Miles Quotes - page 5

All the miles of a hard road are worth a moment of true happiness. (Arnold Lobel)
Teenagers are like atoms when they're moving at hundreds of miles an hour and bouncing off each other. Everybody's got such a crazy hormonal drive and reacting to each other differently and getting upset over little things. High school puts all these potential explosions in one place. View quote
Anton Yelchin
I am a leader. Leaders always get heat. They're always going against the grain. Jimi Hendrix got heat; Bob Marley got heat; Miles Davis got heat. Every great artist got heat. Heat means you're doing something right. View quote
Ziggy Marley
I could feel my anger dissipating as the miles went by--you can't run and stay mad! View quote
Kathrine Switzer
Miles Davis turned his back to the audience when he came out on stage, and he offended people. But, he wasn't there to entertain; he was all about the music. I kind of do that. View quote
Bobby McFerrin
Every single one of us possesses the strength to attempt something he isn't sure he can accomplish. It can be running a mile, or a 10K race, or 100 miles. It can be changing a career, losing 5 pounds, or telling someone you love her. View quote
Scott Jurek
I came home every Friday afternoon, riding the six miles on the back of a big mule. I spent Saturday and Sunday washing and ironing and cooking for the children and went back to my country school on Sunday afternoon. View quote
Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Consultant: any ordinary guy more than fifty miles from home. View quote
Eric Sevareid
Miles Davis fully embraced possibilities and delved into it. He was criticized heavily from the jazz side. He was supposed to be part of a tradition, but he didn't consider himself part of a tradition. View quote
Bill Laswell
I still have my bad days when I think I'm not getting everything I deserve. But those pass quickly once my Mother gets on the phone and says, 'listen, we used to eat rocks and walk 80 miles a day to school. View quote
Bonnie Hunt
One of the things that I loved about listening to Miles Davis is that Miles always had an instinct for which musicians were great for what situations. He could always pick a band, and that was the thing that separated him from everybody else. (Branford Marsalis)
Major North and myself went out in advance of the command several miles and killed a number of buffaloes. View quote
Buffalo Bill
Stations were built at intervals averaging fifteen miles apart. A rider's route covered three stations, with an exchange of horses at each, so that he was expected at the beginning to cover close to forty-five miles - a good ride when one must average fifteen miles an hour. View quote
Buffalo Bill
I was always looking ahead. I used to do all kinds of things for entertainment. When I was young, we had no radio, no TV. We were 30 miles from the public library, out in the sticks in Western Kansas, and so I'd do arithmetic exercises. View quote
Clyde Tombaugh
Miles Davis was a master. In every phase of his career, he understood that this music was a tribute to the African muse. View quote
Cassandra Wilson
Miles Davis was doing something inherently African, something that has to do with all forms of American music, not just jazz. View quote
Cassandra Wilson
I still do intense interval training. I like miles and quarters best. In races I can set my mind, and I believe I could break 2:20 again. View quote
Catherine Ndereba
I didn't really escape that gravity until I moved 300 miles south to go to college at 18, where authorship no longer seemed something liable to induce vengeful punishment. View quote
David Knopfler
We don't really go in for big family dinners, but Scottish people are famously confrontational. It's a cultural thing, so maybe we don't need to have them to clear the air. Also, traditional family food isn't as nice here so there's no payoff for traveling hundreds of miles. View quote
Denise Mina
How do I know why Miles walks off the stage? Why don't you ask him? And besides, maybe we'd all like to be like Miles, and just haven't got the guts. View quote
Dizzy Gillespie
To be a lone filmmaker thousands of miles from home with nobody believing in me, that seems romantic. (Doug Liman)
I wear a pedometer, aiming for five miles a day - don't be too impressed; that includes walking around my house and food shopping. View quote
Elinor Lipman
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. View quote
Ellsworth Huntington
Scientists at MIT and engineering schools all across America say that they could improve the fuel economy standards for the existing set of vehicles by 10 miles per gallon using existing technology, without compromising safety or comfort at all. View quote
Ed Markey
New York is only 97 miles from Philadelphia but was the Big Time as no other American city has ever been. View quote
Ethel Waters