Mile High Quotes

#1. Million-mile-high club," Martinez said. "Nice!

Andy Weir

#2. As a sea level adapted human, I am more fearful about the radiation levels on top of high altitude mountains, mile high modern cities and inside jet aircraft than from nuclear reactors and bombs, as that is where I get the most radiation exposures in the modern world.

Steven Magee

#3. We're right next to Mile High Stadium. I'm no rocket scientist, but ... uh ... (smile).

Brian Skrudland

#4. If Britons were left to tax themselves, there would be no schools, no hospitals, just a 500-mile-high statue of Diana, Princess of Wales

Andy Zaltzman

#5. Rule Forty-two. All persons more than a mile high to leave the court.

Lewis Carroll

#6. Mile high club, it's got its ups and downs.

Adam Ant

#7. Luckily, unreasonable expectations go hand in hand with naive young scientists. The more naive the better - otherwise we would never have the audacity to try and build a 22,000-mile-high space elevator or some sprawling underwater hotel.

Daniel H. Wilson

#8. If there were a mile high mountain of granite, and once every ten-thousand years a bird flew past and brushed it with a feather, by the time that mountain was worn away, a fraction of a second would have passed in the context of eternity

Lois Duncan

#9. He smelled so good that I felt my eyelids drift closed with the pleasure of his scent. It was so good that I wanted to put a name to it, and bottle it up. - Mile High

R.K. Lilley

#10. For the admission price of $543.90, they were inducted into the exclusive Mile High Club, and it was worth every last penny.

Ella Frank

#11. This is not a dictatorship, this is based upon scientific evidence to support a given project. If you want to put up a building, say half a mile high, the material has to be available. Using statistics is not a dictatorship. It's a method of getting the most from existing resources.

Jacque Fresco

#12. Books to the ceiling, Books to the sky, My pile of books is a mile high. How I love them! How I need them! I'll have a long beard by the time I read them.

Arnold Lobel

#13. You can't look prim and righteous wearing a microscopic miniskirt and mile-high heels. Well it's pretty hard, anyway.

Meg Cabot

#14. I was the Head Boy of East High School in 1999. I represent 303 - the area code, not the band - Mile High, until I die. I'm 31, a comedian; I juggle, but I don't glove it. I think waxed mustaches run a very thin line between hipster and 1800s barkeep.

T. J. Miller

#15. Edmund, who was becoming a nastier person every minute, thought that he had scored a great success, and went on at once to say, 'There she goes again. What's the matter with her?

C.S. Lewis

#16. How did I know you ran a 4:30 mile in high school? That's easy. Everyone ran a 4:30 mile in high school.

Frank Shorter

#17. I suppose, to use our national motto, something will turn up.

Benjamin Disraeli

#18. My fastest time in high school was a 4:29 mile. I think cross-country has something to do with my longevity in my business. When you're in an eight-mile race, you never give up.

Alice Cooper

#19. My wife said never to judge her until I walked a mile in her shoes. That's how I found out I like wearing high heels.

Jerry Snider

#20. Happiness is never found in materialistic things; it exists in things that cannot be physically possessed. Therefore, happiness is priceless. It can never be purchased.

Ellen J. Barrier

#21. Journalists like to say I started off sweeping the pottery floors. But it was just a short-lived part time job doing that after I left school.

John Caudwell

#22. I once found a kernel of corn in the middle of a deep wood by Walden, tucked in behind a lichen on a pine, about as high as my head, either by a crow or a squirrel. It was a mile at least from any corn-field.

Henry David Thoreau

#23. Leave the talking for others and live by walking. Go, go and go extra mile and you will be a true owner of what belongs to you

Israelmore Ayivor

#24. It'll be all right. Maybe not tomorrow or even the next day, but one day it won't hurt so much.

Karen White

#25. What you don't know won't hurt you.

Margaret Atwood

#26. I've been sober for so many years. It wasn't like you flick a switch, and you're sober. It takes a while. You have to learn how to do everything all over again. You can measure how long that takes in terms of years.

Joe Walsh

#27. I just want to be healthy and stay alive and keep my family going and everything and keep my friends going and try to do something so that this world will be peaceful. That is the most ambitious and the most difficult thing, but I'm there trying to do it.

Yoko Ono

#28. The most peaceful thing in the world is plowing a field. Chances are you'll do your best thinking that way. And that's why I've always thought and said, farmers are the smartest people in the world, they don't go for high hats and they can spot a phony a mile off.

Harry Truman

#29. If you let your man-made actions to be more frequent than your man-said words you will travail with praise in man-win visions. Do more, say less, win big.

Israelmore Ayivor

#30. Bush and Blair ... don't understand any language but the language of force. Every time they kill us, we kill them, so the balance of terror is achieved.

Osama Bin Laden

#31. Culture is not a surface phenomenon, it is our very care

Edgar Schein

#32. Ellis Island lies in New York Harbor 1,300 feet from Jersey City, New Jersey, and one mile from the tip of Manhattan. At the time of the first European settlement, it was mostly mud, sand, and oyster shells, which nearly disappeared at high tide.

David Souter

#33. I had to ride my bike to and from their god damn plant way up north in the high-chemical crime district, and reachable only by riding on the shoulder of some major freeways. I could feel the years ticking off my life expectancy as the mile markers struggled by.

Neal Stephenson

#34. In high school, my two older brothers ran track. They'd come home sweaty and mud-covered, and I could tell they enjoyed it. So I started running - I ran a mile down the road and back again - and I haven't stopped since.

Mika Brzezinski

#35. They say let he who is without sin cast the first stone. And to be without sin requires absolute forgiveness. But when your memories are freshly opened wounds, forgiveness is the most unnatural of human emotions.

Emily Thorne

#36. I wondered how my heart could be both light with happiness and heavy with love at the same time.

R.K. Lilley

#37. I'd like to see the high schools put in a rule that limits recruitable athletes from playing on teams outside a 100-mile radius from their home or school.

Dean Smith