Quotes of: Motorcycle Keyword

Ernesto Guevara de la Serna: Are you talking to the motorcycle again?

The Motorcycle Diaries

Not everyone understands what a completely rational process this is, this maintenance of a motorcycle. They think it's some kind of "knack" or some kind of "affinity for machines" in operation. They are right, but the knack is almost purely a process...

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

The title of this Chautauqua is "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance," not "Zen and the Art of Mountain Climbing," and there are no motorcycles on the tops of mountains, and in my opinion very little Zen. Zen is the "spirit of the valley," not ...

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

The study of the art of motorcycle maintenance is really a miniature study of the art of rationality itself. Working on a motorcycle, working well, caring, is to become part of a process, to achieve an inner peace of mind. The motorcycle is primarily...

Robert M. Pirsig

[Dwight has been pulled over by a policeman on a motorcycle, with Jackie-Boy slumped over dead in the passenger seat] Motorcycle Cop: Your buddy there... Partied a little too hard tonight? Dwight: [staring coldly at the cop] I'm the designated driver...

Sin City

You do not need a therapist if you own a motorcycle, any kind of motorcycle!

Dan Aykroyd

[Clark has just been pulled over by a Colorado motorcycle cop] Clark: Hi officer, what's the problem? Motorcycle Cop: Get out of the car! [Clark exits from the car] Clark: I don't think I was speeding. Was I weaving or something? Motorcycle Cop: Shut...

National Lampoon's Vacation

Clark: Oh, you can't think I'd do this on purpose? Look... I tied him to the rear bumper while I was packing the car. It was very confusing. I must have forgot. I'm very sorry, I feel terrible. Motorcycle Cop: How do you think that little dog feels? ...

National Lampoon's Vacation

A motorcycle is a vehicle of change, after all. It puts the wheels beneath a midlife crisis, or a coming-of-age saga, or even just the discovery of something new, something you didn't realize was there. It provides the means to cross over, to transit...

Motorcycles I've Loved: A Memoir

There is a perennial classical question that asks which part of the motorcycle, which grain of sand in which pile, is the Buddha. Obviously to ask that question is to look in the wrong direction, for the Buddha is everywhere. But just as obviously to...

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

For every fact there is an infinity of hypotheses.

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

This forest silence improves anyone.

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

Motorcycle Cop: Calm down, ma'am. Kim Lee: I am calm. Motorcycle Cop: I need to see your registration and insurance. Kim Lee: Why? Not my fault! It's her fault! She do this! Ria: [approaching] My fault? Motorcycle Cop: Ma'am, you really need to wait ...

Crash

John looks at the motorcycle and he sees steel in various shapes and has negative feelings about these steel shapes and turns off the whole thing. I look at the shapes of the steel now and I see ideas. He thinks I'm working on parts. I'm working on c...

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

There is no perfectly shaped part of the motorcycle and never will be, but when you come as close as these instruments take you, remarkable things happen, and you go flying across the countryside under a power that would be called magic if it were no...

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

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

Ernesto Guevara de la Serna: Me, I'm not the same me, at least not the same spiritual me.

The Motorcycle Diaries

To all appearances he was just drifting. In actuality he was just drifting.

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

grades really cover up failure to teach.

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

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

When you have mountains in the distance or even hills, you have space.

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values