Miles Quotes

Hunting for meteorites is like trying to find a pebble on miles of beach.

Can you believe it? Fifty miles from McDonald's. I didn't think there was anywhere in the world that was fifty miles from McDonald's.

Words can travel thousands of miles. May my words create mutual understanding and love. May they be as beautiful as gems, as lovely as flowers.

Stand-up has the best writers, because it's the hardest writing by a million miles.

I was rejected by casting directors during the day. I attended class in the evening, then rode 90 miles on the train home.

When I was in second grade, my mother moved from Miami to this evangelical conservative environment in western North Carolina, two miles down the road from Billy Graham and his wife, Ruth.

I always have to go that extra mile, and I do it and I don't mind doing it, but it isn't fair.

They've got a wall in China, it's a thousand miles long. To keep out the foreigners, they made it strong. And I've got a wall around me, you can't even see.

In London, I've always lived within 10 miles of where I was born. You see, there is something called a spirit of place, and my place happens to be London, at least once a fortnight.

I went to North Texas State, one of the great jazz schools. When I realized I wasn't going to be Miles Davis, I switched my major to English and theater.

Everyone knows about The Who, but I didn't. I knew the popular songs like "I Can See For Miles." So that was the first song I worked on because it was the catchiest and easiest.

When I hear people watched my film and then got on their own bikes and rode, whether a few miles or across America, to achieve their own goals - that excites me. It's the power of a story.

Miles above the Earth we know , Fancy's rocket roars. Below, Here and Now are needles which Sew a pattern black as pitch, Waiting for the rocket's light.

7 Mile is like an Ave. Back in the days it was poppin' in the summer time.

"Back in the day when I started - it's like I walked five miles to school in the snow barefooted" - there were three channels.I don't know what I would do.

Right now I am a passenger on space vehicle Earth zooming about the Sun at 60,000 miles per hour somewhere in the solar system.

Kite surfing is a great way of keeping fit. Kiting is great because you're bouncing over the waves and you're surfing the waves. I do quite long kite surfs-50 miles in a day.

Our souls speak from across the miles, intertwined, you and I.

We scientists are clever — too clever — are you not satisfied? Is four square miles in one bomb not enough? Men are still thinking. Just tell us how big you want it!

You got the impression that he never needed to sleep - just ten-thousand-mile checkups and dust him off occasionally.

The distance between the adolescent and the true adult is about five thousand miles, but the distance between the adult and the elder is almost as large.

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single happy delusion that it can be done without a stop-over.

Accepting the gift may take the accumulated wisdom of some trodden miles, but it also opens the welcome windows of joy.

Away down the river, A hundred miles or more, Other little children Shall bring my boats ashore.

The band is like a vintage car. You take it out to go for a spin for a couple miles, but you wouldn't drive across the country.

It evoked Picasso and Miles Davis for me — two great artists who totally indulged themselves in their work and who they were, but they certainly didn't give a damn what other people thought.

Trains are not any more energy efficient than the average automobile, with both getting about 48 passenger miles to the gallon.

When I'm not training for a movie, it's more relaxed. I do a lot of running. Usually I'll run four to six miles about three times a week. You try to eat right, but you don't always.

The sight of home looks best after you've traveled hundreds of miles to get away from it.

Faint not; the miles to heaven are but few and short.

I knew I had to keep him to myself, as I'd slowly begun to keep everything. We had secrets now, truths and half-truths, that kept her always at arm's length, behind a closed door, miles away.

I'd chosen instead to just change my route, go miles out of the way, as if avoiding it would make it go away once and for all.

Washington, or as I like to call it, 68 square miles surrounded by reality.

Smile As you find a rhythm Working you, slow mile by mile, Into your proper haunt.

We can ignore suffering no matter where we live. There are people who live a few miles from me who never see much poverty or the injustices that live on our doorstep.

United [Airlines] sucks, man. I've got like a million miles and they never bump me to first class because they think I'm just a kid and give the seat to some schmoozy guy in a business suit.

The slightest stirring in the air can set a hurricane in motion a thousand miles off. (Acheron)

I was in my tighty-whities and I never woke up, and I ran over a mile.

Miles Davis is a major influence of mine in terms of the way that I am as a bandleader.

A million million million million (1 with twenty-four zeros after it) miles, the size of the observable universe.

Hapscomb's Texaco sat on Number 93 just north of Arnette, a pissant four-street burg about 110 miles from Houston.

I heard that in relativity theory, space and time are the same thing. Einstein discovered this when he kept showing up three miles late for his meetings.

I saw a sign: "Rest Area 25 Miles". That's pretty big. Some people must be really tired.

I squeeze my eyes shut and try to reach for him across the hundreds and hundreds of miles, to send my thoughts into his mind, to let him know he is not alone. But he is. And I can't help him.

I've spent thousands of hours under water. And even in the deepest dive I have ever made, 2.5 miles (about 4 kilometers) down, I saw trash and other tangible evidence of our presence.

Because I grew up trapped in the suburbs 8 miles outside of D.C. and I've never seen what people who live in D.C. look like.

This broken country extends back from the river for many miles and has been called always be Indian, French voyager and American trappers alike, the Bad Lands.

A journey is measured in friends, not miles.

I walked 500 miles just to see a halo, when I opened my eyes I was blind as can be.

Prison service vans that travel 90 miles to take a prisoner 90 yards; paedophiles free to leer at children in the very parks where they have committed horrific crimes.