Miles Quotes - Page 3

• I took Laura on a trip once where we followed the Immigrant Trail for about six hundred miles. She really learned a lesson. People forget too often how it was back then.

  Bruce Dern

  Travel, People, Lessons

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• People in London think of London as the center of the world, whereas New Yorkers think the world ends three miles outside of Manhattan.

  Toby Young

  Thinking, People, Three

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• When you can throw 97 miles an hour and put the ball over the plate anytime you want, it's fun.

  Randy Johnson

  Fun, Balls, Want

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• Miles Davis is one who writes songs when he plays.

  Gerry Mulligan

  Song, Writing, Play

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• In 1862, Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Act, a bill opening one half million square miles of territory in the western United States for settlement.

  Peter Agre

  Gdp, Squares, Half

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• So much destruction in modern war takes place miles and miles away from the source of the destruction, the human being who has caused it.

  James Dickey

  War, Modern, Destruction

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• As horrific as this impact has been on my constituents, it is only a small part of the overwhelming destruction covering 90,000 square miles of the Gulf Coast.

  Jo Bonner

  Impact, Squares, Covering

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• An expert is somebody who is more than 50 miles from home, has no responsibility for implementing the advice he gives, and shows slides.

  Edwin Meese

  Home, Responsibility, Giving

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• The only very rugged part of the route is in crossing the Big Horn mountain, which is about 30 miles wide.

  William Henry Ashley

  Horny, Mountain, Bigs

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• The beginning of 1856 found me teaching in the family of a planter named Bryan, residing in Prince George County, Md., some fifteen or twenty miles from Washington.

  Simon Newcomb

  Teaching, Fifteen, Twenties

  Simon Newcomb (1903). “The reminiscences of an astronomer”, Harper and Brothers

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• I was so wild and crazy and dumb in my car. It didn't run but 30 miles an hour. You made do.

  Muddy Waters

  Running, Crazy, Stupid

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• But my attitude about it is I have miles to go before I sleep.

  Peabo Bryson

  Attitude, Sleep, My Attitude

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• I'm actually a very quiet person off the golf course. I talk 150 miles per hour when I'm at the course, but when in private I very seldom ever open my mouth.

  Lee Trevino

  Sports, Golf, Mouths

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• Out there in the spotlight you're a million miles away and every ounce of energy you try to give away as the sweat pours out your body like the music that you play.

  Jon English

  Play, Sweat, Giving

  Song: Turn The Page

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• A journey of four hundred and thirty miles can be made in any part of the United States, but in Turkey it takes as many days.

  Ellsworth Huntington

  Journey, Turkeys, United States

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• When Attenborough asked me to do Gandhi it was almost like stepping off one boat and stepping on to another, even though both boats are going at 60 miles per hour.

  Ben Kingsley

  Boat, Hours

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• Natural erosion had reduced the critical barrier islands in the Gulf, the result of the destruction of some 300,000 acres of wetlands. This amounted to 30 miles of marshlands.

  Mortimer Zuckerman

  Islands, Erosion, Wetlands

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• We have 45,000 square miles of geography in Ohio.

  Ken Blackwell

  Squares, Ohio, Geography

  "Countdown" with Keith Olbermann, www.nbcnews.com. November 29, 2004.

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• Detroit, the heart of the country... I grew up on 10 Mile, 2 miles better than 8 Mile.

  Kristen Bell

  Country, Heart, Detroit

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• But you can travel on for ten thousand miles, and still stay where you are.

  Harry Chapin

  Where You Are, Thousand, Stills

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• Until I was four years old I lived in the house of my paternal grandfather, about two miles from the pretty little village of Wallace, at the mouth of the river of that name.

  Simon Newcomb

  Years, Names, Two

  Simon Newcomb (1903). “The reminiscences of an astronomer”, Harper and Brothers

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• Miles Davis had me play and he hired me the following week and after that, everything broke wide open.

  Miroslav Vitous

  Play, Week, Broke

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• Wynton told us that Miles sold out, just wanted to make more money, just wanted to sell more records. I don't believe that Miles sold out but I'm not in a position to say.

  Ken Burns

  Believe, Records, More Money

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• I'm a professional cook. I've worked with other cooks from all over the world, but my family is not that way - they're always lived within 25 miles of my hometown!

  Paul Prudhomme

  World, Way, Hometown

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• I have miles to go before I sleep.

  Robert Frost

  Sleep, Miles To Go

  Robert Frost, “Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening”

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