Famous quotes containing the word miles:
“Natural law is only whatever happens in your lifetime within fifty miles of you.”
—Marcy. As quoted in The Girl I Left Behind, Introduction, by Jane OReilly (1980)
“Isnt it gods own image? tramping his thirty miles a day
after partridges, or a little rubber ball?
wouldnt you like to be like that, well off, and quite the thing?”
—D.H. (David Herbert)
“Three miles long and two streets wide, the town curls around the bay ... a gaudy run with Mediterranean splashes of color, crowded steep-pitched roofs, fishing piers and fishing boats whose stench of mackerel and gasoline is as aphrodisiac to the sensuous nose as the clean bar-whisky smell of a nightclub where call girls congregate.”
—Norman Mailer (b. 1923)
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