Motorcycle Quotes - Page 3

• Driving a motorcycle is like flying. All your senses are alive.

  Hugh Laurie

  Flying, Alive, Heavenly Beings

  FaceBook post by Hugh Laurie from Dec 15, 2014

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• If I'm out trailriding, I have a favorite motorcycle. Riding on the road, I've got a favorite. If I'm jumping, I have a favorite, and if I'm racing, I have a favorite.

  Evel Knievel

  Jumping, Racing, Riding

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• It wasn't until I went to college and I got my first motorcycle that I understood the thrill of speed.

  Vin Diesel

  College, Racing, Bikers

  "Vin Diesel: I Want To Be A Good Dad". Interview, parade.com. August 25, 2008.

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• I think it's particularly a distinctively American concept that resonates with American culture through biker culture. A motorcycle is an independent thing. You're like, 'I don't want to ride in a car with this person. I want to be independent and ride by myself. But, let's ride in a group. Let's be independent, together.'

  Ryan Hurst

  Independent, Thinking, Car

  "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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• It's not an easy task building a motorcycle company. Your window for success is relatively small. You can't afford a lot of hiccups if you don't have another business supporting you.

  Robert Evans

  Tasks, Bikers, Hiccups

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• I've never heard Daft Punk; I've never heard a track of theirs in my life. They're the two guys with motorcycle helmets on?

  Henry Rollins

  Two, Track, Guy

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• The fifties were when people started coming down on "juvenile delinquents," "hoodlums," "vandals"--anybody that was young, wore a motorcycle jacket, and didn't act polite around older people.

  Joe Bob Briggs

  People, Young, Polite

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• Logic presumes a separation of subject from object; therefore logic is not final wisdom.This is Zen. This is my motorcycle maintenance.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Finals, Maintenance, Logic

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• Where men had once howled and hacked at one another, and fought nip-and-tuck with nature as well, the machines hummed and whirred and clicked, and made parts for baby carriages and bottle caps, motorcycles and refrigerators, television sets and tricycles-the fruits of peace.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Baby, Peace, Men

  Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Player Piano”, p.3, Dial Press

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• I couldn't deal with playing a character who rides motorcycles and has a leather jacket and is a tough kid, y'know?

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Character, Kids, Leather Jackets

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• I sailboat raced, I love to go out on my motorcycle alone, but I also love my family dearly. I love that aspect of my life as well.

  Bob Seger

  Love My Family, Aspect, Wells

  "Rock and Roll Never Forgets". Interview with Mike Ragogna, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 21, 2011.

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• I carry groceries home on the tank of my motorcycle.

  Stephan Jenkins

  Home, Tanks, Bikers

  "He can see clearly now / Third Eye Blind's Stephan Jenkins looks at success, love, creativity" by Julian Guthrie, www.sfgate.com. April 20, 2003.

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• One of the things that's interesting to me is I find things like caffeine and stunts actually relax me. When they're putting a bit of gel on my arm and lighting me on fire, or when I'm about to go into a high-speed car chase or rev a motorcycle up pretty fast, I find everything else around me slows down.

  Nicolas Cage

  Fire, Interesting, Car

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• Right," I scoffed, "Alpha Yam Ergo." Adrian nodded solemnly. "A very old and prestigious society." "I've never heard of them," said the girl who'd claimed the first shirt. "They don't let many people in," he said. In white paint, he wrote his fake fraternity's initials: AYE. "Isn't that what pirates say?" asked one of the girls. "Well, the Alpha Yams have nautical origins," he explained. To my horror he began painting a pirate skeleton riding a motorcycle. "Oh, no," I groaned. "Not the tattoo." "It's our logo," he said.

  Richelle Mead

  Tattoo, Girl, White

  Richelle Mead (2013). “The Indigo Spell: A Bloodlines Novel”, p.97, Penguin

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• We all like motorcycles to some degree.

  Bob Dylan

  Degrees

  Bob Dylan (2005). “Bob Dylan: Inspirations”, p.76, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• I didn't get this dressed up to watch you mess around in the gutter with a bunch of motorcycles." "They are pretty to look at," said Jace. "You have to admit that." "So am I," said Isabelle.

  Cassandra Clare

  Watches, Gutters, Looks

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.212, Simon and Schuster

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• My mother always told me if I rode a motorcycle with a boy, she'd kill me." ... She couldn't hear him laugh, but she felt his body shake. "She wouldn't say that if she knew me," he called back to her confidently. "I'm an excellent driver." -Clary & Jace, pg.289-

  Cassandra Clare

  Mother, Boys, Laughing

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• We're just into toys, whether it's motorcycles or race cars or computers. I've got the Palm Pilot right here with me, I've got the world's smallest phone. Maybe it's just because I'm still a big little kid and I just love toys, you know?

  Catherine Bell

  Kids, Phones, Race

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

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• Yeah? Can you draw a skeleton riding a motorcycle with flames coming out of it? And I want a pirate hat on the skeleton. And a parrot on his shoulder. A skeleton parrot. Or maybe a ninja skeleton parrot? No, that would be overkill. But it'd be cool if the biker skeleton could be shooting some ninja throwing stars. That are on fire.

  Richelle Mead

  Stars, Fire, Skeletons

  Richelle Mead (2011). “Bloodlines”, p.156, Penguin

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• He seemed wild and dangerous and carefree--well, he would, would'nt he? What were motorcycles and black leather pants if not the uniform of a wild, dangerous and carefree man?

  Marian Keyes

  Men, Leather Pants, Black

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• New rule: every fantasy author who doesn't treat horses like tireless hairy motorcycles automatically gets a Hugo.

  Jim C. Hines

  Horse, Fantasy, Treats

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• In fact, in many ways my mother was quite hippy-dippy, serving macrobiotic food and reading 'Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.'

  Kristin Scott Thomas

  Mother, Art, Reading

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• (knitting while on a motorcycle) "For several years she knitted in secret (my father would not approve; she was to concentrate on motorcycling and LEAN into the curves, etc), and used a small circular needle (socks and mittens) in order to keep the knitting in her pocket until they were under way; then she leaned back slightly so Gaffer couldn't feel the movement of her hands. On the interstate one day, they were slowly passing a semi and my father happened to see the truck driver laugh and point out my mother's knitting to his passenger. Whoops-

  Elizabeth Zimmermann

  Mother, Father, Knitting

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• nobody could catch a vampire on a motorcycle.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Vampire

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• Driving a motorcycle is like flying. All your senses are alive. Being House is like flying, too. He's free of the gravity of what people think.

  Hugh Laurie

  Thinking, People, House

  FaceBook post by Hugh Laurie from Dec 03, 2011

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