Best five & miles Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I wear a pedometer, aiming for five miles a day - don't be too impressed; that includes walking around my house and food shopping.”

House Five Walking Miles Shopping Impressed

Author:Elinor Lipman

“Before Alaska came along and ruined everything, one of every twenty-five square miles in America was Montanan. This much space has nurtured a healthy Cult of Place in which people find perfection, even divinity in the landscape.”

People America Space Five Healthy Perfection Twenties Miles Landscape Divinity Squares Cult Ruined Alaska Twenty Five Montana

Author:Ellen Meloy

“Stations were built at intervals averaging fifteen miles apart. A rider's route covered three stations, with an exchange of horses at each, so that he was expected at the beginning to cover close to forty-five miles - a good ride when one must average fifteen miles an hour.”

Three Hours Five Built Horse Average Expected Miles Forty Stations Covered Fifteen Routes Riders Intervals Miles Apart

Book:An Autobiography of Buffalo Bill

Source: An Autobiography of Buffalo Bill

“I recently learned that in an average lifetime a person walks about sixty-five thousand miles. That's two and a half times around the world. I wonder where your steps will take you. I wonder how you'll use the rest of the miles you're given.”

World Persons Two Use Given Walks Half Wonder Steps Five Thousand Lifetime Average Miles Around The World Sixty Thousand Miles Half Time

Book:You Are Special: Words of Wisdom for All Ages from a Beloved Neighbor

Source: You Are Special: Words of Wisdom for All Ages from a Beloved Neighbor

“You can eat beef on a weekly basis and become a genius intuitive if your energy is in present time.You can consume only organic food while running thirty-five miles a day and "om-ing" until dawn, but if your spirit is raging about your history and is saturated in regrets and unfinished business, you won't be able to intuit your left hand from your right.”

Ifs Hands Running Able Spirit Energy Left Five Regret Genius Bases Rage Miles Dawn Thirty Intuitive Beef Unfinished Present Time Left Hand Saturated Organic Food Unfinished Business

Author:Caroline Myss

“There is no use in your walking five miles to fish when you can depend on being just as unsuccessful near home.”

Use Home Five Sea Depends Walking Rivers Fishes Miles Boat Lakes Fishing Unsuccessful

Book:The Complete Works of Mark Twain: All 13 Novels, Short Stories, Poetry and Essays

Source: The Complete Works of Mark Twain: All 13 Novels, Short Stories, Poetry and Essays

“When I say I am going to run three miles, I run five. With that mentality, it is actually difficult to lose.”

Running Three Difficult Loses Five Miles Mentality

Author:Will Smith

“There's nothing like throwing up out a bus door, going sixty-five miles an hour.”

Hours Five Doors Miles Bus Throwing Sixty Throwing Up

Author:Izzy Stradlin

“The thought of killing myself had slowed me down to five miles per hour. The thought of killing someone else stopped me completely.”

Hours Five Killing Miles Killing Myself Killing Someone

Book:Naked

Source: Naked

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

Hours Five Balance Percent Hundred Miles Throttle

Author:Yanni

“In running, I know that I can train as much as I want and Im never going to break the world record for the five miles. Its partly genetics; Im just not built for it. But if I worked really hard, I might be able to cut my time by half. Could I do the same thing with my mind and my well-being?”

Ifs Knows World Want Mind Wells I Can Hard Might Running Able Half Break Records Five Cutting Built Train Miles Well Being My Time Genetics World Records

Author:Stefan Sagmeister

“I'm luckier than my grandfather, who didn't move more than five miles from the village in which he was born.”

Moving Born Five Miles Village Grandfather My Grandfather

Author:David Attenborough

“It is possible that in the 21st Century the Earth will not be inhabited by humans. One of the great mystics of India, a very simple man up in the mountains, somebody once asked him about the future. He said there will come a time when you'll walk five miles and you may see a light and you'll be so happy to know another being exists.”

Knows Men Humans May Said Light Earth Simple Walks Five Century Mountain India Miles 21st Century Simple Man

Author:Ram Dass

“"Back in the day when I started - it's like I walked five miles to school in the snow barefooted" - there were three channels.I don't know what I would do.”

Knows School Three Five Miles Snow Back In The Day

Author:Oprah Winfrey

“I told [reporters] that I sprinkled marijuana on my organic buckwheat pancakes, and then when I ran my five miles to the ballpark, it made me impervious to the bus fumes. That's when [Baseball Commissioner] Bowie Kuhn took me off his Christmas list.”

Made Five Baseball Lists Miles Ran Bus Marijuana Reporters Pancakes Bowie Ballparks Impervious Commissioners

Author:Bill Lee

“One night a guy hit his head on a welding gun. He went to his knees. He was bleeding like a pig, blood was oozing out. So I stopped the line for a second and ran over to help him. The foreman turned the line on again, he almost stepped on the guy. That's the first thing they always do. They didn't even call an ambulance. The guy walked to the medic department -- that's about half a mile -- he had about five stitches put in his head. The foreman didn't say anything. He just turned the line on. You're nothing to any of them.”

Firsts Helping Night Guy Lines Half Five Blood Gun Miles Knees Ran Department Pigs Say Anything One Night Bleeding Stitches Ambulance Welding Medics

Book:Working

Source: Working

“Growing up as a kid, the back of my house faced a little community airport about four or five miles from my house.”

Littles Kids House Community Growing Up Five Four Growing Miles Airports

Author:Bo Jackson

“People do not realise that many of my works are done in urban places. I was brought up on the edge of Leeds, five miles from the city centre-on one side were fields and on the other, the city.”

People Done Sides Cities Five Fields Edges Miles Realising Urban Centre Leeds

Author:Andy Goldsworthy

“Then, again, how annoying to be told it is only five miles to the next place when it is really eight or ten!”

Next Five Ten Eight Miles Annoying

Book:The Art of Seeing Things: Essays

Source: The Art of Seeing Things: Essays

“I don't purposely speed, but I might go over by five or six miles an hour from time to time. It doesn't give me a buzz driving on normal roads, because I can't go fast enough. It's never going to be anything like an F1 car.”

Giving I Can Enough Might Hours Five Car Normal Six Give Me Speed Driving Miles Because I Can Buzz Driving On

Author:Jenson Button

“Any man who would walk five miles through the snow, barefoot, just to return a library book so he could save three cents - that's my kind of guy.”

Men Kind Book Guy Three Walks Five Return Library Miles Snow Cents Barefoot Library Books

Author:Jack Benny

“I spent five years, at least, working with Miles. Together, we recorded ESP, Nefertiti, Sorcerer -- and I can tell you; each of these albums instantly became jazz classics. Hey, we had Wayne Shorter playing tenor sax, Ron [Carter] on bass, Tony Williams played drums. That was great band we had.”

Years I Can Together Five Band Jazz Albums Miles Hey Five Years Bass Carter Wayne Tenors Esp Nefertiti

Author:Herbie Hancock

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