Miles Quotes - Page 30

• With 1 million square miles of the Arctic melting unexpectedly this summer, these are warning signs that we have to act and act now. Our addiction to Middle Eastern oil obviously has security implications, and we think it's about time to be generating Eastern Washington wind energy instead of sending our money to the sheikhs.

  Jay Inslee

  Summer, Thinking, Wind

  "Power Q&A: Rep. Jay Inslee". Interview with Dave Gilson, www.motherjones.com. May/June 2008.

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• I don't think I've ever bench-pressed anything in my life. Until about two years ago I swam a mile almost every day. Then I stopped and I lost a lot of weight because my appetite was less. I'm not skinny now - I'm spindly. I eat an extremely simple diet - mostly salmon, avocado, feta cheese, chicken, eggs, peanut butter, blueberries, and quinoa.

  Nick Antosca

  Simple, Thinking, Years

  The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. September 16, 2013.

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• A couple can be quite intimate without sharing bodies - though you will likely not believe that, my Cam. But it can be true. What I feel for you is highly intense, whether you are standing next to me or living a hundred miles away. I do not have to be touching you at all to experience what I feel.

  Jennifer Ashley

  Couple, Believe, Touching You

  Jennifer Ashley (2011). “The Many Sins of Lord Cameron”, p.220, Penguin

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• From the perspective of someone with two grown and wonderful kids, that your instincts as parents are correct: a minute spent reading to your kids now will repay itself a million-fold later, not only because they love you for reading to them, but also because, years later, when they’re gone and miles away, those quiet evenings, when you were tucked in with them, everything quiet but the sound of the page-turns, will, seem to you, I promise...... sacred.

  George Saunders

  Reading, Love You, Kids

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• To be a lone filmmaker thousands of miles from home with nobody believing in me, that seems romantic.

  Doug Liman

  Believe, Home, Filmmaker

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• My father was a very good amateur pianist, and he had a collection of books on technique. One of the things he had was a small volume of exercises by Rudolf Ganz, in which Ganz mentions the pedagogical work of the Swiss composer, Émile-Robert Blanchet, who wrote a ton of polyphonic exercises for one-hand. These exercises were a great help for finger independence, which I acquired early on. This might have given me somewhat of an edge, a facility to be able to knock any obstacle that was in my way.

  Marc-Andre Hamelin

  Father, Book, Exercise

  Interview with Elijah Ho, www.thecounterpoints.com. November 8, 2013.

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• Traveling is a bit of a push sometimes. When you're doing a lot of miles and you're doing a lot of shows, it does get wearing.

  Greg Lake

  Doe, Sometimes, Shows

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• Out here in the Pacific, they have typhoons and hurricanes that blow over 200 miles an hour. We have tornadoes and hurricanes back home, but I don't worry about them. The mortgage on my house is so heavy that nothing could budge it.

  Bob Hope

  Home, Blow, Worry

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• You are certainly one of the joys of life for all who have ever come within a mile of you.

  Thomas Merton

  Joy, Joy Of Life

  Thomas Merton (1989). “The Road to Joy: Letters to New and Old Friends”, p.71, Macmillan

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• A journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step and if that step is the right step, it becomes the last step.

  Laozi

  Journey, Lasts, Steps

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• Narrative should flow as flows the brook down through the hills and the leafy woodlands...a brook that never goes straight for a minute, but goes and goes briskly, sometimes ungrammatically, and sometimes fetching a horseshoe of ¾ of a mile around and at the end of the circuit flowing within a yard of the path that it traversed an hour before; but always going and always following at least one law, always loyal to that law, the law of narrative, which has no law. Nothing to do but make the trip; the how of it is not important, so that the trip is made.

  Mark Twain

  Law, Important, Loyal

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• Speed is relative. Does it feel fast going 70 miles per hour down an eight lane highway? No, probably not, but I bet it does if you are going down some single lane dirt road. It's the same in a race car. It depends on the track.

  Kyle Petty

  Eight, Race, Track

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• I wonder, when a writer's blocked and doesn't have any resources to pull himself out of it, why doesn't he jump in his car and drive around the U.S.A.? I went last winter for seven thousand miles and it was lovely. Inexpensive, too.

  Jim Harrison

  Winter, Car, Lovely

  Jim Harrison, Robert J. DeMott (2002). “Conversations with Jim Harrison”, p.77, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• It wasn't all romantic. I didn't have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends' rooms, I returned coke bottles for the 5¢ deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the 7 miles across town every Sunday night to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple. I loved it.

  Steve Jobs

  Sunday, Night, Meals

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• We have always had dogs, and they have faithfully performed many valuable services for us, such as: 1. Peeing on everything. 2. When we're driving in our car, alerting us that we have passed another dog by barking real loud in our ears for the next 114 miles. 3. Trying to kill the Avon lady.

  Dave Barry

  Dog, Real, Car

  Dave Barry (1995). “Homes and Other Black Holes”, Random House Digital, Inc.

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• 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.

  Andy Goldsworthy

  Cities, People, Done

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• Miles and I had been looking to do a martial arts show for some time. Our first two movies that we wrote were "Lethal Weapon 4" and "Shanghai Noon" with Jackie Chan. Then we sort of got pulled into the superhero world, but then you look around at what's not on television and there wasn't really a martial arts shows. There are shows that do martial arts to a degree, but there's not a martial arts show.

  Alfred Gough

  Art, Two, Superhero

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• They will tell you tough stories of sharks all over the Cape, which I do not presume to doubt utterly,--how they will sometimes upset a boat, or tear it in pieces, to get at the man in it. I can easily believe in the undertow, but I have no doubt that one shark in a dozen years is enough to keep up the reputation of a beach a hundred miles long.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Beach, Believe, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2017). “Journeys, Adventures & Life in Harmony with Nature – 6 Book Collection (Illustrated): Including Walden, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, The Maine Woods, Cape Cod, A Yankee in Canada & Canoeing in the Wilderness - North American Highlands Series”, p.806, e-artnow

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• The only footwear I need is an inexpensive pair of blue sneakers. They have soft fabric tops and soft rubber-like soles. I get them one size too large so I can wiggle my toes. I feel as free as though I were barefoot! And I can usually get 1,500 miles to a pair. I wear a pair of navy blue socks.There's a reason why I chose navy blue for my wearing apparel-it's a very practical color, doesn't show dirt, and the color blue does represent peace and spirituality.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Blue, Color, Sneakers

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.56, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• The writer ... an athlete required to break the four-minute mile every morning.

  Irving Stone

  Morning, Athlete, Four

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• United [Airlines] sucks, man. I've got like a million miles and they never bump me to first class because they think I'm just a kid and give the seat to some schmoozy guy in a business suit.

  Shaun White

  Kids, Men, Thinking

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• You have so many miles and so many years to reach the stars; if you ignore this, you can reach over there!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Stars, Years, Ifs

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• I can't try to throw 110 miles per hour. I've got to pitch under control.

  Jeremy Bonderman

  Trying, Hours, I Can

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• To hit 100 miles per hour, that's something. I couldn't believe it when I first saw it, but it's something I can do and think about.

  Justin Verlander

  Believe, Thinking, Saws

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• Like a duck on the pond. On the surface everything looks calm, but beneath the water those little feet are churning a mile a minute.

  Gene Hackman

  Ducks, Feet, Water

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