#miles

I didn't really escape that gravity until I moved 300 miles south to go to college at 18, where authorship no longer seemed something liable to induce vengeful punishment. ↗

— David Knopfler

#college #escape #go #gravity #i

The rain, which had continued yesterday and last night, ceased this morning. We then proceeded, and after passing two small islands about ten miles further, stopped for the night at Piper's landing, opposite another island. ↗

— Meriwether Lewis

#after #another #ceased #continued #further

Damn the great executives, the men of measured merriment, damn the men with careful smiles oh, damn their measured merriment. ↗

— Sinclair Lewis

#damn #executives #great #measured #men

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

— Louis L'Amour

#covered #day #had #hear #i

To me it meant, just looking at it from a Maya point of view, it meant that Paul Miles is always moving laterally in his life. And she just wants him to take a couple of steps forward, you know? ↗

— Virginia Madsen

#couple #forward #him #his #just

We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly. ↗

— Bill Maher

#airplane #away #been #building #cowardly

Destiny smiles upon me but without making me the least bit happier. ↗

— Gustav Mahler

#destiny #happier #least #making #me

I once knew a house rather like The Land of Smiles - an old house occupied by a varied collection of young people, mainly students. However none of these people were true models for the characters in the book, though their way of life may have been. ↗

— Margaret Mahy

#book #characters #collection #house #however

I saw music as a way to entertain people and take them away from their daily lives and put smiles on their faces, as opposed to what I see it being now, which is a way for me to actually communicate, and a way for me to tap into my subconscious. ↗

— Alanis Morissette

#away #being #communicate #daily #daily lives

The short English miles are delightful for walking. You are always pleased to find, every now and then, in how short a time you have walked a mile, though, no doubt, a mile is everywhere a mile, I walk but a moderate pace, and can accomplish four English miles in an hour. ↗

— Karl Philipp Moritz

#always #delightful #doubt #english #every