Riding Quotes - Page 17

• We are all riding on the same bus.

  Mark Sheppard

  Peace, Bus

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• There should be two main objectives in ordinary prose writing: to convey a message and to include in it nothing that will distract the reader's attention or check his habitual pace of reading - he should feel that he is seated at ease in a taxi, not riding a temperamental horse through traffic.

  Robert Graves

  Horse, Reading, Writing

  Robert Graves (2006). “The Long Weekend : a Social History of Great Britain 1918-1939: And, The Reader Over Your Shoulder : a Handbook for Writers of English Prose”, Carcanet Press

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• I also love horseback riding in New Jersey.

  Eva Herzigova

  Jersey, Horseback, Horseback Riding

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• I have been agreeably disappointed in my idea of the camels. They are far from unpleasant to ride; in fact, it is much less fatiguing than riding on horseback, and even with the little practice I have yet had, I find it shakes me less.

  William John Wills

  Practice, Ideas, Camels

  William John Wills (1863). “A Successful Exploration Through the Interior of Australia: From Melbourne to the Gulf of Carpentaria”, p.102, London : R. Bentley

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• I sing your restless longing for the statue, your fear of the feelings that await you in the street. I sing the small sea siren who sings to you, riding her bicycle of corals and conches. But above all I sing a common thought that joins us in the dark and golden hours. The light that blinds our eyes is not art. Rather it is love, friendship, crossed swords.

  Federico Garcia Lorca

  Art, Eye, Dark

  Federico García Lorca, “Ode To Salvador Dali”

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• A man used to riding in a car cannot understand a pedestrian.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Men, Car, Understanding

  "The Oak and The Calf" by John Leonard, www.nytimes.com. May 6, 1980.

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• Mama, I know you used to ride the bus. Riding the bus, and it’s hot and bumpy and crowded and too noisy, and more than anything else in the world, you wanna get off. And the only reason in the world you don’t get off is it’s still fifty blocks from where you’re going. Well, I can get off right now if I want to. Because even if I ride fifty more years and get off then, it’s still the same place when I step down to it. Whenever I feel like it, I can get off. Whenever I’ve had enough, it’s my stop. I’ve had enough.

  Marsha Norman

  Block, Years, Bored

  "'night, Mother". www.imdb.com. September 5, 1986.

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• The way I see it, truth only looks good when you're looking at it from far away. It's kind of like that beautiful girl you see on the street when you're riding past in the bus... there she is, this amazing girl walking by on the street, and you think if you could only get off this stupid bus and introduce yourself to her, your life would change. The thing is, she's not as perfect as you think, and if you ever got off the bus to introduce yourself, you'd find out... This girl is truth. She's not so pretty, not so nice. But then, once you get to know her, all that stuff doesn't seem to matter.

  Neal Shusterman

  Beautiful, Girl, Nice

  Neal Shusterman’s 2005 BGHB Fiction Award Speech, www.hbook.com. January 5, 2006.

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• I felt the need to clarify we were there for the self defense class, in case he also taught about dog breeding or riding the high seas.

  Richelle Mead

  Dog, Self, Sea

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• Everyone has a completely different style of riding and a different style of judging.

  Travis Pastrana

  Judging, Style, Different

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• No, they would not be happy to take my place at your side, cara mia, because I would promptly end their lives in a most unhappy way.’ ‘You are such a caveman, Julian. You look tall and elegant and princely, yet you have not matured beyond the cave.’ …’I have no intention of riding above caveman mentality,’ he growled in her ear, his breath teasing tendrils of hair and sending little flames dancing through her bloodstream. ‘There are so many benefits for the caveman.

  Christine Feehan

  Hair, Flames, Your Side

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• The story of Little Blue Riding Hood is true. Only the color has been changed to prevent an investigation.

  Stan Freberg

  Blue, Color, Stories

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• There is no secret so close as that between a rider and his horse.

  Robert Smith Surtees

  Horse, Secret, Equestrian

  'Mr Sponge's Sporting Tour' (1853) ch. 31

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• Mortality is, in reality, a very, very short period. It is literally a snap of the fingers compared to an eternity. It is so short that we can do it. We can prevail. Why, you can stand your foot in a vise for a while if you know it's going to be released soon. Yes, earthly probation is short compared to eternity, but so very much is riding on how we handle the trials and temptations of the flesh.

  Hartman Rector, Jr.

  Art, Reality, Feet

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• In the beginning this is bound to happen. You have been sitting on the lid that covers your repressions, and you have been riding on that lid a long time, trying continuously to hold down everything beneath it. To become a witness means that you have finally jumped off the lid; now you will only stand aside and will not do anything. Now you will no longer repress, now you will just witness. So everything suppressed will arise, all the repressions will catch fire; you will find flames leaping where there were only ashes.

  Rajneesh

  Mean, Fire, Flames

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• We can and should have an abundance of trails for walking, cycling, and horseback riding, in and close to our cities. In the backcountry we need to copy the great Appalachian Trail in all parts of America.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Cycling, Should Have, Cities

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1966). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1965”, p.161, Best Books on

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• The riding of young horses is an excellent nerve tonic.

  Geoffrey Brooke

  Horse, Nerves, Excellent

  Geoffrey Brooke (1913). “Training Young Horses to Jump”

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• Sleep! I feel the need of it, as never I thought any dwarf could , riding is tiring work. Yet my axe is restless in my hand. Give me a row of orc-necks and room to swing and all weariness will fall from me!

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Fear, Fall, Sleep

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.367, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them. Thus you remember them as they actually are, while in a motor car only a high hill impresses you, and you have no such accurate remembrance of the country you have driven through as you gain by riding a bicycle.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Inspirational, Country, Cycling

  "By-Line, Ernest Hemingway: Selected Articles and Dispatches of Four Decades by Ernest Hemingway". Book edited by William White, 1967.

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• Learn how to meditate on paper. Drawing and writing are forms of meditation. Learn how to contemplate works of art. Learn how to pray in the streets or in the country. Know how to meditate not only when you have a book in your hand but when you are waiting for a bus or riding in a train.

  Thomas Merton

  Life, Country, Art

  Thomas Merton (2007). “New Seeds of Contemplation”, New Directions Publishing

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• Everyone asks me 'how it feels to fly.' It feels like riding in a high powered automobile, minus bumping over the rough roads, continually signaling to clear the way and keeping a watchful on the speedometer to see that you do not exceed the speed limit and provoke the wrath of the bicycle policeman or the covetous constable.

  Harriet Quimby

  Wrath, Way, Limits

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• Every flyer who ventures across oceans to distant lands is a potential explorer; in his or her breast burns the same fire that urged the adventurers of old to set forth in their sailing-ships for foreign lands. Riding through the air on silver wings instead of sailing the seas with white wings, he must steer his own course, for the air is uncharted, and he must therefore explore for himself the strange eddies and currents of the ever-changing sky in its many moods.

  Jean Batten

  Ocean, Sea, Land

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• Willie was a salesman. And for a salesman, there is no rock bottom to life?. He's a man way out there in the blue, riding on a smile and a shoeshine. And when they start not smiling back - that's an earthquake.

  Arthur Miller

  Smile, Men, Earthquakes

  Death of a Salesman (1949) "Requiem"

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• There's a lot more pressure when you're a medal favorite. Now, nobody has any expectations for me. Nobody knows what I can do, so I'm riding with nothing to lose.

  Chris Witty

  Expectations, Pressure, Nothing To Lose

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• Before going mountain bike riding, it's a good idea to leave your valuables at home. Your testicles, for example.

  John Dockery

  Sex, Home, Ideas

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