Miles Quotes - Page 5

• I can't remember faces, don't remember names, but after awhile and a thousand miles it all becomes the same.

  Billy Joel

  Rock And Roll, Names, Faces

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• In one year I travelled 450,000 miles by air.

  Jackie Stewart

  Years, Air

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• Eugene is located in western Oregon, approximately 278 billion miles from anything.

  Dave Barry

  Oregon, Gdp, Literature

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• It always rains on tents. Rainstorms will travel thousands of miles, against prevailing winds for the opportunity to rain on a tent.

  Dave Barry

  Travel, Rain, Opportunity

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry's Only Travel Guide You'll Ever Need”, p.158, Ballantine Books

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• Brass bands are all very well in their place - outdoors and several miles away.

  Thomas Beecham

  Funny, Music, Brass Bands

  “Readers recommend: best brass songs” by Peter Kimpton, www.theguardian.com. June 26, 2014.

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• Major North and myself went out in advance of the command several miles and killed a number of buffaloes.

  Buffalo Bill

  Numbers, Command, Majors

  Buffalo Bill (1879). “The Life of Hon. William F. Cody, Known as Buffalo Bill, the Famous Hunter, Scout, and Guide: An Autobiography”, p.273, U of Nebraska Press

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• The first trip of the Pony Express was made in ten days - an average of two hundred miles a day. But we soon began stretching our riders and making better time.

  Buffalo Bill

  Journey, Average, Two

  Buffalo Bill, W. F. Cody (2012). “Buffalo Bill's Life Story: An Autobiography”, p.27, Courier Corporation

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• I admit, I have a tremendous sex drive. My boyfriend lives forty miles away.

  Phyllis Diller

  Boyfriend, Sex, Forty

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• It's never crowded along the extra mile.

  Wayne Dyer

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Leadership

  Wayne W. Dyer (2009). “A Promise Is a Promise: An Almost Unbelievable Story of a Mother's Unconditional Love and What It Can Teach Us: Easyread Large Edition”, p.1, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• A car is a 2,000 pound projectile that can go 100 miles an hour.

  Jesse Ventura

  Car, Pounds, Hours

  "Piers Morgan Tonight", transcripts.cnn.com. September 17, 2012.

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• Thanksgiving is an emotional holiday. People travel thousands of miles to be with people they only see once a year. And then discover once a year is way too often.

  Johnny Carson

  Thanksgiving, Holiday, Emotional

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• I would have to commit a crime and have cops chase me. That would be the only way to get me to jog five miles.

  Denis Leary

  Would Be, Way, Cop

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• What is wine? It is the grape present in another form; its essence is there, though the fruit which produced it grew thousands of miles away, and perished years ago. So the object of many a tender thought may be spiritually present, in defiance of space - and fond recollections cherished in defiance of time.

  Samuel Lover

  Wine, Years, Essence

  Samuel Lover, John PROCTOR (Artist) (1863). “Handy Andy: a tale of Irish life ... With eleven illustrations by John Proctor”, p.160

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• Stand-up has the best writers, because it's the hardest writing by a million miles.

  Norm MacDonald

  Writing, Hardest, Millions

  Interview with Steve Heisler, tv.avclub.com. April 12, 2011.

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• And my identity...I never really wondered about it because, unfortunately, I sounded like myself. People be saying I sound like Miles or Clifford Brown.

  Wynton Marsalis

  People, Sound, Brown

  "Steve LeVeille interviews Wynton Marsalis". Interview on WBZ Radio, radiofreesteve.wordpress.com. 1994.

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• We don't really go in for big family dinners, but Scottish people are famously confrontational. It's a cultural thing, so maybe we don't need to have them to clear the air. Also, traditional family food isn't as nice here so there's no payoff for traveling hundreds of miles.

  Denise Mina

  Nice, Air, People

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• Wherever I am in the world, if I get free time when I'm filming I always hire a car, take to the road, drive for miles and explore.

  Helen Mirren

  Car, World, Ifs

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• The way Moore's Law occurs in computing is really unprecedented in other walks of life. If the Boeing 747 obeyed Moore's Law, it would travel a million miles an hour, it would be shrunken down in size, and a trip to New York would cost about five dollars. Those enormous changes just aren't part of our everyday experience.

  Nathan Myhrvold

  New York, Law, Everyday

  "The Physicist". Interview with Stewart Brand, www.wired.com. September 1, 2005.

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• In England I am not English, in India I am not Indian. I am chained to the 1,000 square miles that is Trinidad; but I will evade that fate yet.

  V. S. Naipaul

  Fate, Squares, India

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• Most of life is routine - dull and grubby, but routine is the momentum that keeps a man going. If you wait for inspiration you'll be standing on the corner after the parade is a mile down the street.

  Ben Nicholas

  Life, Motivational, Inspiration

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• Oh, I can spot a phoney a mile away.

  Dolly Parton

  Spots, Miles Away, I Can

  "Dolly Parton: 'I may look fake but I'm real where it counts'". Interview with Hadley Freeman, www.theguardian.com. August 21, 2011.

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• The last time I was pulled over was in 2005. I was going 55 in a 35 mile per hour zone - which I don't understand because you can barely even idle at 35 miles per hour. Anyway, I was ordered to go to traffic school. It was an 8-hour class and really painful.

  Danica Patrick

  School, Class, Lasts

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• I grew up in a house with no running water, 16 miles from the closest place that had a post office. I had a very parochial view of the world.

  Rick Perry

  Running, Views, Water

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• I ran five miles today. Then, finally, I said, 'Here, lady...take your purse.'

  Emo Philips

  Funny, Humor, Today

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• America had, for one thing, lived in anarchy for - until much more recently than Europe. We had the Wild West, where the cliche of the cowboy movies was the nearest sheriff is 90 miles away, and so you had to pack a gun and defend yourself.

  Steven Pinker

  Gun, Cowboy, Europe

  "Is Human Violence On The Wane?". "Science Friday" with Ira Flatow, www.npr.org. October 7, 2011.

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