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Quotes About Miles

Kenneth's shadow is a thin ghost on the quay. But there are thousands and thousands of miles inside him.
~ Jane Urquhart
Today an old torpedo factory not far from the Pentagon houses eight miles of microfilm, a small part of the archive of American intelligence from the war.
~ Tim Weiner
But shale drilling needed another technology to be economic. This was horizontal drilling. It allowed operators to drill down vertically (today, as much as two miles) to what is called the "kick-off point," where the drill bit turns and moves horizontally through the shale.
~ Daniel Yergin
Nowadays he drove the car into town to fetch his grandfather from habit alone, and though he still considered forty five miles an hour merely cruising speed, he no longer took cold and fiendish pleasure in turning curves on two wheels or in detaching mules from wagons by striking the whiffle-trees with his bumper in passing.
~ William Faulkner
Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousand of miles and all the years you have lived.
~ Helen Keller
Then I start to struggle With a feeble song Which will overcome me Many miles from home
~ Leonard Cohen
Prison service vans that travel 90 miles to take a prisoner 90 yards paedophiles free to leer at children in the very parks where they have committed horrific crimes.
~ Trevor Phillips
At a depth of two miles, sandwiched between a number of other strata, was a formation called the Bakken, named for a local farmer, and just below it the Three Forks.
~ Daniel Yergin
The Permian Basin sprawls across seventy-five thousand square miles in West Texas down into southeastern New Mexico.
~ Daniel Yergin
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~ David Baldacci
Caesar set his legion's All Day speed at exactly "twenty Roman miles in five summer hours," or 15:00 minutes a mile. The next faster gear was double-time, a 13:30 clip that covered twenty-two Roman miles in five hours. When you factor in the gnarly terrain and 45-pound packs on their backs, that's a churn rate any ultrarunner would envy.
~ Christopher McDougall
There is the distance of miles, and the distance of brothers, to overcome. He can feel the world coming between them again. But the world is so much smaller than it used to be.
~ David Levithan
The time is short and the hills is dark and I's got miles to go before I sleeps. Is is no easy road.
~ Unknown
'Kind of Blue' is one of the best records of all time. Miles' use of space is something rap fans can definitely appreciate. Sometimes you have to let the track breathe and throw a melody in here and there. He never did too much on 'Kind of Blue.' It's the perfect vibe.
~ Freddie Gibbs
Meanwhile the whole of the Realm worries that I may already have seen my last winter, yet have appointed no heir to succeed me—while High Lords like Aquitaine seem ready to swim to the throne through a river of blood, if necessary." Miles considered the enormity of it for a moment in silence. "Balls.
~ Jim Butcher
Marcus was depressingly certain that there wasn't a Dubious Person within a thousand miles.
~ Unknown
You just pull back for hundreds of miles using the satellite imagery, and all of a sudden this invisible world become visible. You're actually able to see settlements and tombs - and even things like buried pyramids - that you might not otherwise be able to see.
~ Sarah Parcak
Closeness isn't always measured in distance; friends can live many miles away, but the bond of love formed long ago always keeps them close at heart.
~ Unknown
In its lifetime, an albatross is believed to fly around fifteen million miles.
~ Jack Goldstein
We'll cross into Chavez County in about two miles.
~ John Grisham
The journey was up to thirty miles each way across rough country using the most direct paths.
~ John Guy
Respectable Protestant denominations retreated inside...leaving...unaffiliated madwomen to evangelize alfresco...
~ Sara Miles
It stood on the northern frontier of his kingdom, twenty miles inland from the fortress at Bamburgh,
~ Unknown
A few miles south of Soledad, the Salinas River drops in close to the hillside bank and runs deep and green.
~ John Steinbeck