Zen Motorcycle Maintenance Quotes

#1. For nearly three decades there has been, by and large, peace and tranquility on the India-China border. Not a single bullet has been fired for over a quarter-century. Both countries are showing great maturity and a commitment to economic cooperation.

Narendra Modi

#2. Logic presumes a separation of subject from object; therefore logic is not final wisdom.This is Zen. This is my motorcycle maintenance.

Robert M. Pirsig

#3. Friendship doubles your joys, and divides your sorrows.

Euripides

#4. In this chthonian world the only thing of importance is orthography and punctuation. It doesn't matter what the nature of the calamity is, only whether it is spelled right.

Henry Miller

#5. The more you look, the more you will see.

Roger Tory Peterson

#6. I like Catch-22, Gravity's Rainbow and Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, for instance, because the authors of those three surrealistic novels - Joseph Heller, Thomas Pynchon and Robert Pirsig - invented their own rules, knowing that the old ones wouldn't do the job they had in mind.

William Zinsser

#7. Robert M. Pirsig, author of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: 'When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called Religion.

Richard Dawkins

#8. To enjoy the journey is to give until the stretch is a sacrifice. The question always is: what is it in life that will pull you out of your seat to be brave, risk and serve?

Janie Jasin

#9. The more you look, the more you see. - Pirsig, Zen & the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

Pirsig

#10. Sometimes wisdom comes from suffering, and sometimes suffering comes from wisdom.

Ryan Miller

#11. I had to educate him that there was no such thing as writer's block, that writers write when they write, and when they don't, they don't.

Anthony Kiedis

#12. A scattering of schizophrenic first worlders who have long ago burned their brains to ash in the radiant heat of their own imaginings

Neal Stephenson

#13. We are looking for a Wealth Tax that will bring in sufficient revenue to justify having a wealth tax.

Dick Spring

#14. As an actor, you always think your last job is your last job, and you're always doubting yourself and worried that people will see you're a fraud.

James Marsden