Top 1200 Going The Extra Mile Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

I have a little piece of extra skin - a good inch - on the end of my chin that I play with like Silly Putty.

My basic food mantra is small portions, no water during the meal and the capacity to say no to an extra helping if it's not required.

Changing the direction of a large company is like trying to turn an aircraft carrier. It takes a mile before anything happens. And if it was a wrong turn, getting back on course takes even longer.

I'm really happy, and beating Marc [Marquez] at the very last chicane gives me an extra boost.

I wish," I said. "I could save orgasms in a jar for when I need them, because I think I have a few extra.

I swam across Skaneateles Lake, about a mile, when I was 11 years old. I remember feeling when I was in the middle of the lake that I would be there forever, and having no idea where on shore I'd end up. I made it, and I'm proud of the determination and persistence that took.

I never won anything by myself. I was always strong because of help that gave me extra strength to win.

My mother is like a character who escaped from the set of a Fellini film. She's a whole performing universe of her own. Activists would run a mile from her because they could not deal with what she is.

Love comes in all shapes, sizes, sabores y formas, y a veces hasta con un saborcito extra que no te esperas.

Over my dead body, I thought. Yes, even immortals use that phrase. It has extra oomph for us.

I have always got my computer or phone nearby so that I can find out extra details about a certain subject.

I would not sacrifice a single living mesquite tree for any book ever written. One square mile of living desert is worth a hundred 'great books' - and one brave deed is worth a thousand.

If my cuisine were to be defined by just one taste, it would be that of subtle, aromatic, extra-virgin olive oil.

There's nothing inherently lame about electricity. I've got a basement full of power tools that all operate with electricity, and they're manly items. And when you see a great big locomotive hauling a mile of freight cars, that's a hybrid. A lot of people don't understand that.

One thing I've been taught from young is that you have to work hard, turn up to extra training sessions, etc.

A camera must be part of me - an extra limb capable of freezing a situation without complicated preparation.

Channel your heartbreak into work, then use that extra money to treat yourself to a new handbag.

You know, most girls sleep with a teddy bear or an extra pillow. But I gotta say, that's kinda hot.

For 'So Cold the River,' I'm actually working on adapting the book with Scott Silver, who was just nominated for an Oscar for 'The Fighter,' and who also wrote '8 Mile,' which I think is a terrific screenplay. The chance to work with Scott is a tremendous pleasure and I'm learning a lot.

From the immediate abandonment of the promise of an extra £350m for the NHS, the history of Brexit is already littered with discarded and unfulfillable promises.

When you're a filmmaker or a scriptwriter, you face a lot of challenges while making a film. And when you produce it, you have to put in an extra effort.

I feel like an '8 Mile' Eminem compared to 'My Name is.' Whenever my name is brought up, it's in a 'Slim Shady' way, and it's funny, and I'm lighthearted, but at the same time, every once in a while, I like to take it seriously.

I came upon a child of god, He was walking along the road And I asked him, where are you going And this he told me: "I'm going on down to Yasgur's farm I'm going to join in a rock 'n' roll band I'm going to camp out on the land, I'm going to try an' get my soul free.

If there were a mile high mountain of granite, and once every ten-thousand years a bird flew past and brushed it with a feather, by the time that mountain was worn away, a fraction of a second would have passed in the context of eternity

The revival of the Right is as extraordinary as it would be if the public had demanded dozens of new nuclear plants in the days after the Three Mile Island disaster; if we had reacted to Watergate by making Richard Nixon a national hero.

My dad's a history buff, and I spent a lot of time on Hadrian's Wall. I became fascinated by the idea of what was so terrifying up there that the Romans built a 60-mile long, 30-ft-high stone wall to keep it out.

I have accumulated no money but I accumulate a lot of happiness. If you get rich, you have an apartment with an extra bedroom - and then you die.

We are part of a symbiotic relationship with something which disguises itself as an extra-terrestrial invasion so as not to alarm us.

I figured, 'Why not go into entertainment?' I love entertaining people. I always loved being extra loud.

Both me and my wife's extended family all live within a 50-mile radius. Like me, a lot of them did time in London then started drifting back to the countryside and the sea. Perhaps it's a homing instinct.

I guess what I'm trying to say is that I'm learning to not want to be someone else, to just be who I am, as is, with nothing extra added on.

Nothing fires me up like losing. It certainly makes you want to go that extra bit.

Rennie didn't quite dare to answer back, but she looked a whole book and a couple of extra chapters.

I was still only 19 when I went to Scotland, but it was a good loan move for me to play those extra games.

I'm the ultimate organizer! My major at Stanford was "Organizational Behavior" so I love to multi-task and stay extra busy.

If an athlete takes a shortcut - literally, for example, by running a street that shortens the marathon route by a quarter mile - he or she doesn't have an insurmountable advantage. But it's an unfair advantage, and in a field of equally matched athletes, it's more than enough to make a difference.

I grew up with three kids in the family, and it's definitely a little extra tricky having that third kid.

If you aren't taking regular breaks every couple of hours, your brain won't benefit from that extra cup of coffee.

Most people don't know that I'll eat anything spicy. A little extra kick is always a good thing!

Antagonists are always creatives efforts. They get extra attention be it in their costumes to their screen time. I actually enjoy it.

My own great-grandfather suffered so much from asthma that he had to walk a mile or two behind the covered wagons crossing the plains to avoid the dust. However, he always arrived at his destination and did his share of the work.

No one would say, 'Hey, I think this medicine works, go ahead and use it.' We have testing, we go to the lab, we try it again, we have refinement. But you know what we do on the last mile? 'Oh, this is a good idea. People will like this. Let's put it out there.'

The most peaceful thing in the world is plowing a field. Chances are you’ll do your best thinking that way. And that’s why I’ve always thought and said, farmers are the smartest people in the world, they don’t go for high hats and they can spot a phony a mile off.

One thing about religious truths is that we have to take them on faith, and faith needs reassurance. What’s more reassuring than noticing that some other people, whom you admire, are so certain that it’s all true that they’re willing to go the ultimate mile?

There are many critics who think the megachurches thrive on people who enjoy dramatic Sunday services with fine music but don't wish to become very 'religious' on a day-to-day basis - that the megachurch appeal is a mile wide and an inch deep.

In high school, my two older brothers ran track. They'd come home sweaty and mud-covered, and I could tell they enjoyed it. So I started running - I ran a mile down the road and back again - and I haven't stopped since.

The Buddha taught complete honesty, with the extra instruction that everything a person says should be truthful and helpful.

The extra luggage of indiscriminate dreams, desires and attachments will make your life's journey miserable.

One of my favorite bloggers who can articulate his ideas clearly is Avinash Kaushik. The only problem? His ideas are so awesome his posts are a mile long, but I promise they are worth the time.

If you have a little extra parking, I err on the side of getting rid of it in favor of having some more greenery.

I started my company with virtually no funds behind it - no big marketing budgets - and that worked in our favor with Millennials, who put us on the map. They can spot a paid endorsement a mile away and are completely turned off by it. Instead, they are heavily influenced by authentic experiences.

You want to be extra rigorous about making the best possible thing you can. Find everything that's wrong with it and fix it.

The world is full of people who all want the same thing, and you have to do a little something extra to make them remember you.

The extra curricular activity in which I was most engaged - debating - helped shape my interests in public policy.

Perfume companies ought to bottle the smell of crisp bacon. Forget pheromones. I’ll bet a woman with a little spot of bacon grease behind her ears would attract every male within a five-mile radius.

This is not a dictatorship, this is based upon scientific evidence to support a given project. If you want to put up a building, say half a mile high, the material has to be available. Using statistics is not a dictatorship. It's a method of getting the most from existing resources.

Because of my mom's compassion, direction, and knowledge, she gives me that extra push to be the best person I can be.

To stutter through it with you or even stop stuttering and say nothing, was so lucky and soft, better talk than mile-a-minute with anyone. After a few minutes we’d stop rattling, we’d adjust, we’d settle in, and the conversation would speed into the night.

I get fired up when emotions are involved. I think it pulls a little bit of extra out of me.

I started a trial period a couple of weeks ago as a correspondent for 'Extra,' and now it's become full time.