Mileage Quotes:

Books are cool, but knowledge without mileage doesn't mean anything to me.

- Henry Rollins

topic: Book, Mean, Mileage

Mileage makes champions

- Steve Fairbairn

topic: Champion, Rowing, Mileage

It's not the years honey, it's the mileage.

- Harrison Ford

topic: Years, Honey, Ark, Mileage, Raiders

As between mileage and experience choose experience.

- Clifton Fadiman

topic: Experience, Mileage

It's simple ... go the extra mile and you will stand out from the crowd

- Robin Crow

topic: Simple, Excellence, Crowds, Specialness, Mileage

There's a great deal about Roman Catholicism that I basically disagree with. For instance, the doctrine of Mary which... I have studied that stuff and I simply don't think that has any mileage at all biblically, theologically, and I've got some friends who are very disappointed that I say that.

- N. T. Wright

source: "Trevin Wax Interview with N.T. Wright". blogs.thegospelcoalition.org. November 19, 2007.

topic: Thinking, Stuff, Doctrine, Mileage

My publisher had mailed [Bret Easton Ellis] Richard Yates. And when I talked to him he said he had read all my prose books. And he said something like, "You got a lot of mileage out of Dakota Fanning."

- Tao Lin

source: Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

topic: Book, Like You, Said, Mileage

Today, do just a little bit more. Turn going the extra mile into a habit - it is what lifts most successful people above the crowd.

- Bob Proctor

source: FaceBook post by Bob Proctor from Aug 15, 2015

topic: Successful, People, Today, Mileage, Going The Extra Mile

Eventually, competition and adventure wane, and I enter my ibuprofen phase. Tweaky hamstrings and achy knees restrict mileage, but I continue running for health, sanity, and the ritual of a Sunday trail run with like-minded buddies. We discuss the nagging injuries that bedevil us, and remember the good old days when we were kings.

- Don Kardong

topic: Running, Kings, Adventure, Hamstrings, Mileage

Knowledge without mileage equals bullshit.

- Henry Rollins

topic: Bullshit, Mileage

Where's my tax form? Where's the file that's supposed to hold my W-2 form and interest statement? Where's the mileage log I specifically asked be kept last year?? Where's the monthly check summary? And who's been stuffing Visa receipts in the aluminum foil drawer??!! How embarrassing. I'm surrounded by idiots and I'm the only one in the office.

- Cathy Guisewite

topic: Years, Office, Aluminum, Receipts, Mileage

Can miles truly separate you from friends... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there?

- Richard Bach

topic: Love, Friendship, I Miss You, I Ll Miss You, I Missed You

Different people have different reasons for racing, but one is simply the incentive to get out and run, increase mileage and feel good.

- Hal Higdon

source: "Kevin Spacey On His New Film Casino Jack: Interview and Trailer". Interview with Kevin Sessums, www.thedailybeast.com. December 14, 2010.

topic: Running, People, Feel Good, Mileage

From the bodybuilding days on, I learned that everything is reps and mileage. The more miles you ski, the better a skier you become; the more reps you do, the better your body.

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

source: Arnold Schwarzenegger (2012). “Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story”, p.308, Simon and Schuster

topic: Bodybuilding, Skis, Miles, Mileage, Total Recall

I enjoy doing very high mileages, partly out of masochism and also because I like to feel the shape of the landscape.

- Will Self

topic: Shapes, Landscape, Enjoy, Mileage, Masochism

As the witness testified before my Subcommittee on Immigration, that barriers magnify the ability of every Border Patrol agent to be more effective. And so if you make up your mind, you can build substantial mileage barriers. It will increase the ability of our officers to perform, and the most important thing is, it sends a message to the world, the border is closed.

- Jeff Sessions

topic: Mind, Important, Agents, Make Up Your Mind, Mileage

The beauty of running is its simplicity; the beauty of runners is that we all have a similar drive to improve. We are either trying to run a personal best, or toeing the line for the first time, which will snowball into a future of trying to run personal bests. We road racers are a tight community of mileage-happy, limit-pushing athletes.

- Deena Kastor

topic: Running, Athlete, Simplicity, Mileage, Snowball

Pickups, S.U.V.'s, vans and the like represent about 80 million vehicles, with mileage of perhaps 13 to 16 miles per gallon. Converting those should be our first priority.

- Andy Grove

topic: Priorities, Firsts, Should, Mileage, Pickups

Most people who play golf have one big trouble: they think too much. To get any real mileage out of this game you've got to sit on your imagination.

- Sam Snead

topic: Real, Golf, Thinking, Mileage

There's a part of me that wishes I'd never said one single solitary word on any subject publicly. Then I could have been the tortured poet, and there's so much mileage in that. But it's too late to stop now.

- Richard Thompson

topic: Wish, Too Late, Poet, Mileage

…Even the idea of a city never entered his mind. It was as if he had walked under the millimeter of haze just above the inked fibers of a map, that pure zone between land and chart, between distances and legends, between nature and storyteller. The place they had chosen to come to, to be their best selves, to be unconscious of ancestry. Here, apart from the sun compass and the odometer mileage, and the book, he was alone, his own invention. He knew during these times how the mirage worked, the fata morgana, for he was within it.

- Michael Ondaatje

topic: Distance, Book, Land, Mileage, Morgana

If anger were mileage, I'd be a very frequent flyer, right up there in First Class.

- Gina Barreca

topic: Women, Anger, Class, Mileage, Flyers

Last year was the best Father's Day ever, 1,000th win for Ford and to have my daughter there for her first victory lane. I'm not sure how to top that, but hopefully something spectacular will happen. Michigan is one of my favorite tracks; it's a big fast place and has lots of room to race. There is always a lot of strategy going on. Fuel mileage and pit stops are very important.

- Greg Biffle

topic: Daughter, Father, Winning, Last Year, Mileage

I think the American people, you know, they're going to want that new car smell. They want to drive something off the lot that doesn't have as much mileage as me.

- Barack Obama

source: Source: abcnews.go.com

topic: Thinking, Smell, People, Mileage

When your car is about to go off a cliff, it’s a weird time to be thinking about gas mileage and drag coefficients; better to take the right control action—look out the window and steer or use the brake until you’re back on course.

- Michael Bolton

topic: Thinking, Car, Looks, Mileage

I don't think I have the mileage on me to really complain of any injuries yet.

- Shannon Miller

topic: Thinking, Complaining, Injury, Mileage

The hydrogen powered car, with its high fuel mileage and zero emission rate, is just one example of the products under development that will help increase our energy independence.

- Dan Lipinski

topic: Zero, Car, Independence, Mileage, Energy Independence

The New Romantic scene was so tiny. Although it got lots of mileage in the media, it was a really small club with only a core group of people. As it got more popular, kids started to come from the suburbs all dressed up, but it -really wasn't as big as it looked.

- Boy George

source: "Taboo". Interview with Mark Ronson, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 19, 2008.

topic: Kids, Media, People, Mileage

A Prius is not a true hybrid, really. The current Prius is, like, 2 percent electric. It's a gasoline car with slightly better mileage.

- Elon Musk

source: "Tesla CEO Musk: Gas Should Be $10 A Gallon" by Jay Yarow, www.businessinsider.com. June 15, 2009.

topic: Car, Gasoline, Prius, Mileage

In the case of all the carmakers, there's a certain amount of greenwash. Take Toyota: They were pushing the Prius while they were meanwhile marketing the hell out of the Sequoia and other models with terrible gas mileage.

- Chris Paine

source: Source: www.motherjones.com

topic: Marketing, Pushing, Hell, Mileage, Toyota

The harsh reality is that America moves on four wheels, powered by conventional internal-combustion engines. At this point, while the elite media (excluding Newsweek) trumpet the benefits of hybrids and Ford and Toyota plan to lead the nation into a low-powered, high-mileage hybrid Utopia, the multitudes remain loyal to the gas-guzzling family bus in the driveway.

- Brock Yates

topic: Moving, Reality, Media, Mileage, Toyota

The choice of roles as I grow older gets more and more limited, so if I pin myself to one kind of part I would get in trouble. So, these oddball ladies came along for me to do - I guess Terry Gilliam helped in this respect. I have found them more interesting, flashier and I get more mileage out of them.

- Katherine Helmond

source: Personal Quote, www.imdb.com.

topic: Interesting, Choices, Roles, Mileage, Oddballs

Recently, the administration has rejected conservation attempts like more accurate fuel mileage for cars and bipartisan proposals for reducing our dependence on foreign oil by a million barrels a day.

- Maria Cantwell

topic: Oil, Car, Rejection, Mileage, Foreign Oil

Many hybrid owners realize how sharply fuel efficiency goes down over 55 mph because they get instant mileage feedback.

- Felix Kramer

topic: Mph, Fuel, Realizing, Mileage, Fuel Efficiency

You get the feeling that childhood does not last as long as it used to. Innocence gets harder to hold on to as the world gets older, as it accumulates more experience, more mileage and more blood on the tracks.

- Martin Amis

topic: Blood, Long, Track, Mileage

I was fortunate to get a lot of mileage out of my vices . . . The point is not to be debilitated by your pleasures. Maybe I have lucky genes or something but I've never been truly addicted to anything, except pleasure in general.

- Jay McInerney

source: " Jay McInerney: 'I was fortunate to get a lot of mileage out of my vices'" by William Skidelsky, www.theguardian.com. May 19, 2012.

topic: Vices, Lucky, Pleasure, Mileage