Top 100 Quotes About Rides
#1. In our benighted age, when films about amusement park rides and electronic fidgets scoop the honours, perhaps Hollywood redux is the best we can hope for.
Will Self
#2. Calumny crosses oceans, scales mountains and traverses deserts, with greater ease than the Scythian Abaris, and like him, rides upon a poisoned arrow.
Charles Caleb Colton
#3. Mental burds; needy, crazy, strength-sappin n soul-destroyin, aye, but mair often than not barry fuckin rides.
Irvine Welsh
#4. Well the deputy walks on hard nails and the preacher rides a mount,
But nothing really matters much it's doom alone that counts.
Bob Dylan
#5. I don't remember my first trip, but I do remember when my mom took me to Disney World in Orlando. It wasn't the rides but Epcot Center that most fascinated me. It made me want to see those countries that are represented there for real.
Lisa Ling
#6. Only the great warriors fall down from their horses; one would not fall who rides a donkey cart.
Waheed Ibne Musa
#8. So I got desperate. I was really panicking. Then I got this idea. I figured if I looked at people hitching rides, I might find somebody. One of them might turn out to be the right type of person, and willing to help me. I tried to choose pretty carefully. I only stopped for rough-looking men.
Lee Child
#9. To long for love, to have experienced passion's deep pleasure, even once, is to understand the mercilessness of having a human body whose memory rides desire's back unanchored from season to season.
Gretel Ehrlich
#10. Coney Island was the centre of the world for me. I loved the rides, the hot dogs - I've never gotten over it.
Harold Feinstein
#11. 'Blasto' is a new game for Sony Playstation. It's an awesome three-dimensional game, and I play the character Blasto who's sort of a Flash Gordon barrel-chested superhero who goes to Uranus and shoots these little green alien Fascist guys. He rescues babes; he goes on wild rides.
Phil Hartman
#12. Great artists make the roads; good teachers and good companions can point them out. But there ain't no free rides, baby.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#13. I would have told them that he lived a life lacking in purpose or direction. Like those aimless rides I took him on. A life lived from the backseat, observed as it blurred by. An indifferent life.
Khaled Hosseini
#14. Joy weathers any storm: Happiness rides the waves.
Todd Stocker
#17. Because I wanted to have a place that I could create everything that I that I never had as a child. So, you see rides. You see animals. There's a movie theater.
Michael Jackson
#18. We drove for 10 hours on rocky trails out into the central part of Mongolia in a Russian utility vehicle with no shock absorbers. Then we arrived at a remote area where we stayed in a yurt and waited to meet a horse wrangler who was scheduled to bring our rides.
John Fusco
#19. Even the blind man can see the beauty as it rides upon the sound of a voice, edge itself between the lines on his fingerprints to be spread upon the smooth snippets of life he touches.
Adri Sinclair
#22. No man rides harder than my Lord Scamperdale - always goes as if he had a spare neck in his pocket.
Robert Smith Surtees
#23. He rides pleasantly enough whom the grace of God carries.
Thomas A Kempis
#24. People don't assume John Wayne shoots people and rides a horse on weekends.
Sylvia Kristel
#27. I don't really have a ritual. On the car rides over to the racetrack, I just make sure that the right songs are on.
Darrell Wallace Jr.
#28. When I was a kid and the carnival would come to the shopping centre, I'd go down and talk to all the people running the rides. I like that whole lifestyle, moving from town to town in a nomadic existence.
Randy Quaid
#29. I got a job at an amusement park. I like to make the rides more terrifying by throwing a couple of screws onto the seats.
Emo Philips
#30. There are always and only two trains running. There is life and there is death. Each of us rides them both. To live life with dignity, to celebrate and accept responsibility for your presence in the world is all that can be asked of anyone.
August Wilson
#31. The lad is surprisingly strong and can turn a game with his incredible acceleration before applying a world-class finish. You can't kick Messi out of a game- he rides tackles like a thoroughbred horse.
Osvaldo Ardiles
#32. I'm not the kind of guy who rides the same roller-coaster twice. Once is enough,and then the thrill is gone and so is the interest.
Emma Chase
#33. Adventures are not all pony-rides in May-sunshine.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#34. In high school, during marathon phone conversations, cheap pizza dinners and long suburban car rides, I began to fall for boys because of who they actually were, or at least who I thought they might become.
J. Courtney Sullivan
#37. In the Reformed tradition, a good deal of our stoicism and apathy rides like a parasite on the back of the doctrine of God's sovereignty and providence.
Toby J. Sumpter
#38. Beaches, music, and car rides - they could all bring on a sudden bout of deep, dreamy thoughts.
Deb Caletti
#39. In light of this, I say that the definition of a cyclist needs a qualifier, and that it should be: (1) a person who rides a bicycle even when he or she doesn't have to; (2) a person who values the act of riding a bicycle over the tools one needs in order to do it.
BikeSnobNYC
#40. I would love for someone to offer me a serious part in something. I don't know if I could even pull it off, but I would like to be the cowboy that rides off and someone shoots him off the horse in the middle of town. Just a serious role. It wouldn't have to be a big one.
Jeff Foxworthy
#41. Good Luck is rather particular who she rides with, and mostly prefers those who have got common sense and a good heart; at least that is my experience.
Anna Sewell
#42. You'd have to be an imbecile or hypocrite to imagine that a professional cyclist who rides 235 days a year can hold himself together without stimulants.
Jacques Anquetil
#43. As the cream abandons the milk from which it took its life, and rises to the top and rides there, so men, because they are richer than those around about them, separate themselves, and all mankind below them they regard as skim milk.
Henry Ward Beecher
#44. And, pleased th' Almighty's orders to perform,
Rides in the whirl-wind, and directs the storm.
Joseph Addison
#45. In my opinion, no young player can develop his or her game to its highest potential if he or she rides around the course in a golf cart.
Harvey Penick
#46. In the distance, they begin shutting down the rides and turning off lights. There's something beautiful and eerie about a darkened, unmoving Ferris wheel.
Becky Albertalli
#48. That was just like a ride," he said. "Did you see me going around in there? Like a fun house, right? Like an amusement park. I ride all those rides. I'm used to that sort of thing. I sit right up front.
Janet Evanovich
#49. There is a new model of leadership in the world that rides on the premise that every single person in the organisation can be a leader. Titles are important for structure and order, but real power does not come from titles.
Robin S. Sharma
#50. Should I run so far that I reach the sea, I should not have run far enough, for the thing I run from rides on my back and in my blood and will not be shaken.
Intisar Khanani
#51. Life always rides in strength to victory, not through internationalism ... but only through the direct responsibility of the individual.
Frank Lloyd Wright
#52. My mom and I used to listen to records, read, and take train rides across the country in the summer. It was a very chill life. She didn't expose me to anything that was ahead of my development, but she expected me to adjust to her world - she did not expect to adjust to mine.
Martha Plimpton
#53. Do not enjoy yourself. Enjoy dances and theaters and joy-rides and champagne and oysters; enjoy jazz and cocktails and night-clubs if you can enjoy nothing better; enjoy bigamy and burglary and any crime in the calendar, in preference to the other alternative; but never learn to enjoy yourself.
G.K. Chesterton
#54. Rumour is the vehicle truth rides on.
Anonymous
#55. Beware the dark stranger! He rides a unicycle!
Stephen King
#56. Don't accept rides from strange men - and remember that all men are strange as hell.
Robin Morgan
#57. His is the name of fire, the name that rides the whisper of the candlelight. His name was ... is ... Racath Thanjel. And this is his story.
-The Penitent God
S.G. Night
#58. You must be a blast on long car rides."
"Oh, I am. You haven't experienced fun until you try to fuck in the front seat of a Civic.
Nenia Campbell
#59. He was for the open lands and long rides. That this seemed a good fate was something he would marvel over later, in his solitude.
Stephen King
#60. Upon four-legged forest clouds the cowboy angel rides
Bob Dylan
#61. It's just hard to go from seeing elephants living their lives in the wild and not being bothered by humans, to seeing them put in a bunker every night and then being forced to take assholes like us on rides.
Chelsea Handler
#63. The Lord's mercy often rides to the door of our heart upon the black horse of affliction.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#64. I attempt to connect with my muse and go on demon rides.
Keanu Reeves
#65. Practically any Western has a homesteader in trouble, and a mysterious rider shows up off the range, solves the problem over two or three days, and then rides off into the sunset.
Lee Child
#66. Every man has a train of thought on which he rides when he is alone.
Joseph Fort Newton
#67. No thanks," I answered, "I never take rides from strangers, thugs who've tried to kill me or people with poor personal hygiene. Congratulations, by the way, for being the first person to qualify in all three categories.
John Zakour
#68. For long rides, I require a stimulating conversation partner with deep reservoirs of cultural references upon which my metaphors can find purchase ... .
Tim Dorsey
#69. A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him.
Thomas Fuller
#70. Anyone who rides a bike is a friend of mine.
Gary Fisher
#71. And there they ring the walls, the young, the lithe. The handsome hold the graves they won in Troy; the enemy earth rides over those who conquered.
Aeschylus
#72. A woman who rides a motorcycle is in tune with the universe, a candidate for high adventure.
Celestine Sibley
#73. It's a fool who is afraid of nothing," I say. "And a brave man is one who knows fear and rides out and faces it.
Philippa Gregory
#74. And this, incidentally, is my thumbnail sketch of American marriage: A woman sees a man; she likes him. Now she jumps on this thing and rides it to some kind of standstill. Then she changes it and trains it, and to the exact degree that she's able to do this, she disrespects him.
Jack Nicholson
#75. Mindful of the fact you live in an agricultural country, I presume you know what an ass is. We read in the New Testament that our blessed Lord rode on an ass in triumph into the city of Jerusalem. Today the Lord rides on another ass: I myself.
Richard Cushing
#76. Hide me, I cry,
protect me, for I am the youngest, the most naked of you all.
Jinny rides like a gull on the wave ... but I ... am broken into
separate pieces; I am no longer one.
Virginia Woolf
#77. When the precipitancy of a man's wishes hurries on his ideas ninety times faster than the vehicle he rides in
woe be to truth!
Laurence Sterne
#78. That whole thing: the paparazzi, a gazillion magazines. You can't lie on a beach. God forbid your bikini rides up too far or you've eaten too many doughnuts and they catch you wiping your mouth. That must be exhausting, that lack of privacy.
Megan Follows
#79. Thy pride is but the prologue of thy shame; where vain-glory commands, there folly counsels; where pride rides, there shame lackeys.
Francis Quarles
#80. A man like that fucks like he rides. With intimidation, recklessness, and unharnessed energy. He's powered by adrenaline and takes what he wants without care.
Pam Godwin
#81. A great and priceless thing is a new interest! How it takes possession of a man! how it clings to him, how it rides him!
Mark Twain
#82. Your words like wings gravity they defy.
My heart like a leaf on the wind catchin' rides.
We make too much sense to foolishly pass it by.
So I'm taking a rainbow up to the 5th floor.
Steppin' out to see that you're really worth more.
Group 1 Crew
#83. I don't know any skinny people who bully fat people. I just know skinny people who use fat people for rides.
Felipe Esparza
#84. I've always had a love for horses since I was really young. When I was 5 years old, the only thing that made me happy was when they'd take me out and give me pony rides.
David Cassidy
#85. I remember one time that I was filming a scene in whych my character rides through Troy on a chariot. I just looked around at this incredible set thinking 'This is the life'.
Orlando Bloom
#86. Insolent youth rides, now, in the whirlwind. For those modern iconoclasts who are without culture possess, apparently, all the courage.
Ellen Glasgow
#87. I now have an erection that is probably tall enough to ride some of the scarier rides at Great America without a parent.
Audrey Niffenegger
#88. Power rides her fingers, she moves from datashell to datashell, walking the nets like the ghost of a shadow, her trail vanishing behind her as she goes. She carries power in the dark behind her eyes.
Melissa Scott
#89. He called her: mother of pearl, barley woman, rice provider, millet basket, corn maid, flax princess, all-maker, weef She called him: fawn, roebuck, stag, courage, thunderman, all-in-green, mountain strider, keeper of forests, my-love-rides
Judy Grahn
#90. First then, it is apparent, horribly apparent, that the slavery question rides insolently over every other everywhere - in fact that is the only question which in the least affects the results of the elections.
Henry L. Benning
#91. He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience.
William Golding
#92. The last night of the year," Constanze said. "Now the days of winter begin and the Goblin King rides abroad, searching for his bride.
S. Jae-Jones
#93. I'm not looking for anything more than any other guy. I like a good smile. Pretty eyes. She has to be active, like not play-sports active, but she'll play air hockey, do some pool, go for rides on the Santa Monica Pier. I would much rather have fun with her than do the cool thing.
Mitchel Musso
#94. walked everywhere. He hated getting rides.
Tom Brokaw
#95. Charity fundraisers are nothing new to me. In the past, I have taken part in ski races for hospitals, walks for breast cancer, and long distance bike rides for geriatric care.
David Sax
#96. Bethany, you're going to take him on one of your little joy rides, aren't you?" Her grin broadened.
"Damn, you're ten pounds of crazy in a five pound bag. I don't want you tangling with the cops again.
Kathryn Loch
#97. Samuel rode lightly on top of a book and he balanced happily among ideas the way a man rides white rapids in a canoe. But Tom got into a book, crawled and groveled between the covers, tunneled like a mole among the thoughts, and came up with the book all over his face and hands.
John Steinbeck
#98. Light rails are too bus-like to impress most commuters, too squished and close to the ground. Monorails, by contrast, strike a chord with travelers. There's something about the sleek designs, the pillowy rides, and the panoramic views that just enchants.
Brendan I. Koerner
#99. You will fall in love with train rides, and sooner or later you will
realize that nowhere seems like home anymore.
Shinji Moon
#100. An actor rides in a bus or railroad train; he sees a movement and applies it to a new role. The whole garment in which the actor hides himself is made of small externals of observation fitted to his conception of a role.
Eleanor Robson Belmont
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