Top 1200 Going The Extra Mile Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

Basically, I'm just an average person who takes a little extra care of his health.

I enjoy singing soulful melodies because they add that extra zing to your performance.

I grew up in communist Russia where we didn't have anything, so I'm not worried that I can't buy an extra pair of shoes.

I would fly to Los Angeles just for a cheeseburger with pickles and extra tomatoes from In-N-Out.

I try to support local traders. The service makes up for any extra cost.

I think it's important for women to have a means to get health care. I think it's important that women have a place to go to get Pap smears and cancer screenings. And it shouldn't be considered extra. It shouldn't be considered something that can be "cut." It shouldn't be something that's in danger of going away. The idea that we're even thinking about cutting that off because somebody else isn't enjoying it themselves or somebody has extreme opinions about it is worrisome to me.

When forced to choose, I will not trade even a night's sleep for the chance of extra profits.

If you are corrupt and you have extra cash you are able to shut the mouth of your accuser and they will be silenced.

The big upside to being captain is it's a huge honour, but the downside is that there is definitely extra pressure.

Foreign players are great for Serie A if they add something extra, but a lot of them are superfluous.

Love is not blind; it is an extra eye, which shows us what is most worthy of regard.

DONT DECLARE HOLIDAY ON MY DEATH, INSTEAD WORK AN EXTRA DAY, IF U LOVE ME

The search for extra-terrestrial life is a failure until that moment when it suddenly becomes a success.

The metric system was designed to get people to enter charity runs.Do you think you would go run a 3.1 mile race? No, but if somebody says, hey, 5 km. You go, 5km sounds pretty impressive.

When you accept a leadership role, you take on extra responsibility for your actions toward others.

Both guys ran out of gas, only my guy had an extra tank.

I was in every club and extra-curricular activity at high school, and I was in the National Honor Society.

I'm hoping that a lifetime of compromise and disappointment will read as extra depth and layers in my work.

When I was a kid... if I couldn't get a ride to the comic book store, I would walk a mile and a half each way to get the latest issues of 'Batman' and 'Spider-Man' and 'X-Men.' I could not choose one over the other.

When good-natured people leave us we look forward with extra pleasure to their return.

When you go into extra time, we're talking about drama. But when we reach the penalty shootout, it's a tragedy.

in nineteen minutes you can norder a pizza and have it delivered. You can read a story to a child or have your oil changed. You can walk a mile. You can sew a hem. In nineteen minutes you can get revenge.

I've been in enough films where the studio wanted that extra little cuteness to make it sellable.

What makes Burning Man special is the location: a 9-mile circle of gypsum, an ancient dried ocean bed. The ground is like a flat crust with no plants or insects, a perfect outdoor gallery for monumental interactive sculpture and architecture.

Some years down the pike, we're going to get the real solution, which is going to be a combination of death panels and sales taxes. It's going to be that we're actually going to take Medicare under control, and we're going to have to get some additional revenue, probably from a VAT. But it's not going to happen now.

There are some bands for whom that works very well and it's no disrespect to them because I'm sure there's something honest and natural about it, but for us I feel like it would be dishonest and kinda disrespectful to that artwork to do that. To be like: "Okay, we're going to go back and only play these songs, even though we have an hour to an hour and a half set and we gotta play more songs, but we'll skimp you on your extra half hour." That's just silly to me.

Technically, my first paying job was I was an extra in my dad's movie 'Dan in Real Life.'

There will always be that dreadful monster prejudice to do extra battle against because of their color.

I really like 'The Three Kings' DVD. I love that movie and all the extra footage and documentaries.

The best memorizers in the world - who almost all hail from Europe - can memorize a pack of cards in less than a minute. A few have begun to approach the 30-second mark, considered the 'four-minute mile of memory.'

Everybody has to build double-hull tankers, but charterers don't want to pay for the extra costs.

You're coming off the training pitch properly tired. You'd be empty. You couldn't go and do extra finishing.

Audiences give us extra energy, they play the role of 12th man in the team.

He whom God hath gifted with a love of retirement possesses, as it were, an extra sense.

The rule of love, I say again, is not an optional extra. It is the very essence of what we [Christians] are about

We got to go to Lucas Ranch and, at that time, my brother was still living in a condo about a mile from Robin Williams, and so I made all of the other comics jealous because I got to get a ride home with him.

I don't quite have the energy for extra curricular activities. I have to pace myself a little bit more.

When working out, play your favorite music loudly for an extra boost of energy.

I don't have the same respect for time as most people. I take that extra day to think about it.

Every job leaves its residue, a bit of extra knowledge, a new skill-set.

I once found a kernel of corn in the middle of a deep wood by Walden, tucked in behind a lichen on a pine, about as high as my head, either by a crow or a squirrel. It was a mile at least from any corn-field.

You could hear him, literally, half a mile away when he opened up. He was at his peak then. He was, naturally, dying to get out of the place he was in, and he recorded for us his appeal for pardon to the governor.

I love to run, but training can be hard, especially with a family and a crazy travel schedule. I often do sprints with my kids, where they bike and I run along side them so we can 'race' each other for a quarter-mile or shorter repeats.

The mission of '8 Mile' is essentially to garner sympathy for a white rapper involved in an old-school shootout - a rap contest. This may be the final frontier for pop, more unbelievable than the prospect of launching a member of 'N Sync into orbit.

It's a strange thing to think of a man as can lift a chair with his teeth, and walk fifty mile on end, trembling and turning hot and cold at only a look from one woman out of all the rest i' the world. It's a mystery we can give no account of.

Reading is a stout-hearted activity, disporting courage, keenness, stick-to-it-ness. It is also, in my experience, one of the most thrilling and enduring delights of life, equal to a home run, a slam-dunk, or breaking the four-minute mile.

Realism is something we practice when we aren't feeling very well. When we don't feel up to the extra effort.

Having a joint family provides me with an extra dose of unconditional love and support.

You may not have any extra talent, but maybe you are just paying more attention to what you are doing.

The extra daily social time of 1.7 hours in weekends raises average happiness by about 2%.

We need more male black teachers, tempting them with extra cash if necessary.

I would do anything to keep looking the job. I think you make an extra effort if you're on show.

You would think death was an optional extra nowadays. Nobody wants to tick that box.

That's the easy part, to continue to do what you love, to focus, to train, there's no extra motivation that needs to be added to that.

Kepler's blown the lid off everything we know about extra-solar planets.

There's so many cool things that happen, where you want to kind of sit back and smell the roses and say, 'Wow, this is awesome!' But then you're already thinking a mile ahead about what the next landmark is, what the next goal is.

I work out for a few hours extra, but I can't give cakes and chocolates a miss on Christmas.

I live on a farm in Dorset. The nearest neighbour is a quarter of a mile away. It's really quiet, with an amazing view - can't see a pylon, can't see a road. Blockbuster's an event in our house, when the little blue envelope comes in.

I know people that I respect and admire and look up to who have had extra-marital affairs.

I like to think of my son as having an extra puzzle piece rather than missing one.