Miles Wide Quotes

#1. It was unknowable then, but so much of the progress that would define the 20th century, on both sides of the Atlantic, came down to the battle for a slice of beach only 6 miles long and 2 miles wide.

Barack Obama

#2. The only very rugged part of the route is in crossing the Big Horn mountain, which is about 30 miles wide.

William Henry Ashley

#3. I'll still be with you every night, Kiera. Every night, no matter where I am, crawling into bed with you. Our bed will be a lot bigger, miles wide, but it will just be you and me inside it.

S.C. Stephens

#4. My soul is ten thousand miles wide and extremely invisibly deep. It is the same size as the sea, and you cannot, you cannot cram it into beer cans and fingernails and stake it out in lots and own it. It will drown you all and never even notice.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#5. Here's a tip, Alyconeus. Next time you choose the biggest state for your home, don't set up base in the part that's only 10 miles wide.
Welcome to Canada, idiot.

Rick Riordan

#6. If a star were a grain of salt, you could fit all the stars visible to the naked eye on a teaspoon, but all the stars in the universe would fill a ball more than eight miles wide.

Stephen Hawking

#7. Children, taught either years beneath their intelligence or miles wide of relevance to it, or both: their intelligence becomes hopelessly bewildered, drawn off its centers, bored, or atrophied.

James Agee

#8. You have a mind like the rings of Saturn. A million miles wide and an inch deep.

Kim Stanley Robinson

#9. When we're good, we're really good, and when we're bad, it's really bad. Two people that have that much passion must be doing something awfully right.

Magan Vernon

#10. I enjoy a four-seasonal climate and wide-open spaces, so being on an island 2,500 miles into the South Pacific made me feel a little claustrophobic.

Matthew Fox

#11. I had some airline stock, but the airlines tanked. I didn't have a lot of money in them, though.

Mickey Gilley

#12. The moment that one person in an argument claims to be God, dialogue and debate become impossible.

Meir Soloveichik

#13. Glamour is back, but with a minimalist touch.

Gianni Versace

#14. She hated that he was in the room with her, standing beside the bed.
And she loved that he was there.

Donna Grant

#15. What's a space elevator? Simply described, it's a thin ribbon, about 3 feet wide and 60 thousand miles long, stretching upwards from the surface of the Earth. The lower end is bolted to a heavy anchor (think of an oil drilling platform), and the top is capped with a counterweight.

Seth Shostak

#16. To the wisest man, wide as is his vision. Nature remains of quite infinite depth, of quite infinite expansion and all experience thereof limits itself to some few computed centuries and measured square miles.

Thomas Carlyle

#17. As crazy as her life had

Cindy Myers

#18. Once again, I am translucent. I could break against rocks. I am ten thousand miles down and ten thousand miles across and around and it's too far and too long and too deep, but there is no black-haired body with wide, soft brown eyes looking into mine and seeing exactly who I am.

Deb Caletti

#19. An honest buck may not buy any more groceries than a dishonest one, but it'll always be worth more. Especially to me,

Josephine Angelini

#20. Where you are, whatever your condition is; Always try to be a lover.

Rumi

#21. Miles Davis had me play and he hired me the following week and after that, everything broke wide open.

Miroslav Vitous

#22. Fermi thought plutonium production needed an area a mile wide and two miles long for safety. Compton proposed building piles of increasing power to work up to full-scale production and was considering alternative sites in the Lake Michigan Dunes area and in the Tennessee Valley.

Richard Rhodes

#23. When we come to the edge of the light we know and are about to step off into the darkness of the unknown, of this we can be sure ... either God will provide something solid to stand on or we will be taught to fly.' I

Carolyn Brown

#24. In front of us was not a line but a fortress position, twenty miles deep, entrenched and fortified, defended by masses of machine-gun posts and thousands of guns in a wide arc. No chance for cavalry!

Philip Gibbs

#25. 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