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Mile Quotes (page 19)

Modern warfare wasn't supposed to have this much blood in it. The weapons were supposed to cook everyone neatly, like eggs in their shells. (Mark Vorkosigan's first experience with warfare, on seeing Miles Vorkosigan splattered before him) Lois McMaster Bujold
Thomas S. Monson quote: "The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step...."
The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. Watch your step. Thomas S. Monson
Sure flattery never traveled so far as three thousand miles; it is now only for truth, which over takes all things, to reach you at this distance. Alexander Pope
It was only then, raising my water glass in his name, that I knew what it meant to miss someone who was so many miles and hours away, just as he had missed his wife and daughters for so many months. Jhumpa Lahiri
On the morning after the storm the body of a drowned giant was washed ashore on the beach five miles to the north-west of the city. J. G. Ballard
Diana Wynne Jones quote: "It's amazing the way one can take a step ten and a half miles..."
It's amazing the way one can take a step ten and a half miles long and still always land in a cowpat. Diana Wynne Jones
You get a glass tank, put it where the TV used to be, and all you get is a lizard—something so stupid that every time the maid moves a rock the lizard thinks it’s been relocated miles away. Chuck Palahniuk
And the sound of your heart," he continued. "It's the most significant sound in my world. I'm so attuned to it now, I swear I could pick it out from miles away. But neither of these things matter. This," he said, taking my face in his hands. "You. That's what I'm keeping. You'll always be my Bella, you'll just be a little more durable. Stephenie Meyer
When you remember me, it means you have carried something of who I am with you, that I have left some mark of who I am on who you are. I means that you can summon me back to your mind even though countless years and miles may stand between us. It means that if we meet again, you will know me. It means that even after I die, you can still see my face and hear my voice and speak to me in your heart. Frederick Buechner
Richard Brautigan quote: "My God, ma'am, you're so pretty I'd walk ten miles barefooted..."
My God, ma'am, you're so pretty I'd walk ten miles barefooted on a freezing morning to stand in your shit. Richard Brautigan
They have worries, they're counting the miles, they're thinking about where to sleep tonight, how much money for gas, the weather, how they'll get there - and all the time they'll get there anyway, you see. Jack Kerouac
How many hours are there in a mile? Is yellow square or round? Probably half the questions we ask-half our great theological and metaphysical problems-are like that. C. S. Lewis
Rincewind had always been happy to think of himself as a racist. The One Hundred Meters, the Mile, the Marathon -- he'd run them all. Terry Prachett
Yes, well, principles are sometimes the problem, if you ask me,' said Miles. 'Often what's needed is a bit of common sense.''Which is the name people usually give to their prejudices,' rejoined Kay. J. K. Rowling
Of course, the underlying structure of everything in England is posh. There is no in between with these people. You have to walk a mile to find a telephone booth, but when you find it, it is built as if the senseless dynamiting of pay phones had been a serious problem at some time in the past. And a British mailbox can presumably stop a German tank. Neal Stephenson

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