Riding famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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The things that stop you having sex with age are exactly the same as those that stop you riding a bicycle.
-- Alex Comfort -
Riding trails with your dog restores a bond lost in some evolutionary belch. You travel at the same speed, over the same terrain, neither of you slowing to compensate for the other. You're equal playmates with mud in your teeth.
-- Allison Glock -
Riding exhilarated me; it gave me a joy and a purpose.
-- Ann Romney -
I grew up in a place where a lot of my friends had horses, so I grew up riding. But I'm not an expert.
-- Anson Mount -
I may, however, begin riding again when I am 60.
-- Bernard Hinault -
On the cliffs of your wild cat charms I'm riding.
-- Bob Dylan -
When perfectionism is driving us, shame is riding shotgun and fear is that annoying backseat driver!
-- Brené Brown -
My great forte in killing buffaloes was to get them circling by riding my horse at the head of the herd and shooting their leaders. Thus the brutes behind were crowded to the left, so that they were soon going round and round.
-- Buffalo Bill -
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 I was in my twenties, it felt like I was riding wild horses, and I was hoping I didnt go over a cliff.
-- Chaka Khan -
I tell my staff, we're riding a tour bus around, and we're going to stop and look at some weird stuff - but we're taking our viewers around safely. They're just looking out the window at it. I'm trying to create a sense of comfort for my center audience.
-- Chris Matthews -
There's a lot more pressure when you're a medal favorite. Now, nobody has any expectations for me. Nobody knows what I can do, so I'm riding with nothing to lose.
-- Chris Witty -
I can still picture myself riding in the back of a Bronco to a field party after a rainstorm. My mama will kill me for saying this, but my first beer, I was 15 and I didn't know what to do with it. I thought you were supposed to chug it. So I just downed the whole thing in one gulp. All my friends were like, 'Duuuuuuude!
-- Dave Haywood -
You can know or not know how a car runs and still enjoy riding in a car.
-- David Byrne -
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 -
The entrance into Jerusalem has all the elements of the theatre of the absurd: the poor king; truth comes riding on a donkey; symbolic actions - even parading without a permit!
-- David Edward Kirk -
If I have to move up in a building, I choose the elevator over the escalator. Because one time I was riding the escalator and I tripped. I fell down the stairs for an hour and a half.
-- Demetri Martin -
God, children know something they can't tell; they like Red Riding Hood and the wolf in bed!
-- Djuna Barnes -
In terms of a comedy plan I don't really have a list of what I want accomplish. I'm just riding the wave! I think I will always come back to stand-up and comedy in all its forms. I just don't think it will ever be the one sole thing I do.
-- Doc Brown -
That's the reality of it. Everybody has a big two or three. The health of those big two or three ... there's a lot riding on it.
-- Dusty Baker -
I remember riding across the Brooklyn Bridge about 12 times because they wanted me to keep up with the helicopter, and I said, "Can you have the helicopter keep up with me, my calves are burning!"
-- Eddie Griffin -
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 -
I've always considered myself a physical person. I don't call myself a farm girl, but I did spend a lot of years shoveling manure and throwing hay, because I worked to pay most of my riding expenses.
-- Eleanor Mondale -
It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them.
-- Ernest Hemingway -
If you look at the record books, Dale Earnhardt's done everything, except win the Daytona 500. Now they can't have that riding over him. Now they're just going to say, 'Dale Earnhardt, 1998 Daytona 500 winner,' and his shoulders are going to get lighter every time.
-- Ernie Irvan -
Long as I was riding in a big Cadillac and dressed nice and had plenty of food, that's all I cared about.
-- Etta James -
I also love horseback riding in New Jersey.
-- Eva Herzigova -
The riding of young horses is an excellent nerve tonic.
-- Geoffrey Brooke -
Show business is like riding a bicycle - when you fall off, the best thing to do is get up, brush yourself off and get back on again.
-- Gilda Radner -
Why is it called Piggie-back riding? I'm not a piggie!
-- Hank Green -
What we are seeking so frantically elsewhere may turn out to be the horse we have been riding all along.
-- Harvey Cox -
In riding a horse, we borrow freedom.
-- Helen Thompson Woolley -
I love bikes. I used to own one, but I fell off it when I was younger and that was the end of my bike riding days until now.
-- Idris Elba -
I miss riding those fast trains in Japan... 'cause I'd never seen a train that fast in my life.
-- Ike Turner -
Julie was an issue riding on an issue and using a third issue for a whip.
-- Ilona Andrews -
Like a fish needs a bicycle. A goldfish riding a bicycle underwater. I need a man like a fish needs a bicycle.
-- Irina Dunn -
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 -
Muslims shared many of the deep-seated characteristics of the Anglo-Saxon elite-an intuitive resentment of culture, an amicable contempt for women, a proclivity for riding about on horses, a pleasure in discipline, and a covert homophilia.
-- James Cameron -
But you see, that's the gilded prison of fashion. We're riding in private jets, and meantime I was so incredibly, painfully sad and lonely.
-- Janice Dickinson -
Meryl Streep's brilliant, just brilliant. I've been fortunate to do two movies with Meryl. And for an actor to go moment to moment like she does, there's no one better. And she dances between moments. Each take is different because she's riding instincts, she's riding impulses. And she trusts that.
-- Jeff Daniels -
When you've got the Daytona 500 out there at stake and everything riding on the line, guys go for it, and the guys that go for it are the ones that are either going to win or they're going to wreck.
-- Jeff Gordon -
I am relying on the theory that playing golf is just like riding a bike and that I haven't forgotten how.
-- Jennifer Wyatt -
... I answered the voice that I was a poor girl who knew nothing of riding and warfare ...
-- Joan of Arc -
Draw places you have seen from memory. I used to paint things I had glimpsed through windows while riding in the elevated train.
-- John French Sloan -
Future generations, riding on the highways that we built, I hope they have a better understanding.
-- John Mellencamp -
First, our focus on security is on the infrastructure itself. So it is all about how you protect the network, the device, and the application that is riding on the server.
-- John W. Thompson -
I'm an American actor. I work with my clothes on. I have to. Riding a horse can be pretty tough on your legs and elsewheres.
-- John Wayne -
Bull riding is probably the most dangerous sport in the world in terms of head injuries.
-- Jonathan Gottschall -
I spent a couple of months just riding a bike doing my own training in the streets.
-- Jonny Lee Miller -
Yeah, pretending to ride a horse is actually a lot harder than riding a horse.
-- Josh Hopkins -
Riding the train gives him too much time to think, he has decided. Too much thinking can ruin you.
-- Judith Guest -
I only knew basic western trail riding. Nothing fancy.
-- Julie Benz -
Sentences or solutions occur to me in the shower, or while running on the treadmill, or riding on the subway.
-- Karen Thompson Walker -
A man gets used to riding on at the break of day. Comes to think that movement and noise is where life is, when after all there's life in stillness and quiet too.
-- Kate Elliott -
Its a force of life, sex; you cant deny the thrill of riding high, wide and handsome with someone you love.
-- Katharine Hepburn -
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 -
The difference between authorized and unauthorized biographies is the difference between riding in carriage or squatting in steerage.
-- Kitty Kelley -
When you were riding on the crest of a wave, youwere most likely to be missing out on something.
-- Knute Rockne -
It's something I find enjoyable. Whether it is a road bike or mountain bike or tandem bike. I enjoy riding a bike.
-- Lance Armstrong -
It'd be the thrill of anyone's bull riding career to ride Red Rock. Like when Freckles Brown rode Tornado.
-- Lane Frost -
Gertrudis got on her horse and rode away. She wasn't riding alone--she carried her childhood beside her, in the cream fritters she had enclosed in a jar in her saddlebag
-- Laura Esquivel -
I spent my childhood in New York, riding on subways and buses. And you know what you learn if you're a New Yorker? The world doesn't owe you a damn thing.
-- Lauren Bacall -
That's what I want, that kind of recklessness where the poem is even ahead of you. It's like riding a horse that's a little too wild for you, so there's this tension between what you can do and what the horse decides it's going to do.
-- Li-Young Lee -
Each and all, we are riding into the dark. Even living, we cannot remember half the events of our own days.
-- Loren Eiseley -
To be a gourmet you must start early, as you must begin riding early to be a good horseman. You must live in France, your father must have been a gourmet. Nothing in life must interest you but your stomach.
-- Ludwig Bemelmans -
Life is like riding a bicycle. You get nowhere standing up, so get up on that seat and go!
-- Lynne Ewing -
Thanks to the Tour de France, riding the Champs-Elysees has a great cycling history.
-- Marianne Vos -
I remember riding my bike down the boardwalk with nowhere to go and looking at the girls. It was really innocent.
-- Mark Ruffalo -
I guess I'm just in the flow and riding the wave,
-- Matthew Gray Gubler -
I can be surfing the exact same wave and then sometimes something will just set off, even if I'm riding the same board the whole time. Something will just set off and it just feels like you can push just that extra bit harder.
-- Mick Fanning -
I'd rather die riding 95 than live a life full of nothing but filthy lies.
-- Mitch Lucker -
Riding is a complicated joy. You learn something each time. It is never quite the same, and you never know it all.
-- Monica Dickens -
There is no greater pleasure in the world than riding a good horse.
-- Muriel Wace -
Writing is not, alas, like riding a bicycle: it does not get easier with practice.
-- Nancy Mairs -
When you're turning the crankset, you're riding the bike. When you're coasting, you're just along for the ride.
-- Ned Overend -
There is something about riding a unicorn, for those people who still can, which is unlike any other experience: exhilarating, and intoxicating, and fine.
-- Neil Gaiman -
Shoulder-in is the aspirin of horseback riding - it cures everything.
-- Nuno Oliveira -
The secret in riding is to do only a few things but to do them right
-- Nuno Oliveira -
The secret in riding is to do few things right. The more one does, the less one succeeds. The less one does, the more one succeeds.
-- Nuno Oliveira -
Ever since I turned 22, I've grown weaker. I think I'm going to die after riding a slide once.
-- Onew -
The problem with surviving was that you ended up with the ghosts of everyone you’d ever left behind riding on your shoulders.
-- Paolo Bacigalupi -
You have to look good when you are riding, you have to impress your adversary with your elegance. To look good is already to go fast.
-- Paul Fournel -
To date, every American citizen has nearly $27,000 in public debt riding on our backs.
-- Paul Gillmor -
When you're a kid, all you really care about are Slurpees and Slip N Slide and riding your bike, and that's what I did.
-- Pauly Shore -
Riding a bicycle is about getting back to basics. It's good for the waistline and it's good for the wallet, is what I'm saying.
-- Phil Keoghan -
One day I'm riding a bicycle in my neighborhood, the next day I auditioned for Menudo and was on a plane to perform in front of 200,000 people.
-- Ricky Martin -
Although motorcycle riding is romantic, motorcycle maintenance is purely classic.
-- Robert M. Pirsig -
On rides you see things that trigger ideas. And most the time it's just not doing anything but riding ... letting it all go.
-- Robin Williams -
When I'm riding my bicycle I feel like a Buddhist who is happy just to enjoy his mundane existence
-- Robin Williams -
I felt as if I were riding a pendulum. Just as I would swing into the abyss of hopelessness, the pendulum would swing back with some small goodness.
-- Ruta Sepetys -
Splendid,' Abbé Patin said with a sheepish grin, pulling up alongside. 'There is nothing quite so thrilling as riding in fear of one's life.
-- Sandra Gulland -
If you're not getting hurt, you're not riding hard enough.
-- Sarah Dessen
