Quotes of: Bicycles Keyword

Melancholy is incompatible with bicycling.

The Literary Cyclist: Great Bicycling Scenes in Literature

In 1895, Ann Strong declared in the Minneapolis Tribune that bicycles were "just as good company as most husbands" and that when a bicycle gets shabby or old a woman could "dispose of it and get a new one without shocking the entire community.

How I Learned to Ride the Bicycle: Reflections of an Influential 19th Century Woman

If I can bicycle, I bicycle.

David Attenborough

To ride a bicycle is in itself some protection against superstitious fears, since the bicycle is the product of pure reason applied to motion. Geometry at the service of man! Give me two spheres and a straight line and I will show you how far I can t...

Angela Carter

Nature loves bicycle because no harm to nature comes from the bicycle!

Mehmet Murat ildan

My main form of transportation at that time was a bicycle, because bicycles could move though the crowd.

John Pomfret

The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets.

Parnassus on Wheels

The bicycle kick is not easy to do. I scored 1,283 goals, and only two or three were bicycle kicks.

Pele

I do not know what makes a writer, but it probably isn't happiness.

The Bicycle Rider In Beverly Hills

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 choic...

God in the Dark

That which caused the many failures I had in learning the bicycle had caused me failures in life; namely, a certain fearful looking for of judgment; a too vivid realization of the uncertainty of everything about me; an underlying doubt--at once, howe...

How I Learned to Ride the Bicycle: Reflections of an Influential 19th Century Woman

[Butch throws his bicycle away] Butch Cassidy: The future's all yours, you lousy bicycles.

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle." I really hate this expression. I bet fish would totally want bicycles.

Princess on the Brink

Pele popularized the bicycle kick, and I created the unicycle kick. It’s like the bicycle kick, only it requires more balance and one less wheel.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

I’ve just awarded myself a trophy for bicycling. It’s big and it only has one wheel. Now I’m one unicycle away from the bicycle that is love.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

Be helpful after you think, be smart before you create your own personality and be thoughtful after making friends.

Adventures of The Flying Bicycle: A new fairy tale

The journey of life is like a man riding a bicycle. We know he got on the bicycle and started to move. We know that at some point he will stop and get off. We know that if he stops moving and does not get off he will fall off.

William Golding

Christ, back in Chicago, we don’t make bicycles any more. It’s all human relations now. The eggheads sit around trying to figure out new ways for everybody to be happy. Nobody can get fired, no matter what; and if somebody does accidentally make ...

Cat's Cradle

Riding a bicycle makes you impotent. That’s why I carry a bicycle seat in my pocket—because it’s better than wearing a condom.

The Merits of Marthaism, and How Being Named Susan Can Benefit You

I moved from Moscow to Rome with my family and two bicycles in 1998, and spent a lot of that year- and the next - obsessed, I am sorry to admit, with the bicycles. Italy, after all, was a place where thousands of middle-aged men felt perfectly comfor...

Michael Specter

If women patronize the wheel the number of buyers will be twice as large. If women ride they must, when riding, dress more rationally than they have been wont to do. If they do this many prejudices as to what they may be allowed to wear will melt awa...

How I Learned to Ride the Bicycle: Reflections of an Influential 19th Century Woman