Quotes of: Extra-mile Keyword

We are so indebted to our ancestors, musically speaking, that they have left us 400 years of music.

Zubin Mehta

Early on the next morning we reached Kansas, about five hundred miles from the mouth of the Missouri.

Francis Parkman

I get up 5:30-6 every morning. I'm in the gym. I run a couple miles.

Magic Johnson

Catfish De Vries: It's a bottomless pit, baby. Two-and-a-half miles straight down.

The Abyss

I run four miles most days, at about 8:00 to 8:15 pace. It's totally relaxed.

Alberto Salazar

Major North and myself went out in advance of the command several miles and killed a number of buffaloes.

Buffalo Bill

Many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage on the Shore of a dark Scottish lake.

Walter Scott

Indian hotels are doing well globally because they understand hospitality.

Zubin Mehta

There are people who think I am Israeli. That's rubbish.

Zubin Mehta

The 'New York Times' reviews of my work have been evenly divided - favourable and unfavourable.

Zubin Mehta

My parents say you’re no good, Elijah.” I exhaled and killed the cigarette in the grass. Laughing, Eli’s eyes went to my lips and his hands touched my bare midriff. “Really? And what do you say?” He had brought his lips so close to mine tha...

5 Miles

Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village, though; He will not see me stopping here To watch his woods fill up with snow. My little horse must think it queer To stop without a farmhouse near Between the woods and frozen lake T...

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

I think this is when most people give up on their stories. They come out of college wanting to change the world, wanting to get married, wanting to have kids and change the way people buy office supplies. But they get into the middle and discover it ...

A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life

Before the war Sofya Levinton had once said to Yevgenia Nikolaevna Shaposhnikova, 'If one man is fated to be killed by another, it would be interesting to trace the gradual convergence of their paths. At the start they might be miles away from one an...

Life and Fate

The where the story happened was a world on the back of four elephants perched on the shell of a giant turtle. That's the advantage of space. It's big enough to hold practically , and so, eventually, it does. People think that it is strange to have a...

The Last Hero

He approaches a cockroach in only one respect: his coloration is brown. That is all. Apart from this he has a tremendous convex belly divided into segments and a hard rounded back suggestive of wing cases. In beetles these cases conceal flimsy little...

Lectures on Literature

And what do you want?” I almost choked. “How could you even ask me that, Henry?” He sighed. “Because I’m thousands of miles away. Because I Skyped into your living room late one night and there’s a dude sitting next to you in the dark. Be...

Perfect Glass

William 'Wild Bill' Wharton: [Eduard has just been executed, and Paul comes up to the Mile to find Wild Bill sitting on his bed, ripping out chunks of his pillow and throwing the feathers around, singing loudly] Barbecue, me and you! Stinky pinky, pe...

The Green Mile

[first lines] Narrator of opening sequence: War began between Germany and France on August 3rd 1914. Five weeks later the German army had smashed its way to within eighteen miles of Paris. There the battered French miraculously rallied their forces a...

Paths of Glory

The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is just a little bit extra.

Chicken Soup for the Soul: Extraordinary Teens: Personal Stories and Advice from Today's Most Inspiring Youth

Tap into ‘The Force’ and soon, at any given time that you need that extra shot of high octane confidence; you will soon be like a Jedi Master at this technique.

Develop Jedi Self-Confidence: Unleash the Force within You