Miles Quotes

They think they can make fuel from horse manure - now, I don't know if your car will be able to get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.

Memory is a net: one that finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook, but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking.

I run four miles most days, at about 8:00 to 8:15 pace. It's totally relaxed.

In front of us was not a line but a fortress position, twenty miles deep, entrenched and fortified, defended by masses of machine-gun posts and thousands of guns in a wide arc. No chance for cavalry!

If we don't act, drilling will be allowed only 3 miles off Florida's east coast beaches.

I need a stimulating environment to write because my books are driven at 100 miles per hour at a time.

It goes without saying that when you're the manager of a Premiership club, you go eight miles down the road and get beaten by a team two divisions below you, it's disappointing.

Everything officers go through in any chase anywhere in the country, but amped up 100 times! I'm right in the thick of things in a car going like 80 miles an hour, and doing 360s in the middle of the road. It was a wild ride.

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.

I don't mind being compared to Whitney, there are people miles worse to be compared to.

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

Jazz fans love Miles and I love him for a myriad of reasons, but the overviews are always too simplistic.

Can miles truly separate you from friends... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there?

In 1990 we ran across Europe through 13 countries and covering 7,130 miles.

I'm going to tell you the story about the geese which fly 5,000 miles from Canada to France. They fly in V-formation but the second ones don't fly. They're the subs for the first ones. And then the second ones take over - so it's teamwork.

Later, in the early teens, I used to ride my bike every Saturday morning to the nearest airport, ten miles away, push airplanes in and out of the hangars, and clean up the hangars.

Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

British fans are exceptional, but the American fans are something else. Some of them fly 500 miles to stand in line for three hours, just to meet me, then when they do they collapse.

Southern barbecue is the closest thing we have in the U.S. to Europe's wines or cheeses; drive a hundred miles and the barbecue changes.

I run six-to-eight miles a day, plus weights and aerobics in the lunch hour. I also lie a lot, which keeps me thin.

About fifteen miles above New Orleans the river goes very slowly. It has broadened out there until it is almost a sea and the water is yellow with the mud of half a continent. Where the sun strikes it, it is golden.

I just went off for two months traveling around Europe on a motorcycle and pretty much turned my phone off. I did 5,000 miles with my dad. We went through Holland, Germany, Austria, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia, Montenegro, Italy... and then I did Spain and France by myself.

General Washington had rather incautiously encamped the bulk of his army on Long Island - a large and plentiful district about two miles from the city of New York.

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.

From 8,000 miles away... I would not judge a fellow soldier from a friendly nation and how they are employing their resources.

I like to listed to the adventurous guys - the Coltranes, Miles Davis, the guys who just let it loose.

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

When I was 2, we moved into an imposing country mansion 8 miles west of Cardiff, Wales.

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.

I remember one winter, when I was about five or six, I spent three days with another boy, tracking a bobcat that had been sighted in another county fifty miles away, but which I was sure had come into our neighborhood.