Quotes About Miles

Two days' ride to either side of the kingsroad, they passed through a wide swath of destruction, miles of blackened fields and orchards

They have worries, they're counting the miles, they're thinking about where to sleep tonight, how much money for gas, the weather, how they'll get there - and all the time they'll get there anyway, you see.

If you got every single artist in the world in one room, and you put Miles on one side and Prince on the other side, those are the two people that everybody would be trying to get a glimpse of. And Michael Jackson would be the other one.

Bowling was my natural skill. I didn't know how I was doing it, but I was spinning it miles and bamboozling people.

Lawrence immediately saw that it was a trick question. You would have to be some kind of idiot to make the facile assumption that the current would add or subtract 5 miles per hour to or from the speed of the boat.

She is in a house not thirty miles from here…a house that is for the time being unguarded, as the proprietor has been locked up in the Tower of London. How fortuitous, Sergeant!

The Angel Gabriel disappeared once for sixty years and they found him on earth hiding in the body of a man named Miles Davis.

some twenty more miles on an old two-lane country road. Traffic was light, just a couple of pickups and a Volkswagen

water, a circle of pounded coral sand a hundred yards wide, twenty miles in circumference, and from

What a paradox, what a fearful reproach, when the distinction of a few hundred miles — nay, as many feet or even inches! — can transform heinous crime to simple unqualified circumstance!

There's the Hollywood sign; there's Griffith Observatory; there's the great, amazing Los Angeles Basin. It's 465 square miles of insanity and the best food on the planet.

As horrific as this impact has been on my constituents, it is only a small part of the overwhelming destruction covering 90,000 square miles of the Gulf Coast.

He eyed Margaret with resentment; covertly; with suspicion. A womb (unpleasant thought!). She had never told him she possessed one. Was that where women went and sat, to brood, to count their injuries? Miles vaguely hated her.

I'm kind of a nervous guy. I know on television I look like I'm half asleep, but inside I'm going about 100 miles an hour.

I love nineties stuff like Alice in Chains and Nine Inch Nails. It'd be my dream to have a Radiohead-themed episode of 'Glee.' I also love jazz greats like Coltrane, Miles Davis, and Herbie Hancock.

A South Carolina native, Miles was a lawyer, a mayor of Charleston, and a congressman. He was one of his state's fire-eaters, a term applied to men who openly advocated secession rather than finding accomodation with the Union in the summer and fall of 1860.

That'll put us about a hundred miles due east of Ho Chi Minh City in another five hours." The name always caught Max off guard. Vietnam's largest city would always be Saigon to him.

And now you have to come out of hiding - even though your life is threatened by a shape-changing assassin - to walk however many miles in a snowstorm to go talk to a tree. Yup. I'm coming with you, said Curtis

His body was worn and weathered, his skin scratched with lines mapping the miles of his life.

fifty miles long, it is among the most heavily trafficked shipping channels in the world.

Temple Bar was hundreds of miles away,

Stations were built at intervals averaging fifteen miles apart. A rider's route covered three stations, with an exchange of horses at each, so that he was expected at the beginning to cover close to forty-five miles - a good ride when one must average fifteen miles an hour.

The joy of her smiles and laughs seemed, to Mister Sun, to be in her genuine surprise at their arrival, as if strong emotions traveled some miles to get here and showed up without warning.

The best answer I can give is that poetry is all about the effect it has on a reader, and Robert Frost was very, very good at that. If you're asking whatit MEANS that the line is repeated [and miles to go before I sleep] I'd have to say I don't know. It's stylistic. But the effect is pretty clear.