Motorcycle Quotes - Page 8

• Julian Schnabel painted a picture that he dedicated to my character in Rumble Fish. It was called The Motorcycle Boy. I remember when he brought it over to me at the Mayflower Hotel [in New York] years ago. This is when you and I knew each other.

  Mickey Rourke

  New York, Character, Boys

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• If 'The Wild One' were filmed today, Marlon Brando and the Black Rebel Motorcycle Club would all have to wear helmets. I used to be afraid that when (Hells) Angels became movie stars and Cal the hero of the book, the bikerider would perish on the coffee tables of America. But now I think that this attention doesn't have the strength of reality of the people it aspires to know, and that as long as Harley-Davidsons are manufactured other bikeriders will appear, riding unknown and beautiful through Chicago, into the streets of Cicero.

  Danny Lyon

  Beautiful, Stars, Coffee

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• A lot of fans know that I love motorcycles. That's a big love of mine. I could spend days on the bike if I had the time.

  Robert Duncan McNeill

  Fans, Bigs, Mines

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• A poem is a verbal artifact which must be as skillfully
  and solidly constructed as a table or a motorcycle.

  W. H. Auden

  Tables, Artifacts

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• A picture book is a motorcycle: small, loud, fun, and zippy.
  An easy reader is a chartered bus: obliged to carry a rather dull passenger roster of sanctioned curriculum, plus the baggage of an approved, limited vocabulary. The trick is to design your chartered bus to be as cool and sexy as a motorcycle.

  Mo Willems

  Sexy, Fun, Book

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• Chief among the forces affecting political folly is lust for power, named by Tacitus as "the most flagrant of all the passions." Because it can only be satisfied by power over others, government is its favorite field of exercise. Business offers a kind of power, but only to the very successful at the top, and without the dominion and titles and red carpets and motorcycle escorts of public office.

  Barbara Tuchman

  Passion, Successful, Exercise

  Barbara W. Tuchman (2011). “The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam”, p.405, Random House

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• I grew up on the back of a motorcycle - my dad didn't have a car until I was a teenager. And then my closest friend from grade school was a guy.

  Aisha Tyler

  Dad, Teenager, School

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• [Sasha] for me it was a dream. I got to tell everybody where to go and how fast to get there. It was very exciting. It was still an Aaron Spelling show, with the hair and make-up and everything, but there were also motorcycles. For my life, at that time, it was such a perfect thing. I had all this inner anger to get out, and it was so exciting to get paid to do it. She had anger and sexuality and rebellion, but there was still that very sweet core. I didn't have to be something entirely unrecognizable or un-relatable. I just loved her to death.

  Brigid Brannagh

  Dream, Sweet, Hair

  Source: collider.com

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• People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it's safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs. People are very inclined to set moral standards for others.

  Elizabeth Drew

  Motorcycle Gangs, People, Riding

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• If the fact that people make poor decisions is reason enough for the government to second-guess their decisions about dangerous activities such as smoking cigarettes and riding motorcycles, why on earth should the government let people make their own choices when it comes to such consequential matters as where to live, how much education to get, whom to marry, whether to have children, which job to take, or what religion to practice?

  Jacob Sullum

  Jobs, Children, Practice

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• Our cheeky sidekick. We're like a motorcycle and sidecar.

  Al Murray

  America, Sidekicks, World

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• My dreams for the future are simple: work, a happy, healthy family, a lovely long motorcycle ride, and continuing the struggle to awaken people to the need for serious human rights reform.

  Mike Farrell

  Dream, Struggle, Simple

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• I remember I was always enamored by and loved motorcycles as a kid. My grandfather had motorcycles and I remember going for a ride and then after that I was hooked. And then in first or second grade, I ganked or stole a book from the library just because it had a dirt bike with trails. It was one of those things where as a kid, the world is your oyster as far as what you can do, and you don't associate jobs and things with making money.

  Taylor Kinney

  Jobs, Book, Kids

  "Which 'Chicago Fire' star binges on YouTube fail videos?" by Matt Murray, www.today.com. September 24, 2013.

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• I had a major motorcycle accident on CHIPs that gave me a 50-50 chance to live. I broke a lot of bones and fractured ribs and broken wrists.

  Erik Estrada

  Broken, Ribs, Chance

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• You'd never have a motorcycle policeman out on the Indian reservation.

  Alex Cox

  Reservations, Policemen, Indian

  Interview with Maximilian Le Cain, sensesofcinema.com. January 2003.

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• If I weren’t doing what I’m doing today... I’d be traveling around the world on the back of a motorcycle.

  Donna Karan

  Racing, World, Today

  "A Conversation With Fashion Designer and Philanthropist Donna Karan". Interview with Blue Carreon, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 23, 2013.

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• I followed a girl I met in Japan to Los Angeles and ended up working in a motorcycle store. I quit the job one night, went to a party in the Hollywood Hills and ended up yelling at a bunch of people. Someone saw me yelling and asked me to be in a play. The first night, there was an agent in the audience who took me on and sent me out for jobs.

  Norman Reedus

  Girl, Jobs, Party

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• The association of motorcycles with LSD is no accident of publicity. They are both a means to an end, to the place of definitions.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Mean, Definitions, Association

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Songs of the Doomed: More Notes on the Death of the American Dream”, p.90, Pan Macmillan

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• Analysis of President Bush's tax plan has revealed that several elaborate tricks and gimmicks were used to make it look like a $1.35 trillion cut, but in reality it's going to be closer to costing $1.8 trillion. Critics claim it's math so fuzzy, you have to squint to see our nation's future of subsistence farming and post-apocalyptic roving motorcycle gangs.

  Jon Stewart

  Cutting, Math, Reality

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• The perfect man? A poet on a motorcycle.

  Lucinda Williams

  Inspirational, Men, Perfect

  "Lucinda Williams: What I've Learned" by Brendan Vaighan, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• I'd pull my little brother on our motorcycle on an inner tube behind it. We would go fishing, we would hunt some, growing up.

  Sam Brownback

  Brother, Growing Up, Fishing

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• I've got a sister who races motorcycles and another sister who's a Holy Roller preacher.

  Billy Carter

  Race, Holy, Preacher

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• I have written a new book called 'The Golden Motorcycle Gang.' The premise of the book is taken from actual events in my life. My life has been dedicated to inspiring and motivating others to live their highest vision of their ideal life and offering transformational trainings that help people succeed in all aspects of their lives.

  Jack Canfield

  Inspirational, Book, Taken

  "What the 2012 Prophecy Is Really About" by Jack Canfield, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 28, 2011.

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• ... after you have once ridden behind a motorcycle escort, you are never the same again

  Herbert H. Lehman

  Political, Politics, Behinds

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• My son asked for very little - a kickstand, with a motorcycle attached.

  Milton Berle

  Christmas, Son, Littles

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