Miles Quotes - Page 17

• I think deep down, this planet yearns for the days of the British Empire again. They long once more to be treated that badly, that politely. We did far worse things than you can possibly dream of, but we did it with that certainly gentlemanly swagger... Dreadfully sorry, but we seem to have crushed your entire continent's infrastructure. Allow me to make it up to you by offering you a job 4,000 miles away. No, no, I insist.

  John Oliver

  Dream, Jobs, Sorry

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

  Cliff Martinez

  Home, Average, Years

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• I once found a kernel of corn in the middle of a deep wood by Walden, tucked in behind a lichen on a pine, about as high as my head, either by a crow or a squirrel. It was a mile at least from any corn-field.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Cutting, Squirrels, Crow

  Henry David Thoreau, Carl Bode (1967). “The best of Thoreau's journals”, Southern Illinois Univ Pr

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• There are celestial sights more dazzling, spectacles that inspire more awe, but to the thoughtful observer who is privileged to see them well, there is nothing in the sky so profoundly impressive as the canals of Mars. Fine lines and little gossamer filaments only, cobwebbing the face of the Martian disk, but threads to draw one's mind after them across the millions of miles of intervening void.

  Percival Lowell

  Thoughtful, Sight, Sky

  Percival Lowell (1908). “Mars as the abode of life”

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• She wondered how people would remember her. She had not made enough to spread her wealth around like Carnegie, to erase any sins that had attached to her name, she had failed, she had not reached the golden bough. The liberals would cheer her death. They would light marijuana cigarettes and drive to their sushi restaurants and eat fresh food that had traveled eight thousand miles. They would spend all of supper complaining about people like her, and when they got home their houses would be cold and they'd press a button on a wall to get warm. The whole time complaining about big oil.

  Philipp Meyer

  Cheer, Wall, Home

  "The Son". Book by Philipp Meyer, 2013.

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• Every time you walk a mile to church and carry a Bible with you, you preach a sermon a mile long.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Long, Church, Walks

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• Now on the hills I hear the thunder mutter... Nearer and nearer rolls the thunder-clap, - You can hear the quick heart of the tempest beat.... Look! look! that livid flash! And instantly follows the rattling thunder, As if some cloud-crag, split asunder, Fell, splintering with a ruinous crash, On the Earth, which crouches in silence under; And now a solid gray wall of rain Shuts off the landscape, mile by mile.

  James Russell Lowell

  Wall, Rain, Heart

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• I look to the right as I cross the bridge and smile to see the tip of the Eiffel Tower soaring over rooftops in the distance on the other side of the river. I've seen it in photographs a thousand times, but seeing it in person for the first time that reminds me that I'm really, truly here, thousands of miles away, across an ocean from home.

  Kristin Harmel

  Distance, Ocean, Home

  Kristin Harmel (2012). “The Sweetness of Forgetting”, p.119, Simon and Schuster

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• Unless you live in Indonesia, there should be several malls within five miles of your home. It makes no difference whatsoever which one you go to: Under federal law, all malls in the United States must have the same 42 chain stores.

  Dave Barry

  Home, Law, Shopping

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• These feet have walked ten thousand miles working for white folks and another ten thousand keeping up with colored.

  Langston Hughes

  White, Feet, Thousand

  Langston Hughes, Donna Sullivan Harper (2002). “The Early Simple Stories”, p.22, University of Missouri Press

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• It finally happened. I got the GPS lady so confused, she said, "In one-quarter mile, make a legal stop and ask directions.

  Robert Breault

  Confused, Gps, Driving

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

  Robert Breault

  Journey, Done, Delusion

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• A garden, you know, is a very usual refuge of a disappointed politician. Accordingly, I have purchased a few acres about nine miles from town, have built a house, and am cultivating a garden.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Garden, House, Usual

  Alexander Hamilton (1851). “Correspondence [contin.] 1795-1804; 1777; 1791. Letters of H.G. 1789. Address to public creditors. 1790. Vindication of funding system. 1791”, p.551

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• The journey of a thousand miles
  starts from beneath your feet.
  
  NOTE: Other translations exist, such as:Great trees grow from the smallest shoots;a terraced garden, from a pile of earth,and a journey of a thousand milesbegins by taking the initial step.

  Laozi

  Journey, Garden, Feet

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• He will be with you also, all the way, that faithful God. Every morning when you awaken to the old and tolerable pain, at every mile of the hot uphill dusty road of tiring duty, on to the judgment seat, the same Christ there as ever, still loving you, still sufficient for you, even then. And then, on through all eternity.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Faith, Morning, Pain

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• Philosophy, astronomy, and politics were marked at zero, I remember. Botany variable, geology profound as regards the mud stains from any region within fifty miles of town, chemistry eccentric, anatomy unsystematic, sensational literature and crime records unique, violin player, boxer, swordsman, lawyer, and self-poisoner by cocaine and tobacco.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Education, Zero, Philosophy

  Arthur Conan Doyle, Scott McKowen (2004). “The Adventures and the Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes”, p.117, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

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• 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.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Space, Earth, Sun

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• I bought my first electric car in 1970. Its top speed was 15 mph and it had just a 15 mile range - it was essentially a golf cart with a windshield wiper and a horn.

  Ed Begley, Jr.

  Golf, Mph, Car

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  Andy Grove

  Priorities, Firsts, Should

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• If you lie down in a village square hoping to capture a sea gull, you could stay there your whole life without succeeding. But a hundred miles from shore it's different. Sea gulls have a highly developed instinct for self-preservation on land but at sea they're very cocky.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Lying, Cocky, Squares

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

  Cyril Tourneur

  Women, Desire, World

  Cyril Tourneur, Thomas Middleton, C. R. A. Foakes (1996). “The Revenger's Tragedy”, p.114, Manchester University Press

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• 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.

  Kevin Keegan

  Team, Eight, Two

  "Vernon's cool finish puts freeze on City" by Ian Whittell, www.theguardian.com. January 8, 2005.

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• Having made the trip from St. Louis to the Pacific Ocean myself going up up up against twenty-five hundred miles of the Missouri River, I can testify that it's one of the most arduous trips that anyone can make on this continent and yet I had a power boat to do it in.

  William Least Heat-Moon

  Ocean, Rivers, Twenties

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• The north-south line of 'the mountains,' meaning the Cascade Range, forty miles east of Seattle, is a rigid political frontier.

  Jonathan Raban

  Political, Mountain, East

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

  Wang Wei

  Dream, Travel, Night

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