Miles Quotes

• First you learn to drive fast. Next, you learn to drive fast in traffic. Then, you learn how to do it for 500 miles.

  

  Alan Kulwicki
  • Drive
  • Miles
  • Traffic

• Most women have small waists the world throughout, But their desires are thousand miles about.

  

  Cyril Tourneur
  • World
  • Women
  • Small

• In a while, one of us will go up to bedand the other one will follow.Then we will slip below the surface of the nightinto miles of water, drifting down and downto the dark, soundless bottomuntil the weight of dreams pulls us lower still.

  

  William Collins
  • Dreams
  • Bed
  • Drifting

• There are never any traffic jams on the extra mile.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Extras
  • Jam
  • Traffic Jam

• From 8,000 miles away... I would not judge a fellow soldier from a friendly nation and how they are employing their resources.

  

  Peter Pace
  • Judging
  • Soldier
  • Friendly

• You can never walk a mile in someone elses shoes, but you can walk a mile in your own and be proud of it.

  

  Zach Anner
  • Proud
  • Shoes
  • Miles

• To me it meant, just looking at it from a Maya point of view, it meant that Paul Miles is always moving laterally in his life. And she just wants him to take a couple of steps forward, you know?

  

  Virginia Madsen
  • Moving
  • Couple
  • Miles

• Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousands of miles and all the years you have lived.

  

  Helen Keller
  • Smell
  • Transport
  • Wizards

• I don't have any hesitation saying I've traveled more miles than any human being who ever lived. I've been doing it for 60 years.

  

  Gary Player
  • Miles
  • Hesitation
  • Traveled

• 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.

  

  Nevil Shute
  • Remember
  • Light
  • Hours

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

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • Clubs
  • Miles

• Twelve thousand miles of it, to the other side of the world. And whether they came home again or not, they would belong neither here, nor there, for they would have lived on two continents and sampled two different ways of life.

  

  Colleen McCullough
  • Life
  • World
  • Different

• A railroad station? That was sort of a primitive airport, only you didn't have to take a cab 20 miles out of town to reach it.

  

  Russell Baker
  • Primitive
  • Airports
  • Railroads

• As Rilke observed, love requires a progressive shortening of the senses: I can see you for miles; I can hear you for blocks, I can smell you, maybe, for a few feet, but I can only touch on contact, taste as I devour

  

  William H. Gass
  • Feet
  • Block
  • Contact

• All the time we spent in bed, counting miles before we said, fall in love and fall apart, things will end before they start.

  

  Sufjan Stevens
  • Said
  • Ends
  • Bed

• I still am amazed that people would never buy a car if they were told it gets 75 miles to the gallon - they're absolutely clear on what's a scam. But when it comes to their health they will immediately fall for somebody telling them, "Take this pill and you'll live to be a hundred years old." There's something about medicine that allows us to fall for stupid sales pitches more easily.

  

  Dean Edell
  • Medicine
  • Amazed
  • Immediately

• I'd rather have an inch of a dog than miles of pedigree.

  

  Dana Burnet
  • Rather
  • Miles
  • Pedigree

• Miles clutched Quinn's elbow. "Don't Panic." "I'm not panicking," Quinn observed, "I'm watching you panic. It's more entertaining .

  

  Lois McMaster
  • Panic
  • Entertaining
  • Elbows

• Every day we'd trudge up the hill - it was a three-quarter-mile walk up this steep hill to the Leach Pottery, and we would take our lunch with us and generally, I guess, make a nuisance of ourselves.

  

  Warren MacKenzie
  • Hills
  • Lunch
  • Nuisance

• If the atoms in a decimetre cube of lead were all put into a chain side by side the same distance apart as they are in the normal lead, the strings of atoms so formed would reach over six million million miles.

  

  Francis William Aston
  • Science
  • Distance
  • Normal

• In our interdependent world, our neighbors are not only on our street, but can be ten thousand miles away on an island in rising seas.

  

  Achim Steiner
  • Street
  • Neighbors
  • Seas

• A Jack Russell terrier? My god. He'll burn you up. They never stop. A German shepherd, you can only go so many miles.

  

  George Foreman
  • Miles
  • Shepherds
  • Terriers

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

  

  Herbie Hancock
  • Unique
  • Miles

• 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.

  

  Paul Simon Simon & Garfunkel
  • China
  • Miles
  • Foreigners

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