Miles Quotes - page 4

Goethe said that the worst thing in art is technical facility accompanied by triteness. Many an artist, like God, has never needed to think twice about anything. His works are the mad scene from Giselle, on ice skates: he weeps, pulls out his hair-holding his wrists like Lifar-and tells you what Life is, all at a gliding forty miles an hour. (Randall Jarrell)
From my mother's sleep I fell into the State, And I hunched in its belly till my wet fur froze. Six miles from earth, loosed from its dream of life, I woke to black flak and the nightmare fighters. When I died they washed me out of the turret with a hose. View quote
Randall Jarrell
every seven miles, in America, there is at least one McDonald's. Not a hospital, mind you, or a police station, but a McDonald's, every seven miles. I mean, that's sort of scary, if you think about it. View quote
Meg Cabot
And when you'd finished running you'd be thousands of miles away from people who love you and your problem would still be there except you'd have nobody to help you. View quote
Melina Marchetta
To indicate how large a part of the Earth is covered by the oceans, we might call attention to the fact that a whole hemisphere, with its center near New Zealand, would have only one-tenth of its area as dry land! And the average depth of the seas is over two miles. View quote
Paul J. H. Schoemaker
The thing about plummetting downhill at fifty miles an hour on a snack platter - if you realize it's a bad idea when you're halfway down, it's too late. View quote
Rick Riordan
Here's a tip, Alyconeus. Next time you choose the biggest state for your home, don't set up base in the part that's only 10 miles wide. Welcome to Canada, idiot. View quote
Rick Riordan
Charlie ..." Silena's eyes were a million miles away. "See Charlie. View quote
Rick Riordan
And when demigods use cell phones, the signals agitate every monster within a hundred miles. It's like sending up a flare: Here I am! Please rearrange my face! View quote
Rick Riordan
I admit, I have a tremendous sex drive. My boyfriend lives forty miles away. View quote
Phyllis Diller
You're my closest friend and you're thousands of miles away. (Anthony Horowitz)
Miles' sessions were not typical of anybody else's sessions. They were totally unique. View quote
Herbie Hancock
The slightest stirring in the air can set a hurricane in motion a thousand miles off. (Acheron) View quote
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Love stories are written in millimeters and milliseconds with a fast, dull pencil whose marks you can barely see, they are written in miles and eons with a chisel on the side of a mountiantop. View quote
Gabrielle Zevin
The people come from everywhere, from five hundred miles, to find their fortunes. By fortune is an ugly, two-faced goddess. When you have lived with her handiwork for half a generation, you hardly notice anymore. You forget that this is not the way life has to be. You cease to marvel at just how much evil man con conjure by existing. View quote
Glen Cook
When she didn't say anything more, he frowned, thinking this was the pair of them in a nutshell: Standing three feet away from each other and being separated by miles. View quote
J.R. Ward
If two people believe in the same story, they might be thousands of miles apart and total strangers, but they still have a sense they can trust each other. View quote
James Altucher
If you just go out there and run 100 miles, it breaks down a lot of barriers in terms of self-imposed limitations. View quote
Dean Karnazes
When I was running across the country, I was doing 40 or 50 miles a day in sleeting snow with zero visibility for five or six days in a row. Ten to 12 hours of running in that is monotony beyond belief. View quote
Dean Karnazes
Every one knows how the snow lies in the valleys of the Alps, forming a plain which slopes gradually downward towards the outlet Imagine such a valley ten miles across, with just such a sloping plain, not of snow but of earth. View quote
Edward Burnett Tylor
Is it not unsupportable to be held down to a canter when you long to gallop for miles? (Georgette Heyer)
I'm probably the only one in the world you can name that's worked with Billie Holiday, Louie Armstrong, Ella, Duke, Miles, Dizzy, Ray Charles, Aretha, Michael Jackson, rappers. 'Fly Me to the Moon' was played on the moon by Buzz Aldrin. Sinatra. Paul Simon. Tony Bennett. I'm the only one. View quote
Quincy Jones
I think it was much better when you got on your horse and rode two miles to talk to your neighbor. View quote
Laura Schlessinger
I've run a lot of miles over the years, some fast and some not so fast. I've won some big races and I've had some big disappointments, but I enjoy the freedom of running and the challenge of training and competition as much now as when I first started back in high school. View quote
Alberto Salazar
All the miles of a hard road are worth a moment of true happiness. View quote
Arnold Lobel