Bicycle Quotes - Page 8

• I developed friends in the community that were in walking distance or a bicycle ride away, so that I socialized and did a lot of things that children do in their early years.

  Paul Smith

  Children, Distance, Years

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• The term "rock" has, unfortunately, become appropriated by four-year-old girls and accountants. An accountant does something amazingly well on the stock exchange and his buddies high-five him: He's a rock star! A four-year-old girl learned to ride a bicycle: She's a rock star!

  Ian Astbury

  Girl, Stars, Rocks

  "Ian Astbury on the Death of the Rock Star". Interview With Mick Stingley, www.esquire.com. December 27, 2013.

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• The first big thing that I did with my dad was the bicycle sequence in "The Great Muppet Caper," where Kermit and Piggy are riding bicycles in Battersea Park in London and that was a complex marionetting and cranes driving through the park, it was a complicated scene, and I did that with my dad.

  Brian Henson

  Dad, Riding, London

  Source: bigthink.com

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• The world lies right beyond the handlebars of any bicycle.

  Daniel Behrman

  Lying, World

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• The bicycle is a vehicle of revolution. It can destroy the tyranny of the automobile as effectively as the printing press brought down despots of flesh and blood. The revolution will be spontaneous, the sum total of individual revolts like my own. It may have already begun.

  Daniel Behrman

  Blood, May, Flesh

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• I had a very free childhood and ranged around on my bicycle the way boys do. I had few restrictions.

  Louise Erdrich

  Boys, Childhood, Way

  "Louise Erdrich’s War Of The Roses". Interview with Jeff Vasishta, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 9, 2016.

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• Scotch needs water like a fish needs a bicycle.

  W. C. Fields

  Scotch, Water, Needs

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• You never have the wind with you - either it is against you or you're having a good day.

  Daniel Behrman

  Inspirational, Good Day, Wind

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• ESPN Zone was probably the coolest thing I could do [making "Hardball"]. But Navy Pier was the other thing. I'd take my bicycle and ride down to Navy Pier and just hang out. Try to get a phone number or something. That was my thing.

  Michael B. Jordan

  Numbers, Phones, Navy

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• Last night I saw your ghost pedalling a bicycle with a basket towards a moon as full as my heavy head and I wanted nothing more than to be sitting in that basket like ET with my glowing heart glowing right through my chest and my glowing finger pointing in the direction of our home.

  Andrea Gibson

  Inspirational, Home, Heart

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• The bicycle is its own best argument. You just get a bike, try it; start going with the thing and using it as it suits you. It'll grow and it gets better and better and better.

  Richard Ballantine

  Suits You, Get Better, Trying

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• The left’s idea of “science” is that we should all be riding bicycles and using the Clivus Multrum composting latrines instead of flush toilets. Anyone who dissents, they say — while adjusting their healing crystals for emphasis — is “afraid of science.”

  Ann Coulter

  Healing, Ideas, Riding

  "Liberals: They Blinded Us With Science". humanevents.com. March 23, 2011.

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• The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man.

  Iris Murdoch

  Men, Cycling, Riding A Bicycle

  IRIS MURDOCH (1965). “THE RED AND THE GREEN”

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• Theres a tremendous amount of work building the apparatus, getting the experiment to work. But sitting there late at night in the lab, and knowing light is going at bicycle speed, and that nobody in the history of mankind has ever been here before - that is mind-boggling. Its worth everything.

  Lene

  Night, Light, Knowing

  "Q&A with Lene Hau". Interview with Harvey Blume, archive.boston.com. March 17, 2007.

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• We are all either wheels or connectors. Whichever we are we must find truth and balance, which is a bicycle. Trust and balance are also essential to true love.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Balance, Essentials, Wheels

  Source: virtualstudiosandarttherapy.wordpress.com

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• I've never designed a bicycle, so one day that would be fun to do.

  Henrik Fisker

  Fun, One Day, Would Be

  Source: newatlas.com

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• Money actually becomes even more difficult than other things because it's very hard to imagine what the benefits are to saving. So, imagine that you see a new bicycle, a new pair of shoes, or something today. You know exactly what you are giving up if you are not buying it, what are you gaining in the future if you are not getting it. So, you are giving up the bicycle today, what is it in the future? What will happen if you send another $1,000 to your retirement fund? What difference will it make? It is very, very hard to figure out.

  Dan Ariely

  Retirement, Giving Up, Shoes

  The Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. November 18, 2009.

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• Let the people walk. Or ride horses, bicycles, mules, wild pigs-anything-but keep the automobiles and the motorcycles and all their motorized relatives out. We have agreed not to drive our automobiles into cathedrals, concert halls, art museums, legislative assemblies, private bedrooms and other sanctums of our culture; we should treat our national parks with the same deference, for they, too, are holy places.

  Edward Abbey

  Horse, Art, Museums

  Edward Abbey (1968). “Desert Solitaire”, p.52, Simon and Schuster

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• Throwing people out of a game is like learning to ride a bicycle--once you get the hang of it, it can be a lot of fun.

  Ron Luciano

  Fun, Games, People

  Ron Luciano, David Fisher (1984). “Strike Two”, G K Hall & Company

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• Photography as a fad is well-nigh on its last legs, thanks principally to the bicycle craze.

  Alfred Stieglitz

  Photography, Legs, Fads

  Alfred Stieglitz, Richard Whelan, Sarah Greenough (2000). “Stieglitz on photography: his selected essays and notes”

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• That's a really common trap that people in small scenes will start to rely on. They'll have all this material joking about that place, and then take a trip to Atlanta or whatever, and be like, "Half my act is gone because I can't talk about how everybody has a bicycle."

  Amy Miller

  People, Common, Scene

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The very existence of the bicycle is an offense to reason and wisdom.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Reason, Existence, Offense

  P. J. O'Rourke (2015). “Thrown Under the Omnibus: A Reader”, p.95, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Newspaper : A device unable to distinguish between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilisation.

  George Bernard Shaw

  America, World, Modern

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• I finally concluded that all failure was from a wobbling will rather than a wobbling wheel.

  Frances E. Willard

  Inspirational, Wheels

  Frances E. Willard (2017). “A Wheel within a Wheel - How I learned to Ride the Bicycle with Some Reflections by the Way”, p.16, Read Books Ltd

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• You know what they say: A woman needs a man about as much as a fish needs a bicycle.

  Candace Bushnell

  Men, Needs, Fishes

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