Quarter Mile Quotes

#1. The trains that travel the Chunnel are massive machines. The Eurostars are bullet-shaped and a quarter-mile long. They are pulled by a 136,000-pound locomotive and move in the open air at 185 m.p.h. and through the tunnel at 100 m.p.h.

Peter Landesman

#2. Niccolo had never seen so many gadgets and flashing lights, all just so they could remotely observe an abandoned military hanger about a quarter mile away. In the good ol' days, we just hid behind a bush.

Mimi Jean Pamfiloff

#3. If an athlete takes a shortcut - literally, for example, by running a street that shortens the marathon route by a quarter mile - he or she doesn't have an insurmountable advantage. But it's an unfair advantage, and in a field of equally matched athletes, it's more than enough to make a difference.

Don Kardong

#4. I love to run, but training can be hard, especially with a family and a crazy travel schedule. I often do sprints with my kids, where they bike and I run along side them so we can 'race' each other for a quarter-mile or shorter repeats.

Summer Sanders

#5. I live my life a quarter mile at a time. Nothing else matters: not the mortgage, not the store, not my team and all their bullshit. For those ten seconds or less, I'm free.

Vin Diesel

#6. 42nd Street with its quarter mile of marquees offering porn of all types, colors, sizes, and flavors.

Rich Zahradnik

#7. It finally happened. I got the GPS lady so confused, she said, In one-quarter mile, make a legal stop and ask directions.

Robert Breault

#8. Where I live you're not supposed to shoot a firearm within a quarter mile of a dwelling.

Bonnie Jo Campbell

#9. They're in their own world, where good things happen, a quarter mile and a million light years away.

Caroline Kepnes

#10. Too bad Justice refused to let him toss live grenades to the side of the course. That would add motivation. He knew from personal experience. His personal best time for a quarter-mile run had been in Africa - while being chased by an angry rhino. Imminent death made for a great workout.

Susan Mallery

#11. Between the beach and the big breaking waves about a quarter mile off was a stretch of bumpy, glistening reef, its usual blanket of water pulled back by a celestial hand.

Mary Ellen Hannibal

#12. I live on a farm in Dorset. The nearest neighbour is a quarter of a mile away. It's really quiet, with an amazing view - can't see a pylon, can't see a road. Blockbuster's an event in our house, when the little blue envelope comes in.

Martin Clunes

#13. my most desperate moments, I have never conceived of anything more horrible than a law office." -Marcel Proust

Petula Parker

#14. I wish I were dumber so I could be more certain about my opinions. It looks fun.

Scott Adams

#15. If you are ready to be intimate, you will encourage the other person also to be intimate. Your unpretentious simplicity will allow the other also to enjoy simplicity, innocence, trust, love, openness.

Rajneesh

#16. Pain is that last quarter of a mile. You feel it, but when you're through racing, your whole body just feels elated. So the pain is worth it.

Louis Zamperini

#17. I write for children because I am interested in fantasy and the possibilities for experience of all kinds before the time of compromise. I believe that children are far more perceptive and wise than American books give them credit for being.

Natalie Babbitt

#18. Certainly I had my preference, and I very much hoped that George W. Bush would be our next president.

Katherine Harris

#19. The lawn started at the beach and ran toward the front door for a quarter of a mile, jumping over sun-dials and brick walks and burning gardens - finally when it reached the house drifting up the side in bright vines as though from the momentum of its run.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#20. If we can send a guy to the moon we can certainly go a quarter of a mile and not get hurt.

Don Prudhomme