Mileage Plus Quotes

#1. When your car is about to go off a cliff, it's a weird time to be thinking about gas mileage and drag coefficients; better to take the right control action - look out the window and steer or use the brake until you're back on course.

Michael Bolton

#2. Knowledge without mileage equals bullshit.

Henry Rollins

#3. From the bodybuilding days on, I learned
that everything is reps and mileage. The more miles you ski, the better a skier you become; the more reps you do, the better your body.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

#4. There's a great deal about Roman Catholicism that I basically disagree with. For instance, the doctrine of Mary which ... I have studied that stuff and I simply don't think that has any mileage at all biblically, theologically, and I've got some friends who are very disappointed that I say that.

N. T. Wright

#5. Several years ago, when I was about to start a novel, I thought I might get some mileage out of the idea of a civilization in which people somehow felt - that is, they shared - all the pain and all the pleasure they caused one another.

Octavia E. Butler

#6. The New Romantic scene was so tiny. Although it got lots of mileage in the media, it was a really small club with only a core group of people. As it got more popular, kids started to come from the suburbs all dressed up, but it -really wasn't as big as it looked.

Boy George

#7. Geography and mileage mean nothing. Separate is a single word that covers all distances that aren't together.

Rivera Sun

#8. Different people have different reasons for racing, but one is simply the incentive to get out and run, increase mileage and feel good.

Hal Higdon

#9. As between mileage and experience choose experience.

Clifton Fadiman

#10. Mileage makes champions

Steve Fairbairn

#11. I don't think I have the mileage on me to really complain of any injuries yet.

Shannon Miller

#12. Pickups, S.U.V.'s, vans and the like represent about 80 million vehicles, with mileage of perhaps 13 to 16 miles per gallon. Converting those should be our first priority.

Andy Grove

#13. Well, you get my point: You've go one life with zero guarantees, so you do your best, adapt if possible, and keep on breathing. I recommend striving for happiness, but many opt for duty and responsibility. Mileage varies.

Beth Harbison

#14. As it is with all stories, fast cars, wild bears, mental illness, and even life, only one truth remains: your mileage may vary.

Jenny Lawson

#15. In the case of all the carmakers, there's a certain amount of greenwash. Take Toyota: They were pushing the Prius while they were meanwhile marketing the hell out of the Sequoia and other models with terrible gas mileage.

Chris Paine

#16. The true definition of a phony is a high flyer with low mileage; a person who offers a worldview from the comforts of his/her living room.

Johnnie Dent Jr.

#17. I was fortunate to get a lot of mileage out of my vices ... The point is not to be debilitated by your pleasures. Maybe I have lucky genes or something but I've never been truly addicted to anything, except pleasure in general.

Jay McInerney

#18. If anger were mileage, I'd be a very frequent flyer, right up there in First Class.

Gina Barreca

#19. You get the feeling that childhood does not last as long as it used to. Innocence gets harder to hold on to as the world gets older, as it accumulates more experience, more mileage and more blood on the tracks.

Martin Amis

#20. I realized that Sandra and I had been getting social mileage out of our children's good behavior, and, in our eyes, this son simply didn't measure up.

Stephen R. Covey

#21. There's a part of me that wishes I'd never said one single solitary word on any subject publicly. Then I could have been the tortured poet, and there's so much mileage in that. But it's too late to stop now.

Richard Thompson

#22. Under CAFE rules that took effect in 2011, bigger cars have lower mileage requirements.

Anonymous

#23. This is your first marathon. Possibly, you'll want it to be your last. Focus on future races draws energy from the one in front of you. Like the mileage that comprises them, train for marathons one at a time.

Gina Greenlee

#24. The hydrogen powered car, with its high fuel mileage and zero emission rate, is just one example of the products under development that will help increase our energy independence.

Dan Lipinski

#25. Recently, the administration has rejected conservation attempts like more accurate fuel mileage for cars and bipartisan proposals for reducing our dependence on foreign oil by a million barrels a day.

Maria Cantwell

#26. A Prius is not a true hybrid, really. The current Prius is, like, 2 percent electric. It's a gasoline car with slightly better mileage.

Elon Musk

#27. My publisher had mailed [Bret Easton Ellis] Richard Yates. And when I talked to him he said he had read all my prose books. And he said something like, "You got a lot of mileage out of Dakota Fanning."

Tao Lin

#28. Most people who play golf have one big trouble: they think too much. To get any real mileage out of this game you've got to sit on your imagination.

Sam Snead

#29. Lisbon Taxi,' a woman said, 'where the mileage is always smileage. How may we help you today?

Stephen King

#30. Books are cool, but knowledge without mileage doesn't mean anything to me.

Henry Rollins