Miles

Famous quotes containing the word miles:

    De Camptown racetrack five miles long—
    Oh! doo-dah-day!
    Stephen Collins Foster (1826–1864)

    Then for years and years
    And for miles and miles
    ‘Cross the Aegean Isles,
    Athens, Rome, France, Britain,
    Always West-Northwest ...
    Robert Frost (1874–1963)

    To value the tradition of, and the discipline required for, the craft of fiction seems today pointless. The real Arcadia is a lonely, mountainous plateau, overbouldered and strewn with the skulls of sheep slain for vellum and old bitten pinions that tried to be quills. It’s forty rough miles by mule from Athens, a city where there’s a fair, a movie house, cotton candy.
    Alexander Theroux (b. 1940)