"I would like to propose slow cycling. Commute by bike. At a stroke, you remove the need for and absurd cost of public transport. Cycling is almost completely free. There is no longer any need for the gym as you get fit by cycling. And you can go at your own pace."

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Source : "Idle thoughts" by Tom Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. February 11, 2006.

Tom Hodgkinson

#Cycling Quotes #Needs Quotes #Cost Quotes

“Flattery is praise insincerely given for an interested purpose.”
“Our proper bliss depends on what we blame.”
“All gardeners live in beautiful places because they make them so.”

Source : "The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert". Book by Joseph Joubert, translated by Paul Auster, 2005.
“As he left to answer the call, she heard him exclaiming in wonderment on the rise. "Rocks, Nash. Is that a river mare out there? Do you see her? Have you ever laid eyes on a more gorgeous creature?”
“The Swords were still interesting but by then a cast of characters had started to appear and go on from book to book, and other things about the world began to feel constricting. And there were other things I wanted to do, so I closed the series up and stopped it.”
“I do remember at my very first opening in 1979 another artist coming up to me, and he was haranguing me, saying, "Did you really intend for these things to be so dumb? You just put it there and took a picture of it." He wouldn't let it go. So that's what made me think about the dumbness aspect more.”
“Nothing makes me more determined to succeed than someone telling me something's impossible.”

Source : Twitter post from Dec 23, 2011
“You cannot demand truth, and then select half and throw the inconvenient remainder away.”

Source : Ellis Peters (2015). “House of Green Turf”, p.144, Open Road Media

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