Bicycle Quotes - Page 9

• 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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• If it hurts me, it must hurt the other ones twice as much.

  Jens Voigt

  Inspirational, Hurt, Ifs

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• I do ride a bicycle occasionally, but not those stupid stationary ones you see in gyms. I do have one of those, I must confess, but its quite literally a pain in the arse, so I dont use it.

  Christine McVie

  Pain, Stupid, Arses

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• At some point my friends and I began to ask, how can a country that produced hippies and such cool people also fight a war and kill people and act cruelly? You would see American GMC trucks go by and soldiers reaching down to whack a girl riding a bicycle. They would yank at her hat and she would get thrown and she would die. You would see Americans do this and feel like they can do anything in our country. But then you'd take an English class with an American soldier from Ohio who seemed just as nice as anyone, yet he was a soldier too.

  Nguyen Qui Duc

  Girl, Country, War

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• Why shouldn't it be that way for the rest of us? Why not just go with it? Just walk the dog and send the tweets and eat the scones and play with the hamsters and ride the bicycles and watch the sunsets and stream the movies and never worry about any of it? I didn't know it could be that easy. I didn't know that until just now. That sounds good to me.

  Joshua Ferris

  Life, Dog, Sunset

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• Every once in a while someone along the road lets us know how far behind we are. A man shouts: ‘Faster!’ He probably thinks bicycle racing is about going fast.

  Tim Krabbe

  Men, Thinking, Racing

  Tim Krabbé, Tim Krabbe, Sam Garrett (2003). “The Rider”, p.20, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Women need men like fish need bicycles.

  Irina Dunn

  Men, Needs, Fishes

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• On my tenth birthday a bicycle and an atlas coincided as gifts, and a few days later I decided to cycle to India...However, I was a cunning child so I kept my ambition to myself, thus avoiding the tolerant amusement it would have provoked among my elders.

  Dervla Murphy

  Children, Ambition, India

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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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• 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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• 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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• I have very simple tastes really. I like to ride my bicycle and I like to spend time upstate where it's quiet and I can take time to think and dream about new projects and possibilities.

  Jacob Hashimoto

  Dream, Simple, Thinking

  "An Interview with the Artist: Jacob Hashimoto". Pari Dust interview, www.paridust.com. September 26, 2014.

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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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• 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 finest mode of transport known to man.

  Adam Hart-Davis

  Men, Cycling, Finest

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• I ride a bicycle everywhere I go, the physical strength is obvious, but my mental strength and my capacity to love myself and to love others has definitely expanded. And that's the one thing I need the most in taking on a life of touring and a life of basically being with hundreds of people every day and not exhaust one's energy.

  Jason Mraz

  Capacity To Love, People, Energy

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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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• 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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• 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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• The bicycle is a great good. But it can turn nasty, if ill employed.

  Samuel Beckett

  Cycling, Nasty, Ill

  Samuel Beckett (2011). “Mercier and Camier”, p.52, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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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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• Scotch needs water like a fish needs a bicycle.

  W. C. Fields

  Scotch, Water, Needs

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• Seems there's a big debate going on about whether a new TV commercial for Minute Maid orange juice portrays Popeye and Bluto as gay lovers or just good friends. The commercial shows Popeye and Bluto at the beach and riding a bicycle for two. I don't think that makes them gay. I think the fact they both find Olive Oyl attractive, that makes them gay.

  Jay Leno

  Beach, Good Friend, Gay

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

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• Design does matter. And not necessarily in a way that people realize. A lot of what you do, people take for granted - that a park has always been here, that a bicycle lane has always been there, that the street is safe or clean.

  Michael Bloomberg

  People, Design, Doe

  Interview with Janette Sadik-Khan, www.fastcodesign.com. September 11, 2013.

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