Quotes About Mile

The first major lightning bolts to hit the building were reported in August 1931. One particularly fierce bolt that was accompanied by "detonations" produced a great flash of fire seen as far as a mile away.

It had always been a British preoccupation to hold this mile record.

What I absolutely want is to suggest that before it's anything else, redemption is God mending the bicycle of our souls; God bringing out the puncture repair kit, re-inflating the tires, taking off the rust, making us roadworthy once more. Not so that we can take flight into ecstasy, but so that we can do the next needful mile of our lives.

May is a very early time in the year and the weather is usually bad. You cannot run a fast mile race if there is a strong wind, because it makes your running uneven.

berth in a storm, for they were familiar with marksmanship and doubted if the lightning could hit that small stick at a distance of a mile and a half

I'm an Armory girl. I've been racing here since eighth grade. Our relay won here my freshman year, but winning the Wanamaker Mile is even bigger. That's huge.

Blink and you miss a sprint. The 10,000 meters is lap after lap of waiting. Theatrically, the mile is just the right length - beginning, middle, end: a story unfolding.

The six men set off for Amberg, twenty miles away, where there was a convalescent hospital.

Greer's eyes darted back and forth on the road, always vigilant for bears. Or any other mammal that might wander onto the asphalt. She'd only been on the road for ten miles and already she'd spotted enough roadkill to fill a zoo.

Three hundred miles away, in Philadelphia, forty-nine-year-old Benjamin Franklin sits naked in his bedroom. He is reading a book with the windows wide open while enjoying the rejuvenation of his daily "air bath.

There's one rule of thumb that suggests that you need one day of recovery for every mile run in a race. Another rule of thumb...suggests one day...for every kilometer run in anger.

As a dreamer of dreams and a travelin' man, I have chalked up many a mile. Read dozens of books about heroes and crooks, and I learned much from both of their styles.

I'm fine. I'm at an antique store, by the clothes store just a mile or so from-" "Which clothes store, Tess? If you haven't noticed, there are about a million.

two hundred furlongs.

Mile tracks put more emphasis on the driver. On the longer tracks, you can drive flat out all the way around, so it's more of an engineering exercise. On a mile, you can't run flat out. You're constantly in traffic, there's more driver involvement.

Outside a seedy white Gendarmerie, an unshaven seedy off-white gendarme slumbered in a chair. 'He's pretending there isn't a war on,' said Mr Budden. I shouted 'Ai Meisu! le Gendarme? Où est la Guerre Mondiale Nombre Deux?' He pointed up the road. 'Avante siese mille kilo.' He grinned and fell back to sleep.

A journey of 4,000 miles begins with a stack of pancakes and one turn of the pedals" - David Barnas

didn't think it was possible to be more than a mile from a Starbucks at any given point in the county, maybe even the world.

along Keene Mill Road. Another mile and a half along the two-lane road that bisected Springfield, Virginia, and they'd reach the Beltway girdling

It didn't occur to him to make allowances for the long English twilight. That twilight gave to the landscape a curious effect of suspended life. It cast upon everything (or was that, perhaps, the beer?) an eerie, magical bloom. Every mile that he went - and now he was hurrying - he felt surer and surer that he was on the verge of some shattering experience.

Look for every opportunity to go the extra mile. That's how you become extra special and extra successful.

A guy who builds his own rocket in his garage, about to jump a mile, is pretty cool. It's the most interesting human-interest story in the world.

When I looked around, with my wife, Sarasota seemed like the best place in Florida. We settled about one mile from Siesta Key.

For three years, I lived in a miniscule apartment on Beacon Street, less than a mile from the Boston Marathon explosions.