Motorcycle Quotes

• Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Life, Death, Suicide

  FaceBook post by Hunter S. Thompson from Nov 01, 2015

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• A woman who rides a motorcycle is in tune with the universe, a candidate for high adventure.

  Celestine Sibley

  Adventure, Tunes, Candidates

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• The most important thing is to have a good relationship with the bike... you have to understand what she wants. I think of a motorcycle as a woman, and I know that sounds silly, but it's true.

  Valentino Rossi

  Silly, Thinking, Good Relationship

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

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• You do not need a therapist if you own a motorcycle, any kind of motorcycle!

  Dan Aykroyd

  Racing, Bikers, Needs

  Twitter post from Jun 21, 2014

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• Never travel faster than your guardian angel can fly.

  Mother Teresa

  Travel, Memorable, Angel

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• The man hunched over his motorcycle can focus only on the present... he is caught in a fragment of time cut off from both the past and the future... he has no fear, because the source of fear is in the future, and a person freed of the future has nothing to fear.

  Milan Kundera

  Inspirational, Time, Freedom

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• A jerk on a motorcycle is equal to a leaf, because I find it beautiful when these things fall.

  Demetri Martin

  Beautiful, Fall, Jerk

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• Only a biker knows why a dog sticks his head out of a car window.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Dog, Motor Racing, Car

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• You live more in five minutes on a bike like this going flat out than some people live in a lifetime.

  Burt Munro

  Life, People, Speed

  "Fictional character: Burt Munro". "The World's Fastest Indian", 2005.

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• Faster, Faster, until the thrill of speed overcomes the fear of death.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Motor Racing, Nascar Racing, Drug

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• That's all the motorcycle is, a system of concepts worked out in steel.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Steel, Bikers, Concepts

  "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values". Book by Robert M. Pirsig, 1974.

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• Joining a band of brothers together, a group with one common interest or mission, whether as a company, a team, or a motorcycle club, requires not only a commitment to loyalty but an understanding of self-preservati on as well.

  Sonny Barger

  Loyalty, Brother, Team

  FaceBook post by Sonny Barger from Jan 30, 2015

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• A mother is neither cocky, nor proud, because she knows the school principal may call at any minute to report that her child had just driven a motorcycle through the gymnasium.

  Mary Blakely

  Mother, Children, Cocky

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• I drive way too fast to worry about cholesterol.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Death, Suicide

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• A zest for living must include a willingness to die.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Zest, Bikers, Dies

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• I'm a decent sprinter and I can gun a motorcycle from zero to suicidal in less than ten seconds.

  Mira Grant

  Zero, Suicidal, Gun

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• Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Travel, Adventure, Journey

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

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• I look my best when I take my helmet off after a long motorcycle ride. I have a glow and a bit of helmet hair.

  Eric Bana

  Hair, Long, Bikers

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• It's not my fault all women like motorcycles, Murph. They're basically huge vibrators. With wheels.

  Jim Butcher

  Faults, Wheels, Huge

  Jim Butcher (2004). “Blood Rites: Book six of The Dresden Files”, p.152, Penguin

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• Male menopause is a lot more fun than female menopause. With female menopause you gain weight and get hot flashes. Male menopause ? you get to date young girls and drive motorcycles.

  John Wayne

  Funny, Movie, Girl

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• The motorcycle is a device created by the team of God and Darwin to rid the world of useless young males.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Team, Males, Useless

  P. J. O'Rourke (2010). “Driving Like Crazy: Thirty Years of Vehicular Hell-Bending, Celebrating America the Way It's Supposed To Be With an Oi”, p.29, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Note to self: Never ride a motorcycle in stilettos and a miniskirt.

  Maggie Grace

  Self, Stilettos, Notes

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• People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it's safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs.

  Alexei Sayle

  Motorcycle Gangs, People, Riding

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• A motorcycle functions entirely in accordance with the laws of reason, and a study of the art of motorcycle maintenance is really a miniature study of the art of rationality itself.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Art, Law, Riding

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• I hate motorcycles. Because if I hit one, even if it's not my fault, if I've done nothing wrong, I'm not charged with manslaughter, he's gonna die, because he's on a motorcycle. So I have to live my life knowing that I killed this guy.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Hate, Knowing, Guy

  "Chuck Klosterman's greatest fears". Interview with Josh Modell, www.avclub.com. October 27, 2009.

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