5 Miles Quotes

If we don't act, drilling will be allowed only 3 miles off Florida's east coast beaches.

I grew up in a house with no running water, 16 miles from the closest place that had a post office. I had a very parochial view of the world.

I used to be friends with Miles Davis. He didn't like many folks. I lived across the street from him.

Spacemen - men who work in space, pilots and jetmen and astrogators and such - are men who like a few million miles of elbow room.

I remembered what Thoreau had written in his journal about thinking nothing of walking eight miles to greet a tree.

My playing started to develop through the Miles Davis stuff I was listening to.

I will venture to say there is more learning and science within the circumference of ten miles from where we now sit [in London], than in all the rest of the kingdom.

Until I was four years old I lived in the house of my paternal grandfather, about two miles from the pretty little village of Wallace, at the mouth of the river of that name.

Wisdom is probably the ability to cope. That's why someone who has to walk seven miles every day to get water for their children can be wiser than someone sitting behind a desk in Wall Street.

Explosion without an objective', declared Miles Blundell, 'is politics in its purest form'.

A cannonball travels only two thousand miles an hour; light travels two hundred thousand miles a second. Such is the superiority of Jesus Christ over Napoleon.

A traveler s thoughts in the night Wander in a thousand miles of dreams.

When it comes down to music, I have no balance. I am 100 percent. It is like full throttle. Five hundred miles an hour.

Miles away from everthing and everyone I've ever known or loved. I feel as if I've entered a new era of my life. What strange places our lives carry us to.

What an orchestra! They just sit there, but their minds are thousands of miles away with their bookies.

I’d know you in the dark,” he said. “From a thousand miles away. There’s nothing you could become that I haven’t already fallen in love with.

I'm not particularly impressed with going 50 miles per gallon. That doesn't impress me when we can go to the moon.

Maybe it's wishful thinking, this snaggly faith of mine, or maybe it's Miles Davis saying, Don't play what's there, play what's not there.

Why should I trade one tyrant three thousand miles away for three thousand tyrants one mile away?

I come from a rural state. People drive 50, 100 miles to and from work every single day. That is true all over America.

Growing up as a kid, the back of my house faced a little community airport about four or five miles from my house.

Moving eight miles a minute for months at a time.

You don't build wealth with credit card rewards and airline miles. You can't beat the credit card companies at their own game.

Napoleon didn't take Moscow, the Nazis got within 21 miles in 1943, but in a war of a different kind, Team Canada conquered Moscow.

The Byrds flew off the fallout shelter, eight miles high and falling fast.

You know it's only 50 miles but I've relished every moment of the longer route to get here. Thanks for letting me reflect on those great moments. Thank you.

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 days.

I'd walk a million miles to give her what she needs. But she would walk a million more to do what she believes.

You cannot underestimate the sharpness of people’s BS radar. They can spot a soulless, bureaucratic tactic a million miles away.

I kind of like it when a lot of people die, and on the other hand I always wonder how many unused frequent-flier miles they had.

But you can travel on for ten thousand miles, and still stay where you are.

Writing is fun - at least mostly. I write for four hours every day. After that I go running. As a rule, 10 kilometers (6.2 miles). That's easy to manage.

Every piece of work in the shops moves. Save 10 steps a day for each of the 12,000 employees, and you will have saved 50 miles of wasted motion and misspent energy.

You can travel fifty thousand miles in America without once tasting a piece of good bread.

Miles' sessions were not typical of anybody else's sessions. They were totally unique.

Writing at least is a silent meditation even though you’re going a hundred miles an hour.

There is no way in my right mind I would contemplate running 26 miles-plus unless it involved a chase with Pamela Anderson.

She is stunned that in this town there are no sidewalks to speak of, no streetlights, no public transportation, no stores for miles at at a time.

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 your body like the music that you play.

Wynton told us that Miles sold out, just wanted to make more money, just wanted to sell more records. I don't believe that Miles sold out but I'm not in a position to say.

Rule Forty-two. All persons more than a mile high to leave the court.

Never underestimate the human capacity for wishful thinking and willful blindness,' said Miles. Such as a whole society of people who became so wrapped up in avoiding death, they forgot to be alive?

This is a new point in my life, and things are totally changing. But like the sunsets I saw on Tybee Island, the miles I’ve already gone are going to stay with me.

Miles Davis had me play and he hired me the following week and after that, everything broke wide open.

Thousands of miles of wheat, indifference, and self- apology.

Remember that the Clerget lands very fast, at over forty miles an hour, and with that great engine in the nose the tail was light. Watch it... Lovely.

Skiing consists of wearing $3,000 worth of clothes and equipment and driving 200 miles in the snow in order to stand around at a bar and drink.

Would you care to walk to the river?” -Miles “I would love to walk anywhere with you." -Amber

I have been doing 120 miles a week, when normally I would do about 140.

I am tired of hotels promising to go the extra mile only to have them refuse to go round the corner!