“The evening sky was streaked with purple, the color of torn plums, and a light rain had started to fall when I came to the end of the blacktop road that cut through twenty miles of thick, almost impenetrable scrub oak and pine and stopped at the front gate of Angola penitentiary.” EndsLightFallCuttingSkyFrontsColorRainTwentiesMilesEveningGatesThickTornPurpleOaksPlumsEvening SkyAngola Author:James Lee
“From the walls of Baidi high in the coloured dawn To Jiangling by night-fall is three hundred miles, Yet monkeys are still calling on both banks behind me To my boat these ten thousand mountains away.” StillsNightFallThreeBehindsWallCallingThousandTenMountainHundredMilesBoatDawnMonkeys Author:Li Bai
“Remember that your tracks are one strand of the web woven endlessly in the hand of god. They're tied to those of the mouse in the field, the eagle on the mountain, the crab in its hold, the lizard beneath its rock. The leaf that falls to the ground a thousand miles away touches your life. The impress of your foot in the soil is felt through a thousand generations.” HandsRememberFallFeltGenerationsFeetRocksFieldsThousandMountainTrackMilesSoilTiedImpressMiceLeafsEaglesWovenStrandsMiles AwayHands Of GodCrabsThousand MilesLizards Author:Daniel Quinn
“I still am amazed that people would never buy a car if they were told it gets 75 miles to the gallon - they're absolutely clear on what's a scam. But when it comes to their health they will immediately fall for somebody telling them, "Take this pill and you'll live to be a hundred years old." There's something about medicine that allows us to fall for stupid sales pitches more easily.” PeopleIfsYearsStillsPainFallClearCarStupidHundredMedicineMilesTherapyInjuryAmazedPillsGallonsScamsSales Pitch Author:Dean Edell
“An eight-mile drive over rain-washed Irish roads in the quick-falling dusk of autumn is an experience trying to the patience, even to the temper, of the average Saxon.” TryingBookFallRainAverageEightMilesAutumnTemperDusk Book:The Gambler: A Novel Source: The Gambler: A Novel
“We are dying of preconceptions, outworn rules, decaying flags, venomous religions, and sentimentalities. We need a new world. We've wrenched up all the old roots. The old men have no roots. They don't know it. They just go on talking and flailing away and falling down on the young with their tons of dead weight and their power. For the power is still there, in their life-in-death. But the roots are dead, and the land is poisoned for miles around them.” KnowsMenWorldNeedsStillsYoungFallTalkingPowerLandDyingGoes OnRootsWeightMilesOld ManNew WorldFlagsFalling DownSentimentalityPreconceptionsVenomousFlailing Book:The Inland Island Source: The Inland Island
“After the falling out with my father, I worked on a couple of ranches - thoroughbred layup farms, actually - out toward Chino, California. That was fine for a little while, but I wanted to get out completely, and twenty miles away wasnt far enough.” LittlesEnoughWantedFallFatherFineCoupleTwentiesMilesCaliforniaFarmsMiles AwayThoroughbreds Author:Sam Shepard
“All the time we spent in bed, counting miles before we said, fall in love and fall apart, things will end before they start.” SaidEndsFallBedFalling In LoveMilesFalling ApartCounting Author:Sufjan Stevens