Miles Quotes - Page 27

• Holy smoke! We lost our last match and there's a storm coming!
  Party On!
  A flash flood swept away all our gear and we're twenty miles from the trailhead!
  Party On!
  My femur bone's sticking through my skin and I've gotta cross that river!
  Party On!

  Cody Lundin

  Party, Rivers, Survival

  Cody Lundin (2011). “98. 6 Degrees: The Art of Keeping Your Ass Alive”, p.47, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• We just have to go at 100 miles an hour in all our businesses, be they television broadcasting, be they magazine publishing, be they subscription television, be they online, be they gaming. We just have to go at one hundred miles an hour.

  James Packer

  Magazines, Television, Hours

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• Why should they ask me to put on a uniform and go ten thousand miles from home and drop bombs and bullets on brown people in Vietnam while so-called Negro people in Louisville are treated like dogs and denied simple human rights?

  Muhammad Ali

  Dog, Home, Simple

  "Stephen Frears To Direct ‘Muhammad Ali’s Greatest Fight’ For HBO, Casting Underway" by Kevin Jagernauth, www.indiewire.com. February 1, 2012.

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• A traveler s thoughts in the night Wander in a thousand miles of dreams.

  Wang Wei

  Dream, Travel, Night

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• They always call depression the blues, but I would have been happy to waken to a periwinkle outlook. Depression to me is urine yellow, washed out, exhausted miles of weak piss.

  Gillian Flynn

  Yellow, Exhausted, Weak

  Gillian Flynn (2012). “The Novels of Gillian Flynn: Sharp Objects, Dark Places”, p.66, Broadway Books

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• Did Muddy Waters play an acoustic? Well of course he did. But did he turn his back on being able to plug it in and play louder? No, he plugged in and turned it up and got miles and miles ahead of the game in one fateful act of just plugging in.

  Billy Gibbons

  Games, Play, Water

  "David Lynch and ZZ Top's Billy Gibbons dream about machines" by Michael Hann, www.theguardian.com. November 3, 2011.

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• For each and every person, our Lord and Master provides sustenance. Why are you so afraid, O mind? The flamingos fly hundreds of miles, leaving their young ones behind. Who feeds them, and who teaches them to feed themselves? Have you ever thought of this in your mind?

  Guru Nanak

  Leaving, Mind, Flamingos

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• Do not count the days, do not count the miles. Count only the Germans you have killed. Kill the German - this is your old mother's prayer. Kill the German - this is what your children beseech you to do. Kill the German - this is the cry of your Russian earth. Do not waver. Do not let up. Kill.

  Ilya Ehrenburg

  Mother, Prayer, Children

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• The voyage of the Beagle has been by far the most important event in my life and has determined my whole career; yet it depended on so small a circumstance as my uncle offering to drive me 30 miles to Shrewsbury, which few uncles would have done, and on such a trifle as the shape of my nose.

  Charles Darwin

  Uncles, Science, Offering

  Charles Darwin (2010). “The Works of Charles Darwin, Volume 29: “Erasmus Darwin” by Ernest Krause, with a Preliminary Notice by Charles Darwin; “The Autobiography of Charles Darwin” Edited by Nora Barlow; and Consolidated Index”, p.113, NYU Press

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• I always have to go that extra mile, and I do it and I don't mind doing it, but it isn't fair.

  Patti LaBelle

  Mind, Extras, Extra Mile

  Interview with AskMen, www.askmen.com.

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• I walked a thousand miles just to slip this skin.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Sadness, Skins, Thousand

  Song: Streets Of Philadelphia

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• I lived in a small town. It was 2,000 people in Canada. A little river that went through it and we swam in the - you know, there was a lot of water around. Niagara Falls was about four or five miles away.

  James Cameron

  Fall, Rivers, People

  "Filmmaker, Inventor and Explorer". The Academy of Achievement interview, www.achievement.org. June 18, 1999.

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• At age 22 I set what I insist is an all-time record for distance hitchhiking in Bermuda shorts: 3,700 miles in three weeks.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Distance, Age, Three

  Hunter S. Thompson (2003). “The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time”, p.592, Simon and Schuster

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• I’d rather lose a 3:58 mile than win one in 4:10.

  John Landy

  Winning, Loses

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• Could I get mansions covering ten thousand miles, I'd house all the poor scholars and make them beam with smiles

  Du Fu

  House, Covering, Poor

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• I'm happy to report you still get nothing you don't need at Motel 6, and, therefore, you don't have to pay for it. I don't need valet parking. If I can drive the old crate 300 miles to the hotel all by myself, I can certainly handle the last nine feet to the parking space.

  Tom Bodett

  Feet, Space, Needs

  "Actually, Motel 6 Doesn't Leave the Light on for You". Interview with Kimberly D. Williams, adage.com. August 30, 2007.

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• So much of what I love about poetry lies in the vast possibilities of voice, the spectacular range of idiosyncratic flavors that can be embedded in a particular human voice reporting from the field. One beautiful axis of voice is the one that runs between vulnerability and detachment, between 'It hurts to be alive' and 'I can see a million miles from here.' A good poetic voice can do both at once.

  Tony Hoagland

  Beautiful, Running, Hurt

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• Alternate currents, especially of high frequencies, pass with astonishing freedom through even slightly rarefied gases. The upper strata of the air are rarefied. To reach a number of miles out into space requires the overcoming of difficulties of a merely mechanical nature.

  Nikola Tesla

  Air, Numbers, Space

  Nikola Tesla (2016). “Experiments with Alternate Currents of High Potential and High Frequency: [Illustrated & Biography Added]”, p.57, eKitap Projesi

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• The SEALs place a premium on brute strength, but there's an even bigger premium on speed. That's speed through the water, speed over the ground, and speed of thought. There's no prizes for gleaming a set of well-oiled muscles in Coronado. Bulk just makes you slow, especially in soft sand, and that's what we had to tackle every day of our lives, mile after mile.

  Marcus Luttrell

  Water, Speed, Sand

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• You cannot underestimate people's ability to spot a soulless, bureaucratic tactic a million miles away. It's a big reason why so many companies that have dipped a toe in social media waters have failed miserably.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Media, Water, People

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• The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.

  Laozi

  Journey, Fortune Cookie, Steps

  "The Book of the Simple Way of Laotze: A New Translation from the Text of the Tao-teh-king".

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• British fans are exceptional, but the American fans are something else. Some of them fly 500 miles to stand in line for three hours, just to meet me, then when they do they collapse.

  Craig Charles

  Fans, Three, Lines

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'm tired of hearing all this talk from people who don't understand the process of hard work-like little kids in the back seat asking 'Are we there yet?' Get where you're going 1 mile-marker at a time.

  Nick Saban

  Hard Work, Tired, Kids

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• You can tell by looking at me that I've got more miles behind me than I've got in front of me. When you reach that point, if you've got some good years left, you want to make sure that you use them wisely

  Tom Osborne

  Years, Use, Want

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• How did I know you ran a 4:30 mile in high school? That's easy. Everyone ran a 4:30 mile in high school.

  Frank Shorter

  School, Easy, Ran

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