Miles Quotes

You can measure distance by time. 'How far away is it?' 'Oh about 20 minutes.' But it doesn't work the other way. 'When do you get off work?' 'Around 3 miles.'

My husband travels a lot with his job, so we have a lot of frequent flyer miles so we can hop on a plane with no notice. That's a nice luxury and he is very supportive

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

The Trial of Miles; Miles of Trials.

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

If you think fast food is hittin a deer att 65 miles per hr.. you might be a redneck

Miles and miles and miles.

I was walking an average of about two and a half miles a day, which is still more than most Americans. Most Americans don't even walk that.

Later, in the early teens, I used to ride my bike every Saturday morning to the nearest airport, ten miles away, push airplanes in and out of the hangars, and clean up the hangars.

Children, taught either years beneath their intelligence or miles wide of relevance to it, or both: their intelligence becomes hopelessly bewildered, drawn off its centers, bored, or atrophied.

I was so wild and crazy and dumb in my car. It didn't run but 30 miles an hour. You made do.

In one year I travelled 450,000 miles by air.

I'm going to tell you the story about the geese which fly 5,000 miles from Canada to France.

Taking part on this show is a million miles away from my normal acting jobs.

He who hesitates is not only lost, but miles from the next exit.

I will not permit thirty men to travel four hundred miles to agitate a bag of wind.

At age 22 I set what I insist is an all-time record for distance hitchhiking in Bermuda shorts: 3,700 miles in three weeks.

The reality, sitting ten thousand miles away, is that we remain the country that inspires. We remain that shining city on a hill.

That's the shame about Miles Copeland; he's evil, but he's got a heart of gold.

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

If you just go out there and run 100 miles, it breaks down a lot of barriers in terms of self-imposed limitations.

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

In 1978, the tradition of running from village to village with a message was revived. that first run was from Davis to Los Angeles, a distance of 500 miles

An Englishman thinks a hundred miles is a long way; and American thinks a hundred years is a long time

When I was 40 and looking at 60, it seemed like a thousand miles away. But 62 feels like a week and a half away from 80. I must now get on with those things I always talked about doing but put off.

Miles got a mystique about him-plus he's at the top of his profession. And he's got way, way, way more money.

I'm a million miles away, and at the same time I'm right here in your picture frame.

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

To me, there is no greater way to achieve clarity than to run alone, or share miles with a trusted friend.

And you know, I'm so used to going 100 miles an hour in every direction and sleeping you know, two, three hours a night, and that's the way I live.

I have come a hundred miles," said a minister, "to get some of Mr. Moody's spirit." " You don't want my spirit," was the reply. "What you want is the Spirit of God.

Do you really believe that in the late 1800s Paddy Hannan would have walked 600 miles in the hot sun from Perth to Kalgoorlie to discover gold if he had to pay the Wayne Swan resource super tax?

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

Human beings will line up for miles to buy a bucket of catastrophes, but don't try selling sunshine and light - you'll go broke.

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.

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 never considered Miles Davis a perfectionist; I always considered him as an excellence-ist, where deviation is actually kind of cool.

It goes without saying that when you're the manager of a Premiership club, you go eight miles down the road and get beaten by a team two divisions below you, it's disappointing.

New York is only 97 miles from Philadelphia but was the Big Time as no other American city has ever been.

Early on the next morning we reached Kansas, about five hundred miles from the mouth of the Missouri.

Miles Davis was a master. In every phase of his career, he understood that this music was a tribute to the African muse.

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

The first trip of the Pony Express was made in ten days - an average of two hundred miles a day. But we soon began stretching our riders and making better time.

You can't be a 20-mile a day eater if you're just a 5-mile a day runner.

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

In 1862, Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Act, a bill opening one half million square miles of territory in the western United States for settlement.

Miles Davis is one who writes songs when he plays.

I can't remember faces, don't remember names, but after awhile and a thousand miles it all becomes the same.

Though it's thousands of miles away Sierra Leone connect to what we go through today Over here, its a drug trade, we die from drugs Over there, they die from what we buy from drugs

Thanks to the race-day adrenaline rush, any pace will feel easier than normal. So make a conscious effort to hold back in the early miles.