Quotes of: Mile Keyword

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

La vida es un libro, y hay miles de páginas que no hemos leído todavía.

Clockwork Princess

We have once again succeeded in destroying what we could not create.

The Green Mile

A man with a good wife is the luckiest of God's creatures...

The Green Mile

A good government may, indeed, redress the grievances of an injured people; but a strong people can alone build up a great nation.

Thomas Francis Meagher

It's amazing that more people have climbed Mount Everest than have broken the 4-minute mile.

Roger Bannister

In the end, we all lose it. Remember that. In the end, we own nothing.

Miles to Go

It is worth it to leave behing my minor life for grander maybes -Miles "Pudge

Looking for Alaska

When a man is penalized for honesty he learns to lie.

Salomé: In Every Inch In Every Mile

You're my closest friend and you're thousands of miles away.

Scorpia Rising

The time is short and the hills is dark and I's got miles to go before I sleeps. Is is no easy road.

Planesrunner

Somewhere on the world was the Emperor's palace, set amid one hundred square miles of natural soil, rainbowed with flowers.

Foundation

As you know, there are certain languages that lend themselves very easily to vocal use.

Neville Marriner

Most Beethoven symphonies require 80 or more instruments, and the late romantics even more.

Neville Marriner

If I got into a fight in a bar, I'd miss the dude by miles. I wouldn't know how to connect. It would be a comedy.

Pierce Brosnan