Miles Quotes - Page 18

• It evoked Picasso and Miles Davis for me — two great artists who totally indulged themselves in their work and who they were, but they certainly didn't give a damn what other people thought.

  Rodney Crowell

  Artist, Two, People

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• I am, in fact, a medical doctor; I am a world expert in mechanical heart technology; and I am an athletically fit man who takes care of his own health through diet and exercise, including frequent five mile runs.

  Robert Jarvik

  Running, Heart, Exercise

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• Clearly it's not easy for woman in modern society, no matter where we live. We still have to go extra mile to prove that we are equal to men. We have to work longer hours and make more sacrifices. And we must emotionally protect ourselves from unfair, often vicious attacks made on us.

  Benazir Bhutto

  Sacrifice, Men, Matter

  "Whither Pakistan: Dictatorship Or Democracy?".

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• How could I tell the doctor what was wrong with me? I didn't understand it myself. I couldn't articulate the pain; it was the pain of nothingness. My fear was of the weather, the atmosphere, the very air. What good did safety tips do me now? 'Avoid water, metal objects, rooftops; stay off the telephone in a storm, don't think glass can protect you; even if a storm was 8 miles away, you're still not safe from a strike. Avoid life perhaps that was the answer. The number one safety tip, stay away from it all.

  Alice Hoffman

  Pain, Fear, Thinking

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• First you learn to drive fast. Next, you learn to drive fast in traffic. Then, you learn how to do it for 500 miles.

  Alan Kulwicki

  Next, Firsts, Traffic

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• Reardan is the rich white farm town that sits in the wheat fields exactly 22 miles away from the Rez. And it's a hick town I suppose filled with farmers and rednecks and racists cops who stop every Indian that drives through. During one week when I was little dad got stopped three times for DWI- Driving While Indian.

  Sherman Alexie

  Dad, Redneck, Wheat Fields

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• Why should I trade one tyrant three thousand miles away for three thousand tyrants one mile away?

  Benjamin Martin

  Tyrants, Three, Patriot

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• Every time I ran the mile I was aware of my own weakness, there was some opponent who could give me a hell of a fight, so I never went into a race with a sense of invincibility. I always had that feeling of fragility and nerves which made me run faster.

  Roger Bannister

  Running, Fighting, Race

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• We were taking the black young men who had been crippled by our society and sending them eight thousand miles away to guarantee liberties in Southeast Asia which they had not found in southwest Georgia and East Harlem.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Men, Eight, Black

  Beyond Vietnam -- A Time to Break Silence, Delivered 4 April 1967, Riverside Church, New York City

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• The roaring street is hung for miles With fierce electric fire.

  William Vaughn Moody

  Fire, Cities, Roaring

  William Vaughn Moody (1901). “Gloucester Moors and Other Poems”

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• I work at home but average 15,000 to 18,000 miles per year on my Honda.

  Cliff Martinez

  Home, Average, Years

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• I once found a kernel of corn in the middle of a deep wood by Walden, tucked in behind a lichen on a pine, about as high as my head, either by a crow or a squirrel. It was a mile at least from any corn-field.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Cutting, Squirrels, Crow

  Henry David Thoreau, Carl Bode (1967). “The best of Thoreau's journals”, Southern Illinois Univ Pr

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• She wondered how people would remember her. She had not made enough to spread her wealth around like Carnegie, to erase any sins that had attached to her name, she had failed, she had not reached the golden bough. The liberals would cheer her death. They would light marijuana cigarettes and drive to their sushi restaurants and eat fresh food that had traveled eight thousand miles. They would spend all of supper complaining about people like her, and when they got home their houses would be cold and they'd press a button on a wall to get warm. The whole time complaining about big oil.

  Philipp Meyer

  Cheer, Wall, Home

  "The Son". Book by Philipp Meyer, 2013.

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• Now on the hills I hear the thunder mutter... Nearer and nearer rolls the thunder-clap, - You can hear the quick heart of the tempest beat.... Look! look! that livid flash! And instantly follows the rattling thunder, As if some cloud-crag, split asunder, Fell, splintering with a ruinous crash, On the Earth, which crouches in silence under; And now a solid gray wall of rain Shuts off the landscape, mile by mile.

  James Russell Lowell

  Wall, Rain, Heart

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• I look to the right as I cross the bridge and smile to see the tip of the Eiffel Tower soaring over rooftops in the distance on the other side of the river. I've seen it in photographs a thousand times, but seeing it in person for the first time that reminds me that I'm really, truly here, thousands of miles away, across an ocean from home.

  Kristin Harmel

  Distance, Ocean, Home

  Kristin Harmel (2012). “The Sweetness of Forgetting”, p.119, Simon and Schuster

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• These feet have walked ten thousand miles working for white folks and another ten thousand keeping up with colored.

  Langston Hughes

  White, Feet, Thousand

  Langston Hughes, Donna Sullivan Harper (2002). “The Early Simple Stories”, p.22, University of Missouri Press

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• It finally happened. I got the GPS lady so confused, she said, "In one-quarter mile, make a legal stop and ask directions.

  Robert Breault

  Confused, Gps, Driving

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• A garden, you know, is a very usual refuge of a disappointed politician. Accordingly, I have purchased a few acres about nine miles from town, have built a house, and am cultivating a garden.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Garden, House, Usual

  Alexander Hamilton (1851). “Correspondence [contin.] 1795-1804; 1777; 1791. Letters of H.G. 1789. Address to public creditors. 1790. Vindication of funding system. 1791”, p.551

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• The journey of a thousand miles
  starts from beneath your feet.
  
  NOTE: Other translations exist, such as:Great trees grow from the smallest shoots;a terraced garden, from a pile of earth,and a journey of a thousand milesbegins by taking the initial step.

  Laozi

  Journey, Garden, Feet

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• Philosophy, astronomy, and politics were marked at zero, I remember. Botany variable, geology profound as regards the mud stains from any region within fifty miles of town, chemistry eccentric, anatomy unsystematic, sensational literature and crime records unique, violin player, boxer, swordsman, lawyer, and self-poisoner by cocaine and tobacco.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Education, Zero, Philosophy

  Arthur Conan Doyle, Scott McKowen (2004). “The Adventures and the Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes”, p.117, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

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• Right now I am a passenger on space vehicle Earth zooming about the Sun at 60,000 miles per hour somewhere in the solar system.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Space, Earth, Sun

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• Pickups, S.U.V.'s, vans and the like represent about 80 million vehicles, with mileage of perhaps 13 to 16 miles per gallon. Converting those should be our first priority.

  Andy Grove

  Priorities, Firsts, Should

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• If you lie down in a village square hoping to capture a sea gull, you could stay there your whole life without succeeding. But a hundred miles from shore it's different. Sea gulls have a highly developed instinct for self-preservation on land but at sea they're very cocky.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Lying, Cocky, Squares

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• The Hawaiian Islands were discovered by hardy Polynesian sailors, who crossed thousands of miles of open ocean in primitive canoes, braving violent storm-tossed seas for months at a time. My family and I arrived by modern commercial aviation, which was infinitely worse.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Humorous, Ocean

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry Talks Back”, p.107, Crown Archetype

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• If the poor overweight jogger only knew how far he had to run to work off the calories in a crust of bread he might find it better in terms of pound per mile to go to a massage parlor.

  Christiaan Barnard

  Fitness, Running, Exercise

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