Mileage Quotes

• It's not the years honey, it's the mileage.

  Harrison Ford

  Years, Honey, Ark

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• Mileage makes champions

  Steve Fairbairn

  Champion, Rowing

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• As between mileage and experience choose experience.

  Clifton Fadiman

  Experience

  Clifton Fadiman (1962). “Enter, conversing”

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• There's a great deal about Roman Catholicism that I basically disagree with. For instance, the doctrine of Mary which... I have studied that stuff and I simply don't think that has any mileage at all biblically, theologically, and I've got some friends who are very disappointed that I say that.

  N. T. Wright

  Thinking, Stuff, Doctrine

  "Trevin Wax Interview with N.T. Wright". blogs.thegospelcoalition.org. November 19, 2007.

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• My publisher had mailed [Bret Easton Ellis] Richard Yates. And when I talked to him he said he had read all my prose books. And he said something like, "You got a lot of mileage out of Dakota Fanning."

  Tao Lin

  Book, Like You, Said

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It's simple ... go the extra mile and you will stand out from the crowd

  Robin Crow

  Motivational, Simple, Excellence

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• Today, do just a little bit more. Turn going the extra mile into a habit - it is what lifts most successful people above the crowd.

  Bob Proctor

  Successful, People, Crowds

  FaceBook post by Bob Proctor from Aug 15, 2015

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• Eventually, competition and adventure wane, and I enter my ibuprofen phase. Tweaky hamstrings and achy knees restrict mileage, but I continue running for health, sanity, and the ritual of a Sunday trail run with like-minded buddies. We discuss the nagging injuries that bedevil us, and remember the good old days when we were kings.

  Don Kardong

  Running, Kings, Adventure

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• Where's my tax form? Where's the file that's supposed to hold my W-2 form and interest statement? Where's the mileage log I specifically asked be kept last year?? Where's the monthly check summary? And who's been stuffing Visa receipts in the aluminum foil drawer??!! How embarrassing. I'm surrounded by idiots and I'm the only one in the office.

  Cathy Guisewite

  Years, Office, Aluminum Foil

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• Knowledge without mileage equals bullshit.

  Henry Rollins

  Bullshit

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• Books are cool, but knowledge without mileage doesn't mean anything to me.

  Henry Rollins

  Book, Mean

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  Can miles truly separate you from friends... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there?

  Richard Bach

  Love, Friendship, I Miss You

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• As the witness testified before my Subcommittee on Immigration, that barriers magnify the ability of every Border Patrol agent to be more effective. And so if you make up your mind, you can build substantial mileage barriers. It will increase the ability of our officers to perform, and the most important thing is, it sends a message to the world, the border is closed.

  Jeff Sessions

  Mind, Important, Agents

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• The beauty of running is its simplicity; the beauty of runners is that we all have a similar drive to improve. We are either trying to run a personal best, or toeing the line for the first time, which will snowball into a future of trying to run personal bests. We road racers are a tight community of mileage-happy, limit-pushing athletes.

  Deena Kastor

  Running, Athlete, Simplicity

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• I was fortunate to get a lot of mileage out of my vices . . . The point is not to be debilitated by your pleasures. Maybe I have lucky genes or something but I've never been truly addicted to anything, except pleasure in general.

  Jay McInerney

  Vices, Lucky, Pleasure

  " Jay McInerney: 'I was fortunate to get a lot of mileage out of my vices'" by William Skidelsky, www.theguardian.com. May 19, 2012.

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• Many hybrid owners realize how sharply fuel efficiency goes down over 55 mph because they get instant mileage feedback.

  Felix Kramer

  Mph, Fuel Efficiency, Realizing

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• You get the feeling that childhood does not last as long as it used to. Innocence gets harder to hold on to as the world gets older, as it accumulates more experience, more mileage and more blood on the tracks.

  Martin Amis

  Blood, Long, Track

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• The New Romantic scene was so tiny. Although it got lots of mileage in the media, it was a really small club with only a core group of people. As it got more popular, kids started to come from the suburbs all dressed up, but it -really wasn't as big as it looked.

  Boy George

  Kids, Media, People

  "Taboo". Interview with Mark Ronson, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 19, 2008.

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• In the case of all the carmakers, there's a certain amount of greenwash. Take Toyota: They were pushing the Prius while they were meanwhile marketing the hell out of the Sequoia and other models with terrible gas mileage.

  Chris Paine

  Marketing, Pushing, Hell

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• The harsh reality is that America moves on four wheels, powered by conventional internal-combustion engines. At this point, while the elite media (excluding Newsweek) trumpet the benefits of hybrids and Ford and Toyota plan to lead the nation into a low-powered, high-mileage hybrid Utopia, the multitudes remain loyal to the gas-guzzling family bus in the driveway.

  Brock Yates

  Moving, Reality, Media

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• I enjoy doing very high mileages, partly out of masochism and also because I like to feel the shape of the landscape.

  Will Self

  Shapes, Landscape, Enjoy

  "Charles Ray". Interview with Will Self, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 21, 2013.

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• Recently, the administration has rejected conservation attempts like more accurate fuel mileage for cars and bipartisan proposals for reducing our dependence on foreign oil by a million barrels a day.

  Maria Cantwell

  Oil, Car, Rejection

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• The choice of roles as I grow older gets more and more limited, so if I pin myself to one kind of part I would get in trouble. So, these oddball ladies came along for me to do - I guess Terry Gilliam helped in this respect. I have found them more interesting, flashier and I get more mileage out of them.

  Katherine Helmond

  Interesting, Choices, Roles

  Personal Quote, www.imdb.com.

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• The hydrogen powered car, with its high fuel mileage and zero emission rate, is just one example of the products under development that will help increase our energy independence.

  Dan Lipinski

  Zero, Car, Independence

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• A Prius is not a true hybrid, really. The current Prius is, like, 2 percent electric. It's a gasoline car with slightly better mileage.

  Elon Musk

  Car, Gasoline, Prius

  "Tesla CEO Musk: Gas Should Be $10 A Gallon" by Jay Yarow, www.businessinsider.com. June 15, 2009.

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