Quotes of: Thousand-miles Keyword

A key ingredient in appreciating what mathematics is about is to realize that it is concerned with ideas, understanding, and communication more than it is with any specific brand of symbols....It is almost as if ideas set in mathematical form melt an...

How Math Works: A Guide to Grade School Arithmetic for Parents and Teachers

There is no stillness, only change. Yesterday’s here is not today’s here. Yesterday’s here is somewhere in Russia, in a wilderness in Canada, a deep blue nowhere out in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. It’s behind the sun, it’s in deep spa...

The Raw Shark Texts

Okay, so English settlers brought rabbits with them to Australia to breed for food and stuff, right? But they escaped and basically started destroying the country, eating the vegetation, that kind of thing. So by the early 1900s, the government was t...

Alice in Wonderland

Only a clever human can make a real Joke about virtue, or indeed about anything else; any of them can be trained to talk as if virtue were funny. Among flippant people the joke is always assumed to have been made. No one actually makes it; but every ...

The Screwtape Letters

Mr. Eddy: [to a tailgater after running him off the road] Don't tailgate! Don't you fucking ever tailgate! Do you know how much space is needed to stop a car traveling at 35 miles per hour? Six car lengths! Six fuckin' car lengths! That's a hundred a...

Lost Highway

You asked what I wanted and I'm not going to lie to you. What I want most is the naked truth. I want to strip away every stubborn layer until you're bared to me. And then I'm going to show you how to love right.

5 Miles

I walked a mile with Pleasure; She chatted all the way; But left me none the wiser For all she had to say. I walked a mile with Sorrow; And ne’er a word said she; But, oh! The things I learned from her, When Sorrow walked with me.

Robert Browning Hamilton

Mile tracks put more emphasis on the driver. On the longer tracks, you can drive flat out all the way around, so it's more of an engineering exercise. On a mile, you can't run flat out. You're constantly in traffic, there's more driver involvement.

Buddy Rice

[after Petey makes a fumble] Coach Boone: Petey, how many feet are in a mile? How many feet are in a mile? Petey Jones: [mumbles] Coach Boone: 5,280 feet! You pick this ball up and run every one of 'em! You're killing me, Petey! You're killing me!

Remember the Titans

Miles Dyson: Just let the boy go. Sarah Connor: Shut up! Shut up, shut up, SHUT UP! It's all your fault! Motherfucker, it's all your fault! Miles Dyson: What?

Terminator 2: Judgment Day

I'd never really experienced the West before moving to Colorado. The East Coast, where I grew up, has a lot of big cities, like Boston and New York, and is more densely populated, and I instantly fell in love with the big open spaces of the West, whe...

Tyler Hamilton

If the economy is still going forward, even at 40 miles an hour, 50 miles an hour, I think most people will stick with President Obama. I think people look at politics like they hire a plumber. I hire you to fix the bad pipe. If you fix it, I'll rehi...

Dick Gephardt

Stories are verbal acts of hospitality.

Christ Plays in Ten Thousand Places: A Conversation in Spiritual Theology

For the bliss of the deep abode is not lightly abandoned in favor of the self-scattering of the wakened state,

The Hero With a Thousand Faces

It is only when a man tames his own demons that he becomes the king of himself if not of the world.

The Hero With a Thousand Faces

I was thinking how you can't tell if a person's beautiful or not by her shadow...

Book of a Thousand Days

I would kiss the ground where your shadow fell just to be near you.

Night of a Thousand Stars

Faith is in the gaze of a soul.

One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are

Simplicity is ultimately a matter of focus.

One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are

The past is set down in a thousand thousand indelible scrolls. But the future is a blank parchment forever in wait of a present.

The Other Alexander

Satan prowls but he’s a lion on a leash

One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are