Bicycle Quotes - Page 15

• I want to be motivational and inspirational for everybody: my big aim is more women on bicycles.

  Marianne Vos

  Monday, Morning, Motivation

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• When I'm riding my bicycle I feel like a Buddhist who is happy just to enjoy his mundane existence

  Robin Williams

  Buddhist, Riding, Existence

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• The question the doubter does not ask is whether faith was really useless or simply not used. What would you think of a boy who gave up learning to ride a bicycle, complaining that he hurt himself because his bicycle stopped moving so he had no choice but to fall off? If he wanted to sit comfortably while remaining stationary, he should not have chosen a bicycle but a chair. Similarly faith must be put to use, or it will become useless.

  Os Guinness

  Hurt, Moving, Fall

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• Maybe the first time you saw her you were ten. She was standing in the sun scratching her legs. Or tracing letters in the dirt with a stick. Her hair was being pulled. Or she was pulling someone's hair. And a part of you was drawn to her, and a part of you resisted--wanting to ride off on your bicycle, kick a stone, remain uncomplicated. In the same breath you felt the strength of a man, and a self-pity that made you feel small and hurt. Part of you thought: Please don't look at me. If you don't, I can still turn away. And part of you thought: Look at me.

  Nicole Krauss

  Hurt, Men, Hair

  Nicole Krauss (2006). “The History of Love: A Novel”, p.57, W. W. Norton & Company

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• If we’re going to talk about transport, I would say that the great city is not the one that has highways, but one where a child on a tricycle or bicycle can go safely everywhere.

  Enrique Penalosa

  Children, Cities, Tricycles

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• A healthy body means a healthy mind. You get your heart rate up, and you get the blood flowing through your body to your brain. Look at Albert Einstein. He rode a bicycle. He was also an early student of Jazzercise. You never saw Einstein lift his shirt, but he had a six-pack under there.

  Steve Carell

  Heart, Mean, Blood

  "Steve Carell on How to Act Brilliant" by Nancy Miller, www.wired.com. April 21, 2008.

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• I'm still about as pigeon-toed as you can get. But I learned to manage pretty well on a bike. Should have had a bicycle then, when I was a kid, but our family didn't have the money for such luxuries. I saved up to buy one myself a few years later.

  Norman Rockwell

  Kids, Luxury, Should Have

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• It's ironic, I used to ride my bike to make a living. Now I just want to live so that I can ride.

  Lance Armstrong

  Ironic, Want, Used

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• Everyone in their life has his own particular way of expressing life's purpose - the lawyer his eloquence, the painter his palette, and the man of letters his pen from which the quick words of his story flow. I have my bicycle.

  Gino Bartali

  Men, Purpose, Stories

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• Traffic in the streets of Bombay is chaotic at best. Riding a bicycle is a dangerous occupation. However, there are hundreds of them on the streets competing with the cars and buses and lorries because it is the poor man's mode of transport.

  Rohinton Mistry

  Men, Car, Riding A Bicycle

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• About 25 years ago, I took a bicycle across the United States. I soon found out that the greatest item of clothing was the trusty bandanna. There were dozens of uses for a bandanna - as a pot holder, a chain cleaner, a sun shield, a headband, a snot rag, a declaration of Kerouacian intent.

  Colum McCann

  Years, United States, Rags

  "How I Dress Now: Colum McCann" by Colum Mccann, www.esquire.com. January 31, 2013.

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• Copenhagen has done a remarkable job creating streets that are focused on bicycles and pedestrians.

  Alex Steffen

  Jobs, Creating, Done

  "Alex Steffen on Carbon-Zero Cities". Interview with Theresa Riley, billmoyers.com. March 19, 2013.

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• What a computer is to me is it's the most remarkable tool that we have ever come up with. It's the equivalent of a bicycle for our minds.

  Steve Jobs

  Science, Technology, Mind

  YouTube Channel "Michael Lawrence"/"Steve Jobs, "Computers are like a bicycle for our minds." - Michael Lawrence Films", www.youtube.com. June 01, 2006.

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• A vegan riding a hummer contributes less to greenhouse gas emissions than a meat eater riding a bicycle.

  Paul Watson

  Meat, Riding, Vegan

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• After my training wheels, my first real bike was a Schwinn, and my first time out, I rode down a hill, didn’t know how to stop, and ran right into a tree. So, that was a nice experience ... like realizing, oh, there are brakes!

  Robin Williams

  Inspirational, Real, Nice

  "For the love of bicycles: A 2003 interview with Robin Williams". Interview with Michael Aisner, www.velonews.com. 2003.

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• In Nepal, the phenomenon is reversed. Time is a stick of incense that burns without being consumed. One day can seem like a week; a week, like months. Mornings stretch out and crack their spines with the yogic impassivity of house cats. Afternoons bulge with a succulent ripeness, like fat peaches. There is time enough to do everything - write a letter, eat breakfast, read the paper, visit a shrine or two, listen to the birds, bicycle downtown to change money, buy postcards, shop for Buddhas - and arrive home in time for lunch.

  Jeff Greenwald

  Morning, Cat, Home

  Jeff Greenwald (2014). “Shopping for Buddhas: An Adventure in Nepal”, p.16, Travelers' Tales

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• The problem with the press is that they can't tell the difference between a bicycle crash and the end of civilization.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Civilization, Differences, Problem

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• To these Teachers of Zen; you want a zafu cushion? sit your zen ass on a bicycle
  seat and peddle into hurricane wind for 8 hours at your max effort; there is your ENGAGED ZEN!

  Steve Ilg

  Teacher, Wind, Effort

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• I need NOW's defense like a fish needs a bicycle. I don't want them to defend me.

  Sarah Palin

  Needs, Defense, Want

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• We don't make bicycles anymore. It's all human relations now. The eggheads sit around trying to figure out new ways for everyone to be happy. Nobody can get fired, no matter what; and if somebody does accidentally make a bicycle, the union accuses us of cruel and inhuman practices and the government confiscates the bicycle for back taxes and gives it to a blind man in Afghanistan.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Men, Practice, Giving

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• Bicycle Thief is a triumphant discovery of the fundamentals of cinema, and De Sica has openly acknowledged his debt to Chaplin.

  Satyajit Ray

  Discovery, Thieves, Cinema

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