Riding Quotes - Page 21

• I answered the voice that I was a poor girl who knew nothing of riding and warfare.

  Joan of Arc

  Girl, Voice, Warfare

  Saint Joan (of Arc) (1961). “Joan of Arc: Self Portrait”

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• All my early memories are of forms and shapes and textures. Moving through and over the West Riding landscape with my father in his car, the hills were sculptures; the roads defined the form. Above all, there was the sensation of moving physically over the contours of fullnessess and concavities, through hollows and over peaks - feeling, touching, seeing, through mind and hand and eye. This sensation has never left me. I, the sculptor, am the landscape. I am the form and the hollow, the thrust and the contour.

  Barbara Hepworth

  Art, Memories, Father

  Barbara Hepworth (Dame) (1978). “A pictorial autobiography”

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• I never took the bus. Never. Walking meant you were eccentric or pious or a loser - riding the bus meant you were insane or masochistic and worse than a loser.

  Susan Straight

  Insane, Eccentric, Loser

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• I lived in New York my whole life. Like every New Yorker, I have stories about spending summers on the Jersey shore, riding the roller coaster in Seaside that is now famous for that sickening photo of it being washed out to sea.

  Marissa Jaret Winokur

  Summer, New York, Sea

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• Writing is not, alas, like riding a bicycle: it does not get easier with practice.

  Nancy Mairs

  Writing, Practice, Doe

  Nancy Mairs (1994). “Voice Lessons: On Becoming a (woman) Writer”, Beacon Press (MA)

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• The entrance into Jerusalem has all the elements of the theatre of the absurd: the poor king; truth comes riding on a donkey; symbolic actions - even parading without a permit!

  David Edward Kirk

  Kings, Theatre, Elements

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• I did some great work with my Calvin Klein ads on the motorcycle. It was really groundbreaking because people hadn't seen a woman actually riding a motorcycle before.

  Carre Otis

  People, Motorcycle, Great Work

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• Say, what other metre is it
  Than the meeting of the eyes?
  Nature poureth into nature
  Through the channels of that feature
  Riding on the ray of sight,
  Fleeter far than whirlwinds go,
  Or for service, or delight,
  Hearts to hearts their meaning show.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Heart, Eye, Sight

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Albert J. Von Frank (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Major Poetry”, p.13, Harvard University Press

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• When I was in my twenties, it felt like I was riding wild horses, and I was hoping I didnt go over a cliff.

  Chaka Khan

  Horse, Twenties, Cliffs

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• Growing up, I absolutely loved skateboarding and dirt bike riding with my brother and the neighborhood kids.

  Daniella Monet

  Brother, Growing Up, Kids

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• Voroshilov was a hard-riding, hard-drinking military crony of civil-war days.

  Kliment Voroshilov

  Military, War, Drinking

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• I am amused when goody-goodies proclaim, from the safety of their armchairs, that children are naturally prejudice-free, that they only learn to "hate" from listening to bigoted adults. Nonsense. Tolerance is a learned trait, like riding a bike or playing the piano. Those of us who actually live among children, who see them in their natural environment, know the truth: Left to their own devices, children will gang up on and abuse anyone who is even slightly different from the norm.

  Josh Lieb

  Children, Hate, Piano

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• There is no greater pleasure in the world than riding a good horse.

  Muriel Wace

  Horse, World, Pleasure

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• You'll be riding along in an automobile. You'll be the driver perhaps. You're a Christian. There'll be several people in the automobile with you, maybe someone who is not a Christian. When the trumpet sounds you and the other born-again believers in that automobile will be instantly caught away - you will disappear, leaving behind only your clothes and physical things that cannot inherit eternal life. That unsaved person or persons in the automobile will suddenly be startled to find the car suddenly somewhere crashes.

  Jerry Falwell

  Christian, Religious, Humor

  "Nuclear War and the Second Coming of Christ". Book by Jerry Fatwell, 1983.

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• Those who had been riding the upward wave decide now is the time to get out. Those who thought the increase would be forever find their illusion destroyed abruptly, and they, also, respond to the newly revealed reality by selling or trying to sell. And thus the rule, supported by the experience of centuries: the speculative episode always ends not with a whimper but with a bang.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Reality, Forever, Trying

  John Kenneth Galbraith (1994). “A Short History of Financial Euphoria”, p.11, Penguin

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• Some people like to garden, some people like motorcycle riding... my hobby is winning.

  Jack Passion

  Winning, Garden, People

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• I remember riding across the Brooklyn Bridge about 12 times because they wanted me to keep up with the helicopter, and I said, "Can you have the helicopter keep up with me, my calves are burning!"

  Eddie Griffin

  Brooklyn Bridge, Bridges, Burning

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. February 22, 2011.

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• My name recognition has opened doors on the research side. I used to go into crack houses and drug markets and really bad neighborhoods by myself, routinely, and hang out. Sometimes I still do, because I don't want to attract attention. But lately, I've been riding with cops and gaining access to other types of law, like the ATF guys, just because of my name. I guess it's a smarter way to work.

  George Pelecanos

  Doors, Law, Names

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• The Hindus are busy letting themselves be seen riding in Cadillacs instead of smearing themselves with sandalwood paste and bowing in front of Ganpati. The Moslems would rather miss evening prayer than the new Disney movie. The Buddhists think it's more important to take over in the name of Stalin and Progress than to meditate on the four basic sorrows. And we don't even have to mention Christianity or Judaism.

  Paul Bowles

  Buddhist, Prayer, Thinking

  Paul Bowles (2002). “The Sheltering Sky: Let it Come Down ; The Spider's House”

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• Ever since I turned 22, I've grown weaker. I think I'm going to die after riding a slide once.

  Onew

  Thinking, Slides, Shinee

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• For me, surfing is as close a connection I can have with Mother Nature. To surf, you're riding a pulse of energy from Mother Nature. And it's strong. It's real. It's there. And you're dancing with that. You're connecting with that. You're might be the only person in the history of the universe that connects with that particular pulse of energy.

  Xavier Rudd

  Mother, Strong, Real

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• A skittish motorbike with a touch of blood in it is better than all the riding animals on earth, because of its logical extension of our faculties, and the hint, the provocation, to excess conferred by its honeyed untiring smoothness.

  T. E. Lawrence

  Animal, Blood, Hints

  T.E. Lawrence (2016). “The Mint: Lawrence after Arabia”, p.230, I.B.Tauris

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• Thanks to the Tour de France, riding the Champs-Elysees has a great cycling history.

  Marianne Vos

  Cycling, France, Thanks

  "Vos: Britain 'way ahead' of Netherlands for women in cycling". Interview with Felix Lowe, www.eurosport.com. August 8, 2014.

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• Simple. Pared down. Timeless. The ties were never too thick or too thin; the pants were never too flared or too skinny. In my life with Dad, he wore Western apparel because we went riding - jeans, cowboy boots, the turquoise belt buckle. But it was all very simple, and that classic look is very 'Ralph Lauren.'

  Jennifer Grant

  Dad, Cowboy, Simple

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

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• Eric's performance is an awesome and entirely honest expression of the pain and beauty of his music. To watch him play is like riding on the tail of a dragon, but he is so gentle with his rider, you forget how high up you are or how intense the ride is.   He is perhaps the most generous performer I have ever watched, every bit of himself is given to the audience.   He's like a Marina Abramovic with a piano, completely and deeply committed, regardless of that pain.

  Tea Leoni

  Pain, Dragons, Expression

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