Bicycle Quotes - Page 7

• 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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• Once I had the voice, I knew I wasn't going to fall off the bicycle. I tap right back into it. It really was like learning how to ride a bike - you never forget, and I was able to carry it along with some ease. I never encountered any stumping problems that left me not knowing what to do, so I was mostly able to hold my ground. Of course, I should mention that it took me a long time to actually acquire the voice; there were a lot of frustrated attempts along the way, revisions to long sections and versions of the book that I abandoned.

  Joshua Ferris

  Book, Fall, Long

  Source: www.avclub.com

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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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• Inspiration hits me at the most annoying times. Like when I am on my bicycle going back home from the studio at 3 a.m.. I've many crackly recordings into my mobile phone practically inaudible from the wind rushing into the handset!

  Imogen Heap

  Inspiration, Home, Phones

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• A vegetarian driving a Hummer emits less carbon than a meat eater on a bicycle.

  Louie Psihoyos

  Meat, Vegetarian, Driving

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• I promise you, I will never enter a bicycle race.

  Donald Trump

  Promise, I Promise

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• I was riding my bicycle and I was hit by a Jeep. And the damage that was done to my body was gradually diagnosed, instead of immediately, so the recovery process for me was probably unnecessarily long: It took nearly two years for me to say that I could successfully walk. It was scary. And in a way, when you're faced with something like that, it forces you to change, and very quickly. I think that unconsciously, I felt called to a challenge-a challenge to regain something.

  Melody Gardot

  Recovery, Thinking, Long

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• You always know when you're going to arrive. If you go by car, you don't. Apart from anything else, I prefer cycling. It puts you in a good mood, I find.

  Alan Bennett

  Cycling, Car, Good Mood

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• Someone told me about drama schools, and they seemed like mythological places - you can really go and be in drama classes all day? I inadvertently entered into this world where people wore bicycle clips and did song-and-dance routines in the corridors.

  Nick Moran

  Song, Drama, School

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

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• Most people use less brains in selecting the person with whom they are to spend their lives than they do in choosing an automobile, a bicycle or a cut of steak.  Love isn't enough; there must also be understanding.

  Elsie Lincoln Benedict

  Cutting, Love Is, People

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• Meet the future; the future mode of transportation for this weary Western world. Now I'm not gonna make a lot of extravagant claims for this little machine. Sure, it'll change your whole life for the better, but that's all.

  Butch Cassidy

  Cycling, Machines, World

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• The book, like the bicycle, is a perfect form.

  Jacques Barzun

  Book, Perfect, Form

  "Curtains for theatre programmes? Never!" by Michael Billington, www.theguardian.com. January 14, 2009.

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• A boy told me if he roller-skated fast enough his loneliness couldn't catch up to him, the best reason I ever heard for trying to be a champion. What I wonder tonight pedaling hard down King William Street is if it translates to bicycles. A victory! To leave your loneliness panting behind you on some street corner while you float free into a cloud of sudden azaleas, pink petals that have never felt loneliness, no matter how slowly they fell.

  Naomi Shihab Nye

  Kings, Loneliness, Boys

  Naomi Shihab Nye (1998). “Fuel: Poems”, p.81, BOA Editions, Ltd.

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• Last week I forgot how to ride a bicycle.

  Steven Wright

  Lasts, Week

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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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• No wonder we keep testing positive in their bicycle races. Everyone looks like they're full of testosterone when they're surrounded by Frenchmen.

  Argus Hamilton

  Race, Looks, Wonder

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• Here's some more stuff we're going to need." 1 pair coveralls 1 extension ladder (30 foot) 1 glass cutter 1 artist's portfolio (large) 1 water pistol 1 bottle india ink 1 portable trampoline (collapsible) 1 bicycle w/basket 4 pizza boxes Jonah whistled. "I hope you've got some crazy evil-genius strategy, 'cause–straight up–I don't get it.

  Gordon Korman

  Crazy, Artist, Feet

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• The finest mode of transport known to man.

  Adam Hart-Davis

  Men, Cycling, Finest

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• I simply want to celebrate the fact that right near your home, year in and year out, a community college is quietly - and with very little financial encouragement - saving lives and minds. I can’t think of a more efficient, hopeful or egalitarian machine, with the possible exception of the bicycle.

  Kay Ryan

  Encouragement, Home, College

  "It Takes a Community College" by Jenna Krajeski, www.newyorker.com. October 27, 2009.

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• Without question, bicycling is an efficient, economical and environmentally sound form of transportation and recreation. Bicycling is a great activity for families, recreational riders and commuters. Hillary, Chelsea and I have bicycles.

  William J. Clinton

  Sound, Form, Riders

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• I still do not know what impels anyone sound of mind to leave dry land and spend a lifetime describing people who do not exist. If it is child's play, an extension of make believe - something one is frequently assured by people who write about writing - how to account for the overriding wish to do that, just that, only that, and consider it as rational an occupation as riding a bicycle over the Alps?

  Mavis Gallant

  Children, Believe, Writing

  Mavis Gallant (2011). “Paris Stories”, p.366, New York Review of Books

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• Listening. Nice idea but difficult to do with constant road and air traffic all around all the time. Please consider getting around by quieter means. Feet, bicycle, horse, it's up to you

  Judith Weir

  Horse, Nice, Mean

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• Now the seasons are closing their files
  on each of us, the heavy drawers
  full of certificates rolling back
  into the tree trunks, a few old papers
  flocking away. Someone we loved
  has fallen from our thoughts,
  making a little, glittering splash
  like a bicycle pushed by a breeze.
  Otherwise, not much has happened;
  we fell in love again, finding
  that one red feather on the wind.

  Ted Kooser

  Wind, Tree, Paper

  Ted Kooser (2005). “Flying At Night: Poems 1965-1985”, p.96, University of Pittsburgh Press

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• Automobiles will start to decline almost as soon as the last shot is fired in World War II. The name of Igor Sikorsky will be as wellknown as Henry Ford's, for his helicopter will all but replace the horseless carriage as the new means of popular transportation. Instead of a car in every garage, there will be a helicopter.... These 'copters' will be so safe and will cost so little to produce that small models will be made for teenage youngsters. These tiny 'copters, when school lets out, will fill the sky as the bicycles of our youth filled the prewar roads.

  Harry Bruno

  Teenage, War, School

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