Miles Away Quotes

207 quotes by 182 authors

Brass bands are all very well in their place - outdoors and several miles away. — Thomas Beecham
My grandmother and I followed my mother here, to a house a block north of Hollywood Boulevard but a million miles away from Hollywood, if… — Carol Burnett
It takes more time and effort and delicacy to learn the silence of a people than to learn its sounds. Some people have a special… — Ivan Illich
The sun is the only safe nuclear reactor, situated as it is some ninety-three million miles away. — Stephanie Mills
Americans have the right to have their medical decisions made by them and their doctors, and not by those bureaucrats sitting behind a computer screen… — Al Gore
Before you judge a man, walk a mile in his shoes. After that who cares?... He's a mile away and you've got his shoes! — Billy Connolly
In the press grandstand where I watched Discovery rise against the cloudless sky, the media hit the abort button on cynicism. The Earth shook to… — Jonathan Alter
I may be flying a complicated airplane, rushing through space, but in this cabin I'm surrounded by simplicity and thoughts set free of time. How… — Charles Lindbergh
We've sent a man to the moon and that's 29,000 miles away. The center of the Earth is only 4,000 miles away. You could drive… — Andy Rooney
One of the best moments is right here (during History Tour in Copenhagen, on his birthday in 1997). Right here. Itâ€™s right in the middle… — Michael Jackson
The view of the Earth from the Moon fascinated me -- a small disk, 240,000 miles away. . . . Raging nationalistic interests, famines, wars,… — Frank Borman
I think the one overwhelming emotion that we had was when we saw the earth rising in the distance over the lunar landscape . .… — Frank Borman
I sat down to think things over a bit. While I was sitting there, a little kid about eleven or twelve years-old came bumming around.… — Carl Panzram
The reality, sitting ten thousand miles away, is that we remain the country that inspires. We remain that shining city on a hill. — Jon Huntsman, Jr.
I lived in a small town. It was 2,000 people in Canada. A little river that went through it and we swam in the -… — James Cameron
I like people. I like watching them. It's just that I'd prefer to do it from a mile away using very powerful binoculars. — Geraldine McCaughrean
Because operators are based thousands of miles away from the battlefield, and undertake operations entirely through computer screens and remote audio feed, there is a… — Philip Alston
At the risk of quoting Mephistopheles I repeat: Welcome to hell. A hell erected and maintained by human-governments, and blessed by black robed judges. A… — Mumia Abu-Jamal
You cannot underestimate the sharpness of peopleâ€™s BS radar. They can spot a soulless, bureaucratic tactic a million miles away. — Gary Vaynerchuk
I was working on the farm to get in shape, about a mile away from my parents. You know, I did everything as a kid… — Guy Lafleur

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