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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I drive way too fast to worry about cholesterol.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Death, Suicide

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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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• 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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• On my tombstone they will carve, "IT NEVER GOT FAST ENOUGH FOR ME.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Tombstone, Enough

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the F”, p.177, Simon and Schuster

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• Riding a motorcycle on today's highways, you have to ride in a very defensive manner. You have to be a good rider and you have to have both hands and both feet on the controls at all times.

  Evel Knievel

  Hands, Feet, Riding

  Interview With Tony Marx, mnmotorcycle.com. June 6, 2001.

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• A motorcycle is an independent thing.

  Ryan Hurst

  Independent

  "Kim Coates, Ryan Hurst and Theo Rossi Talks 'Sons of Anarchy' and Where Their Characters Are in Season 5". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 24, 2012.

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• I was lucky I survived the motorcycle accident because I - bike went under the car. I flew out about 20 or 25 feet. I didn't have a helmet on. I hit my head on the pavement and knocked myself out, gave myself a brain concussion, screwed up my left leg. And I was - I was lucky then that I didn't get killed because I didn't have any protective clothing on whatsoever. And I took a pretty good beating. But, yeah, such was the nature of the day when the barber was called and Samson's locks were trimmed.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Feet, Car, Brain

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I don't want a pickle, I just want ride on my motorcikle. I don't want to die, I just want a ride on my motorcy........cle.

  Arlo Guthrie

  Want, Pickles, Dies

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• I am out of practice at living.
  You are as brave as a motorcycle.

  Anne Sexton

  Life, Practice, Brave

  Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.258, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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