Miles Quotes

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.

I sounded like myself. People be saying I sound like Miles or Clifford Brown.

Needless to say, there is no opportunity to interrogate or learn anything from a suspect who is vaporized by a missile launched by a keystroke executed thousands of miles away.

We began intercepting Japanese radio transmissions, which indicated the two forces were very close to each other. We found out later that we were moving in opposite directions and passed each other by 32 miles.

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.

Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the corn field.

Brass bands are all very well in their place - outdoors and several miles away.

But you can travel on for ten thousand miles, and still stay where you are.

The trees in Siberia are miles apart, that is why the dogs are so fast.

I started in law school in '71 and graduated in '74. So I was training for the Olympics, running or averaging around 20 miles a day and going to law school full time.

I love to swim for miles; I could just go back and forth.

When I came there I found all my family gone, for the Indians had killed five people in the winter near that place, which frightened my wife and family away to Roanoke about 35 miles nearer in among the inhabitants, which I was informed of by an old man I met near the place.

When I got started in New York, it wasn't like it is now. If you were different from Miles and Dizzy, it was very difficult to make gigs and make money with your own style.

My husband travels a lot with his job, so we have a lot of frequent flyer miles so we can hop on a plane with no notice. That's a nice luxury and he is very supportive.

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.

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.