trial of Miles; Miles of Trials.
— John L. Parker Jr.
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I walked 500 miles just to see a halo, when I opened my eyes I was blind as can be.
— Tom Waits
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He gazes through sunlight's buttresses, back down the refectory at the others, wallowing in their plenitude of bananas, thick palatals of their hunger lost somewhere…
— Thomas Pynchon
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Only a rank degenerate would drive 1,500 miles across Texas without eating a chicken fried steak.
— Larry McMurtry
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Ho! Ho! Ho! To the bottle I go To heal my heart and drown my woe Rain may fall, and wind may blow And many…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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Existence was bigger than just life. It was everyone's life all together, and even if you lived in Buffalo, New York and had never been…
— Paul Auster
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Love stories are written in millimeters and milliseconds with a fast, dull pencil whose marks you can barely see, they are written in miles and…
— Gabrielle Zevin
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The one thing I remember about Christmas was that my father used to take me out in a boat about ten miles offshore on Christmas…
— John Cleese
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I thought the most beautiful thing in the world must be shadow, the million moving shapes and cul-de-sacs of shadow. There was shadow in bureau…
— Sylvia Plath
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Rule Forty-two. All persons more than a mile high to leave the court.
— Lewis Carroll
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A curtain of stars, miles of them, are scattered, glowing, across the sky and their multitude humbles me, which I have a hard time tolerating.…
— Bret Easton Ellis
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Today, salute, mile, serve, deep. And I am never doing that again.-Kavi
— Hilari Bell
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The most peaceful thing in the world is plowing a field. Chances are you’ll do your best thinking that way. And that’s why I’ve always…
— Harry S. Truman
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I walk outside and scream at the top of my lungs, and it maybe travels two blocks. A whale unleashes his cry, and it travels…
— Chris Crutcher
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Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting…
— Douglas Adams
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The Screaming flashed me back to a time when mom and dad were still together if you could call miles apart together.
— Ellen Hopkins
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They have worries, they're counting the miles, they're thinking about where to sleep tonight, how much money for gas, the weather, how they'll get there…
— Jack Kerouac
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I really beleive that if the political leaders of the world could see their planet from a distance of, let's say 100,000 miles, their outlook…
— Michael Collins
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The Duke of Dunstable had one-way pockets. He would walk ten miles in the snow to chisel an orphan out of tuppence.
— P.G. Wodehouse
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The journey of a thousand miles begins with a cash advance.
— Alton Brown
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I can't believe anyone would voluntarily run 26 miles. Sometimes I sit on the couch cross-legged because I don't feel like walking to the bathroom.
— Jen Lancaster
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Hello, Harry" said George, beaming at him. "We thought we heard your dulcet tones." "You don't want to bottle up your anger like that, Harry,…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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When you don't fit in, you become superhuman. You can feel everyone else's eyes on you, stuck like Velcro. You can hear a whisper about…
— Jodi Picoult
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