Miles Quotes - Page 18

• The Hawaiian Islands were discovered by hardy Polynesian sailors, who crossed thousands of miles of open ocean in primitive canoes, braving violent storm-tossed seas for months at a time. My family and I arrived by modern commercial aviation, which was infinitely worse.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Humorous, Ocean

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry Talks Back”, p.107, Crown Archetype

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• To have lived long does not necessarily imply the gathering of much wisdom and experience. One who has pedaled twenty-five thousand miles on a stationary bicycle has not circled the globe. He or she has only garnered weariness.

  Paul Eldridge

  Wisdom, Long, Twenties

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• If he (The New York Taxi Driver) talked to me, he might lose his concentration, which would be very bad because the taxi has some kind of problem with the steering, probably dead pedestrians lodged in the mechanism, the result being that there is a delay of 8 to 10 seconds between the time the driver turns the wheel and the time the taxi actually changes direction, a handicap that the driver is compensating for by going 175 miles per hour, at which velocity we are able to remain airborne almost to the far rim of some of the smaller potholes.

  Dave Barry

  New York, Humorous, Would Be

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• 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

  Distance, Science, Atoms

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• The voyage of the Beagle has been by far the most important event in my life and has determined my whole career; yet it depended on so small a circumstance as my uncle offering to drive me 30 miles to Shrewsbury, which few uncles would have done, and on such a trifle as the shape of my nose.

  Charles Darwin

  Uncles, Science, Offering

  Charles Darwin (2010). “The Works of Charles Darwin, Volume 29: “Erasmus Darwin” by Ernest Krause, with a Preliminary Notice by Charles Darwin; “The Autobiography of Charles Darwin” Edited by Nora Barlow; and Consolidated Index”, p.113, NYU Press

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

  Richard M. Nixon

  Friendship, Soul, Speak

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• I walked a thousand miles just to slip this skin.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Sadness, Skins, Thousand

  Song: Streets Of Philadelphia

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• One of the things I've discovered in general about raising kids is that they really don't give a damn if you walked five miles to school.

  Patty Duke

  Children, School, Kids

  Patty Duke, Kenneth Turan (1988). “Call Me Anna: The Autobiography of Patty Duke”, Bantam

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• I'm happy to report you still get nothing you don't need at Motel 6, and, therefore, you don't have to pay for it. I don't need valet parking. If I can drive the old crate 300 miles to the hotel all by myself, I can certainly handle the last nine feet to the parking space.

  Tom Bodett

  Feet, Space, Needs

  "Actually, Motel 6 Doesn't Leave the Light on for You". Interview with Kimberly D. Williams, adage.com. August 30, 2007.

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

  Alberto Salazar

  Running, Pace, Four

  Interview with Amby Burfoot, www.runnersworld.com. April 5, 2012.

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• I've run a lot of miles over the years, some fast and some not so fast. I've won some big races and I've had some big disappointments, but I enjoy the freedom of running and the challenge of training and competition as much now as when I first started back in high school.

  Alberto Salazar

  Running, Disappointment, School

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• You should be a person inside the world with knowledge of your terrain. And if you lock yourself into the 2,000-by-3,000-square-mile, lower-48 box of the United States, you're going to be frustrated by its limitations. You gotta think outside the box.

  Chuck D

  Thinking, Squares, Frustrated

  "Rapping the Vote With Chuck D". Interview with Jeff Chang, www.motherjones.com. September/October 2004.

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• You cannot underestimate people's ability to spot a soulless, bureaucratic tactic a million miles away. It's a big reason why so many companies that have dipped a toe in social media waters have failed miserably.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Media, Water, People

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• 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.

  Donovan Bailey

  Guy, Jazz, Music Love

  "I don’t miss running, says Donovan Bailey". Interview with Paul Irish, www.thestar.com. November 28, 2011.

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• I remember one winter, when I was about five or six, I spent three days with another boy, tracking a bobcat that had been sighted in another county fifty miles away, but which I was sure had come into our neighborhood.

  Terry Brooks

  Winter, Boys, Three

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• I eat right. I exercise. I run 5 miles a day on the treadmill.

  Wolf Blitzer

  Running, Exercise, Treadmills

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• I was on a show called '12 Miles of Bad Road' with Lily Tomlin - it was an incredible HBO show. We shot 6 episodes, previewed it before the finale of 'The Sopranos;' it was written up as a 'Great New Show on HBO,' and then the whole thing was canned. Gone. Disappeared. That's when I realized anything can happen in this business.

  Eliza Coupe

  Hbo, Gone, Lilies

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

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• 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.

  Craig Charles

  Fans, Three, Lines

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• In the old days, a con man would be good looking, suave, well dressed, well spoken and presented themselves real well. Those days are gone because it's not necessary. The people committing these crimes are doing them from hundreds of miles away.

  Frank Abagnale

  Real, Men, People

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• Now is a good time, 10 years ago would have been a good time, and 10 years from now it will still be a good time to see a dynamic, entertaining movie that's wall-to-wall Miles Davis where the music will hopefully spark some desire to know more about the man.

  Don Cheadle

  Wall, Men, Years

  "Don Cheadle: The Time Is Right for a Miles Davis Biopic". Interview with Shirley Halperin, www.hollywoodreporter.com. December 15, 2010.

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• 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.

  Don Cheadle

  Artist, Trying, Canvas

  "Don Cheadle: The Time Is Right for a Miles Davis Biopic" by Shirley Halperin, www.hollywoodreporter.com. December 15, 2010.

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• I think it's inevitable that New Zealand will become a republic and that would reflect the reality that New Zealand is a totally sovereign-independent 21st century nation 12,000 miles from the United Kingdom.

  Helen Clark

  Independent, Thinking, Reality

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• You have to run 75 to 100 miles a week if you expect to break the four-minute mile.

  Kenneth H. Cooper

  Running, Four, Week

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• Many hard comments have been made on my efforts in India from the side of the Congress party, yet I feel content in the deep conviction that the offer I traveled 22,000 miles to discuss with Indian leaders was a real contribution to a solution of our differences.

  Stafford Cripps

  Real, Party, Differences

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• I feel most like myself... after I run - I go out for five miles every morning.

  Junot Diaz

  Running, Morning, Feels

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