#bicycle

So there is something perhaps more difficult to conceive of, sometimes born of resignation and sometimes not- a life in which not getting it is the point and not the problem; in which the project is to learn how not to ride the bicycle, how not to understand the poem. Or to put it the other way round, this would be a life in which getting it – the will to get it, the ambition to get it – was the problem; in which wanting to be an accomplice didn’t take precedence over making up one’s mind. ↗

— Adam Phillips

#getting-it #life

I simply haven't the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits and then suddenly stops in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds. ↗

— Quentin Crisp

#bicycle #cause #force #give #give me

I grew up north of Chicago, not far from where the Schwinn bicycle plant used to be, and was conscious of the fact that these beautiful, everlasting bikes were made just down the road. ↗

— Dave Eggers

#bicycle #bikes #chicago #conscious #down

I'm lazy. But it's the lazy people who invented the wheel and the bicycle because they didn't like walking or carrying things. ↗

— Lech Walesa

#bicycle #carrying #i #invented #lazy

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

#does #fall #get #got #journey

Guys would sleep with a bicycle if it had the right color lip gloss on. They have no shame. They're like bull elks in a field. ↗

— Tori Amos

#bull #color #field #gloss #guys

I like the evening in India, the one magic moment when the sun balances on the rim of the world, and the hush descends, and ten thousand civil servants drift homeward on a river of bicycles, brooding on the Lord Krishna and the cost of living. ↗

— James Cameron

#bicycles #brooding #civil #civil servants #cost

Ronald has had bicycle safety and safety in the home. Yes, Ronald is McDonald's, second most recognised figure after Santa Claus, and there's an element of obviously benefiting your business. ↗

— Jim Cantalupo

#benefiting #bicycle #business #claus #element

I don't carry any early childhood trauma around with me, if that's what you're hinting at. The story of the bicycles - and there were three of them which were stolen from me - I've dealt with it well. ↗

— Angela Merkel

#around #bicycles #carry #childhood #dealt

I used to bicycle to work across the George Washington Bridge, but my wife told me it wasn't professional. ↗

— Mehmet Oz

#bicycle #bridge #george #george washington #i