Mile A Minute Quotes

#1. I'm controlling, and I want everything orderly, and I need lists. My mind goes a mile a minute. I'm difficult on every single level.

Sandra Bullock

#2. Decisions are being made a mile a minute while you're making the work, and it has to come out of experience and vision.

Jules Olitski

#3. Each time, Lippmann would talk a mile a minute, and Danny and Vinny would stare in wonder. Their meetings acquired the flavor of a postmodern literary puzzle: The story rang true even as the narrator seemed entirely unreliable.

Michael Lewis

#4. I find painting a much slower process than comedy, where you can go a mile a minute verbally and hope to God that some of the people out there understand you.

Jonathan Winters

#5. To stutter through it with you or even stop stuttering and say nothing, was so lucky and soft, better talk than mile-a-minute with anyone. After a few minutes we'd stop rattling, we'd adjust, we'd settle in, and the conversation would speed into the night.

Daniel Handler

#6. Changing the plan at the last moment. "Oh, come on. The chicken can wait. Can't it? Sure it can." He was talking a mile a minute. "You can put the other thing back

Donna Tartt

#7. Like a duck on the pond. On the surface everything looks calm, but beneath the water those little feet are churning a mile a minute.

Gene Hackman

#8. You need to let the little things that would ordinarily bore you suddenly thrill you.

Andy Warhol

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

Kenneth H. Cooper

#10. 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

#11. 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

#12. I have a 100-mile round trip commute on some of the nations' busiest roads and enjoy every minute of it.

Henrik Fisker

#13. The Tour (de France) is essentially a math problem, a 2,000-mile race over three weeks that's sometimes won by a margin of a minute or less. How do you propel yourself through space on a bicycle, sometimes steeply uphill, at a speed sustainable for three weeks? Every second counts.

Lance Armstrong

#14. There was a year between school and getting going as an actor when I basically just watched films. Video shops were the new thing, and there was a good one round the corner and me and my brother just watched everything, from the horror to the European art-house.

Aidan Gillen

#15. 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

#16. I walk an 11-minute mile without huffing and puffing.

Jessye Norman

#17. In the first place, any group of folks willing to make asses of themselves in pursuit of a good time should be commended and encouraged: The spirit of human frolic needs all the help it can get.

Molly Ivins

#18. Knowing that a 6-minute mile is just as far as a 16-minute mile will allow you to move forward and gain confidence. How

Sarah Richardson

#19. Everything is negotiable if the correct pressure is applied.

Karen Marie Moning

#20. The efficiency of most workers is beyond the control of the management and depends more than has been supposed upon the willingness of men to do their best.

Sumner Slichter

#21. I am a marathon runner. I ran the New York City marathon and almost died. I tried to run, like, a two-minute mile early on in the race. I was crazy enough to think I could win. After seven miles I thought I would die, but I slowed down my pace and kept going.

Sean Combs

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

Irving Stone

#23. The 3-minute mile goal is to teach runners that the impossible is where goals should be set.

Gerry Lindgren

#24. It's amazing that more people have climbed Mount Everest than have broken the 4-minute mile.

Roger Bannister

#25. My parents took me to the Bronte parsonage in England when I was a teenager. I had a fight with my mum, burst into tears, jumped over a stile and ran out into the moors. It felt very authentic: A moor really is an excellent place to have a temper tantrum.

Eleanor Catton

#26. I ran my first sub-4-minute mile in 1977 and since then have run 136 more. Nobody has run as many sub-4s as I have, and I intend to run at least one more.

Steve Scott

#27. Helpless, I clenched my fists against my back, well aware that every mile, every minute that ticked by, took me ever farther from getting to them in time and closer to losing the red dragon forever.

Julie Kagawa

#28. I wait till the last minute to do lyrics. I seem to work best that way - bummed out and under pressure. I often don't do my homework. But I'll always walk that extra mile.

Steven Tyler

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

Byron Nelson

#30. The man whose horse trots a mile in a minute does not carry the most important messages.

Henry David Thoreau

#31. Whether we athletes liked it or not, the 4-minute mile had become rather like an Everest: a challenge to the human spirit, it was a barrier that seemed to defy all attempts to break it, an irksome reminder that men's striving might be in vain.

Roger Bannister