Miles Quotes - page 3

An inch of foreknowledge is worth ten miles of after-thought. (Jack Vance)
Brass bands are all very well in their place - outdoors and several miles away. View quote
Thomas Beecham
The idea of defending, as integral parts of our Empire, countries 10,000 miles off, like Australia, which neither pay a shilling to our revenue...nor afford us any exclusive trade...is about as quixotic a specimen of national folly as was ever exhibited. View quote
Richard Cobden
Oh, when I was in love with you Then I was clean and brave, And miles around the wonder grew How well did I behave. And now the fancy passes by And nothing will remain, And miles around they'll say that I Am quite myself again. View quote
A. E. Housman
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. View quote
Peter Steele
Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousands of miles and all the years you have lived. View quote
Helen Keller
We scientists are clever - too clever - are you not satisfied? Is four square miles in one bomb not enough? Men are still thinking. Just tell us how big you want it! View quote
Richard Feynman
If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside. View quote
Robert X. Cringely
How small the vastest of human catastrophes may seem, at a distance of a few million miles. View quote
H. G. Wells
You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves. View quote
Mary Oliver
Until a man might travel twelve stout miles, Or reap an acre of his neighbor's corn. (William Wordsworth)
When you get into trouble 5,000 miles from home, you've got to have been looking for it. View quote
Will Rogers
Death and disaster are at our shoulders every second of our lives, trying to get at us. Missing, a lot of the time. A lot of miles on the motorway without a front wheel blow-out. A lot of viruses that slither through our bodies without snagging. A lot of pianos that fall a minute after we've passed. Or a month, it makes no difference. So unless were going to get down on our knees and give thanks every time disaster misses, it makes no sense to moan when it strikes. View quote
Hugh Laurie
It's hard to be wrongfully accused, but it's worse when the people looking down on you are clods who have never read a book or traveled more than twenty miles from the place they were born. View quote
Patrick Rothfuss
And that was as far as he got before i heard it. The thumping of footsteps, running up the lawn toward me: It seemed like I could hear it through the grass, like leaning your ear to a railroad track and feeling the train coming, miles away. As the noise got closer I could hear ragged breaths, and then a voice. View quote
Sarah Dessen
I knew I had to keep him to myself, as I'd slowly begun to keep everything. We had secrets now, truths and half-truths, that kept her always at arm's length, behind a closed door, miles away. View quote
Sarah Dessen
Silicon Valley is 130 miles from Sacramento, but it might as well be a million miles away given how it operates. View quote
Meg Whitman
It's about the time I was riding my Motorcycle, going down a mountain road at 150 miles an hour, playing my guitar. View quote
Arlo Guthrie
To stand on the firing parapet and expose yourself to danger; to stand and fight a thousand miles from home when you're all alone and outnumbered and probably beaten; to spit on your hands and lower the pike; to stand fast over the body of Leonidas the King; to be rear guard at Kunu-Ri; to stand and be still to the Birkenhead Drill; these are not rational acts. They are often merely necessary. View quote
Jerry Pournelle
My living in Yorkshire was so far out of the way, that it was actually twelve miles from a lemon. View quote
Sydney Smith
From the walls of Baidi high in the colored dawn To Jiangling by night-fall is three hundred miles, Yet monkeys are still calling on both banks behind me To my boat these ten thousand mountains away. (Li Bai)
Short of climbing aboard a time capsule and peeling back eight and one-half decades, James Cameron's magnificent Titanic is the closest any of us will get to walking the decks of the doomed ocean liner. Meticulous in detail, yet vast in scope and intent, Titanic is the kind of epic motion picture event that has become a rarity. You don't just watch Titanic, you experience it - from the launch to the sinking, then on a journey two and one-half miles below the surface, into the cold, watery grave where Cameron has shot never-before seen documentary footage specifically for this movie. View quote
James Berardinelli
It was so quiet, a reservation kind of quiet, where you can hear somebody drinking whiskey on the rocks three miles away. View quote
Sherman Alexie
Take most people, they're crazy about cars. They worry if they get a little scratch on them, and they're always talking about how many miles they get to a gallon, and if they get a brand-new car already they start thinking about trading it in for one that's even newer. I don't even like old cars. I mean they don't even interest me. I'd rather have a goddam horse. A horse is at least human, for God's sake. View quote
J. D. Salinger
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. View quote
Nikola Tesla