Mileage Quotes

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.

What is important to me is the mileage a particular role I depict gets on the silver screen.

Several years ago, when I was about to start a novel, I thought I might get some mileage out of the idea of a civilization in which people somehow felt – that is, they shared – all the pain and all the pleasure they caused one another.

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

Of course, Malayalam has a slightly different way of working because here at least if the movie is good, it gets some mileage by word of mouth even if you don’t have big heroes.

As between mileage and experience choose experience.

I’m a great believer in the lower leagues, the pyramid system, but there is mileage in having B-teams in England with young players playing competitively.

We had great comic mileage in the ‘SG-1’ episode ‘The Swarm,’ where Woolsey is running away faster than anybody else.

It’s simple … go the extra mile and you will stand out from the crowd

It’s really important that we have an improvement curve on fuel mileage and CO2 reduction.

There is more meat and mileage in complex characters, like ‘Running with Scissors.’

One of the advantages of getting elected governor when you’re 58 instead of 38 is you have some mileage on you and part of that means some history and some relationships with people who have spent a fair amount of their career in the public and in the private sector.

Everyone always asks me how to get the most mileage out of a spray tan. I’m spoiled and I get a fresh one every week; but my best advice for the rest of the girls out there is to wax a day in advance of your spray tan.

There probably could be some mileage in running a comparative study about how best to finance electoral campaigns around the world.

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.

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.

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

I’ll admit I started off getting actors to sing my compositions as a marketing strategy, to give the songs and films extra 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.

If you choose to take care of yourself, you’re going to get more mileage for your career.

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.

When I see somebody in a Prius, sure, you drive a Prius and you get good gas mileage, but you probably feel like you drive a Prius.

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.

Where’s the mileage in an autobiography? Anyone who writes one inevitably casts themselves as a hero, and I’m not about to do that.

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

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.

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

Knowledge without mileage equals bullshit.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

I’ve got a lot of mileage, and I love my mileage. I wouldn’t trade a mile of that for a minute of being younger.

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.

I do a lot of biking. I need that mileage and the long-distance stuff because tennis demands it. My fitness trainer is always trying to convince me to do an Ironman. I can probably run the marathon, I can make the 112 miles on the bike, but I will never swim for 2.4 miles. I will die after 100 meters.

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.

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

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.

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.”