Top 100 Miles To Quotes
#1. I think it was much better when you got on your horse and rode two miles to talk to your neighbor.
Laura Schlessinger
#2. Royce's eyes narrowed in discouragement at the thoght of having to sing to jenny. his deep bariton voice would surely bring every hound for miles to yap and nip at his heels.
Judith McNaught
#3. My head reeled at the sheer and startling beauty, the wide, bare openness of it. The sense of space, the vastness of the sky above and on either side made my heart race, I would have travelled a thousand miles to see this. I had never imagined such a place.
Susan Hill
#4. I'm happy to report you still get nothing you don't need at Motel 6, and, therefore, you don't have to pay for it. I don't need valet parking. If I can drive the old crate 300 miles to the hotel all by myself, I can certainly handle the last nine feet to the parking space.
Tom Bodett
#5. I occasionally observed that he was thinking for himself and expressing his own opinion - a phenomenon so rare that I would walk any day ten miles to observe it.
Henry David Thoreau
#6. Its 106 miles to Chicago, we got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, its dark, and we're wearing sunglasses.....hit it...
John A. Saunders
#7. There are many miles to go before we get this done ... But I have a feeling that ... we're going to have a big bipartisan vote for this in the end. My sense is that people are more optimistic than they've been in 20 years about addressing this problem.
Michael Bennet
#8. It's typical for people living in nonurban areas to drive 100 miles to go to work, to the grocery store or to the doctor.
Cynthia Lummis
#9. There is no use in your walking five miles to fish when you can depend on being just as unsuccessful near home.
Mark Twain
#10. Trains are not any more energy efficient than the average automobile, with both getting about 48 passenger miles to the gallon.
Ronald Reagan
#11. Humans are unbelievably data efficient. You don't have to drive 1 million miles to drive a car, but the way we teach a self-driving car is have it drive a million miles.
Jeff Bezos
#12. Did I really travel ten thousand miles to watch a naked girl read a menu? Yes, I supposed I had. This is the difference between sexual fantasy and sexual reality,
Dana Aaron Mather
#13. Those days if you drove cross country and you broke down on the side of the road, and the sign says 200 miles to the next gas station, you knew you were so screwed.
Rob Zombie
#14. As this drama played out in Moscow, over two thousand miles to the east in the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk; six men gathered on the stairs of one of the old communist era apartment blocks.
Pete Buckley
#15. In its lifetime, an albatross is believed to fly around fifteen million miles. To put that into perspective, it is the same as flying half way to Mars when it is at its closest distance to the Earth.
Jack Goldstein
#16. Many hard comments have been made on my efforts in India from the side of the Congress party, yet I feel content in the deep conviction that the offer I traveled 22,000 miles to discuss with Indian leaders was a real contribution to a solution of our differences.
Stafford Cripps
#17. But my attitude about it is I have miles to go before I sleep.
Peabo Bryson
#18. How many miles to Babylon? Three-score and ten. Can I get there by candle-light? Yes, there and back again. If your heels are nimble and light, You will get there by candle-light
Mira Grant
#19. It's said the FA chairman (Keith Wiseman) would travel 200 miles to open a biscuit tin. Why?
Ken Bates
#20. My tongue had probably earned about 20 million Frequent Flyer Miles to rush my immortal impudent soul to a special torture chamber in purgatory
Dorothea Benton Frank
#21. They think they can make fuel from horse manure - now, I don't know if your car will be able to get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
Billie Holiday
#22. There's huge access to information. If you need to learn something, you can go on the Internet and learn very quickly. You can reach across miles and miles to find companies that can assist you.
Fred DeLuca
#23. If you know a lonely tree, go and visit it even if it takes miles to walk there! Because lonely tree is a great monument of strength!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#24. The voyage of the Beagle has been by far the most important event in my life and has determined my whole career; yet it depended on so small a circumstance as my uncle offering to drive me 30 miles to Shrewsbury, which few uncles would have done, and on such a trifle as the shape of my nose.
Charles Darwin
#25. Man is the animal that intends to shoot himself out into interplanetary space, after having given up on the problem of an efficient way to get himself five miles to work and back each day.
Bill Vaughan
#26. The highs were high, the awe, I'm not a religious person, but I'll tell you, to be in the azure blue of the Gulf Stream as if, as you're breathing, you're looking down miles and miles and miles, to feel the majesty of this blue planet we live on, it's awe-inspiring.
Diana Nyad
#27. We saw a cloudwall hung many miles to the east and hawks floating in the unforced motion that makes you think they've been up there, the same two birds since bible times.
Don DeLillo
#28. Every inch a person's body travels on the road of separation seems like miles to the heart.
Naguib Mahfouz
#29. I remembered what Thoreau had written in his journal about thinking nothing of walking eight miles to greet a tree.
Robert Macfarlane
#30. Five more miles to go! We climb through rain and snow, A river to cross - A mountain to pass - Now we've four more miles to go! The
Ruskin Bond
#31. I told [reporters] that I sprinkled marijuana on my organic buckwheat pancakes, and then when I ran my five miles to the ballpark, it made me impervious to the bus fumes. That's when [Baseball Commissioner] Bowie Kuhn took me off his Christmas list.
Bill Lee
#32. Mrs. Mendeleyev hitchhiked with young Dmitri four thousand miles to St. Petersburg - that's equivalent to travelling from London to Equatorial Guinea - and deposited him at the Institute of Pedagogy.
Bill Bryson
#33. You ran miles and miles to find me, didn't you? You clever boy! I don't know if I should be scolding you or hugging you!" And with that, I wrapped my weak arms around my knight in furry armor. "You're the best friend a girl could ever have, Maze. I love you.
Karen Luellen
#34. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep.
Robert Frost
#35. I come from a rural state. People drive 50, 100 miles to and from work every single day. That is true all over America.
Bernie Sanders
#36. You're the only person I'd fly three thousand miles to see.
E.L. James
#37. Thanksgiving is an emotional holiday. People travel thousands of miles to be with people they only see once a year. And then discover once a year is way too often.
Johnny Carson
#38. I have slightly less than 60 miles to go, and I'm going slightly faster than 60 miles per hour. I should arrive in a bad mood.
Jarod Kintz
#39. When there are miles to go before we sleep, altered traits are more important than altered states.
Huston Smith
#40. I've never understood why people run to get out of the rain in the summertime ... People will drive miles and miles to go jump in a cool swimming hole, but when it rains, they scatter.
Silas House
#41. Come, butterfly
It's late-
We've miles to go together.
Matsuo Basho
#42. The result was that, if it happened to clear off after a cloudy evening, I frequently arose from my bed at any hour of the night or morning and walked two miles to the observatory to make some observation included in the programme.
Simon Newcomb
#43. The joy of her smiles and laughs seemed, to Mister Sun, to be in her genuine surprise at their arrival, as if strong emotions traveled some miles to get here and showed up without warning.
Warren Ellis
#44. My country did not send me 5,000 miles to start the race; they sent me 5,000 miles to finish the race. - John Stephen Akhwari, 1968 Summer Olympic
John Stephen Akhwari
#45. Aside from a very select few, there are no overnight success stories. Most of the time that single step took a thousand miles to get to it.
Carl Henegan
#46. Elwood- "It's a 106 miles to Chicago,
We got a full tank o' gas,
half a pack of cigarettes,
it's dark,
and we're wearing sunglasses."
Jake- "Hit it.
Blues Brothers
#47. On the morning after the storm the body of a drowned giant was washed ashore on the beach five miles to the north-west of the city.
J.G. Ballard
#48. The dead dog had come more than a hundred miles to find its master.
[Mademoiselle Cocotte]
Guy De Maupassant
#49. I squeeze my eyes shut and try to reach for him across the hundreds and hundreds of miles, to send my thoughts into his mind, to let him know he is not alone. But he is. And I can't help him.
Suzanne Collins
#50. Like every girl who grew up being read fairy tales, I thought love was all about big gestures. But now I understand exactly what Grandma meant. It's the heart he drew in the sand on our honeymoon, driving miles to get me the best chicken noodle soup when I was sick, making me coffee every morning.
Jillian Dodd
#52. The nearest inhabited village is about seven of your English miles to the left.
J. Sheridan Le Fanu
#53. Lincoln was known to have walked miles to borrow books, to get the most rudimentary form of education. So what do we do on his birthday? We close the schools!
Robert Orben
#54. One of the things I've discovered in general about raising kids is that they really don't give a damn if you walked five miles to school.
Patty Duke
#55. There's always people who came 600 miles to hear the song you didn't play.
Dar Williams
#56. People sold everything - their cars, their land for miles, to come in and see me beat. I went to the bank laughing every time.
Muhammad Ali
#58. The sight of home looks best after you've traveled hundreds of miles to get away from it.
Sam Ewing
#60. Most people think they want Main Streets but won't make the small sacrifices in terms of time, cost, and footpower necessary to sustain them. The sad fact is that we have created a culture in which most people will happily-indeed, unthinkingly-drive an extra couple of miles to walk thirty less feet.
Bill Bryson
#61. I love voyaging - the longest has been 3,000 miles to Hawaii. I've also spent weeks all over the Caribbean.
David Crosby
#62. The time is short and the hills is dark and I's got miles to go before I sleeps. Is is no easy road.
Ian McDonald
#63. I would walk a thousand miles To feel your hugs and see your smiles But then one day we had to part The hardest day, it broke my heart But I still see you every day Because in my heart and mind you stay.
Gail Collins
#65. The morning of the game, I'd woken up in my rez house so my dad could drive me the twenty-two miles to Reardan, so I could get on the team bus for the ride back to the reservation.
Crazy.
Sherman Alexie
#66. Human beings will line up for miles to buy a bucket of catastrophes, but don't try selling sunshine and light - you'll go broke.
Chuck Jones
#67. The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.
Robert Frost
#68. British fans are exceptional, but the American fans are something else. Some of them fly 500 miles to stand in line for three hours, just to meet me, then when they do they collapse.
Craig Charles
#69. Excellence is a Journey, from a single step to 1000 miles each. God, the perfect creator views, in one glance from the top, and manages all sets of steps or miles to a natural an eternal Harmony.
Priyavrat Thareja
#70. Catch on fire and people will come for miles to see you burn.
John Wesley
#71. I'd walk a million miles to give her what she needs. But she would walk a million more to do what she believes.
Elton John
#72. You can feel nothing but a torment, and believe nothing but a lie. You will not raise your head to look at all the miracles of life that surround you; but you will run ten miles to see a fight or a death.
George Bernard Shaw
#73. The best answer I can give is that poetry is all about the effect it has on a reader, and Robert Frost was very, very good at that. If you're asking whatit MEANS that the line is repeated [and miles to go before I sleep] I'd have to say I don't know. It's stylistic. But the effect is pretty clear.
Haven Kimmel
#74. Chickens were packed into wire crates stacked ten high, without room to stand or protection from the elements. They had likely traveled hundreds of miles to get here, without access to food or water.
Rachel Lacey
#75. If you don't know your maker, you may travel miles to find your true self to no avail. Your maker knows you; to know yourself, know your maker!
Israelmore Ayivor
#76. When I started out. I'd drive a hundred miles to do my act for free.
Jim Carrey
#77. Light yourself on fire with passion and people will come from miles to watch you burn.
John Wesley
#78. Prison service vans that travel 90 miles to take a prisoner 90 yards; paedophiles free to leer at children in the very parks where they have committed horrific crimes.
Trevor Phillips
#79. Goal setting is commonsense; you don't waste fuel traveling for miles to an imaginary destination.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#80. I used to be sick of the backroads of Minnesota. I had to drive 30 miles to get home every day, take the schoolbus for two hours. But to drive through America and see the backroads, from Nashville to Memphis, Lovick to New Mexico, was incredible. It was probably the greatest trip of my life.
Garrett Hedlund
#81. The details of my thoughts bled into thin pieces of paper, spread across miles to touch hearts of the people; who've lost their truest homes- themselves.
Nikki Rowe
#82. My house is actually two houses that were deconstructed. They were Connecticut Valley houses built in 1771 and 1781. I took them down piece by piece and reconstructed them about 50 miles to the west on the New York/Connecticut border.
Daryl Hall
#83. Catch on fire with enthusiasm, and people will come for miles to watch you burn
Jo Ann Butler
#84. Shipping is so cheap that it makes more financial sense for Scottish cod to be sent 10,000 miles to China to be filleted, then sent back to Scottish shops and restaurants, than to pay Scottish filleters.
Rose George
#85. What's amazing is that I'm recognized all over the world through 'Red Dwarf.' British fans are exceptional, but the American fans are something else. Some of them fly 500 miles to stand in line for three hours, just to meet me, then when they do they collapse. It makes you feel like a rock star!
Craig Charles
#86. Then, again, how annoying to be told it is only five miles to the next place when it is really eight or ten!
John Burroughs
#87. The way an old dog finds his way back over miles and miles to his home when somebody trues to shove him off on a farm someplace, that is how I find my way back to the library. It's my place, even more than my place is.
Chris Lynch
#88. "Back in the day when I started - it's like I walked five miles to school in the snow barefooted" - there were three channels.I don't know what I would do.
Oprah Winfrey
#89. I will not permit thirty men to travel four hundred miles to agitate a bag of wind.
Andrew Dickson White
#90. We have not only to be witnesses and pleaders, but we have also to be examples ... If a man's life at home is unworthy, he should go several miles away before he stands up to preach, and then, when he stands up, he should say nothing.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#91. When people switch to car-sharing from car ownership, they reduce their vehicle miles traveled by 44 percent, and thus their greenhouse gas emissions go down by, like, 40 percent.
Jessica Scorpio
#92. I want to die at a hundred years old with an American flag on my back and the star of Texas on my helmet, after screaming down an Alpine descent on a bicycle at 75 miles per hour.
Lance Armstrong
#93. Modern warfare wasn't supposed to have this much blood in it. The weapons were supposed to cook everyone neatly, like eggs in their shells. (Mark Vorkosigan's first experience with warfare, on seeing Miles Vorkosigan splattered before him)
Lois McMaster Bujold
#94. I think you're an improvement on my imagination," I said, flipping back through the pages.
"You, too," he said. "My imagination - well, what little imagination I have - doesn't quite live up to the real thing."
"Agreed," I said. "The real thing is much better.
Francesca Zappia
#95. Another thing I learned: it's one thing to climb a rope in gym class. It's a completely different thing to climb a rope attached to a moving pig's wing while you're flying at a hundred miles an hour.
Rick Riordan
#96. Good thinking," he replied. "There's a town I remember being about 10 miles before Lincoln, where we turn off to head for the ski lodge, Compton or Campton, something like that. We can find a place to hide the truck there." "Campton,
Scott Medbury
#97. The people setting out on these walks weren't seeking to conquer peaks or test themselves against maps and miles. They were looking for a mystical communion with the land; they walked backwards in time to an imagined past suffused with magical, native glamour:
Helen Macdonald
#98. Hitting a baseball well, as in cricket, is a very rare skill. One of most difficult things to do in the world to do, hitting a ball coming at you at ninety miles an hour with a round bat. Wonderful to watch.
Peter Tork
#99. For 6 days a week I aim to get in between 18-23 miles.
Jonathan Brown
#100. If you are the kind of person who is waiting for the 'right' thing to happen, you might wait for a long time. It's like waiting for all the traffic lights to be green for five miles before starting the trip.
Robert Kiyosaki
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