Miles Quotes

I've never understood why people run to get out of the rain in the summertime... People will drive miles and miles to go jump in a cool swimming hole, but when it rains, they scatter.

I grew up about 60 miles northwest of New York, in Middletown, NY.

I'm one-hundred-fifty miles off Cape Horn, both autopilots are broken, and my boat is drifting toward one of the nastiest chunks of ocean on the face of the earth.

Mile high club, it's got its ups and downs.

I knew I was going to do something great. I knew I wasn't going to die 20 miles from where I was born, no 20 miles from where I lived.

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 hundreds of miles away.

I run four miles most days, at about 8:00 to 8:15 pace. It's totally relaxed.

I don't do much driving - about 5,000-6,000 miles a year. And most of that is to the airport and to the racing circuits.

Just make sure you're gone by the time we get to Miles's. It creeps me out to see you sitting in his lap without his permission.

You're free to join us, but only if you promise not to stare at the new kid." Miles laughs. "Staring is very rude. Didn't anyone ever tell you that?

Monsters just outside our peripheral vision are scarier to contemplate than monsters miles away or in someplace only a fool would set foot in.

People do not realise that many of my works are done in urban places. I was brought up on the edge of Leeds, five miles from the city centre-on one side were fields and on the other, the city.

Pickups, S.U.V.'s, vans and the like represent about 80 million vehicles, with mileage of perhaps 13 to 16 miles per gallon. Converting those should be our first priority.

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 that in a week but for some reason nobody's ever done it.

It's about the time I was riding my Motorcycle, going down a mountain road at 150 miles an hour, playing my guitar.

This week I've travelled more than 15,000 miles from America to China to Burma to Australia. I have no idea what time it is right now.

I wanted very much to be Miles Davis when I was a boy, but without the practice. It just looked like an endless road.

Unhappy business men, I am convinced, would increase their happiness more by walking six miles every day than by any conceivable change of philosophy.

Only cowards push a button from thousands of miles away, or tens of thousands of feet up, to kill people who can't possibly fight back.

Just be happy that something traveled 5,000 miles across the Pacific and, for once, it wasn't your job.

I'm one too many mornings, and a thousand miles behind.

Where I live you're not supposed to shoot a firearm within a quarter mile of a dwelling.

It's very personal in California to live within hours, and sometimes just a few miles, of earthquake faults when nuclear plants were being built.

You need flawless balance on the recovery. You need white hot focus and the concentration to row square blades cleanly for seven miles. Smooth water doesn't hurt either.

Twenty miles out of town. A million miles from the life you left behind.

Miles from nowhere. Guess I'll take my time.

The reason we tend to support Republicans is they're taking us toward the cliff at only 70 miles per hour miles an hour and the Democrats are taking us 100 miles an hour.

Tara Reid is charging $3,500 for a personal appearance fee. So, for only $3,500 you can either buy a 1998 Jetta with 130,000 miles on it... or Tara Reid, who only has 98,000 miles on her.

It is our obligation to stop Hillary Clinton now and never let her get within 10 miles of the White House again.

What kind of love would drive a man for miles through solid rock?

I work at home but average 15,000 to 18,000 miles per year on my Honda.

British fans are exceptional, but the American fans are something else. Some of them fly 500 miles to stand in line for three hours, just to meet me, then when they do they collapse.

Today Homeland Security Chief Tom Ridge lowered the terror alert from orange to yellow. Does anybody need 16 miles of duct tape?

Isn't it god's own image? tramping his thirty miles a day after partridges, or a little rubber ball? wouldn't you like to be like that, well off, and quite the thing?

I simply felt alone, one leaf sitting miles away from a giant, communal pile.

When I think of the pace that I drove my first race, everything was happening a million miles an hour. Now when I get in the car everything happens so much slower.

There's always people who came 600 miles to hear the song you didn't play.

Then there is just running - I love it. I would go out and just run a 30-mile trail run if it didn't make me feel like crap for a week.

I'm luckier than my grandfather, who didn't move more than five miles from the village in which he was born.

Yay, Old'uns' Smart mastered sicks, miles, seeds an' made miracles ord'nary, but it din't master one thing, nay, a hunger in the hearts o' humans, yay, a hunger for more.

The thought of killing myself had slowed me down to five miles per hour. The thought of killing someone else stopped me completely.

She'd be one of those parents who left a kid behind at a rest stop, driving for miles before she noticed. We'd hear about her on the evening news.

I would have to commit a crime and have cops chase me. That would be the only way to get me to jog five miles.

It's amazing the way one can take a step ten and a half miles long and still always land in a cowpat.

Leaning to the side but you can't speed through; 2 miles an hour so everybody sees you.

We're trying to do what Miles Davis would have wanted us to do, which is approach it as artists with his life as the canvas.

I love music, and a lot of it. Jazz is probably on the top with guys like Miles Davis. But I even enjoy music from the '60s and '70s.

No amphibious attack in history has approached this one in size. Along miles of coastline there were hundreds of vessels and small boats afloat and ant-like files of advancing troops ashore.

It's miles worse for you than that; I'm in love with your gamekeeper.

My dad would play me all of these records: Miles Davis records, John Coltrane records, Bill Evans records, a lot of jazz records. My first exposure to music was listening to jazz records.