Quotes having the keyword Miles
Man is the animal that intends to shoot himself out into interplanetary space, after having given up on the problem of an efficient way to get himself five miles to work and back each day.
by Bill Vaughan (Journalist, American , born in 1915) topics: Society keywords: after, animal, back, day, each, efficient, five, get, given, having, himself, intends, into, man, miles, out, problem, shoot, space, up, way , work Everybody knows that the great reversed triangle of land, with its base in the north and its apex in the south, which is called India, embraces fourteen hundred thousand square miles, upon which is spread unequally a population of one hundred and eighty millions of souls.
by Jules Verne (Author, French , born in 1828) keywords: apex, base, called, eighty, embraces, everybody, fourteen, great, hundred, india, knows, land, miles, millions, north, population, reversed, souls, south, spread, square, thousand, triangle, upon , which Miles Davis had me play and he hired me the following week and after that, everything broke wide open.
by Miroslav Vitous (Musician, Czechoslovakian , born in 1947) keywords: after, broke, davis, everything, following, had, hired, miles, open, play, week , wide I never found even in my juvenile hours that it was necessary to go a thousand miles in search of themes for moralizing.
by Horace Walpole (Author, English , born in 1717) keywords: even, found, go, hours, juvenile, miles, necessary, never, search, themes , thousand No man but feels more of a man in the world if he have a bit of ground that he can call his own. However small it is on the surface, it is four thousand miles deep; and that is a very handsome property.
by Charles Dudley Warner (Journalist, American , born in 1829) keywords: bit, call, deep, feels, four, ground, handsome, his, however, man, miles, more, own, property, small, surface, thousand, very , world General Washington had rather incautiously encamped the bulk of his army on Long Island - a large and plentiful district about two miles from the city of New York.
by Mercy Otis Warren (Playwright, American , born in 1970) keywords: army, bulk, city, district, general, had, his, island, large, long, miles, new, plentiful, rather, two, washington , york New York is only 97 miles from Philadelphia but was the Big Time as no other American city has ever been.
by Ethel Waters (Musician, American , born in 1896) keywords: american, been, big, city, ever, miles, new, only, other, philadelphia, time , york I saw Al Foster with Miles Davis the other week. It was beautiful. But, the whole thing was, Al Foster played as well as everybody else, but all of them were quite brilliant under Miles Davis' direction.
by Charlie Watts (Musician, British , born in 1941) keywords: al, beautiful, brilliant, davis, direction, else, everybody, foster, miles, other, played, quite, saw, them, thing, under, week, well, were , whole Everything officers go through in any chase anywhere in the country, but amped up 100 times! I'm right in the thick of things in a car going like 80 miles an hour, and doing 360s in the middle of the road. It was a wild ride.
by Amy Weber (Actor, American , born in 1972) keywords: any, anywhere, car, chase, country, doing, everything, go, going, hour, middle, miles, officers, ride, right, road, thick, things, through, times, up , wild I came home every Friday afternoon, riding the six miles on the back of a big mule. I spent Saturday and Sunday washing and ironing and cooking for the children and went back to my country school on Sunday afternoon.
by Ida B. Wells (Activist, American , born in 1862) keywords: afternoon, back, big, came, children, cooking, country, every, friday, home, ironing, miles, mule, riding, saturday, school, six, spent, sunday, washing , went A pat on the back is only a few vertebrae removed from a kick in the pants, but is miles ahead in results.
by Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Writer, American , born in 1850) keywords: ahead, back, few, kick, miles, only, pants, pat, removed, results , vertebrae Miles Davis was a master. In every phase of his career, he understood that this music was a tribute to the African muse.
by Cassandra Wilson (Musician, American , born in 1955) keywords: african, career, davis, every, his, master, miles, muse, music, phase, tribute , understood Miles Davis was doing something inherently African, something that has to do with all forms of American music, not just jazz.
by Cassandra Wilson (Musician, American , born in 1955) keywords: african, american, davis, doing, forms, inherently, jazz, just, miles, music , something At the outset, at least, all three groups had something else to recommend them, as well: They were headquartered 3,000 miles away from the East Side of Manhattan.
by Tom Wolfe (Journalist, American , born in 1931) keywords: away, east, else, groups, had, least, manhattan, miles, outset, recommend, side, something, them, three, well , were About fifteen miles above New Orleans the river goes very slowly. It has broadened out there until it is almost a sea and the water is yellow with the mud of half a continent. Where the sun strikes it, it is golden.
by Frank Yerby (Author, American , born in 1916) keywords: above, almost, broadened, continent, fifteen, goes, golden, half, miles, mud, new, orleans, out, river, sea, slowly, strikes, sun, until, very, water, where , yellow People in London think of London as the center of the world, whereas New Yorkers think the world ends three miles outside of Manhattan.
by Toby Young (Journalist, British , born in 1963) keywords: center, ends, london, manhattan, miles, new, outside, think, three, whereas, world , yorkers Those days if you drove cross country and you broke down on the side of the road, and the sign says 200 miles to the next gas station, you knew you were so screwed.
by Rob Zombie (Musician, American , born in 1966) keywords: broke, country, cross, days, down, drove, gas, knew, miles, next, road, says, screwed, side, sign, station, those , were Natural erosion had reduced the critical barrier islands in the Gulf, the result of the destruction of some 300,000 acres of wetlands. This amounted to 30 miles of marshlands.
by Mortimer Zuckerman (Publisher, Canadian , born in 1937) keywords: acres, amounted, barrier, critical, destruction, erosion, gulf, had, islands, miles, natural, reduced, result , some
