Quotes of: Miles-davis Keyword

Jack Llewelyn Davies: [Michael tries to fly the kite the first time] Oh, I told you this wasn't going to work! Peter Llewelyn Davies: I don't think he's fast enough. J.M. Barrie: It's not going to work if no-one believes in him!

Finding Neverland

Roland Turner: A solo act? Llewyn Davis: No, I had a partner... he threw himself off the George Washington Bridge. Roland Turner: George Washington Bridge? You throw yourself off the Brooklyn Bridge, traditionally. George Washington Bridge? Who does ...

Inside Llewyn Davis

Failure is an enigma. You worry about it, and it teaches you something.

James Dyson

Deputy Marshal Samuel Gerard: Alright, listen up, people. Our fugitive has been on the run for ninety minutes. Average foot speed over uneven ground barring injuries is 4 miles-per-hour. That gives us a radius of six miles. What I want from each and ...

The Fugitive

[Unhappy with Keith as a chemistry lab partner, Natalie speaks to the teacher] Mr. Miles: Keith is actually pretty sharp when he applies himself. Natalie: Okay, but we kinda... Mr. Miles: ...lack Chemistry? Natalie: Yeah. Mr. Miles: Try to make it wo...

Keith

The thing in jazz that will get Bix Beiderbecke out of his bed at two o’clock in the morning, pick that cornet up and practice into the pillow for another two or three hours, or that would make Louis Armstrong travel around the world for fifty plus...

Wynton Marsalis

Yes, we must ever be friends; and of all who offer you friendship let me be ever the first, the truest, the nearest and dearest!

The Courtship of Miles Standish

Aside from a very select few, there are no overnight success stories. Most of the time that single step took a thousand miles to get to it.

Darkness Left Undone

Worry and regret are both useless weights that provide no drag. They never did anything to slow down the planet for one goddamned second.

100 Sideways Miles

I have slightly less than 60 miles to go, and I’m going slightly faster than 60 miles per hour. I should arrive in a bad mood.

$3.33

This is a story about survival. Letting go and learning to let in. Getting along and moving on. The truth about life. The things left unsaid...

5 Miles

And even when they refuse to listen, I'll keep talking anyway, hoping on a slim chance that the things inside my head are worth something to someone.

5 Miles

Who told you that your journey was a thousand miles

Abandoned but Not Alone My Quest to Find the Mother Who Gave Me Away

Starting your book is only the first five miles of a twenty-six-mile marathon that’s one-third of a triathlon (authoring, publishing, and entrepreneuring).

APE: Author, Publisher, Entrepreneur. How to Publish a Book

How did Adam do it? He seemed to be able to look past Miles's weirdness and insecurities and awkwardness to see Miles, himself, what he was-whatever he was-inside.

Illumination

God allows us to face the tension whether we like it or not.

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

A man on a thousand mile walk has to forget his goal and say to himself every morning, 'Today I'm going to cover twenty-five miles and then rest up and sleep.

War and Peace

Now I say that if you run more than 15 miles a week, it's for something other than aerobic fitness. Once you pass 15 miles, you do not see much further improvement.

Kenneth H. Cooper

My fastest time in high school was a 4:29 mile. I think cross-country has something to do with my longevity in my business. When you're in an eight-mile race, you never give up.

Alice Cooper

We are not about to send American boys 9 or 10 thousand miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves.

Lyndon B. Johnson

I used to jog three miles a day, and then I saw I was getting a little bit older, so I started fast-walking three miles a day. Now I just drive.

George Miller