Miles Quotes - Page 32

• My job playing Sam Malone was to let the audience in, to love my bar full of people. And that informed my life. I mean, we're so different [in the cast], some of us. Miles apart. [But] when I see anyone from those days, I tap into that instant love for them.

  Ted Danson

  Jobs, Mean, People

  "The Best TV Show That's Ever Been". Interview with Brian Raftery, www.gq.com. September 27, 2012.

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• There are certain songs that I like to listen to at certain times of the day. For example, first thing in the morning I love listening to "Flamenco Sketches" off of Miles Davis' Kind of Blue.

  Jon Foreman

  Song, Morning, Blue

  Source: blog.noisetrade.com

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• The future of human society. Had it made an irrevocably false start? The compass error that gets harder to correct with every mile you go?

  Sybille Bedford

  Errors, Society, Compass

  Sybille Bedford (2017). “A Favourite of the Gods and A Compass Error”, p.280, New York Review of Books

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• Every year my family would pile into the car for our vacation and drive 80 trillion miles just to prove we couldn't get along in any setting.

  Janeane Garofalo

  Vacation, Years, Car

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• In the United Kingdom, for example, the sheer overwhelming dominance of London makes it extremely for provincial cities to develop more than a very restricted financial function. London, in that sense, is akin to the notorious upas tree, a fabulous Javanese tree so poisonous that it destroys all life for many miles around itself.

  Peter Dicken

  Cities, Tree, Kingdoms

  Peter Dicken (2003). “Global Shift: Reshaping the Global Economic Map in the 21st Century”, p.467, SAGE

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• Walking alone is not difficult but when we have walked a mile worth a thousand years with someone then coming back alone is what is difficult.

  Faraaz Kazi

  Sad Love, Years, Walking Alone

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• Along the road you travel, may the miles be a thousand times more lovely than lonely.

  Douglas Pagels

  Lonely, Journey, Lovely

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• If you believe you have a just cause, an important message, or a key contribution to make, you will be just as innovative as a college freshman desperate to see his girlfriend six hundred miles away. You will get there any way you can.

  Laurie Beth Jones

  Girlfriend, Believe, College

  Laurie Beth Jones (1995). “Jesus, CEO: using ancient wisdom for visionary leadership”, Hyperion Books

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• Im the guy wholl drive 250 miles tonight and be at the gym tomorrow at 10 A.M., when people are still sleeping in. Im the guy wholl fly to Australia and find a gym. Fly back and first thing I do off the plane is work out before I shower or eat.

  John Cena

  Sleep, Australia, People

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• When I say I am going to run three miles, I run five. With that mentality, it is actually difficult to lose.

  Will Smith

  Running, Three, Difficult

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• I was with the 101st Airborne Division in Iraq, really in the middle of nowhere, about 80 miles south of Baghdad. And it was almost midnight, and I got a computer message from the home office of the Washington Post asking me to call them. I did call them and was told that I'd won the Pulitzer Prize.

  Rick Atkinson

  Home, Iraq, Office

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• If someone had said to me before I started doing this that a human being is capable of running 100 miles nonstop, I would have just said: 'No way. I mean, how?' If you just go out there and run 100 miles, it breaks down a lot of barriers in terms of self-imposed limitations.

  Dean Karnazes

  Running, Mean, Self

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• For 'So Cold the River,' I'm actually working on adapting the book with Scott Silver, who was just nominated for an Oscar for 'The Fighter,' and who also wrote '8 Mile,' which I think is a terrific screenplay. The chance to work with Scott is a tremendous pleasure and I'm learning a lot.

  Michael Koryta

  Book, Thinking, Rivers

  "Koryta details murder, a panther and a dangerous woman". Interview with Christian DuChateau, www.cnn.com. June 5, 2011.

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• There is no way in my right mind I would contemplate running 26 miles-plus unless it involved a chase with Pamela Anderson.

  Jasper Carrott

  Running, Mind, Way

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I once absent-mindedly ordered Three Mile Island dressing in a restaurant and, with great presence of mind, they brought Thousand Island Dressing and a bottle of chili sauce.

  Terry Pratchett

  Presence Of Mind, Islands, Bottles

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• Lincoln was known to have walked miles to borrow books, to get the most rudimentary form of education. So what do we do on his birthday? We close the schools!

  Robert Orben

  Book, School, Modern Life

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• I do not like the phrase: Never cross a bridge till you come to it. The world is owned by men who cross bridges on their imaginations miles and miles in advance of the procession.

  Bruce Barton

  Men, Bridges, Imagination

  Bruce Barton (1920). “It's a Good Old World: Being a Collection of Little Essays on Various Subjects of Human Interest”

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• So with my luck, I'll never make it in time to save the boy in the forest because my hair will have snagged on a tree branch a mile back.

  Cynthia Hand

  Boys, Hair, Tree

  Cynthia Hand (2011). “Unearthly”, p.15, Egmont UK

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• Had he been willing to live a hypocrite, he would have been respectable, he at least could have died surrounded by other hypocrites, and at his death there would have been an imposing funeral, with miles of carriages, filled with hypocrites, and above his hypocritical dust there would have been a hypocritical monument covered with lies.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Lying, Hypocrite, Dust

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.806, Library of Alexandria

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• Solitude is not measured by the miles of space that intervene between a man and his fellows.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Space, Solitude

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.388, Delphi Classics

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• ... ideals, standards, aspirations,--those are chameleon words, and take color from their speakers,--often false tints. A scholarly man of my acquaintance once told me that he traveled a thousand miles into the desert to get away from the word uplift, and it was the first word he heard after he reached his destination.

  Carolyn Wells

  Uplifting, Men, Color

  Carolyn Wells (1937). “The Rest of My Life”

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• I love to run, but training can be hard, especially with a family and a crazy travel schedule. I often do sprints with my kids, where they bike and I run along side them so we can 'race' each other for a quarter-mile or shorter repeats.

  Summer Sanders

  Running, Crazy, Kids

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• I have been battering away at Saturn, returning to the charge every now and then. I have effected several breaches in the solid ring, and now I am splash into the fluid one, amid a clash of symbols truly astounding. When I reappear it will be in the dusky ring, which is something like the state of the air supposing the siege of Sebastopol conducted from a forest of guns 100 miles one way, and 30,000 miles the other, and the shot never to stop, but go spinning away round a circle, radius 170,000 miles.

  James Clerk Maxwell

  Gun, Circles, Air

  James Clerk Maxwell (1990). “The Scientific Letters and Papers of James Clerk Maxwell: 1846-1862”, p.538, CUP Archive

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• Why cross and ocean when you can cross a river? Why should we sail to Washington when we can meet right away 10 miles from here?

  Shimon Peres

  Ocean, Rivers, Should

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• Some police forces would believe anything. Not the Metropolitan police, though. The Met was the hardest, most cynically pragmatic, most stubbornly down-to-earth police force in Britain. It would take a lot to faze a copper from the Met. It would take, for example, a huge, battered car that was nothing more nor less than a fireball, a blazing, roaring, twisted metal lemon from Hell, driven by a grinning lunatic in sunglasses, sitting amid the flames, trailing thick black smoke, coming straight at them through the lashing rain and wind at eighty miles an hour.That would do it every time.

  Terry Pratchett

  Rain, Believe, Flames

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