#miles

My school was six miles away from where I lived on the farm. I had to walk and run, there and back every day, through gorges and over rivers. If I was late, there was a very big stick waiting for me. ↗

— Haile Gebrselassie

#back #big #day #every #every day

The 6th of August in the morning we saw an opening in the land and we ran into it, and anchored in 7 and a half fathom water, 2 miles from the shore, clean sand. ↗

— William Dampier

#august #clean #fathom #half #into

Furthermore, the slaves cannot be put into a more wretched situation, ourselves being judges, and the community cannot take a more lively step to escape ruin, and obtain the smiles and protection of Heaven. ↗

— Samuel Hopkins

#cannot #community #escape #furthermore #heaven

Coltrane was moving out of jazz into something else. And certainly Miles Davis was doing the same thing. ↗

— Jan Garbarek

#coltrane #davis #doing #else #into

Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still? ↗

— J. Paul Getty

#company #getting #going #hour #just

But somehow I feel like still it's a gift, and I wonder, how can I give this gift to others? Just work hard, and do whatever I can do, to be that, and to return the love to the fans. I like to give them joy and smiles to them. Give back to them. ↗

— Bai Ling

#fans #feel #gift #give #hard

His skin radiates so much of the day's heat that touching him feels like wading into the lake, opening my hand, and catching one of the white shimmers of blistering afternoon sunlight bouncing across the water. ↗

— Holly Schindler

#beauty

Victory is won not in miles but in inches. Win a little now, hold your ground, and later, win a little more. ↗

— Louis L'Amour

#hold #inches #later #little #miles

My playing started to develop through the Miles Davis stuff I was listening to. ↗

— Robert Quine

#develop #i #listening #miles #miles davis

As to the mouth, it delights at times in laughter; it is disposed to impart all that the brain conceives; though I daresay it would be silent on much the heart experiences. Mobile and flexible, it was never intended to be compressed in the eternal silence of solitude: it is a mouth which should speak much and smile often, and have human affection for its interlocutor. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#laughter #smiles #experience