Miles Quotes - Page 25

• The metric system was designed to get people to enter charity runs.Do you think you would go run a 3.1 mile race? No, but if somebody says, hey, 5 km. You go, 5km sounds pretty impressive.

  Greg Gutfeld

  Running, Thinking, Race

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Food is like a torture device because hiking 47 miles a day is hard enough. And then you're trying to get down 6,000 calories a day. Every hour, I needed a snack, every few hours I had to take in a meal and it's just not food, it's fuel. You're not enjoying it - you're seriously shoving it in your mouth and following it with water, juice or Gatorade.

  Jennifer Pharr Davis

  Snacks, Hiking, Water

  "Pharr Davis thrives on trail". Interview with Anna Katherine Clemmons, www.espn.com. July 2, 2013.

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• It snowed all day long, fortunately it didn't stay on the road. It was very, very cold today. Fortunately, the wind was at my back. The terrain was rolly but not big hills. The first miles were like usual tough, but I felt quite good from there till the end of 10 miles.

  Terry Fox

  Wind, Long, Usual

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

  Dean Karnazes

  Running, Self, Breaking Down

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• Every piece of work in the shops moves. Save 10 steps a day for each of the 12,000 employees, and you will have saved 50 miles of wasted motion and misspent energy.

  Henry Ford

  Moving, Steps, Energy

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• One of the biggest gifts you can give a child is confidence, because confidence will take you miles - more than talent, more than anything else. So yes, I want my children to have confidence and to be kind.

  Rafe Spall

  Children, Giving, Want

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• Solitude is not measured by the miles of space that intervene between a man and his fellows. The really diligent student in one of the crowded hives of Cambridge college is as solitary as a dervis in the desert.

  Henry David Thoreau

  College, Men, Space

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.83, Simon and Schuster

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• If the bones of all those who have fallen as a prey to intemperance could be piled up it would make a vast pyramid. Who will gird himself for the journey and try with me to scale this mountain of the dead--going up miles high on human carcasses to find still other peaks far above, mountain above mountain, white with the bones of drunkards.

  Thomas De Witt Talmage

  Journey, Pyramids, White

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• I jogged for three miles once. It was the worst three hours of my life.

  Rita Rudner

  Three, Hours, Worst

  Rita Rudner (1993). “Naked Beneath My Clothes: Tales of a Revealing Nature”, Penguin Group USA

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• Sweet is the air with the budding haws, and the valley stretching for miles below
  Is white with blossoming cherry-trees, as if just covered with lighted snow.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Sweet, White, Air

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• In the four hundred and thirteenth year of the Christian era, some three hundred miles above Alexandria, the young monk Philammon was sitting on the edge of a low range of inland cliffs, crested with drifting sand.

  Charles Kingsley

  Christian, Book, Years

  Charles Kingsley (1856). “Hypatia ... The second edition”, p.1

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• Good horses make short miles.

  George Herbert

  Horse, Good Horse, Horsemanship

  George Herbert (1861). “The Poetical Works of G. H. and R. Heber. With Memoir”, p.272

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• Gospel ministers should not only be like dials on watches, or mile-stones upon the road, but like clocks and larums, to sound the alarm to sinners. Aaron wore bells as well as pomegranates, and the prophets were commanded to lift up their voice like a trumpet. A sleeping sentinel may be the loss of the city.

  Joseph Hall

  Sleep, Loss, Cities

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• In trying to teach children a great deal in a short time, they are treated not as though the race they were to run was for life, but simply a three-mile heat.

  Horace Mann

  Running, Children, Race

  Horace Mann (1867). “Thoughts”, p.222

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• The Self is the one thing you can discover, not by travelling miles, but by being very still inside your own being and saying to the Supreme,
  Yes, absorb me.

  Mooji

  Self, Stills, One Thing

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• it's a feeling of ice miles running under your blades, the wind splitting open to let you through, the earth whirling around you at the touch of your toe, and speed lifting you off the ice far from all things that can hold you down.

  Sonja Henie

  Sports, Running, Ice

  Sonja Henie (1940). “Wings on my feet”

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• When it's first and a mile, I won't give it to him.

  Bum Phillips

  Nfl, Giving, Firsts

  "One-of-a-kind Bum Phillips remembered by family, former Oilers and fans in Houston". www.foxnews.com. October 29, 2013.

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• My job playing Sam Malone was to let the audience in, to love my bar full of people. And that informed my life. I mean, we're so different [in the cast], some of us. Miles apart. [But] when I see anyone from those days, I tap into that instant love for them.

  Ted Danson

  Jobs, Mean, People

  "The Best TV Show That's Ever Been". Interview with Brian Raftery, www.gq.com. September 27, 2012.

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• There are certain songs that I like to listen to at certain times of the day. For example, first thing in the morning I love listening to "Flamenco Sketches" off of Miles Davis' Kind of Blue.

  Jon Foreman

  Song, Morning, Blue

  Source: blog.noisetrade.com

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• I would go fifty miles on foot to kiss the hand of that man whose generous heart will give up the reins of his imagination into his Author's hands; be pleased, he knows not why, and cares not wherefore.

  Laurence Sterne

  Sympathy, Giving Up, Heart

  Laurence Sterne (1849). “The Works of Laurence Sterne: Containing The Life and Opinions of Tristan Shandy ... [etc.] ; with a Life of the Author Written by Himself”, p.82

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• Canada is not so much a country as a clothesline nearly 4,000 miles long. St John's in Newfoundland is closer to Milan, Italy than to Vancouver.

  Simon Hoggart

  Country, Long, Vancouver

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• The future of human society. Had it made an irrevocably false start? The compass error that gets harder to correct with every mile you go?

  Sybille Bedford

  Errors, Society, Compass

  Sybille Bedford (2017). “A Favourite of the Gods and A Compass Error”, p.280, New York Review of Books

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• Every year my family would pile into the car for our vacation and drive 80 trillion miles just to prove we couldn't get along in any setting.

  Janeane Garofalo

  Vacation, Years, Car

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• Grandpa did everything at his own pace, a speed that my sister and I referred to as 'when snails attack.' ... My grandparents' house was only about ten miles from ours, but the ride there would necessitate sandwiches packed for the trip, and several books to keep us occupied.

  Jenny Lawson

  Book, Grandpa, House

  Jenny Lawson (2012). “Let's Pretend This Never Happened: (A Mostly True Memoir)”, p.31, Pan Macmillan

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• In the United Kingdom, for example, the sheer overwhelming dominance of London makes it extremely for provincial cities to develop more than a very restricted financial function. London, in that sense, is akin to the notorious upas tree, a fabulous Javanese tree so poisonous that it destroys all life for many miles around itself.

  Peter Dicken

  Cities, Tree, Kingdoms

  Peter Dicken (2003). “Global Shift: Reshaping the Global Economic Map in the 21st Century”, p.467, SAGE

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