Four Mile Quotes

#1. I'm really just trying to hash out the next two weeks of my life. So, something that is potentially four months down the road is not just a mile down the road for me, it's a million miles down the road.

Adam Carolla

#2. You have to run 75 to 100 miles a week if you expect to break the four-minute mile.

Kenneth H. Cooper

#3. Kope!" the other guy yeled. "What the frick?! You got some cheetah blood in you or what?""Seriously!" insisted Blake. "How did you run so fast?"
"I am African." Without taking his eyes from mine, Kopano eased himself off me, and I sat up.

Wendy Higgins

#4. It's not macho to read? Nonsense. Reading is a stouthearted activity, disporting courage, keenness, stick-to-itness. It is also, in my experience, one of the most thrilling and enduring delights of life, equal to a home run, a slamdunk, or breaking the four-minute mile.

Irving Stone

#5. My big running discovery was around Stanley Park in Vancouver. Miss it. That's a six-mile loop. Now I smile when I get four miles done. Age is a beast.

Michael Weatherly

#6. Boston - wrinkled, spindly-legged, depleted of nearly all her spiritual and cutaneous oils, provincial, self-esteeming - has gone on spending and spending her inflated bills of pure reputation, decade after decade.

Elizabeth Hardwick

#7. I was in a music class when I was little, and they discovered I had a talent and could sing. From there, I joined this singing troupe in California, and I would just go sing at festivals in this girl group and perform as much as I could.

Vanessa Morgan

#8. You still think we can go out there, and we can all run the mile in four minutes, you know, your mind still thinks that, but then you go out and actually try to do it, it's kind of scary.

Caitlyn Jenner

#9. The emotion of love gives all of us a misleading illusion of knowing the other.

Milan Kundera

#10. The fact that something is in a rhymed form or in blank verse will not make it good poetry.

Robert Morgan

#11. Only four weeks ago, despite the pain in my chest, I did a fifty-mile run and qualified for my ultimate goal, my personal Holy Grail: the Western States Endurance Run.

Geoffrey Kurland

#12. The best memorizers in the world - who almost all hail from Europe - can memorize a pack of cards in less than a minute. A few have begun to approach the 30-second mark, considered the 'four-minute mile of memory.'

Joshua Foer

#13. Doctors and scientists said breaking the four-minute mile was impossible, that one would die in the attempt. Thus, when I got up from the track after collapsing at the finish line, I figured I was dead

Roger Bannister

#14. If you feel you are the body type, then running can be very beautiful for you: a four, five mile run every day. And make it a meditation. It will transform you completely.

Rajneesh

#15. I'm a leftover junkie.

Kris Carr

#16. The writer ... an athlete required to break the four-minute mile every morning.

Irving Stone

#17. I just don't know what makes a picture, really - the thing that makes it is something unique, as far as I can understand. Just like one guy can write a sentence and it's beautiful and another one can write it and it's dead. What the difference is, I don't know.

Harry Callahan

#18. The oil can is mightier than the sword.

Everett Dirksen

#19. USA Today reports that the number of death row executions this year has hit a 35-year low. They attribute that to DNA evidence clearing more people and the fact that Rick Perry has been on the road campaigning.

Jay Leno

#20. That's what they should teach us here. How girls' brains work ... It would be more useful than divination, anyway ...

J.K. Rowling

#21. The short English miles are delightful for walking. You are always pleased to find, every now and then, in how short a time you have walked a mile, though, no doubt, a mile is everywhere a mile, I walk but a moderate pace, and can accomplish four English miles in an hour.

Karl Philipp Moritz

#22. To go below one nanokelvin is like running a mile below four minutes for the first time.

Wolfgang Ketterle

#23. And Cliff goes, "It just makes you wonder."
About what?
"About what we could get away with if we wanted to."
My throat tightens.
Cliff says, "Probably all kinds of stuff."
I feel nauseous.
Smiling, Cliff says, "Probably anything.

Jason Myers

#24. When Death doth close his tender dying eyes.

William Shakespeare

#25. Sam Snead did to the tee-shot what Roger Bannister did to the four-minute mile.

Byron Nelson

#26. The mile has a classic symmetry ... It's a play in four acts.

John Landy