Quotes About Motorcycles

#1. I take my camera pretty much everywhere and try to get the most diverse photos possible, since I get to travel to all the greatest cities in the country and see iconic architecture and things like that. I also like racing photos - like motorcycles, cars, stuff like that.

C. J. Wilson

#2. I know what it's like to go very fast on motorcycles. Those moments, they stay with you.

Rachel Kushner

#3. I am occasionally enraptured by Western landscape. But I don't identify that state of mind as having to do with my own origins, having grown up in the West, although I certainly crisscrossed Nevada countless times growing up, and then as a young adult, in cars and on motorcycles.

Rachel Kushner

#4. As long as I ride motorcycles, which God willing is another 50 years, I'll always have Alvarez in my heart. I'm hoping for 10 seasons of Sons of Anarchy.

Emilio Rivera

#5. You know, actors lie all the time. 'Can I ride on the horse? Are you kidding? Of course! I was born on a horse!' ... It's the same with motorcycles.

William Lucking

#6. At the end of the day, it's still a show about guys who ride extremely fast motorcycles for a living,

Doug Liman

#7. I do generally all my stuff [stunts] except for motorcycles and cars, that stuff I don't know how to do as well as certain people do.

Channing Tatum

#8. They were average specimens of national manhood, slim and gaunt with deeply tanned skin from riding in jeeps and on motorcycles.

Viet Thanh Nguyen

#9. If motorcycles - or any object from a person's past - could cure this thing, it would no longer exist. People would unearth their family treasures, polish up the old jewels, bring their loved ones back from the moon.

Sarah Ockler

#10. I don't care about the Guggenheim. The Guggenheim isn't involved in anything that I am interested in. I don't care about motorcycles and Armani suits.

Chuck Close

#11. We're just into toys, whether it's motorcycles or race cars or computers. I've got the Palm Pilot right here with me, I've got the world's smallest phone. Maybe it's just because I'm still a big little kid and I just love toys, you know?

Catherine Bell

#12. The Lazio fans always stop [at the bakery] on their way home from the stadium to stand in the street for hours, leaning up against their motorcycles, talking about the game, looking macho as anything, and eating cream puffs.
I love Italy.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#13. It used to be that rebels were the type who wore leather jackets, rode motorcycles, smoked cigarettes and drank cheap domestic beer. Today's rebels are people who look at their world critically and observe the ensnaring patterns of the consumeristic lifestyle." (Life Hacks, p.50

Jon Morrison

#14. I think my appeal is that I've always tried to stay very grounded to my fans and to be accessible - not being this unattainable thing. I think doing sports and riding motorcycles has made me more approachable and more real and down to earth.

Marisa Miller

#15. The main thing (about the organization) is to enjoy motorcycles, ..and have a good relationship with the community.

Brian Johnson

#16. I try and stay limber, swim, run, ride motorcycles.

Matt Cameron

#17. All my best memories of my brother are in vehicles, speeding, predatory or celebratory. We were just made to drive. For the last 12 years of his life, he lived as caretaker of an orange grove. There, on 18 acres, my brother collected cars and trucks and motorcycles.

Susan Straight

#18. I'm a big bike fan - my homies got Harleys and all kind of choppers - but to be honest I'm scared to ride motorcycles like that.

Gucci Mane

#19. I hate motorcycles. Because if I hit one, even if it's not my fault, if I've done nothing wrong, I'm not charged with manslaughter, he's gonna die, because he's on a motorcycle. So I have to live my life knowing that I killed this guy.

Chuck Klosterman

#20. I remember the first club we played in San Francisco. There were a lot of people on motorcycles standing around outside, and I had trouble getting in. I didn't have any ID, and the guy at the door wouldn't let me in, even though I told him I was gonna be singing in there.

Patti Smith

#21. Where men had once howled and hacked at one another, and fought nip-and-tuck with nature as well, the machines hummed and whirred and clicked, and made parts for baby carriages and bottle caps, motorcycles and refrigerators, television sets and tricycles-the fruits of peace.

Kurt Vonnegut

#22. After a while, you just want transportation, and things like cool cars or motorcycles are all about getting attention. I get all the attention I could ever need, so I kind of like being in a minivan and people not paying so much attention to me.

George Clooney

#23. I should think people would be disappointed if they watched that kind of movie and then came to see us dance and none of us slit our wrists onstage or made ourselves vomit or got on the backs of motorcycles while wearing tutus and started fucking each other.

Meg Howrey

#24. Do I race motorcycles? I do. I use the word 'race' because, I admit, what I do on a motocross bike is different than riding a Harley down the street.

Jeff Kent

#25. You could make a film about being intoxicated only when you're riding motorcycles, but really when you're in an enclosed space safely, you can.

Colin Hanks

#26. ...a herd of motorcycles.

Robert B. Parker

#27. Hayabusa ... it's one of the fastest production motorcycles in the world. Believe me when I say you'll never ride on another motorcycle after you feel the power this baby has. It is unlike anything you'll ever feel between your legs.

Nicole Gulla

#28. I did grow up next door to Steve McQueen, who was a very famous movie star at the time, but as a kid it didn't impress me. We always had great fun with him. He would take us out on Sundays on his motorcycles, riding around in the desert; he was like a second father.

Herb Ritts

#29. And although cars and motorcycles zipped around, all he saw was the girl coming toward him like a scene in a movie.

Peter Leonard

#30. Two motorcycles rumble in behind me and park in open spots. It's Pigpen and Dust. They're part of the volunteers tailing me and Violet until we're safe.

Katie McGarry

#31. It's like living at an airshow, unless you have something against airplanes, golf, guns, motorcycles, nice cars or drinking.

Brian R. Norris

#32. I have been off the motorcycles for about 20 years now, but that doesn't mean I can't still do it.

Teri Garr

#33. I admit to wasting my life messing around with fast cars and motorcycles.

Brock Yates

#34. All girls like guys who are tough. Obviously, riding a motorcycle - I don't want to say that there's a bad boy quality - but there's definitely a tough and macho thing about a guy who rides a motorcycles and that element of danger. That's really sexy.

Marisa Miller

#35. I learned one thing from jumping motorcycles that was of great value on the golf course, the putting green especially: Whatever you do, don't come up short.

Evel Knievel

#36. I didn't get this dressed up to watch you mess around in the gutter with a bunch of motorcycles."
"They are pretty to look at," said Jace. "You have to admit that."
"So am I," said Isabelle.

Cassandra Clare

#37. Riding that ridge between reason and recklessness, stillness and speed, is the first, maybe the most important, thing I learned about motorcycles.

Lily Brooks-Dalton

#38. I believe many Harley guys spend more time revving their engines than actually driving anywhere; I sometimes wonder why they bother to have wheels on their motorcycles.

Dave Barry

#39. Ruth believes that boys are not found around stables because what they like is taking things apart and putting them together again, and for this purpose horses are not so satisfactory as cars, motorcycles, and even bicycles, while girls adore horses because they are biological and have functions.

Wallace Stegner

#40. More books, more racing and more foolishness with cars and motorcycles are in the works.

Brock Yates

#41. The reason I'm drawn to it is - both the off road racing and the motorcycles on the track - it takes a lot for me to quiet my brain and anything that requires 100% of my attention and focus I find very soothing and that is the closest I get to being content.

Dax Shepard

#42. I'm legally unable to ride motorcycles. It's a contract that I have with my life insurance, so whenever I get a chance to do a movie and ride a bike I go for it.

Nicolas Cage

#43. Male menopause is a lot more fun than female menopause. With female menopause you gain weight and get hot flashes. Male menopause ? you get to date young girls and drive motorcycles.

John Wayne

#44. I know a little bit about motorcycles and motorcycle riding.

Rachel Kushner

#45. A lot of fans know that I love motorcycles. That's a big love of mine. I could spend days on the bike if I had the time.

Robert Duncan McNeill

#46. I had so many older brothers who beat up on me, so I'm a tough kid. I love mixed martial arts, weapons training, guns, knives, driving fast cars and motorcycles.

Kellan Lutz

#47. Eventually, I grew out of my interest in motorcycles because they're quite dangerous. I don't ride them anymore. But I have this history.

Rachel Kushner

#48. However, it should in no way be associated with that great body of factual information relating to orthodox Zen Buddhist practice. It's not very factual on motorcycles either.

Robert M. Pirsig

#49. I've kind of banned myself from motorcycles. I've had broken ribs, broken shoulder, wrists, leg, broken collarbone - and it was all from motocross or rugby. All of my injuries have come from outside of sailing.

James Spithill

#50. I wanted monsters that ate whole cities, radioactive corpses that came out of the ocean and ate surfers, and girls in black bras who looked like trailer trash. Horror movies, science fiction movies, movies about losers on motorcycles- this was the stuff that turned my dials up to ten.

Stephen King

#51. I think I was obsessed with the culture of riding. I got sick of having to date guys who rode motorcycles for me to be on them.

Katee Sackhoff

#52. Every time I start thinking the world is all bad, then I start seeing people out there having a good time on motorcycles. It makes me take another look.

Steve McQueen

#53. People with motorcycles always assume that everyone without one wants a ride. I didn't want to offend him, so I said sure.

Hilary Thayer Hamann

#54. The boot, which was dull black and square-heeled, the motorcycle boot of persons who did not own motorcycles but wore the boots of those who did.

David Foster Wallace

#55. He liked to talk about the anatomy of racecars, motorcycles, hunting rifles, how things work, and she liked to listen. It was a mark of the distance between them that she listened so eagerly, the perennial miles, the weeks and months

Don DeLillo

#56. I told myself I would never stop skating. I would never stop riding bikes or riding motorcycles. I raced dirt when I was a kid; motocross. So it definitely keeps me in tune with my youth. I'm almost 40 years old and I feel like I'm 17 years old, and I feel like that's really healthy.

Matt Skiba

#57. All of my free time is made up of motor sports endeavors, be them motorcycles or off-road racing or track days. I just love anything with an engine. That is one of my main loves. Obviously, my other well-known love is Kristen Bell.

Dax Shepard

#58. I rode many bikes and motorcycles. My brother was in an accident when he was a kid and my mom forbade us to use motorcycles.

John Travolta

#59. I drive a taxi and a car and a truck and a T-55 tank and also a T-62 and armored cars and the motorcycles with and without sidecars.

Jussi Adler-Olsen

#60. I was the girl in the black leather jacket with the black fingernails, picked up after school by guys with loud cars and motorcycles. I carried straight-A grades, but I had a little trouble with rules. I tended to have a bit of an authority problem.

Melissa Marr

#61. Motorcycles aren't about gaining agency, I don't think.

Rachel Kushner

#62. He seemed wild and dangerous and carefree
well, he would, would'nt he? What were motorcycles and black leather pants if not the uniform of a wild, dangerous and carefree man?

Marian Keyes

#63. My stomach fluttered. Not butterflies, just excitement. I loved motorcycles.

Kristen Ashley

#64. I think I'm going to have to get a flying license very soon, and maybe one of those Lear jets. It beats motorcycles all to hell.

Hunter S. Thompson

#65. I've got a sister who races motorcycles and another sister who's a Holy Roller preacher.

Billy Carter

#66. When he grew up, he drove muscle cars (loud and fast) and motorcycles (again, loud and fast) and sat in his Dad's garage with the door rolled up, lifting weights. I watched this out of my bedroom window and it was better than anything on television, believe you me.

Kristen Ashley

#67. I love motorcycles and riding bikes. Like a lot of riders, I look at a bike like it's an iron horse - a living thing that you have to build a relationship with - and that bike is my horse.

Diego Sanchez

#68. There's the difference between hardcore motorcycle riders and people who own motorcycles. Some people ride'em and some people trailer'em.

Sonny Barger

#69. I couldn't deal with playing a character who rides motorcycles and has a leather jacket and is a tough kid, y'know?

Leonardo DiCaprio

#70. Sailing is a big outlet for me. It's one of the key things I've been able to do by commingling science with sailing and my love of the sea. Also, I have several motorcycles, and I like to go on motorcycle trips.

Craig Venter

#71. Neither the mouse nor the boy was the least bit surprised that each could understand the other. Two creatures who shared a love for motorcycles naturally spoke the same language.

Beverly Cleary

#72. When we came out from the Elysee palace, there was a gigantic limousine waiting for us and four police on motorcycles. It is probably one of the few times I have experienced my fame. I thought it was so fantastic that I laughed to the point of shouting.

Ingmar Bergman

#73. New rule: every fantasy author who doesn't treat horses like tireless hairy motorcycles automatically gets a Hugo.

Jim C. Hines

#74. I'm terrified of motorcycles. I've been on one a couple of times. I did not like it.

Henry Rollins

#75. Oh I've done bungee jumping. Skydiving, I have motorcycles that I ride. I'm a little bit of an adrenaline junkie in that way.

Zachary Levi

#76. We all like motorcycles to some degree.

Bob Dylan

#77. Well ... you know, I love motorcycles. They're just beautiful, and there's a certain craftsmanship in older bikes, older Triumphs or BSAs or Norton. I'm just very attracted to it.

Ray Lamontagne

#78. Technically speaking, you drive like a rabid chicken who has hijacked a tractor.

Sarah Rees Brennan

#79. My parents won't let me have a motorcycle, but they give me all the guns I want. I asked them for a motorcycle last Christmas and they told me I'd only kill myself. They got me this twelve-gauge instead.

Scott Thompson

#80. They say that when people still rode on vehicles powered by oil, they could go anywhere they wanted.

Yoshiyuki Sadamoto

#81. Bike is the most democratic transport vehicle. Bike is the most daring, challenging as it gives its owner the tempting feeling of freedom, that is why one can say without any exaggeration, bike is a symbol of freedom, Putin said.

Vladimir Putin

#82. They say life is a highway and we all travel our own roads, some good, some bad, yet each is a blessing of its own.

Jess "Chief" Brynjulson

#83. 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 not so completely rational in every way.

Robert M. Pirsig

#84. I should have a gun."
"And you think I can provide it?"
"Ask your biker gang buddies."
"They prefer the term 'motorcycle club.'"
"I'm sure they do.

Kelley Armstrong

#85. We are all a little damaged, Bee. Some of us more than others.

T.M. Frazier

#86. Michael," he heard her say, her voice soft. "Please look at me and let me show you what love is.

Madeline Sheehan

#87. When cleaning I do it the way people go to church - not so much to discover anything new, although I'm alert for new things, but mainly to reacquaint myself with the familiar. It's nice to go over familiar paths.

Robert M. Pirsig