“Until I was four years old I lived in the house of my paternal grandfather, about two miles from the pretty little village of Wallace, at the mouth of the river of that name.” YearsLittlesTwoHouseNamesFourMouthsRiversMilesVillageFour YearsGrandfather Book:The reminiscences of an astronomer Source: The reminiscences of an astronomer
“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.” YearsTwoRunningLastsFormMilesTwo YearsLast YearSpinning Author:Gail Simmons
“I'm used to people being a mile away. That suits me. It's more nerve-wracking playing in front of people who are two feet away from me.” PeopleTwoUsedFeetFrontsMilesSuitsNervesMiles Away Author:Noel Gallagher
“Distance changes utterly when you take the world on foot. A mile becomes a long way, two miles literally considerable, ten miles whopping, fifty miles at the very limits of conception. The world, you realize, is enormous in a way that only you and a small community of fellow hikers know. Planetary scale is your little secret.” KnowsWorldWayLittlesLongTwoRealizingCommunitySecretFeetWalkingTenLimitsFellowsDistanceMilesScalesEnormousFiftyConceptionLong WayHikerSmall CommunitiesWalk In The WoodsWalks In The Woods Author:Bill Bryson
“Those two pilots that sped 150 miles past their Minneapolis destination have been suspended. They got suspended because they were looking at their laptops instead of flying the plane. Think about this -- everybody else on the plane has to turn off their laptops except for the people flying the plane.” PeopleThinkingHas BeensTwoPastTurnsMilesFlyingPlanesDestinationPilotsSuspendedTurn OffLaptopsSpedMinneapolis Author:Jay Leno
“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.” WorldPersonsTwoUseGivenWalksHalfWonderStepsFiveThousandLifetimeAverageMilesAround The WorldSixtyThousand MilesHalf 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
“The church in the book (and movie) plays a pivotal scene. We looked everywhere .. I mean everywhere! We had to have enough of a front yard area to house a Nativity scenes. And we finally found it .. two miles from our office. And we had been all over Tulsa looking. We were looking in places in Texas, everywhere! And I was in the car with the director and we drove by the church.” MeanTwoBookEnoughPlayFoundHouseChurchCarFrontsSceneDirectorsOfficeAreasMilesTexasYardsPivotalBooks And MoviesNativityTulsa Author:Luka Magnotta