Shaped like a spinning top, it moves at more than thirteen thousand miles an hour.
You would then have to travel the second thousand miles instantly to overcome your slow start.
But ancient Chinese wisdom teaches that a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
By then, the virus had spread all the way to Lake Victoria, a thousand miles to the east.
Eight thousand miles of this will be the high-speed tracks that pose the most potent threat to airlines.
The Kochs operate oil refineries in Alaska, Texas, and Minnesota, and control some four thousand miles of pipeline.
His wife, Setsuko, had insisted they plant cherry trees, a decade ago, when they moved six thousand miles from Okutama.
This took place at a level of abstraction that is made possible when the fighting is eight thousand miles away.
Claire had to patiently explain that Columbus's landing and the Pilgrims' arrival occurred a thousand miles and 128 years apart.
With his well-tailored suits, shiny cufflinks, wise reading-glasses and elegant ties, he looks a thousand miles from a roughhouse warlord.
The geologic trend targeted in the Niobrara shale is the same as the Eagle Ford shale, a thousand miles south.
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They're from Jiangxi province, on the other side of the country, and have already traveled a thousand miles to be here.
Eight thousand miles from Baghdad, Thomas wonders if he will ever now make it back to Iraq, to meet Riyadh's family.
Then Starkweather heard that Xerox was opening a research center in Palo Alto, three thousand miles away from its New York headquarters.
Garage-rock eccentric King Khan may be from Montreal, but his heart is almost a thousand miles away, throbbing from Atlanta to Castle City, Mont.
It operates fourteen mines in the Pilbara, with a thousand miles of rail and a hundred and sixty locomotives, twenty-four hours a day, year-round.
More than a thousand miles away from Sacramento, a far more positive outlook counters the frustration felt by many California employees and business owners.
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Kumar, born in Chennai, formerly Madras, India, was fastidious and morose, travelling at least thirty thousand miles a month for work, and seldom socializing.
When Lao-tzu said a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step, implicitly he was telling you to take that first step.
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Four thousand miles from her homeland, Marieme often has trouble sleeping.
As I dove north from Memphis all the way to Chicago, more than a thousand miles away, it dawned on me exactly how distorted this media message was.
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In the opening credits, we learn how many of them finally make it to freedom, crossing the Himalayas into India after a trek of some four thousand miles.
Getting there took hours upon hours of flight time, one thousand miles north of now oil-boom-town Edmonton, Alberta, flying over an unending expanse of trees, lakes and rocky mineral-laden terrain.
It may be that the Polynesians, having just crossed two thousand miles of the Pacific in a fleet of outrigger canoes, were too exhausted to think about making cooking pots.
Perlman said the applications in the demo were being run on a data center about 50 miles outside of San Francisco, but that the distance could even be several thousand miles.
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Five thousand miles away in a Pfizer research lab in Groton, Connecticut, infectious disease specialist Scott Hopkins is surfing the Internet when he spots a story on the epidemic--and sees opportunity.
"When we, a thousand miles away, debate over whether we should be in Afghanistan or draw a cartoon, the people in Nigeria take up arms and fight it out, " she says.
It takes about as long to get a container from Long Beach, California, to Shanghai as it does to get one from Shanghai to Chongqing, a thousand miles or so up the Yangzi river.
Macy Gray and Vanessa Carlton became household names after their respective ballads, "I Try" (No. 22 on the list), and "A Thousand Miles" (No. 24 on the list), but neither songstress has come out with a comparable hit since.
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