Quotes of: Thousand-miles Keyword

The sediments of the past are many miles in collective thickness: yet the feeble silt of the rivers built them all from base to summit.

John Joly

I can do the equivalent of 150 miles per hour and not get stopped. I could quite happily pursue people down the motorway in my helicopter.

Jay Kay

Chuck Noland: That's a search area of 500,000 square miles. That's twice the size of Texas. They may never find us.

Cast Away

The first trip of the Pony Express was made in ten days - an average of two hundred miles a day. But we soon began stretching our riders and making better time.

Buffalo Bill

The very first time I got to drive by myself, I took a bunch of my friends to school and was caught by a motorcycle cop going 90 miles an hour on a back street.

Cheech Marin

I started in law school in '71 and graduated in '74. So I was training for the Olympics, running or averaging around 20 miles a day and going to law school full time.

Frank Shorter

I run a solid 4-6 miles at a time, and over the last year two years I've gotten really into SoulCycle. It's sort of an evolved form of spinning.

Gail Simmons

I was playing violin for a long time, about 6 years. It takes a while. You need very patient people in your house when you have a violin.

Kevin Eubanks

I miss playing with Miles. I did play with him a little while before he left the planet, but even at that time I longed to maybe do some things together.

Sonny Rollins

As soon as, say, Saddam Hussein started bombing Israel with Scuds, everyone was like, 'Poor Israel.' But when Israel retaliates - and most of the time they then win - people turn against them.

Zubin Mehta

I sometimes feel it is to my disadvantage that I have not conducted the Cleveland Orchestra or the Boston or Chicago symphonies, but then I have had to sacrifice something in order to have enough time with my orchestras.

Zubin Mehta

In our town, Halloween was terrifying and thrilling, and there was a whiff of homicide. We'd travel by foot in the dark for miles, collecting candy, watching out for adults who seemed too eager to give us treats.

Rosecrans Baldwin

John Coffey: Boss. Saw me a mouse go by. Paul Edgecomb: Can't put anything over on you.

The Green Mile

[repeated line] John Coffey: I tried to take it back... but it was too late.

The Green Mile

Old Paul Edgecomb: I guess sometimes the past just catches up with you, whether you want it to or not.

The Green Mile

Paul Edgecomb: A big man is ripping your ears off Percy. I'd do as he says.

The Green Mile

Brutus "Brutal" Howell: You all right in there? Paul Edgecomb: Yeah, for a man pissing razor blades.

The Green Mile

Dean Stanton: Well? What about Mrs. Moores? Was it like the mouse? Was it a... you know, a miracle? Paul Edgecomb: Yes. Yes, it was. Damn...

The Green Mile

Wild Bill Wharton: Come on, fuckstick! No sneaking up on me this time. We'll go man to man.

The Green Mile

John Coffey: [singing as he's being strapped to the electric chair] Heaven, I'm in heaven... heaven... heaven...

The Green Mile

Paul Edgecomb: The man is mean, careless, and stupid. Bad combination in a place like this.

The Green Mile