Riding Quotes - Page 8

• Sometimes, in a portrait, I go straight in with paint onto canvas... Other than riding my bike up and down the hills around here, it is the most dangerous thing I do... like tightrope-walking without a safety net!

  David Cobley

  Safety, Portraits, Canvas

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• Acting in general you just feel kind of stupid doing it anyway, but when you're pretending to be rolling around and dodging a foot or riding an ant, you're having to really do it seriously and there's nothing there. You've got to put faith in the process.

  Paul Rudd

  Stupid, Feet, Acting

  "ANT-MAN Set Visit: Paul Rudd Talks Suiting Up, Rewrites, and More". Interview with Matt Goldberg, collider.com. June 22, 2015.

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• The story [for the western genre] is everything. Whether it's a book or a screenplay, the story drives everything. And if you just go out and try to make one by putting on boots and jumping on a horse and riding off... If you don't have the material, the characters and the things to overcome and conflicts that give life to drama, you don't have it.

  Clint Eastwood

  Horse, Drama, Book

  Interview with Michael Parkinson, www.theguardian.com. Ocober 6, 2003.

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• Horse riding is a perfect comparison with singing.You must know where the double fences are.

  Luciano Pavarotti

  Horse, Perfect, Singing

  2002 In The Guardian, 7 Jan.

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• It's about the time I was riding my Motorcycle, going down a mountain road at 150 miles an hour, playing my guitar.

  Arlo Guthrie

  Guitar, Motorcycle, Mountain

  "Song: 'The Motorcycle Song'". 1967.

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• Some men are searching for the Holy Grail, but there ain't nothing sweeter than riding the rail. Pregnant women and Vietnam vets, beggin on the freeway, bout as hard as it gets.

  Tom Waits

  Men, Holy Grail, Vets

  "Song: 'Cold Water' ('Mule Variations')". 1999.

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• You know, one day you're being briefed on world affairs and asked to make decisions, and the next, you're in Crawford, Texas ... and the biggest decision is when do you go mountain bike riding.

  George W. Bush

  Texas, Decision, One Day

  "A Conversation with President George W. Bush and Mrs. Bush". Interview with Mark K. Updegrove, communitytable.parade.com. April 20, 2013.

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• Sentences or solutions occur to me in the shower, or while running on the treadmill, or riding on the subway.

  Karen Thompson Walker

  Running, Subway, Showers

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• With old inflation riding the headlines, I have read till I am bleary-eyed, and I can't get head from tails of the whole thing. ... Now we are living in an age of explanations-and plenty of 'em, too-but no two things that's been done to us have been explained twice the same way, by even the same man. It's and age of in one ear and out the other.

  Will Rogers

  Science, Men, Two

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• There is a peculiar pleasure in riding out into the unknown. A pleasure which no second journey on the same trail ever affords.

  Edith Durham

  Travel, Journey, Peculiar

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• We'll all be riding that streetcar of desire.

  Bob Dole

  Desire

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• Riding a bike works your legs but not your brain. Playing chess works your mind but not your body. Climbing brings it all together.

  Pat Ament

  Climbing, Brain, Mind

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• I miss riding those fast trains in Japan... 'cause I'd never seen a train that fast in my life.

  Ike Turner

  Japan, Missing, Causes

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• I was well known to African Americans before Bill Clinton discovered me. He was like Christopher Columbus riding up on something he didn't understand.

  Sister Souljah

  African American, Bills, Columbus

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• I started mountain-bike riding two years ago, which is much better than riding a stationary bike in the gym. Mountain biking is a total body workout.

  Samantha Stosur

  Workout, Years, Two

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

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• I remember riding my bike down the boardwalk with nowhere to go and looking at the girls. It was really innocent.

  Mark Ruffalo

  Girl, Nowhere To Go, Remember

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• I grew up riding when I was younger in Texas. I actually learned how to ride in Norway. I really love riding horses.

  Jackson Rathbone

  Horse, Texas, Norway

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• It's quite easy to start Trials riding. You just need a bike and you're set.

  Sete Gibernau

  Trials, Needs, Easy

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• I've always like roadracing, but you know how it is in a family when you're young. They thought it was a little too dangerous so I started with Trials riding.

  Sete Gibernau

  Trials, Littles, Young

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• Nowhere, not at sea, does a man feel more lonely than when riding over the far-reaching, seemingly never-ending plains.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Lonely, Men, Sea

  Theodore Roosevelt (2010). “The Green Roosevelt: Theodore Roosevelt in Appreciation of Wilderness, Wildlife, and Wild Places”, p.277, Cambria Press

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• The old horse is coming back in a high lope. Thousands of people are riding a horse today that five years ago couldn't sit in a Ford with all the doors locked.

  Will Rogers

  Horse, Doors, Years

  Will Rogers (1979). “Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Hoover years, 1931-1933”, Will Rogers Heritage Trust

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• It is the first line that gives the inspiration and then it's like riding a bull. Either you just stick with it, or you don't.

  Bob Dylan

  Inspiration, Writing, Giving

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• Painting for a whole morning gives one as excellent an appetite for one's dinner, as old Abraham Tucker acquired for his by riding over Banstead Downs.

  William Hazlitt

  Morning, Health, Giving

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1030, Delphi Classics

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• He who blushes at riding in a rattletrap, will boast when he rides in style.

  Seneca the Younger

  Style, Boast

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• I've got like a weird bond with horses. I'm kind of a horse whisperer, I don't know what it is. I'm not great on a horse. I'm getting better, but I'm not brilliant. So yeah, I've spent a lot of time with horses. They're great creatures, I love them. I do love riding them when I get the chance to.

  Kit Harington

  Horse, Get Better, Chance

  Source: collider.com

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