Quotations
Names:
Miles Davis
Quotes:
Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?
View quotes by J P Getty
Miles of cornfields, and ballet in the evening.
View quotes by Alan Hackney
Brass bands are all very well in their place - outdoors and several miles away
View quotes by Thomas Beecham
Skiing consists of wearing $3,000 worth of clothes and equipment and driving 200 miles in the snow in order to stand around at a bar and drink.
View quotes by P J O'Rourke
The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.
View quotes by Lao Tzu
Why that's a hundred miles away. That's a long way to go just to eat.
View quotes by William Faulkner
Trees go wandering forth in all directions with every wind, going and coming like ourselves, traveling with us around the sun two million miles a day, and through space heaven knows how fast and far!
View quotes by John Muir
Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the corn field.
View quotes by Dwight Eisenhower
In one year I travelled 450,000 miles by air.
View quotes by Jackie Stewart
You don't rub 26 miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secret recipe.
View quotes by Frank Shorter
I was once timed at 99.97mph, but that's rubbish, I was miles faster than that [attributed]
View quotes by Jeff Thomson
Environmentalists have long been fond of saying that the sun is the only safe nuclear reactor, situated as it is some ninety-three million miles away.
View quotes by Stephanie Mills
I can see the sun okay, and that's 93 million miles away.
View quotes by Bruce Froemming
Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.
View quotes by Lyndon Johnson
Snow. Everywhere. As far as the eye could reach--fifty miles, looking southward from the highest peak.
View quotes by Bret Harte
Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-eight million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue-green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea...
[The Hitch-Hikers Guide To The Galaxy]
View quotes by Douglas Adams
High, high above the North Pole, on the first day of 1969, two professors of English Literature approached each other at a combined velocity of 1,200 miles per hour
View quotes by David Lodge
You can travel on for ten thousand miles, and still stay where you are
View quotes by Harry Chapin
I hear Peter Ebdon swims a mile every day. That means that in a year he could be 365 miles away. That is the best that we can hope for after this. If this was a boxing match it would have been stopped on Sunday night to spare the fans any more punishment
View quotes by Barry Hearn
Taking part on this show is a million miles away from my normal acting jobs [X factor battle of the stars]
View quotes by Nikki Sanderson
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Proverbs:
Smile And The World Smiles With You, Snore And You Sleep Alone
What Sunshine Is To Flowers, Smiles Are To Humanity
A Journey Of A Thousand Miles Begins With A Single Step
When Fortune Smiles, Embrace Her
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