Quotes About Mile

#1. UC Santa Cruz biologist had discovered elevated levels of radiation in fish swimming among some of the 47,500 barrels of nuclear waste that the navy had dumped in a 540-square-mile area around the Farallones between 1946 and 1970.

Susan Casey

#2. Detroit, the heart of the country ... I grew up on 10 Mile, 2 miles better than 8 Mile.

Kristen Bell

#3. I grew up climbing mountains in Montana and Wyoming and my wife and I were engaged on top of a mountain peak: Hyalite Peak in Montana. It was a 15-mile hike to get to the top of that, round-trip - thankfully, she said yes.

Steve Daines

#4. In the road ships must ride in 30, 40, or 50 fathom water, not above half a mile from the shore at farthest: and if there are many ships they must ride close one by another.

William Dampier

#5. (living within a mile of a happy friend has a 25% chance of making you happier).

Anonymous

#6. Whether we athletes liked it or not, the 4-minute mile had become rather like an Everest: a challenge to the human spirit, it was a barrier that seemed to defy all attempts to break it, an irksome reminder that men's striving might be in vain.

Roger Bannister

#7. Walking a mile in someone else's shoes isn't as much about the walk or the shoes; it's to be able to think like they think, feel what they feel, and understand why they are who and where they are. Every step is about empathy.

Toni Sorenson

#8. So with my luck, I'll never make it in time to save the boy in the forest because my hair will have snagged on a tree branch a mile back.

Cynthia Hand

#9. To avoid surprises later, spend enough time to know people initially. Don't just ask the obvious. Go the extra mile... Be creative and unconventional...

Assegid Habtewold

#10. 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

#11. Their sighing, canting, grace-proud faces, their three-mile prayers, and half-mile graces.

Robert Burns

#12. Until you walk a mile in another man's moccasins you can't imagine the smell.

Robert Byrne

#13. It's amazing how my mind opens up right when I have to run on the treadmill. I've finished three chapters rather than run a mile.

Dan Alatorre

#14. We made the iPod for ourselves, and when you're doing something for yourself, or your best friend or family, you're not going to cheese out. If you don't love something, you're not going to go the extra mile, work the extra weekend, challenge the status quo as much.

Walter Isaacson

#15. The relationship between an inch & a mile is the same as an astronomical unit & a light year

Dan Winter

#16. We got to go to Lucas Ranch and, at that time, my brother was still living in a condo about a mile from Robin Williams, and so I made all of the other comics jealous because I got to get a ride home with him.

Carlos Alazraqui

#17. Try walking a mile in your enemy's shoes. You'll be a mile away and you'll have his shoes.

Sergio Aragones

#18. Because, for some of us, one mile can be farther to walk than thirty.

Francine Rivers

#19. A lot of people were wounded in our kitchen and in the week of a car less than a mile away. And the life I had before- the one I had hated so much- was in the past.

Sophie Littlefield

#20. People respond well to managers who stop being bosses and start being leaders. They go the extra mile if they genuinely believe that your success is their success and vice versa.

Tim Fargo

#21. The highest percentage of respondents say that biggest problem in the country is the government. The biggest problem facing our country today is that our government is terrible. Dissatisfaction with the government, problem numero uno by a mile.

Rachel Maddow

#22. Going far beyond that call of duty, doing more than others expect, this is what excellence is all about! And it comes from striving, maintaining the highest standards, looking after the smallest detail, and going the extra mile. Excellence means doing your very best. In everything! In every way.

Jack Johnson

#23. When your about to criticize someone walk a mile in thier shoes, that way when you criticize them you're a mile away from them and you have their shoes

Ann Brashares

#24. I've no desire to do one of those 50-mile races like the Comrades or anything like that.

Paula Radcliffe

#25. When I was a kid ... if I couldn't get a ride to the comic book store, I would walk a mile and a half each way to get the latest issues of 'Batman' and 'Spider-Man' and 'X-Men.' I could not choose one over the other.

Jarrett J. Krosoczka

#26. 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

#27. It's as if we pull up to the end of the world,
throw the car doors wide and tumble out
to consumer the view..."
- from "Ten Mile Point

Ingrid Ruthig

#28. The man whose horse trots a mile in a minute does not carry the most important messages.

Henry David Thoreau

#29. I grew up in leafy suburbs in north and east Belfast, but if I had been born a mile down the road closer to the city centre, you might never heard of me.

Mike Nesbitt

#30. 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

#31. My most noticeable physical trait is, hands down, my hair. It's big, unruly and curly, and you can spot it from a mile away ... literally.

Becca Fitzpatrick

#32. You are certainly one of the joys of life for all who have ever come within a mile of you.

Thomas Merton

#33. These days, I am the most boring, methodical runner. I always do the same three- to five-mile loop near my home every evening. I hardly ever miss a day. On the weekends, I might go longer or add in weights.

Mika Brzezinski

#34. You cannot score a goal when you are sitting on the bench. To do so, you have to dress up and enter the game.

Israelmore Ayivor

#35. And i was right here , almost right within reach , but still one thousand mile away

Maggie Stiefvater

#36. Do more than is required. What is the distance between someone who achieves their goals consistently and those who spend their lives and careers merely following? The extra mile.

Gary Ryan Blair

#37. A 10.7-mile bike ride past bogs, beaches

Anonymous

#38. Did we put our kids in 0.5-mile-per-gallon (mpg) tanks and 17 feet per gallon aircraft carriers because we failed to put them in 32-mpg cars?

Hunter Lovins

#39. The first mile was always the hardest. By the second, the world grew fuzzy at the edges and only the muffled sound of feet on the trail and the blood pumping in my ears filtered through the haze.

Christina Lauren

#40. Put 'going the extra mile' to work as part of one's daily habit.

Bruce Lee

#41. China built a thirteen-thousand-mile wall several centuries before Christ, and it's still working.

Ann Coulter

#42. 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

#43. 1000 mile road begins with a single step, the freedom road begins with a scream that fires the battle, and the greatness road begins with a question that fires the spark of the change.

Ammar Moussa

#44. Good timing is invisible. Bad timing sticks out a mile.

Tony Corinda

#45. It's a lot easier to say when something ended rather than when it began. Most of us can recognize the end from a mile away, but the beginning always slips up on us, lulling us into thinking what we're living through is yet another moment, in yet another day.

Steve Yarbrough

#46. I couldn't touch my toes with straight legs, but I could break 4 minutes for the mile.

Roger Bannister

#47. It's daytime. A wall of billowing orange flame grows up silently from the tank farm a mile away, like a time-lapse chrysanthemum. It is so vast and complicated in its blooming, uncontrolled growth that Rife stops halfway up the stairs to watch.

Neal Stephenson

#48. I never boned a honey that I didn't like,
I never saw a mile that I couldn't hike.
I never had a spliff to make me choke,
I never had a pocket that was broke.

Dres

#49. There's an old adage that for every second too fast per mile in the first half of the race, you'll run at least 2 seconds slower at the end.

Jeff Galloway

#50. Why do I run? It's the best form of exercise. It's totally the core of being in shape. I really feel so good - anytime after the first mile. You start fantasying. You start thinking about things.

Tate Donovan

#51. Like a duck on the pond. On the surface everything looks calm, but beneath the water those little feet are churning a mile a minute.

Gene Hackman

#52. From those who agonize that they may no longer be able to write off their private jet to someone who doesn't feel like making the three mile hike to the well to get water and carry it back, everyone struggles.

Henry Rollins

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

Andy Weir

#54. Sometimes things do not go the way one wanted them to go ... At times like this, one would wish that one had not dreamt so much. Just hang in there ... destination is just a mile away.

Hari Kumar K

#55. First crush, first kiss, first time I saw the ocean
And dug my toes in the sand
Baseball and summer nights, casting out when the fish first bite,
First time I got a Chevy in my hands
I thought nothing can touch that by a mile
I thought nothing can make that moment seem so worthwhile

Scotty McCreery

#56. I have a list a mile long of faults that sometimes bring me to my knees in self-hatred.

Frank Langella

#57. Walking a mile with someone you love only matters when doesn't feel like walking.

Bhavik Sarkhedi

#58. But readers aren't stupid, they can smell fakery a mile off.

Sarah Lotz

#59. Reading dreams. That's what started her walking down the road. Every day she'd walk a little further: a mile, and come home. Two miles, and come home. One day she just kept on.

Truman Capote

#60. It was one of those still evenings you get in the summer, when you can hear a snail clear its throat a mile away.

P.G. Wodehouse

#61. Don't just manage; go extra mile and win your race. Never give up the fight. You will win.

Israelmore Ayivor

#62. No matter which path you are on, always do this: Question your path! If you are on the wrong path, change it; no matter on which mile of the road, change it! Till you find the right path, change all the paths!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#63. New nemeses keep racing fresh, but I also find challenge in going longer, with only the distance as foe. I run my first 50-mile race, journey across the Grand Canyon and back, circumnavigate Mount St. Helens.

Don Kardong

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

R.K. Lilley

#65. I am, in fact, a medical doctor; I am a world expert in mechanical heart technology; and I am an athletically fit man who takes care of his own health through diet and exercise, including frequent five mile runs.

Robert Jarvik

#66. He'd fallen for her - for her sometimes amusing, sometimes confounding combination of strength, brains, drive, vulnerability, and mile-wide stubborn streak. He'd fallen for the whole complicated package, screwed-up father included.

Samanthe Beck

#67. Before a big red carpet event, you can't find a pair of Spanx in a 200 mile radius around Los Angeles.

Isabella James

#68. Smile As you find a rhythm Working you, slow mile by mile, Into your proper haunt.

Seamus Heaney

#69. A great way to test the conditioning of your team is the two-mile run.

Bobby Knight

#70. It's never crowded along the extra mile

Wayne W. Dyer

#71. If you feel you are the body type, then running can be very beautiful for you: a four, five mile run every day. And make it a meditation. It will transform you completely.

Rajneesh

#72. People can smell strategy a mile away, but they can't resist someone who genuinely loves them.

Brad Lewis

#73. I am tired of hotels promising to go the extra mile only to have them refuse to go round the corner!

Richard Quest

#74. Empathy is walking a mile in somebody else's moccasins. Sympathy is being sorry their feet hurt.

Rebecca O'Donnell

#75. I'm an entertainer. If people are paying good money for tickets they deserve the best show they can see. I don't get into lighting stuff on fire, but I do believe in going the extra mile.

Bryan White

#76. Today, salute, mile, serve, deep. And I am never doing that again.-Kavi

Hilari Bell

#77. Then there is just running - I love it. I would go out and just run a 30-mile trail run if it didn't make me feel like crap for a week.

Dathan Ritzenhein

#78. Where I live in Connecticut was ice a mile above my house, all the way back to the North Pole, about 15 million kilometers, that's a big ice cube. But then it started to melt. We're talking about the floods of our living history.

Robert Ballard

#79. Herbert Jemson was Methodist of the whole cloth: he was notoriously short on theology and a mile long on good works.

Harper Lee

#80. Lake Powell: storage pond, silt trap, evaporation tank and garbage dispose-all, a 180-mile-long incipient sewage lagoon.

Edward Abbey

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

Meg Cabot

#82. Failure, loss and defeat are just mile markers on the road to success.

Jeffrey Fry

#83. There is always someone who is willing to help you but as a dreamer or visionary you have to go the extra mile.

Euginia Herlihy

#84. The older I get, the less jarring I want my exercise to be, and I find that a long walk is equally as helpful and satisfying as a three-mile jog.

Kim Cattrall

#85. I'd rather walk a mile with a cucumber up my ass than fuck you.

Keri Lake

#86. Riding in advance, we passed over one of these great plains; we looked back and saw the line of scattered horsemen stretching for a mile or more; and far in the rear against the horizon, the white wagons creeping slowly along.

Francis Parkman

#87. WHAT WAS LOST IN THE COLLAPSE: almost everything, almost everyone, but there is still such beauty. Twilight in the altered world, a performance of A Midsummer Night's Dream in a parking lot in the mysteriously named town of St. Deborah by the Water, Lake Michigan shining a half mile away.

Emily St. John Mandel

#88. Every single one of us possesses the strength to attempt something he isn't sure he can accomplish. It can be running a mile, or a 10K race, or 100 miles. It can be changing a career, losing 5 pounds, or telling someone you love her (or him).

Scott Jurek

#89. It seems to me that they only seem to mention things in the Bible that are within a 5 mile radius of the guy writing it.

Jim Jefferies

#90. All endeavor calls for the ability to tramp the last mile, shape the last plan, endure the last hours toil. The fight to the finish spirit is the one ... characteristic we must posses if we are to face the future as finishers.

Henry David Thoreau

#91. Kabul is... a thousand tragedies per square mile.

Khaled Hosseini

#92. 7 Mile is like an Ave. Back in the days it was poppin' in the summer time.

Obie Trice

#93. Smile all the while because life is just a mile; enjoy the journey before it's over.-RVM

R.v.m.

#94. A half mile down the hillside, he could see Warren's pickup stop in a cloud of dust. Hud watched Dana get out. She was still beautiful. Still prickly as a porcupine. Still strong and determined. Still wishing him dead.

B. J. Daniels

#95. The tree too thick to embrace
emerges from a seedling.
A nine-storey tower rises from a brick.
A thousand-mile journey begins under your feet.

Lao-Tzu

#96. You can start right where you stand and apply the habit of going the extra mile by rendering more service and better service than you are now being paid for.

Napoleon Hill

#97. Don't accept the available as the preferable. Go extra mile with extra speed.

Israelmore Ayivor

#98. It's human nature, we take a mile when we're given an inch. We're crazy. You see what we did to the animals! They don't even exist anymore!

Vince Staples

#99. Being on a set where the director has lost control is just sickening. No one goes the extra mile, there's a lot of eye-rolling ... it just breeds inertia. If a director is in control, the crew follow their leader. But the second anyone senses the directors are not sure, people just swoop in.

Christine Vachon

#100. I had to will my way through that game. Sometimes, it takes more than talent or more than a 95-mile-an-hour fastball. You have to will it.

Roger Clemens