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Miles Quotes

I often visited a particular plant four or five miles distant, half a dozen times within a fortnight, that I might know exactly when it opened.

Henry David Thoreau

Plant Know Within Miles Half Dozen

I love voyaging - the longest has been 3,000 miles to Hawaii. I've also spent weeks all over the Caribbean.

Love Hawaii Over Miles Caribbean

I don't think we listened to any rock n' roll at all in the early days. It was Miles Davis and John Coltrane 95% of the time.

Time Think Early Rock Days Miles

People ask how far I've gone in life. About 20 miles.

Life People Ask How Far Miles Gone

I'm not that patient sometimes. I'm like a rocket - I go a hundred miles per hour.

Go Sometimes Patient Miles Rocket

Who can guarantee that if we allow the Palestinians to establish a state, we won't find rockets there as well, half a mile from the airport or 10 miles from Tel Aviv?

Find Airport Miles Half Well Who

When it comes down to music, I have no balance. I am 100 percent. It is like full throttle. Five hundred miles an hour.

Music Balance I Am Down Miles Five

If we are going to list guitar influences, the biggest one by far is Wes Montgomery. Also, Gary Burton was obviously huge for me in a number of ways. But beyond that, Clifford Brown, Miles Davis and Freddie Hubbard.

Me Guitar Beyond Miles Going Far

In one year I travelled 450,000 miles by air.

Year Air Miles Travelled

The United States, a signatory to the Chemical Weapons Convention, destroyed the last of its stocks of VX and other chemical agents on the Johnston Atoll, 825 miles southwest of Hawaii, in November 2000.

Hawaii Miles United Destroyed Last

My home was 25 miles from the gulf, and I did not want to see it become a shorefront property.

Home Want Become See Property Miles

I enjoy a four-seasonal climate and wide-open spaces, so being on an island 2,500 miles into the South Pacific made me feel a little claustrophobic.

Me Feel Enjoy Island Little Miles

The beginning of 1856 found me teaching in the family of a planter named Bryan, residing in Prince George County, Md., some fifteen or twenty miles from Washington.

Family Beginning Me Washington Miles

Sure, cricket on a beach on the isle of Jura is different from a Test match in a stadium in Galle, 6000 miles away, despite the sea air.

Romesh Gunesekera

Sea Beach Cricket Test Air Miles

Too often I would hear men boast of the miles covered that day, rarely of what they had seen.

Day Men Miles Seen Would Boast

We're trying to do what Miles Davis would have wanted us to do, which is approach it as artists with his life as the canvas.

Life Trying Canvas Miles Us Artists

You can be many miles away and press a button on a keyboard, and it can cause devastation.

You Miles Away Keyboard Press Cause

We remained at our encampment of this day until the morning of the 7th, when we descended ten miles lower down and encamped on a spot of ground where several thousand Indians had wintered during the past season.

William Henry Ashley

Morning Day Past Down Ground Miles

In 1862, Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Act, a bill opening one half million square miles of territory in the western United States for settlement.

Opening Act Miles Square Half

I was rejected by casting directors during the day. I attended class in the evening, then rode 90 miles on the train home.

Home Day Evening Train Class Miles

On other shows, guys can't wait to put 3000 miles between them during hiatus.

Wait Miles Hiatus Between Guys Them

My mom and dad got divorced when I was, like, 8, and when I went to my dad's house on the weekend, he'd play a lot of music: Miles Davis, Radiohead, Thom Yorke, Elton John.

Music Mom Weekend House Play Miles

I love taking the boat to the Farne Islands, a few miles offshore. It has a National Trust bird sanctuary with seals and every sort of seabird you can imagine.

Love Bird Trust Boat You Miles

Miles Davis is one who writes songs when he plays.

Miles Who Songs He Writes Plays

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