Miles Quotations | Page 6

What we try to do is keep our happy history stuff separate from our regular business. People who are doing genealogy are all excited about researching Miles Davis; you don't want them to be in a situation where they're working next to someone burying a loved one.

It's miles worse for you than that; I'm in love with your gamekeeper.

Every time you walk a mile to church and carry a Bible with you, you preach a sermon a mile long.

You're my closest friend and you're thousands of miles away.

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.

I can smell bullshit from a mile away but it's so much harder to detect when it's around you all day.

We shot 'Dharma & Greg' six blocks from my house for five years. I had a Dodge Durango that I sold after five years, and it only had like 12,000 miles on it. My whole life was within eight square blocks of my house. There was a golf course across the street. In my downtime, I was on the driving range.

We left because nothing was working in Hattiesburg. Power lines were down. Gas lines went for miles and miles. We left to get supplies,

The real significance is that it marks the end of the isolation that India had to live with. The outcome in terms of energy needs is miles away.

There are many miles of fire line that have never been visited by a firefighter.

There are many, many ways customers can use their miles beyond air travel.

We only had about eight square miles of land. The Germans were up in the hills firing down on us. We spent four months under constant shell fire. One of those guns up there was on rails. Big! You could hear those shells coming. Of course, the ones you could hear were probably not going to hit you. It was the ones you couldn't hear,

We picked the areas that would be a challenge. The 200 miles we use are probably the toughest 200 miles we've got.

Wishing you a rainbow, For sunlight after showers— Miles and miles of Irish smiles, For golden happy hours— Shamrocks at your doorway, For luck and laughter too, And a host of friends that never ends, Each day your whole life through!

We can't see 2 miles underground. We didn't know if there was a blazing fire.

We consistently, on any given day, usually have multiple cars with 150,000 to 250,000 miles and quite frequently cars well over that.

When I was forty and looking at sixty, it seemed like a thousand miles away. But sixty-two feels like a week and a half away from eighty. I must now get on with those things I always talked about doing but put off.

When I was a youngster, we could go up to the fire lookouts and see 100 miles into New Mexico. Ship Rock always stood out.

When people switch to car-sharing from car ownership, they reduce their vehicle miles traveled by 44 percent, and thus their greenhouse gas emissions go down by, like, 40 percent.

When New Orleans was founded, it was 10 or 12 feet higher and it was 100 miles from the coast, ... Now it's the coast.

When most of us drive 200 to 300 miles one way for Thanksgiving, it's usually only means an extra 10 or 12 bucks from higher gas prices, which isn't a deal breaker.

We would play a team that's one hour away 300 miles away from home. That would be fun.

This ring may be the telltale sign of an unseen belt of bodies a few feet to a few miles in size.

The rebels attacked us (NRA soldiers) at a place called Corner Kilak 20 miles South of Kitgum (Town). They came in while singing and shouting; our people (NRA) massacred those chaps. They approached our troops frontally. This gave us a very good chance because they exposed themselves; so on Sunday (January 24, 1987) we surrounded them and massacred them. We massacred them very badly.

We're relying on that report to tell us exactly where are we transporting students that are walking two miles or more away from home to get to school, versus other students who walk more than two miles that don't get transportation.

Why should Congresspeople have to visit D.C.? Thanks to Skype, meetings are possible across the country. Thanks to email, communications are simple. And we've had the technology to vote from afar for decades. Why should we have backroom deals made over cigars thousands of miles distant from those who are affected by those deals?

We've come a million miles from the bad old days. But no law changes the basic fact that employers want to do what's good for business. Their job is not necessarily to do what is good for you.

To me, that's not one of his issues. We all want the guy that's going to play 100 miles per hour every snap. I don't know how realistic that is. He's not by any stretch a dog or anything like that.

Too often people look at the disability only and are quick to diagnose someone or try and figure out what is 'wrong' with them, when they should be treating them as people and looking at what they can do. The men on this trip gain a better understanding of people with disabilities: they grow as people, they learn that service to others is the most important thing that one can do in their lifetime and they also have the sense of accomplishment with their 4,000 miles of cycling.

Toronto always was No. 1 on his list. A.J. is thinking of living in Toronto, he wants a stable environment. His wife is now only 400 miles from her family (Annapolis, Md.).

We didn't get any major accidents that backed up traffic for miles or anything like that. We couldn't have scripted it better.

With an average forward speed of only about three miles per hour, many areas were subject to hurricane and tropical storm force winds for more than 24 hours.

Yet 90 miles off my shore, closer than from here to Richmond, Virginia, I can't even get a commission to assess whether or not we should do something differently. That is outrageous.

There are guys that know how to do it, and there are guys that don't. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to know that you don't bump someone when you're in a corner at 180 miles an hour.

There are guys that have been at it for 30 or 40 years, driven more than 4 million miles and never had an accident. You think about how far that is and it's astounding.

There are already 30 people in the world who have collected enough air miles to fly into space.

When you first look at it, you think, 'It's not such a big deal,' ... But when you realize the possible implications, somebody using one of these to go 80 miles an hour through rapidly changing lights, you realize it could be life-threatening.

We were talking about how bad we felt. The girls are getting sponsors for how many miles they run, for how much time they drop on their personal bests or just flat donations.

We've got the fact that the Cadillac was going 45 miles per hour in the fast lane of the highway. ... That is a significant piece of evidence.

With every passing hour, our solar system comes forty-three thousand miles closer to globular cluster M13 in the constellation Hercules, and still there are some misfits who continue to insist that there is no such thing as progress.

With the American and US Airways alliance, miles can be pooled so you can use miles from both accounts to claim an award on either airline.

Within two years of the Minturn disaster, they had lifesaving stations every four or five miles along the coast. The Minturn was right on the cusp of the glory days of the clipper ship trade, so the government had to do something to protect foreign trade and the shipping lanes.

Within two miles of the fault, it will all shake very strongly. We're talking minutes of intense shaking.

When we planned our experiment, we estimated how long it would take for the dust to fall back onto the comet, and multiplied that estimate by 4. We only had a limited time to observe because this was all happening at relative speeds of 22,000 miles per hour. To our surprise, the dust never cleared!

We had some stops and shot well in transition. Miles moved around and hit some shots. We need the shooters to step up.

We had some repeat miles on Monday, and I was really impressed at how they handled those. That gave me an indication of our fitness level right now. They should be prepared -- we've had some good weeks of training.

We are encouraged by the progress. It went miles further than it has in three years. We've been wanting to negotiate like this all along, with both sides resuming their responsibilities.

When SARS occurred no one was talking about it 6 months or a year in advance, there were no plans in place. It may never evolve into a public-health issue but regardless of that we are miles ahead in the planning than we were for SARS.

Financially, we will make more money, and we won't spend as much money. Our farthest trip will be 45 miles (to LaGrange).

But once Miles would start to play on top of these things we were doing, all of a sudden, it was as though he would go to the core of it.

Both schools are only a few miles apart and I think it is more about the people in the community being able to say for a whole year that we beat you. It is a pride factor involved and that's what makes a rivalry. It is not necessarily the players and coaches, but the community because they are so close together.

We need to grow our town. We have growth potential here. If we can get everything we need here, we won't have to drive 30 miles to get it somewhere else. If we have jobs here, we won't need to commute out of town. If we stay here, we will grow.

We need to start carrying stuff over that we learn in practice into a game. In practice we work hard and do things right. Come game time we don't think, we start going 100 miles an hour. We just need to stop, think and slow it down.

The Grapevine is a trail section that's 13.4 miles long with an elevation gain of 2,914 feet. Because it's a trail, there is no vehicle assistance on that leg.

Training is different than going 100 miles per hour with a coach Brown team, ... That's the ultimate test. I tried it. The reason I didn't give it another chance was because I said, 'I've given it so many chances and tried everything I possibly could.' I had to really reflect and get past what you want, your desire, what you're willing to go through and say, 'What is really the right plan for me right now?'

We were dragged for at least a couple of miles and probably bounced 50 times before the balloon settled down enough so we could get outside the capsule and jump into the water,

You become afraid lest too much perspiration will wet your hands too much, make them slide on the black keys, which are too narrow; you are playing at about a hundred miles a minute. But somehow they don't. As long as they don't you know you're all right. You're going good, well-oiled like an engine. Not too much sweat, not too little.

You cannot manage a property from 6,000 miles away. The rent only covered half the mortgage and we only got that one out of every two months, on average.

We've had a lot of waste, like running 15 miles for one delivery. We've had to open our eyes to some of those things.

We've got a good car to take this weekend. We tested it here a few weeks ago and we learned some things that should help us out this weekend. We're going to have to go back and look at our notes a little more with this new track surface. But we'll be able to try a lot of things over 500 miles and get this thing figured out.

We've got 4,000 feet and 1.5 miles to climb to the top. Everybody try to stay together.

There is a lot of memorabilia here. We have kitchen equipment. We have banquet equipment. We have about 7,000 dishes. We have enough carpet for five miles of carpeting.

The other key is that we don't deviate more than five miles from where the vehicle is actually going, so if you're going down 301 and live within five miles off of 301, then you're probably able to catch a ride.

We've never lived more than a few miles from each other.

Those two are extremely competitive in every sport. Miles is more of a precision pitcher, hits his spots, and Cam likes to overpower hitters.

This was a car of such crushing dismalness and feeble construction that it made you want to walk to work, even if your office was 70 miles away.

This will be great for me to shake off the cobwebs and do some race miles before Long Beach.

What people have to understand is, you're presented with a horrible choice. You take people who are on feeder tubes, who are on oxygen, who are on medications and you put them on a bus to go 70 miles in 12 hours? People are going to die, people are going to die, we know that.

We first flew it, after a 12-year restoration, in 1994, ... It is fairly stable but ... it tends to wander because it doesn't have a vertical surface. It goes straight, but yaws a lot. It has fairly good cruising speed, 160 miles per hour or so.

We got a call around 4 a.m. (Wednesday) from the driver that he was about 60 miles north of Memphis and would be on his way.

We have 523 people who already live in that area. We'd like to make it a lot easier for them to invite their friends to church without having to drive the 15-16 miles to get here.

We have 45,000 square miles of geography in Ohio.

We cannot hermetically seal 7,000 miles of land borders and keep out 100 percent of illegal crossers, ... But we can create such a high likelihood of interdiction that it will have a strong and unequivocal deterrent effect on those who wish to cross illegally.

We were often 50 miles from a town in the middle of the desert and there would be a single young boy watching over 100 sheep.

We knew he was a nice colt but $3 million was miles over what we dreamed.

We knew and Brooke knew that the divisional is not as important as next week. We just wanted her to make it through three miles and after that fold it up and focus on state. The last thing Brooke wanted to do was maximize the pain in this race with state coming up.

We don't really have exit infrastructure. People simply drive out of the country. In some cases people are leaving the country at 40 miles per hour.

You hear about older people who talk about walking six miles to school through the snow. Well, Joe literally did that. So when he speaks, he speaks with authority. Kids know that.

You have vast square miles of this state where you don't have code enforcement.

To hit the ground belly first ? that's dangerous. I mean at any stage of pregnancy that's dangerous. That's not something you want to do let alone at 50 miles per hour.

This year alone, Karen has used Kristi's Christmas to organize relief efforts for the tsunami and hurricane victims. She gathered up frequent-flyer miles for Katrina victims so they could come up here to get back on their feet.

What are your thoughts on Dundee's promotion chances? That is a million miles away.

Through the week I average between 40 and 50 miles a week. And it doesn't seem like a lot to me.

We were out scouting for fish today, and we found a school right below the Bay Bridge that was 3.5 miles long and 2.5 miles wide.

We looking for areas that have 3,000 housing starts per year within 25 miles of the store. That's our growth standard.

We went in there last summer to Cliff Lake and had a really good time -- good swimming, good fishing, warm water, beautiful scenery and a nice peak to summit where you can see the whole country. We'll hike five or six miles the first day, go over Devil's Peak and spend the next night in the Sky Lakes Basin, then hike five or six miles out. If you haven't seen Sky Lakes, this is a good one to see.

We went about 10 or 12 miles the last time. Before that, the most he's done is about four.

What's good is it's not like Ferrari or anybody are miles in front of everybody. It's obviously super-competitive.

We showed the (Crusade for Christ) picture, 'The Jesus Film,' and hundreds of people came from miles around, most on foot, to see the movie.

When I started, there were just a few miles of trail; now we have over 60 and are always planning on adding more.

With Kalona being only 18 miles from Iowa City and the uniqueness of the community, I can see tremendous potential here.

We certainly don't need another Chernobyl 90 miles away from the United States.

Users of high-priced cards should pay high charges if they want their frequent flier miles and other perquisites. But consumers should be able to avoid those charges if they choose, by using low-priced cards.

You go from zero miles per hour to 18,000 miles per hour in 8 1/2 minutes. So, it is the most dynamic ride.

You get a lot of traction with the screws (on the bike wheels) It's fast, I've done 57 miles an hour on the four wheeler. It's a very dangerous sport. I saw some boy's back get all ripped up - because of the screws.

To me it was just incomprehensible... I have never been in trouble before... I will go miles away to avoid confrontation. I really don't like it,

This one wants more money. That one wants a different schedule. Another person wants to trade in her responsibilities for a whole new set. This one wants to be included in high-level meetings. That one wants to attend a particular training program. Still another wants to start telecommuting ... from a thousand miles away,

This old dog right here gets eight miles to the gallon,

This thing has many more miles in the air than on the ground.

We couldn't wait to infuse Dodge Caliber with the SRT formula. The all-new 2007 Dodge Caliber SRT4 delivers a strong dose of all- around performance while delivering more than 28 miles per gallon on the highway. Our new SRT pocket rocket is going to be a hoot to drive.