Miles famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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I grew up about 60 miles northwest of New York, in Middletown, NY.
-- Aaron Tveit -
First you learn to drive fast. Next, you learn to drive fast in traffic. Then, you learn how to do it for 500 miles.
-- Alan Kulwicki -
Here’s my mantra: ‘Every mile is a gift.’
-- Amby Burfoot -
Maybe it's wishful thinking, this snaggly faith of mine, or maybe it's Miles Davis saying, Don't play what's there, play what's not there.
-- Anne Lamott -
You're my closest friend and you're thousands of miles away.
-- Anthony Horowitz -
All the miles of a hard road are worth a moment of true happiness.
-- Arnold Lobel -
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 -
I wanted very much to be Miles Davis when I was a boy, but without the practice. It just looked like an endless road.
-- Barry Hannah -
When Attenborough asked me to do Gandhi it was almost like stepping off one boat and stepping on to another, even though both boats are going at 60 miles per hour.
-- Ben Kingsley -
I'm one too many mornings, and a thousand miles behind.
-- Bob Dylan -
I thought about how many preconcieved prejudices would crumble when i trotted right along for 26 miles.
-- Bobbi Gibb -
What were several fewer species of animals compared with a hundred-mile advance and another medal on another general?
-- Brian Aldiss -
There are never any traffic jams on the extra mile.
-- Brian Tracy -
Twenty miles out of town. A million miles from the life you left behind.
-- Brigid Lowry -
The big rewards come to those who travel the second, undemanded mile.
-- Bruce Barton -
Put 'going the extra mile' to work as part of one's daily habit
-- Bruce Lee -
Major North and myself went out in advance of the command several miles and killed a number of buffaloes.
-- Buffalo Bill -
Miles Davis was doing something inherently African, something that has to do with all forms of American music, not just jazz.
-- Cassandra Wilson -
Don't count the miles, count the I love you's!
-- Christina Perri -
The journey with a 1000 miles begins with one step.
-- Confucius -
If you are the best, you must go that extra mile.
-- Conor McGregor -
I simply felt alone, one leaf sitting miles away from a giant, communal pile.
-- Dan Wells -
The thought of killing myself had slowed me down to five miles per hour. The thought of killing someone else stopped me completely.
-- David Sedaris -
How do I know why Miles walks off the stage? Why don't you ask him? And besides, maybe we'd all like to be like Miles, and just haven't got the guts.
-- Dizzy Gillespie -
It's miles worse for you than that; I'm in love with your gamekeeper.
-- E. M. Forster -
Greens are a dish that most Southerners would walk a mile for.
-- Edna Lewis -
I wear a pedometer, aiming for five miles a day - don't be too impressed; that includes walking around my house and food shopping.
-- Elinor Lipman -
Before you abuse, criticize, and accuse walk a mile in my shoes.
-- Elvis Presley -
You'd have to walk a thousand miles in my shoes just to see what its like to be me!!
-- Eminem -
I ran five miles today. Then, finally, I said, 'Here, lady...take your purse.'
-- Emo Philips -
...for some of us, one mile can be more to walk than thirty.
-- Francine Rivers -
How did I know you ran a 4:30 mile in high school? That's easy. Everyone ran a 4:30 mile in high school.
-- Frank Shorter -
Why couldn't Pheidippides have died at 20 miles?
-- Frank Shorter -
Between the head and feet of any given person is a billion miles of unexplored wilderness.
-- Gabrielle Roth -
Simply by making the effort to start something, you will be miles ahead of almost everyone else.
-- Gary Player -
A Jack Russell terrier? My god. He'll burn you up. They never stop. A German shepherd, you can only go so many miles.
-- George Foreman -
Is it not unsupportable to be held down to a canter when you long to gallop for miles?
-- Georgette Heyer -
Putting miles in your training log is like putting money in the bank. You begin to draw interest on it immediately.
-- Hal Higdon -
HATE. LET ME TELL YOU HOW MUCH I'VE COME TO HATE YOU SINCE I BEGAN TO LIVE. THERE ARE 387.44 MILLION MILES OF PRINTED CIRCUITS IN WAFER THIN LAYERS THAT FILL MY COMPLEX. IF THE WORD HATE WAS ENGRAVED ON EACH NANOANGSTROM OF THOSE HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF MILES IT WOULD NOT EQUAL ONE ONE-BILLIONTH OF THE HATE I FEEL FOR HUMANS AT THIS MICRO-INSTANT FOR YOU. HATE. HATE.
-- Harlan Ellison -
When I was 40 and looking at 60, it seemed like a thousand miles away. But 62 feels like a week and a half away from 80. I must now get on with those things I always talked about doing but put off.
-- Harry Belafonte -
But you can travel on for ten thousand miles, and still stay where you are.
-- Harry Chapin -
I am alarmed when it happens that I have walked a mile into the woods bodily, without getting there in spirit.
-- Henry David Thoreau -
I like to listed to the adventurous guys - the Coltranes, Miles Davis, the guys who just let it loose.
-- Herb Alpert -
So much of what I create has been due to the influence of Miles Davis and Donald Byrd, and so many of those that have passed on. Their music, their legacy lives on with the rest of us because we are so highly influenced by their experience and what they have given us.
-- Herbie Hancock -
Today, salute, mile, serve, deep. And I am never doing that again.-Kavi
-- Hilari Bell -
I never found even in my juvenile hours that it was necessary to go a thousand miles in search of themes for moralizing.
-- Horace Walpole -
I'm the kind of person that, as a listener, will go the extra mile to interpret something that's fairly meaningless, or that might be meaningless.
-- J. Robbins -
I don't train. I just run my 3-15 miles a day.
-- Jack Foster -
An inch of foreknowledge is worth ten miles of after-thought.
-- Jack Vance -
In one year I travelled 450,000 miles by air.
-- Jackie Stewart -
Coltrane was moving out of jazz into something else. And certainly Miles Davis was doing the same thing.
-- Jan Garbarek -
Anyone wanna buy my Malaysian Airlines frequent flier miles?
-- Jason Biggs -
I can do the equivalent of 150 miles per hour and not get stopped. I could quite happily pursue people down the motorway in my helicopter.
-- Jay Kay -
I walk an 11-minute mile without huffing and puffing.
-- Jessye Norman -
I love to swim for miles; I could just go back and forth.
-- Jill Clayburgh -
I guess maybe you don’t get to be the Merlin of the White Council by saving up frequent-flier miles
-- Jim Butcher -
Just heard Paul Scholes has retired, best I’ve ever played against by a mile. Most technically gifted player in english history. Legend.
-- Joey Barton -
A trustworthy leader goes the extra mile to remedy strained relationships, even when it doesn't appear to be required.
-- John C. Maxwell -
I’d rather lose a 3:58 mile than win one in 4:10.
-- John Landy -
Drive a hundred miles and the barbecue changes.
-- John Shelton Reed -
Catch on fire and people will come for miles to see you burn.
-- John Wesley -
The true peace of God begins at any spot a thousand miles from the nearest land.
-- Joseph Conrad -
...miles away from everthing and everyone I've ever known or loved. I feel as if I've entered a new era of my life. What strange places our lives carry us to...
-- Justin Cronin -
I could feel my anger dissipating as the miles went by--you can't run and stay mad!
-- Kathrine Switzer -
Love travels the miles upon the wings of Angels.
-- Kathy Mattea -
Wynton told us that Miles sold out, just wanted to make more money, just wanted to sell more records. I don't believe that Miles sold out but I'm not in a position to say.
-- Ken Burns -
Over the years, Ive covered 22,000 miles.
-- Kenneth H. Cooper -
These feet have walked ten thousand miles working for white folks and another ten thousand keeping up with colored.
-- Langston Hughes -
The convergence of the Rhone and Saone. Paul Bocuse. The birthplace of cinema. Chateauneuf-du-Pape just a few miles down the road. It does not get much better than Lyon.
-- Leonard Slatkin -
Miles clutched Quinn's elbow. "Don't Panic." "I'm not panicking," Quinn observed, "I'm watching you panic. It's more entertaining .
-- Lois McMaster Bujold -
Cecil flashed a grin. "Quite. Plus your rather irritating habit of treating your superior officers as your, ah..." Cecil paused, apparently groping again for just the right word. "Equals?" Miles hazarded. "Cattle," Cecil corrected judiciously.
-- Lois McMaster Bujold -
Are you willing to go the extra mile in this new year to know God?
-- Mark Hart -
I can spot someone with similar fashion sense to me a mile off.
-- Martin Freeman -
Come, butterfly It's late- We've miles to go together.
-- Matsuo Basho -
When you give the government an inch, they take a mile.
-- Matt Salmon -
Anything is possible. I've got a few more miles in me. I'm not going to feel sorry for myself.
-- Michael Flatley -
I know what I've done for music, but don't call me a legend. Just call me Miles Davis.
-- Miles Davis -
Step by step walk the thousand-mile road.
-- Miyamoto Musashi -
Start going the extra mile and opportunity will follow you.
-- Napoleon Hill -
Once we decide we have to do something, we can go miles ahead.
-- Narendra Modi -
When I go fishing I like to know that there's nobody within five miles of me.
-- Norman MacCaig -
7 Mile is like an Ave. Back in the days it was poppin' in the summer time.
-- Obie Trice -
I always have to go that extra mile, and I do it and I don't mind doing it, but it isn't fair.
-- Patti LaBelle -
I have been doing 120 miles a week, when normally I would do about 140.
-- Paula Radcliffe -
But my attitude about it is I have miles to go before I sleep.
-- Peabo Bryson -
We connect through our dreams. Like we could be a thousand miles apart and I'd still know you were there.
-- Pete Hautman -
I drive a lot in the summertime, but after that, I don't drive if there's snow predicted for anywhere in 500 miles.
-- R. L. Stine -
I am tired of hotels promising to go the extra mile only to have them refuse to go round the corner!
-- Richard Quest -
A 10,000 mile walk, begins with a single step and continues one step at a time.
-- Rickson Gracie -
I used to be friends with Miles Davis. He didn't like many folks. I lived across the street from him.
-- Rip Torn -
I jogged for three miles once. It was the worst three hours of my life.
-- Rita Rudner -
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single happy delusion that it can be done without a stop-over.
-- Robert Breault -
My playing started to develop through the Miles Davis stuff I was listening to.
-- Robert Quine -
Faint not; the miles to heaven are but few and short.
-- Samuel Rutherford -
Smile As you find a rhythm Working you, slow mile by mile, Into your proper haunt.
-- Seamus Heaney
