Quotes of: Miles-davis Keyword

She had heard it said that, before you could understand anybody, you needed to walk a mile in their shoes, which did not make a whole lot of sense, because probably AFTER you had walked a mile in their shoes, you would understand that they were chasi...

I Shall Wear Midnight

When we love someone our love becomes demonstrable or real only through our exertion - through the fact that for that someone (or for ourself) we take an extra step or walk an extra mile. Love is not effortless. To the contrary, love is effortful.

The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth

He returned to his seat and sat down; the road is so long, so long; he had to get through these spaces where stations clustered about the track amidst the black night like some black coffin set with candles. He thought that minute was flying after mi...

The Silver Age of Russian Culture: An Anthology

You'd think God would come right out and tell us what to do in the Bible, but He doesn't. He mostly tells stories, and He rarely stops the story to say what the point is. He just lets the characters and conflict hang in the air like smoke.

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

Life has a peculiar feel when you look back on it that it doesn't have when you're actually living it. It's as though the whole thing were designed to be understood in hindsight, as though you'll never know the meaning of your experiences until you'v...

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

He had been aware of the distance traveled by his heart, similar to the way a hiker became lost in the wilderness. A half mile out and you could still see where you had started, could easily find the way back home. But ten miles and a number of forks...

Lover at Last

In WASP families, if you don't get along with someone, you have as little to do with them as possible. In Jewish families, you move next door, to make them as miserable as possible.

Queen of the Road: The True Tale of 47 States, 22,000 Miles, 200 Shoes, 2 Cats, 1 Poodle, a Husband, and a Bus with a Will of Its Own

If you walk 100 miles into the life you don't want. Often, you must walk those same 100 miles to get out of that life. This is the answer to why the journey to fulfillment is often so difficult. However, if you can find a shortcut, a new path, you ca...

The Waves of Life Quotes and Daily Meditations

Mike Erganian: What is the subject of your book? Non fiction? Miles Raymond: Uh, no. It's... it's a novel. Fiction. Yes. Although there is quite a bit from my own life... so I suppose that, technically some of it is nonfiction. Mike Erganian: Good I ...

Sideways

C.I.A. Director: What's this - this cluster of buildings down here? George: The PMA - it's the Pakistani Military Academy. C.I.A. Director: [looks at him incredulously] George: It's their West Point. C.I.A. Director: And how close is it to the house?...

Zero Dark Thirty

With flowers the sex is up-front and x-rated.

Photographing Flowers: Exploring Macro Worlds with Harold Davis

An important impression was my father's one Sabbatical year, spent in England and Europe in 1937.

Philip Warren Anderson

I may be paralyzed from the waist down, but unlike Gray Davis, I'm not paralyzed from the neck up.

Larry Flynt

And I remember looking at Gray Davis and, you know, Gray is the consummate political operative.

Mike Curb

Literature incarnates its meanings as concretely as possible. The knowledge that literature gives of a subject is the kind of knowledge that is obtained by (vicariously) living through an experience.

Leland Ryken

Collective freedom is one devoid of material bondage and one that supports the institutions necessary for democracy.

Henry Giroux

In the evenings I studied chemistry at the University of Chicago, the weekends I helped in the family store.

Jack Steinberger

There are a lot of guys who play in the NBA. There aren't a lot of guys who have a chance to win a gold medal, too.

James Harden

I am not a fan of historical fiction that is sloppy in its research or is dishonest about the real history.

Kate Mosse

If you look at the history of Notre Dame, if you hire a coach who's been successful at another college program, they're going to be ultra successful at Notre Dame because the talent will always be there.

Lou Holtz

Everybody should be interested in access to primary and secondary education for everybody.

Paul Farmer