Who can guarantee that if we allow the Palestinians to establish a state, we won’t find rockets there as well, half a mile from the airport or 10 miles from Tel Aviv? – Ehud Barak
Natural erosion had reduced the critical barrier islands in the Gulf, the result of the destruction of some 300,000 acres of wetlands. This amounted to 30 miles of marshlands. – Mortimer Zuckerman
One step outside the gate, and we are among the sand-hills that stretch for miles and miles round Vera Cruz. – Edward Burnett Tylor
The sediments of the past are many miles in collective thickness: yet the feeble silt of the rivers built them all from base to summit. – John Joly
As horrific as this impact has been on my constituents, it is only a small part of the overwhelming destruction covering 90,000 square miles of the Gulf Coast. – Jo Bonner
I don’t mind being compared to Whitney, there are people miles worse to be compared to. – Mariah Carey
When I was 16 years old, I assembled a 2.3 million electron volt beta particle accelerator. I went to Westinghouse, I got 400 pounds of translator steel, 22 miles of copper wire, and I assembled a 6-kilowatt, 2.3 million electron accelerator in the garage. – Michio Kaku
Needless to say, there is no opportunity to interrogate or learn anything from a suspect who is vaporized by a missile launched by a keystroke executed thousands of miles away. – Jose Rodriguez
We get picked up in these Rolls Royces and get three miles down the highway and five cop cars pull us over. – Johnny Thunders
If we don’t act, drilling will be allowed only 3 miles off Florida’s east coast beaches. – Ric Keller
Large areas of the Gulf have escaped being scraped by trawls, crushed by more than 40,000 miles of pipelines, or displaced by one of 50,000 oil and gas wells drilled since the middle of the 20th century. Some places have been deliberately protected. – Sylvia Earle
At the outset, at least, all three groups had something else to recommend them, as well: They were headquartered 3,000 miles away from the East Side of Manhattan. – Tom Wolfe
The only very rugged part of the route is in crossing the Big Horn mountain, which is about 30 miles wide. – William Henry Ashley
I have tons of jazz records: John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis. I could go on and on. – Ted King
We were concerned with having good songs, not just songs that go two hundred miles per hour. – Travis Barker