Bicycle Quotes - Page 6

• It wasn't my childhood fantasy to work with Truffaut or be in obscure films. I like Midnight Run better than I like The Bicycle Thief. It was films like Die Hard and Bladerunner that made me want to be an actor.

  Ben Affleck

  Running, Childhood, Midnight

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• Human beings consider themselves satisfied only compared to some other condition. A man who has owned nothing but a bicycle all of his life feels suddenly wealthy the moment he buys an automobile...But this happy sensation wears off. After a while the car becomes just another thing that he owns. Moreover, when his neighbor next door buys two cars, in an instant our man feels wretchedly poor and deprived.

  Alan Lightman

  Men, Two, Doors

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• Some days,' I say, 'I feel like I don't belong anywhere in that world. That world out there. 'I point to Grant. 'People walk down our street and people drive down it and people ride their bicycles down it and all of them, even the ones I know, could be from another planet. And I'm a visiting alien.' And aliens don't belong anywhere,' Adam finishes for me, 'except in their own little corners of the universe.' Right,' I say. ~pgs 57-58 Hattie and Adam on alienation

  Ann M. Martin

  People, World, Littles

  Karen Hesse, Cynthia Rylant, Cynthia Lord, Ann M. Martin (2013). “Scholastic Newbery Collection”, p.388, Scholastic Inc.

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• There was something about clowns that was worse than zombies. (Or maybe something that was the same. When you see a zombie, you want to laugh at first. When you see a clown, most people get a little nervous. There's the pallor and the cakey mortician-style makeup, the shuffling and the untidy hair. But clowns were probably malicious, and they moved fast on those little bicycles and in those little crammed cars. Zombies weren't much of anything. They didn't carry musical instruments and they didn't care whether or not you laughed at them. You always knew what zombies wanted.)

  Kelly Link

  Makeup, Hair, People

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• What of the Wright boys in Dayton? Just around the corner they had a shop and did a bicycle business-and they wanted to fly for the sake of flying. They were Man the Seeker, Man on a Quest. Money was their last thought, their final absent-minded idea. They threw out a lot of old mistaken measurements and figured new ones that stood up when they took off and held the air and steered a course. They proved that "the faster you go the less power you need."

  Carl Sandburg

  Boys, Men, Ideas

  Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.582, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Like a bicycle, like a wheel that, once rolling, is stable only so long as it keeps moving but falls when its momentum stops, so the game between a man and woman, once begun, can exist only so long as it progresses. If the forward movement today is no more than it was yesterday, the game is over.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Moving, Fall, Men

  Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn (1968). “The Cancer Ward”

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• Rose: Look at you, beaming away like you're Father Christmas! The Doctor: Who says I'm not, red-bicycle-when-you-were-twelve? Rose: [shocked] What? The Doctor: And everybody lives, Rose! Everybody lives! I need more days like this! Go on, ask me anything; I'm on fire!

  Steven Moffat

  Father, Fire, Doctors

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• Of course kids should pay taxes.Tell littlie johnny if he wants to ride his bicycle on the sidewalk instead of in the mud,he's got to pay3 more pennies when he buys a candy bar.

  Jim Rohn

  Relationship, Kids, Bars

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• A protected bicycle lane in the city in a developing country is a powerful symbol, showing that a citizen on the $30 bicycle is as important as one in a $30,000 car

  Enrique Penalosa

  Country, Powerful, Cities

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• I like riding a bicycle built for two--by myself.

  Harry S. Truman

  Two, Riding, Built

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• If you don't have a car, ride a bicycle or a donkey.

  Charles Nqakula

  Soccer, Car, Crime

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• My home life is very much about getting up in the morning and getting to the gym or getting on my bicycle and making sure that I get to cook dinner for my boyfriend.

  Erika Christensen

  Morning, Home, My Boyfriend

  Interview with Renisha Marie, entertainment.renishamarie.org. August 9, 2015.

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• Someone stole my bicycle and I said I was going to learn to fight so that I could catch him and beat him up. But I never did catch him. But I ended up the champ of the whole world.

  Muhammad Ali

  Fighting, World, Beats

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• If one person starts crying, I'll cry. If one person has no money, I'll give them mine. If I had a bicycle growing up, I always felt incredibly guilty when I see someone sitting at the bus stop.

  Rose McGowan

  Growing Up, Bus Stops, Giving

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I took care of my wheel as one would look after a Rolls Royce. If it needed repairs I always brought it to the same shop on Myrtle Avenue run by a negro named Ed Perry. He handled the bike with kid gloves, you might say. He would always see to it that neither front nor back wheel wobbled. Often he would do a job for me without pay, because, as he put it, he never saw a man so in love with his bike as I was.

  Henry Miller

  Running, Jobs, Love You

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• Ever bike? Now that's something that makes life worth living!

  Jack London

  Cycling, Life Worth Living, Railroad Tracks

  Jack London (1988). “The Letters of Jack London: 1913-1916. Volume three”, p.193, Stanford University Press

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• Do not touch anything unnecessarily. Beware of pretty girls in dance halls and parks who may be spies, as well as bicycles, revolvers, uniforms, arms, dead horses, and men lying on roads - they are not there accidentally. Soviet infantry manual, issued in the 1930's Only the winners decide what were war crimes.

  Garry Wills

  Girl, Horse, War

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• I've given gifts in the Tour de France and it's come back to bit me. So no gifts.

  Lance Armstrong

  France, Given, Bits

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• A bikeway is a symbol that shows that a citizen on a $30 bicycle is equally important as a citizen on a $30,000 car.

  Enrique Penalosa

  Car, Important, Citizens

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• In Bogotá, our goal was to make a city for all the children. The measure of a good city is one where a child on a tricycle or bicycle can safely go anywhere. If a city is good for children, it will be good for everybody else. Over the last 80 years we have been making cities much more for cars' mobility than for children’s happiness.

  Enrique Penalosa

  Children, Years, Cities

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• Three men riding on a bicycle which has only one wheel, I guess that's surrealism.

  Dong Kingman

  Men, Riding, Three

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• Effie M. was a monster. Six foot high and as strong as a farm horse.No sooner had she decided that she wanted UncleTom than she knocked him off his bicycle and told him.

  Laurie Lee

  Strong, Horse, Feet

  1959 Cider With Rosie,'The Uncles'.

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• Everything is bicycle.

  Stephen Crane

  Cycling

  Stephen Crane (1984). “Prose and Poetry”, p.859, Library of America

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• I can't read my poem "Distracted by an Ergonomic Bicycle" without thinking of Seattle, where the events of the poem took place, and I can't read "In Defense of the Semicolon" without thinking of Toronto - but why should that matter to anyone else? If another reader imagines "In Defense of the Semicolon" taking place in New Orleans, great.

  James Arthur

  Thinking, Imagine, Distracted

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• We must plant trees, grow gardens instead of lawns, ride bicycles when we can and support responsible local businesses over big brands.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Garden, Tree, Support

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