Miles Quotes - Page 6

• Footballers can be like artists when the mind and body are working as one. It is what Miles Davis does when he plays free jazz - everything pulls together into one intense moment that is beautiful.

  Lilian Thuram

  Beautiful, Football, Artist

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• Runners like to train 100 miles per week because it's a round number. But I think 88 is a lot rounder.

  Don Kardong

  Running, Thinking, Numbers

  9 Copy quote

• We need a change in consciousness to go with this technology platform. We need a new narrative: we need to shift from geopolitics to biosphere consciousness in one generation. The biosphere is understood here as what goes from the biosphere to the depths of the ocean 40 miles where all living beings interact with all chemicals to create a very complex choreography that we call "life on earth". That is biosphere that is our indivisible community.

  Jeremy Rifkin

  Ocean, Technology, Community

  4 Copy quote

• Leaning to the side but you can't speed through;
  2 miles an hour so everybody sees you.

  DJ Jazzy Jeff

  Hip Hop, Sides, Speed

  4 Copy quote

• It is the vice of a vulgar mind to be thrilled by bigness, to think that a thousand square miles are a thousand times more wonderful than one square mile, and that a million square miles are almost the same as heaven.

  E. M. Forster

  Thinking, Squares, Heaven

  E.M. Forster (2015). “Howard's End”, p.28, Xist Publishing

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• The sport of skiing consists of wearing three thousand dollars worth of clothes and equipment and driving two hundred miles in the snow in order to stand around at a bar and get drunk.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Love, Sports, Order

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Modern Manners: An Etiquette Book for Rude People”, p.266, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

  15 Copy quote

  Show source

• Oh, I can spot a phoney a mile away.

  Dolly Parton

  Spots, Miles Away, I Can

  "Dolly Parton: 'I may look fake but I'm real where it counts'". Interview with Hadley Freeman, www.theguardian.com. August 21, 2011.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• The last time I was pulled over was in 2005. I was going 55 in a 35 mile per hour zone - which I don't understand because you can barely even idle at 35 miles per hour. Anyway, I was ordered to go to traffic school. It was an 8-hour class and really painful.

  Danica Patrick

  School, Class, Lasts

  4 Copy quote

• I grew up in a house with no running water, 16 miles from the closest place that had a post office. I had a very parochial view of the world.

  Rick Perry

  Running, Views, Water

  7 Copy quote

• I ran five miles today. Then, finally, I said, 'Here, lady...take your purse.'

  Emo Philips

  Funny, Humor, Today

  9 Copy quote

• America had, for one thing, lived in anarchy for - until much more recently than Europe. We had the Wild West, where the cliche of the cowboy movies was the nearest sheriff is 90 miles away, and so you had to pack a gun and defend yourself.

  Steven Pinker

  Gun, Cowboy, Europe

  "Is Human Violence On The Wane?". "Science Friday" with Ira Flatow, www.npr.org. October 7, 2011.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• No one will ever win a 5,000-meter by running an easy two miles. Not against me.

  Steve Prefontaine

  Running, Winning, Two

  6 Copy quote

• Social media are a catalyst for the advancement of everyone's rights. It's where we're reminded that we're all human and all equal. It's where people can find and fight for a cause, global or local, popular or specialized, even when there are hundreds of miles between them.

  Queen Rania of Jordan

  Fighting, Rights, Media

  10 Copy quote

• The planet's spinning a thousand miles an hour around this gigantic nuclear explosion while these people roll these machines with rubber tires over this hard surface that we've laid down over the planet so that we can easily move ourselves back and forth.

  Joe Rogan

  Moving, People, Nuclear

  28 Copy quote

• Have you ever heard the expression: Walk a mile in my shoes, and then judge me? And write your own books.

  Ann Rule

  Book, Writing, Expression

  9 Copy quote

• Mom was 50 when my Dad died. She got on a bus every weekday for years, and rode 40 miles each morning to Madison. She earned a new degree and learned new skills to start her small business. It wasn't just a new livelihood. It was a new life.

  Paul Ryan

  Mom, Mother, Morning

  Republican National Convention VP Nomination Acceptance, delivered 29 August 2012, Tampa, Florida

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I come from a rural state. People drive 50, 100 miles to and from work every single day. That is true all over America.

  Bernie Sanders

  America, People, States

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• I grew up in the sixties watching B.B. King and Tito Puente and Miles Davis and Coltrane, everybody, Marvin Gaye, Jimi. And at the same time, with my left eye I was watching Dolores Huerta, Cesar Chavez, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Mother Teresa.

  Carlos Santana

  Mother, Kings, Eye

  7 Copy quote

• There were something like 50 good, arduous climbs around Nice, solid inclines of ten miles or more. The trick was not to climb every once in awhile, but to climb repeatedly. I would do three different climbs in one day, over the course of a six- or seven-hour ride. A 12 mile climb took about an hour, so that tells you what my days were like.

  Lance Armstrong

  Nice, One Day, Different

  4 Copy quote

• Both me and my wife's extended family all live within a 50-mile radius. Like me, a lot of them did time in London then started drifting back to the countryside and the sea. Perhaps it's a homing instinct.

  Robert Smith

  Sea, Wife, London

  19 Copy quote

• It means that no blue ribbon is forever. Someday - if the world doesn't explode itself in the meantime - someone will run a two-minute mile in the Olympics. It may take a hundred years or a thousand, but it will happen. Because there is no ultimate blue ribbon. There is zero, and there is eternity, and there is mortality, but there is no ultimate.

  Stephen King

  Running, Zero, Mean

  4 Copy quote

• I used to try to run five miles every other day, which I worked up to and I was doing it, but I was subjected to my own thoughts for forty minutes without any sensory input, and I couldn't stand what I thought.

  Peter Steele

  Running, Trying, Input

  35 Copy quote

• It seems to be that southern Europeans are just more intimate socially, whereas I like a lot of personal space - like, a mile from the nearest person is fine for me.

  Peter Steele

  Space, Southern, Intimate

  43 Copy quote

• I once asked a hermit in Italy how he could venture to live alone, in a single cottage, on the top of a mountain, a mile from any habitation? He replied, that Providence was his next-door neighbor.

  Laurence Sterne

  Doors, Mountain, Cottages

  Laurence Sterne (1795). “The Works of Laurence Sterne”, p.175

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Every twenty minutes on the Appalachian Trail, Katz and I walked farther than the average American walks in a week. For 93 percent of all trips outside the home, for whatever distance or whatever purpose, Americans now get in a car. On average the total walking of an American these days - that's walking of all types: from car to office, from office to car, around the supermarket and shopping malls - adds up to 1.4 miles a week, barely 350 yards a day.

  Bill Bryson

  Distance, Home, Average

  "A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail". Book by Bill Bryson, 1997.

  5 Copy quote

  Show source