Miles Quotes - Page 33

• I think of Twitter as a messaging system that you didn't know you needed until you had it. Think about when cell phones first started coming out. People said, "Why would I carry my phone around?" And now you'll drive back to your house thirty miles if you forget your cell phone.

  Biz Stone

  Thinking, Phones, Cells

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I got a job as a children's librarian at PS 175 in Harlem, and that changed everything. That was an epiphany. I didn't know Harlem existed. I didn't know there was such a place, because I grew up in white Queens, where five miles is 100 miles.

  Lynne Stewart

  Jobs, Queens, Children

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• After the age of seven, I began living between my dad in Alaska and my mother in Baltimore. Every three or four months, I would fly the 5,000 miles between the two. And having grown up in Alaska, Baltimore was astonishing.

  Leigh Newman

  Mother, Dad, Alaska

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I don't think Donald Trump should be allowed within 1,000 miles of our shore because he would embolden the EDL on the one hand and fuel the flames of terrorism on the other hand.

  Jack Dromey

  Thinking, Flames, Hands

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• When I was a little kid, I used to walk miles and miles and miles and miles and miles and miles of railroad tracks.

  Pam Houston

  Kids, Track, Railroads

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Where I live you're not supposed to shoot a firearm within a quarter mile of a dwelling.

  Bonnie Jo Campbell

  Dwelling, Quarters, Firearms

  Source: therumpus.net

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• New tracks like Las Vegas, hell, you could drive off the end of that track and continue safely 20 miles into the desert. But there's not a day goes by I don't think of Scott [Kalitta]. It's still traumatic.

  Connie Kalitta

  Thinking, Vegas, Track

  Source: blog.caranddriver.com

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• When you get out onto a glacier that's the size of Northern Ireland and it's so vast, and you're standing on top of it and you can see forever, it's so pure and clear that you can see for miles and miles and miles. You really do think, "Wow, there is a god!" You feel very humbled.

  Richard Dormer

  Thinking, Forever, Glaciers

  Source: collider.com

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• We were in the middle of a sandbar in the middle of the ocean with no one around, and still someone was following me from New York, and was hiding in some bushes like a mile away with a long lens, so he still got pictures. It was really an eye opener to how you really have to be careful about being followed everywhere. I was trying to go to the most remote place in the world, I was out on a sandbar in the middle of the ocean, and they still found me. It was definitely a very new experience.

  Ronda Rousey

  New York, Ocean, Eye

  Source: www.elle.com

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• In the old days of America when communities were separated by hundreds of miles, why were they able to thrive? Because if it was harvest time and the farmer was up in the tree picking apples and fell down and broke his leg, everybody pitched in and harvested his crops for him. If somebody got killed by a bear, everybody took care of their family.

  Benjamin Carson

  Apples, America, Harvest Time

  Source: www.patheos.com

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• Because I grew up trapped in the suburbs 8 miles outside of D.C. and I've never seen what people who live in D.C. look like.

  Thao Nguyen

  People, Looks, 8 Mile

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• It's a different rhythm than most movies. For a lot of the actors, you're 12,000 miles away from home. It becomes a way of life - getting up at five in the morning, shooting every day, day in day out, for 270 days. The new cast playing the dwarves were carrying incredibly heavy weights in their suits, they sat through hours of make-up every day. So it's quite challenging from a stamina point of view.

  Andy Serkis

  Morning, Home, Dwarves

  Source: articles.chicagotribune.com

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• Just the way LA is laid out - 30 miles of disparate neighborhoods - adds to the loneliness of the characters. There's a lot more space to feel isolated in. In Los Angeles, you have to meet the person, then walk out separately to your own cars, and follow the person to their neighborhood, and then pray that street parking isn't going to mess things up.

  Paul Rust

  Loneliness, Character, Space

  "Meet the Star of 'Love,' Judd Apatow’s New Netflix Series". Interview with Grace Wilson, www.motherjones.com. February 28, 2016.

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• Who was it recently invented some machine that will enable her to sign a book from 5,000 miles away? Margaret Atwood. Get off your arse, love, and sign it in person. Publishers and circumstance made you a bestselling author. Give a little back.

  Nicholas Royle

  Book, Giving, Littles

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• I lived on Fulton Street in an enormous studio - I needed a bicycle to get to the toilet, about half a mile between two streets - next to Wall Street.

  Erro

  Wall, Two, Next

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• With a lot of the music I really love, like Miles Davis, you can go back and see the processes and the stages.

  Kieran Hebden

  Process, Stage

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• There are certain racetracks where I feel like I could run 1,000 miles.

  Joey Logano

  Running, Certain, Feels

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• I've never been healthier. I haven't had a cigarette in two years. I run four or five miles, four or five times a week. I've been healthy and having a really good time.

  Jeff Tweedy

  Running, Years, Two

  "Wilco". Interview with Jason Crock, pitchfork.com. May 7, 2007.

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• 'm constantly depressed by the Mexican gang members I meet in East L.A. who essentially live their lives inside five or six blocks. They are caught in some tiny ghetto of the mind that limits them to these five blocks because, they say, "I'm Mexican. I live here." And I say, "What do you mean you live here - five blocks? Your granny, your abualita, walked two thousand miles to get here. She violated borders, moved from one language to another, moved from a sixteenth-century village to a twenty-first-century city, and you live within five blocks?"

  Richard Rodriguez

  Block, Mean, Ghetto

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• Beginning a new habit, or ending an old one can feel like letting go of a rope that swings a mile above the ground. So we feel reluctant to let go, after all, we've survived so far doing what we've done, why risk it.

  Philippa Perry

  Letting Go, Swings, Risk

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I was in my tighty-whities and I never woke up, and I ran over a mile.

  Si Robertson

  Ran

  Source: www.gq.com

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• To wonder where the mind goes after the brain decays is as silly as asking where the 70-miles-per-hour have gone after a speeding auto has crashed into a tree.

  Frank Zindler

  Silly, Tree, Brain

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• Hunting for meteorites is like trying to find a pebble on miles of beach.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Beach, Hunting, Trying

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• People sold everything - their cars, their land for miles, to come in and see me beat. I went to the bank laughing every time.

  Muhammad Ali

  Land, People, Laughing

  "Parkinson" with Michael Parkinson, www.mirror.co.uk. 1971.

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• My first banjo? My mother's sister, my aunt, lived about a mile from where we did, and she raised some hogs. And she had - her - the hog - the mother - they called the mother a sow - of a hog. And she had some pigs. Well, the pigs were real pretty, and I was going to high school and I was taking agriculture in school. And I sort of got a notion that I'd like to do that, raise some hogs. And so my aunt had this old banjo, and my mother told me, said, which do you want, the pig or a banjo? And each one of them's $5 each. I said, I'll just take the banjo.

  Ralph Stanley

  Mother, Real, School

  Source: www.npr.org

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