(774 quotes found)
“Every mile is two in winter”
George Hurbert
“For many years the National Pretend Speed Limit was fifty-five miles per hour (metric equivalent: 378 kilograms per hectare.)”
Dave Barry
“Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousands of miles and all the years you have lived.”
Helen Keller
“[The wearer of these sandals] did not look out on swirling dust devils or miles of alkali and sand flats, as we did that hot August day, but on a great lake with wavelets lapping against a beach below the cave.”
Luther Cressman
“More than 3 million square miles of territory to protect, 10 thousand miles of border to guard and a fence to build 10, 11 or 12 miles high. It is better to have less thunder in the mouth and more lightning in the hand.”
Gen Ben Chidlaw
“A pat on the back, through only a few vertebrae removed from a kick in the pants, is miles ahead in results.”
Bennett Cerf
“But if you ride your bike a mile away, she is not gonna find you.”
Lance Armstrong
“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.”
Ray Floyd
“What can we do with the western coast, a coast of 3,000 miles, rockbound cheerless, uninviting, and not a harbor on it? What use have we for such a country? I will never vote one cent from the public treasury to place the Pacific Ocean one inch neare”
Daniel Webster
“I've run a lot of miles over the years, some fast and some not so fast. I've won some big races and I've had some big disappointments, but I enjoy the freedom of running and the challenge of training and competition as much now as when I first started back in high school.”
Alberto Salazar
