Motorcycle Quotes - Page 10

• Today, only a fool would offer herself as the singular role model for the Good Mother. Most of us know not to tempt the fates. Themoment I felt sure I had everything under control would invariably be the moment right before the principal called to report that one of my sons had just driven somebody's motorcycle through the high school gymnasium.

  Mary Blakely

  Mother, School, Fate

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• Whenever actors tout off about doing their own stunts, it's always ... they're so protective of you that I always know these stunt guys are so good [and] they're never going to put you in danger. But it's fun to do something kind of exciting, even something as simple as driving 70 through a tunnel with five motorcycles ... it sounds simple, but it's actually really nerve-wracking.

  Ethan Hawke

  Fun, Simple, Tunnels

  "Ethan Hawke Talks GETAWAY, Practical Stuntwork, His Reaction to BEFORE MIDNIGHT’s Reception, Sci-Fi after GATTACA, CYMBELINE & More Upcoming Projects". Interview with Dave Trumbore, collider.com. August 27, 2013.

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• Taking B12 is the price of getting to be vegan, the way wearing a helmet is the price of getting to ride a motorcycle and giving up alcohol for nine months is the price of getting to have a baby.

  Victoria Moran

  Baby, Giving Up, Alcohol

  "Veg and the City: The Life Changing Effects of a Raw Food Diet" by Victoria Moran, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 18, 2010.

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• Wherever there are rock n rollers, well play. Thats what weve been doing for more than 30 years - rock n roll. Its made me everything from an honorary mayor to honorary member of a motorcycle gang.

  Ronnie Hawkins

  Rocks, Motorcycle Gangs, Years

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• I was the girl in the black leather jacket with the black fingernails, picked up after school by guys with loud cars and motorcycles. I carried straight-A grades, but I had a little trouble with rules. I tended to have a bit of an authority problem.

  Melissa Marr

  Girl, School, Leather Jackets

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• We were in Greenville, South Carolina, where he lived, and he was coming the next day to the show, but he passed away the night before. I was very close to my grandfather. He was the first guy to teach me how to ride a motorcycle, so (his death) meant a lot to me. It just gave me a perspective on life and how important it is to live it and enjoy it while we're here. Sometimes we're looking for the grass to be greener, and what's awesome is right in front of you.

  Bret Michaels

  Night, Next Day, Perspective

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• I cuss like a sailor; I smoked cigarettes for many years but quit and have never looked back; also, I ride a motorcycle... in Los Angeles... so there ya go.

  Keith Coogan

  Years, Sailor, Quitting

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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, Riding, Great Work

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• Our children tremble in their teen-age cribs,
  whirling off on a thumb or a motorcycle.

  Anne Sexton

  Children, Maturity, Age

  Anne Sexton (1976). “45 Mercy Street”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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• What's really driving the boom in coaching, is this: as we move from 30 miles an hour to 70 to 120 to 180......as we go from driving straight down the road to making right turns and left turns to abandoning cars and getting motorcycles...the whole game changes, and a lot of people are trying to keep up, learn how not to fall.

  John P. Kotter

  Moving, Fall, Games

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• The connection to place, to the land, the wind, the sun, stars, the moon it sounds romantic, but it's true - the visceral experience of motion, of moving through time on some amazing machine - a few cars touch on it, but not too many compared to motorcycles. I always felt that any motorcycle journey was special.

  Antoine Predock

  Stars, Moving, Moon

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• You see, I don't know how to ride a motorcycle, actually.

  Henry Winkler

  Know How, Knows

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• Although motorcycle riding is romantic, motorcycle maintenance is purely classic.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Riding, Maintenance, Classic

  "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values (ZAMM)". Book by Robert M. Pirsig, 1974.

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• Other people can talk about how to expand the destiny of mankind. I just want to talk about how to fix a motorcycle. I think that what I have to say has more lasting value.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Destiny, Thinking, People

  Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance pt. 3, ch. 25 (1974)

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• If you want to live a happy life, don’t teach your wife how to drive a car or a motorcycle.

  Junaid Jamshed

  Happy Life, Wife, Car

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• A person filled with gumption doesn’t sit about stewing about things. He’s at the front of the train of his own awareness, watching to see what’s up the track and meeting it when it comes. That’s gumption. If you’re going to repair a motorcycle, an adequate supply of gumption is the first and most important tool. If you haven’t got that you might as well gather up all the other tools and put them away, because they won’t do you any good.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Track, Important, Gumption

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• I admit to wasting my life messing around with fast cars and motorcycles.

  Brock Yates

  Car, Fast Car

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• I bought a little hideaway up north, so I'll ship my motorcycle up there. It's much less dangerous than West Hollywood.

  Johnny Galecki

  Up North, Hollywood, Littles

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• The first thing I ever rode when I was a kid was a motorcycle, so I knew how to drive a motorcycle before a car.

  John Travolta

  Kids, Car, Firsts

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• Some people will tell you that slow is good - but I'm here to tell you that fast is better. I've always believed this, in spite of the trouble it's caused me. Being shot out of a cannon will always be better than being squeezed out of a tube. That is why God made fast motorcycles, Bubba.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  People, Trouble, Made

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• I enjoy going on motorcycle trips and stopping in small towns and enjoying drinks with the locals.

  George Clooney

  Towns, Stopping, Small Town

  "George Clooney's La Dolce Vita". Interview with Jack Ross, dolcemag.com. March 24, 2014.

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• Being shot out of a cannon will always be better than being squeezed out of a tube. That is why God made fast motorcycles, Bubba.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Made, Shots, Cannons

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the F”, p.173, Simon and Schuster

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• I never rode a motorcycle before CHiPs.

  Erik Estrada

  Chips

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• I actually have no aspirations to ride a motorcycle ever again. Its exhausting. You get cold.

  Ally Walker

  Cold, Aspiration, Exhausting

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• Women are sort of like motorcycle gangs with me. They get really shy and polite. I don't know why.

  Jack Nicholson

  Motorcycle Gangs, Shy, Get Real

  Source: the-talks.com

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