quotes about Motorcycle
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Our cheeky sidekick. We're like a motorcycle and sidecar.
-- Al Murray -
You'd never have a motorcycle policeman out on the Indian reservation.
-- Alex CoxSource : Interview with Maximilian Le Cain, sensesofcinema.com. January 2003.
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People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it's safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs.
-- Alexei Sayle -
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I actually have no aspirations to ride a motorcycle ever again. Its exhausting. You get cold.
-- Ally Walker -
I hated motorcycles. I said to my mother, 'I'll never get a motorcycle.' And she said, 'You never know what you'll want when you are older.' After that, the thing that scared me was not so much the motorcycle itself, but that I could turn into a person who would want one. I was scared of the idea that I could become an entirely different person, a stranger to myself.
-- Ann Brashares -
I don't want a pickle, I just want ride on my motorcikle. I don't want to die, I just want a ride on my motorcy........cle.
-- Arlo Guthrie -
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 -
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I don't write under the ghost of Faulkner. I live in the same town and find his life and work inspiring, but that's it. I have a motorcycle and tool along the country lanes. I travel at my own speed.
-- Barry Hannah -
Neither the mouse nor the boy was the least bit surprised that each could understand the other. Two creatures who shared a love for motorcycles naturally spoke the same language.
-- Beverly ClearySource : Beverly Cleary (1998). “The Mouse and the motorcycle”
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I've got a sister who races motorcycles and another sister who's a Holy Roller preacher.
-- Billy Carter -
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I sailboat raced, I love to go out on my motorcycle alone, but I also love my family dearly. I love that aspect of my life as well.
-- Bob Seger -
I admit to wasting my life messing around with fast cars and motorcycles.
-- Brock Yates -
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 -
A woman who rides a motorcycle is in tune with the universe, a candidate for high adventure.
-- Celestine Sibley -
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I do generally all my stuff [stunts] except for motorcycles and cars, that stuff I don't know how to do as well as certain people do.
-- Channing Tatum -
There's a pretty good chance that you're going to go down when you're on a motorcycle or if you're sky diving or whatever, but that happened before I even got this job, and I haven't sky dived since.
-- Charisma Carpenter -
I had been warned not to get on a motorcycle, sort of. I think there is a clause in most general basic contracts to keep yourself in one piece and not alter your looks without telling them first.
-- Charisma Carpenter -
When I was old enough to ride a motorcycle and got my license, I bought a '69 Sportster.
-- Chuck Zito -
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I want to ride my motorcycle up the side of the Luxor to the light and vanish.
-- Criss Angel -
You do not need a therapist if you own a motorcycle, any kind of motorcycle!
-- Dan Aykroyd -
The reason I'm here today, the reason I own a brand new Harley-Davidson motorcycle and the reason I have a big log cabin and I got cars and all kinds of stuff is because I'm a writer and writers own everything. So you learn how to write.
-- Dan Aykroyd -
I jumped 18 cars on a motorcycle, so I did almost everything.
-- David R. Ellis -
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Easy Rider' was never a motorcycle movie to me. A lot of it was about politically what was going on in the country.
-- Dennis Hopper -
If I weren't doing what I'm doing today... I'd be traveling around the world on the back of a motorcycle.
-- Donna Karan -
I look my best when I take my helmet off after a long motorcycle ride. I have a glow and a bit of helmet hair.
-- Eric Bana -
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I had a major motorcycle accident on CHIPs that gave me a 50-50 chance to live. I broke a lot of bones and fractured ribs and broken wrists.
-- Erik Estrada -
Riding a motorcycle on today's highways, you have to ride in a very defensive manner. You have to be a good rider and you have to have both hands and both feet on the controls at all times.
-- Evel KnievelSource : Interview With Tony Marx, mnmotorcycle.com. June 6, 2001.
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Anybody can jump a motorcycle. The trouble begins when you try to land it
-- Evel KnievelSource : "Evel Knievel: What I've Learned" by Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. November 30, 2007.
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If I'm out trailriding, I have a favorite motorcycle. Riding on the road, I've got a favorite. If I'm jumping, I have a favorite, and if I'm racing, I have a favorite.
-- Evel Knievel -
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You know, Motorcycle Diaries has no incredible stories, no sudden plot twists, it doesn't play that way. It's about recognizing that instance of change and embracing it.
-- Gael Garcia Bernal -
I enjoy going on motorcycle trips and stopping in small towns and enjoying drinks with the locals.
-- George Clooney -
If I wasn't in broadcasting I would like to grow a gigantic beard; and I would like to open a motorcycle garage somewhere in the desert in Nevada and I would disappear and work on bikes, make them really fast. I would love to just race motorcycles for a living if I could do it, but I'm just not that good at it so this is what I'm doing.
-- George StroumboulopoulosSource : "George Stroumboulopoulos: 'I like having good conversations with people'". CNN Interview, www.cnn.com. June 7, 2013.
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You see, I don't know how to ride a motorcycle, actually.
-- Henry Winkler -
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... after you have once ridden behind a motorcycle escort, you are never the same again
-- Herbert H. Lehman -
I travel to work on my motorcycle, so it's jeans, boots and a brown Aero leather jacket that weighs as much as I do. If it were black, it would seem like I've got a Brando idea going on, which I don't.
-- Hugh Laurie -
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 -
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 -
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The association of motorcycles with LSD is no accident of publicity. They are both a means to an end, to the place of definitions.
-- Hunter S. Thompson -
Passing my motorcycle theory test gave me a disproportionate feeling of greatness.
-- James McAvoy -
No hot guys should be allowed to have an English accent and drive a motorcycle. Not to mention wear the leather jacket or sport the cool shades. Hot guys should be forced into footie pajamas.
-- Jandy Nelson -
nobody could catch a vampire on a motorcycle.
-- Jeaniene Frost -
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Dark Water was one of my favourite films to shoot because of Walter. I had seen the previous films he had directed, Central Station and Motorcycle Diaries, and I thought they were great. I really trusted him
-- Jennifer Connelly -
New rule: every fantasy author who doesn't treat horses like tireless hairy motorcycles automatically gets a Hugo.
-- Jim C. Hines -
The fifties were when people started coming down on "juvenile delinquents," "hoodlums," "vandals"--anybody that was young, wore a motorcycle jacket, and didn't act polite around older people.
-- Joe Bob Briggs -
One of the things about the whole Harley motorcycle culture is that it's a little bit renegade.
-- John Travolta -
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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 -
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 -
There isn't a lot written about the motorcycle culture.
-- Katey Sagal -
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 -
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I really love to ride my motorcycle. When I want to just get away and be by myself and clear my head, that's what I do.
-- Kyle Chandler -
Note to self: Never ride a motorcycle in stilettos and a miniskirt.
-- Maggie Grace -
He seemed wild and dangerous and carefree--well, he would, would'nt he? What were motorcycles and black leather pants if not the uniform of a wild, dangerous and carefree man?
-- Marian Keyes -
Some people say it might be good for your career to die and then come back again. I have died many ways, car crashes, motorcycle crashes, etc. But, I am still alive.
-- Mark-Paul Gosselaar -
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I try and stay limber, swim, run, ride motorcycles.
-- Matt Cameron -
At an early age I told myself I would never quit skating, I would never quit riding BMX and being a motorcycle junkie. I just can't stop doing those things.
-- Matt SkibaSource : "Matt Skiba of Alkaline Trio and Blink-182 on staying young through BMX". Interview with David Anthony, music.avclub.com. May 27, 2015.
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My son asked for very little - a kickstand, with a motorcycle attached.
-- Milton Berle -
Hiro watches the large, radioactive, spear-throwing killer drug lord ride his motorcycle into Chinatown. Which is the same as riding it into China, as far as chasing him down is concerned.
-- Neal Stephenson -
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I am occasionally enraptured by Western landscape. But I don't identify that state of mind as having to do with my own origins, having grown up in the West, although I certainly crisscrossed Nevada countless times growing up, and then as a young adult, in cars and on motorcycles.
-- Rachel Kushner -
I know it sounds strange - a blind teenager buzzin' round on a motorcycle - but I liked that; that was me. I had always been nervy, and I always had a lot of faith in my ability not to break my neck.
-- Ray Charles -
A zest for living must include a willingness to die.
-- Robert A. Heinlein -
Although motorcycle riding is romantic, motorcycle maintenance is purely classic.
-- Robert M. Pirsig -
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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 -
That's all the motorcycle is, a system of concepts worked out in steel.
-- Robert M. Pirsig -
A motorcycle is an independent thing.
-- Ryan HurstSource : "Kim Coates, Ryan Hurst and Theo Rossi Talks 'Sons of Anarchy' and Where Their Characters Are in Season 5". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 24, 2012.
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I've spent my entire career on horseback or on a motorcycle. It boxes you in, the way people perceive you.
-- Sam Elliott -
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Try to remember the reason you started riding a motorcycle in the first place. For me, it was a couple of things but mostly rebellion.
-- Sonny Barger -
I carry groceries home on the tank of my motorcycle.
-- Stephan JenkinsSource : "He can see clearly now / Third Eye Blind's Stephan Jenkins looks at success, love, creativity" by Julian Guthrie, www.sfgate.com. April 20, 2003.
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My uncle who helped in a big part of raising me from when I was young, had moved from California, and would just tell me these legendary stories of these motorcycle clubs that he was around and that he used to ride with.
-- Theo Rossi -
I have to get a licence to drive a motorcycle to protect myself and the people around me. I am adamant there should be some sort of licensing required to have children.
-- Tim Allen -
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It wasn't until I went to college and I got my first motorcycle that I understood the thrill of speed.
-- Vin DieselSource : "Vin Diesel: I Want To Be A Good Dad". Interview, parade.com. August 25, 2008.
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As soon as you say 'I do,' you'll discover that marriage is like a car. Both of you might be sitting in the front seat, but only one of you is driving. And most marriages are more like a motorcycle than a car. Somebody has to sit in the back, and you have to yell just to be heard.
-- Wanda Sykes -
You know, actors lie all the time. 'Can I ride on the horse? Are you kidding? Of course! I was born on a horse!'... It's the same with motorcycles.
-- William LuckingSource : "William Lucking rode many a motorcycle in films". Interview with Peter Hartlaub, www.sfgate.com. November 9, 2008.
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Oh I've done bungee jumping. Skydiving, I have motorcycles that I ride. I'm a little bit of an adrenaline junkie in that way.
-- Zachary Levi -
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At the end of the day, it's still a show about guys who ride extremely fast motorcycles for a living.
-- Doug Liman -
Headphone aren't big enough these days. Why not just throw a couple of stereo speakers in a full face motorcycle helmet.
-- Dov Davidoff -
Motorcycle manufacturer Harley-Davidson is a prime example of an American company that uses employment conditions to boost productivity. Current CEO James Ziemer - who started with the company while in high school has negotiated imaginative contracts with the unions representing Harley's workers, agreeing to keep production in the U.S. in exchange for constantly reducing total labor costs through automating tasks and changing work rules. Because Harley regularly reassigns workers whose tasks have been automated to other parts of the company.
-- James O'TooleSource : Source: bobmorris.biz
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Do I race motorcycles? I do. I use the word 'race' because, I admit, what I do on a motocross bike is different than riding a Harley down the street.
-- Jeff Kent -
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The motorcycle is a device created by the team of God and Darwin to rid the world of useless young males.
-- P. J. O'Rourke -
A lot of fans know that I love motorcycles. That's a big love of mine. I could spend days on the bike if I had the time.
-- Robert Duncan McNeill -
Professional motorcycle riders that are pretty young because it's a young man's sport. You're like out of your prime if you're in your mid to late 20s. Which is awful but a lot of guys still do ride into their late 20s. I rode. I just didn't do any of the jumps or races.
-- Steve Howey -
I'm a tomboy. I ride motorcycles, I play polo. I was on a paintball team when I was younger. Endlessly.
-- Annabelle WallisSource : Source: www.mtv.com
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I respect motorcycles so much. They've come such a long way. It's amazing!
-- Michiel HuismanSource : Source: collider.com
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I love motorcycles and riding bikes. Like a lot of riders, I look at a bike like it's an iron horse - a living thing that you have to build a relationship with - and that bike is my horse.
-- Diego Sanchez -
Every time I start thinking the world is all bad, then I start seeing people out there having a good time on motorcycles. It makes me take another look.
-- Steve McQueen -
The connection of the car to the driver is the seat. You are strapped in tightly in it. On the motorcycle, you can move around. The G-forces feel different. It's probably harder to change from the car to the motorcycle.
-- John Surtees -
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The corporate facilities that we have here are as good as anywhere in Australia and the motorcycle people are certainly going to enjoy those.
-- Malcolm Campbell