Miles Quotes - Page 8

• I will not permit thirty men to travel four hundred miles to agitate a bag of wind.

  Andrew Dickson White

  Sports, Men, Wind

  On refusing permission for a team from Cornell University to visit Michigan to play a game of American football. Quoted in D Wallechinsky The People's Almanac (1975).

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• No amphibious attack in history has approached this one in size. Along miles of coastline there were hundreds of vessels and small boats afloat and ant-like files of advancing troops ashore.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  War, Troops, World

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• But it's the wrestler who can put the fatigue out of his mind and break through the "wall," like a marathon runner after 18 or 20 miles, who will survive. The key to that survival is in hard workouts that develop mental confidence to the point where you won't submit to fatigue and pain descending upon you.

  Lou Banach

  Sports, Workout, Wall

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• Skiing consists of wearing $3,000 worth of clothes and equipment and driving 200 miles in the snow in order to stand around at a bar and drink.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Food, Order, Clothes

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• Sam Snead did to the tee-shot what Roger Bannister did to the four-minute mile.

  Byron Nelson

  Golf, Four, Roger

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• Miles and miles and miles.

  Alan Shepard

  Golf, Railroad Tracks

  "The 12 Moonwalkers: Where Are They Now?" by Ki Mae Heussner, abcnews.go.com. July 16, 2009.

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• Forget yourself by becoming interested in others. Do every day a good deed that will put a smile of joy on someone's face.

  Dale Carnegie

  Helping Others, Joy, Faces

  "How To Stop Worrying and Start".

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• I walked a mile with Pleasure; She chattered all the way. But left me none the wiser For all she had to say. I walked a mile with Sorrow And ne'er a word said she; But oh, the things I learned from her When Sorrow walked with me!

  Robert Browning

  Learning, Grieving, Funeral

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• Why is commitment such a big problem for a man? I think that for some reason when a man is driving down that freeway of love, the woman he's with is like an exit, but he doesn't want to get off there. He wants to keep driving. And the woman is like, "Look, gas, food, lodging, that's our exit, that's everything we need to be happy... Get off here, now!" But the man is focusing on the sign underneath that says, "Next exit 27 miles," and he thinks, "I can make it."

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Funny Love, Commitment, Thinking

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• Most people who are healthy, and I'm healthy, can't even live my life. Trust me. I get up 530-6 every morning. I'm in the gym. I run a couple miles. I lift weights, and then I'm at work until 8-9 o'clock at night.

  Magic Johnson

  Motivational, Basketball, Running

  "Magic Johnson pushes HIV awareness". Interview with Dr. Sanjay Gupta, www.cnn.com. November 24, 2004.

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• The web is more a social creation than a technical one. I designed it for a social effect - to help people work together - and not as a technical toy. The ultimate goal of the Web is to support and improve our weblike existence in the world. We clump into families, associations, and companies. We develop trust across the miles and distrust around the corner.

  Tim Berners-Lee

  Science, Technology, People

  "Weaving the Web". Book by Tim Berners-Lee, 1999.

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• The tree which needs two arms to span its girth sprang from the tiniest shoot. Yon tower, nine stories high, rose from a little mound of earth. A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

  Laozi

  Success, Journey, Two

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• This is the practice school of writing. Like running, the more you do it, the better you get at it. Some days you don't want to run and you resist every step of the three miles, but you do it anyway. You practice whether you want to or not. You don't wait around for inspiration and a deep desire to run ... That's how writing is too ... One of the main aims in writing practice is to learn to trust your own mind and body; to grow patient and nonaggressive.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Running, Inspiration, Writing

  Natalie Goldberg (2016). “Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within”, p.14, Shambhala Publications

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• Footballers can be like artists when the mind and body are working as one. It is what Miles Davis does when he plays free jazz - everything pulls together into one intense moment that is beautiful.

  Lilian Thuram

  Beautiful, Football, Artist

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

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• There were something like 50 good, arduous climbs around Nice, solid inclines of ten miles or more. The trick was not to climb every once in awhile, but to climb repeatedly. I would do three different climbs in one day, over the course of a six- or seven-hour ride. A 12 mile climb took about an hour, so that tells you what my days were like.

  Lance Armstrong

  Nice, One Day, Different

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• Runners like to train 100 miles per week because it's a round number. But I think 88 is a lot rounder.

  Don Kardong

  Running, Thinking, Numbers

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• We need a change in consciousness to go with this technology platform. We need a new narrative: we need to shift from geopolitics to biosphere consciousness in one generation. The biosphere is understood here as what goes from the biosphere to the depths of the ocean 40 miles where all living beings interact with all chemicals to create a very complex choreography that we call "life on earth". That is biosphere that is our indivisible community.

  Jeremy Rifkin

  Ocean, Technology, Community

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• It means that no blue ribbon is forever. Someday - if the world doesn't explode itself in the meantime - someone will run a two-minute mile in the Olympics. It may take a hundred years or a thousand, but it will happen. Because there is no ultimate blue ribbon. There is zero, and there is eternity, and there is mortality, but there is no ultimate.

  Stephen King

  Running, Zero, Mean

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• If there were a mile high mountain of granite, and once every ten-thousand years a bird flew past and brushed it with a feather, by the time that mountain was worn away, a fraction of a second would have passed in the context of eternity

  Lois Duncan

  Past, Years, Bird

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• Leaning to the side but you can't speed through;
  2 miles an hour so everybody sees you.

  DJ Jazzy Jeff

  Hip Hop, Sides, Speed

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• It is the vice of a vulgar mind to be thrilled by bigness, to think that a thousand square miles are a thousand times more wonderful than one square mile, and that a million square miles are almost the same as heaven.

  E. M. Forster

  Thinking, Squares, Heaven

  E.M. Forster (2015). “Howard's End”, p.28, Xist Publishing

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• Every twenty minutes on the Appalachian Trail, Katz and I walked farther than the average American walks in a week. For 93 percent of all trips outside the home, for whatever distance or whatever purpose, Americans now get in a car. On average the total walking of an American these days - that's walking of all types: from car to office, from office to car, around the supermarket and shopping malls - adds up to 1.4 miles a week, barely 350 yards a day.

  Bill Bryson

  Distance, Home, Average

  "A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail". Book by Bill Bryson, 1997.

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• A good horse makes short miles.

  George Eliot

  Horse, Equestrian, Good Horse

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• The sport of skiing consists of wearing three thousand dollars worth of clothes and equipment and driving two hundred miles in the snow in order to stand around at a bar and get drunk.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Love, Sports, Order

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Modern Manners: An Etiquette Book for Rude People”, p.266, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• In the press grandstand where I watched Discovery rise against the cloudless sky, the media hit the abort button on cynicism. The Earth shook to the sounds of man, three miles away. The candle lit. . . only someone stripped of awe can leave a launch untouched.

  Jonathan Alter

  Men, Media, Sky

  Jonathan Alter (2008). “Between the Lines: A View Inside American Politics, People, and Culture”

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