Logo
A bicycle does get you there and more.... And there is always the

A bicycle does get you there and more…. And there is always the thin edge of danger to keep you alert and comfortably apprehensive. Dogs become dogs again and snap at your raincoat; potholes become personal. And getting there is all the fun. – Bill Emerson, “On Bicycling,” Saturday Evening Post, 1967 July 29th

No other quotes found from this author.
Other Quotes from
Bicycling
category

The bicycle had, and still has, a humane, almost classical moderation in the kind of pleasure it offers. It is the kind of machine that a Hellenistic Greek might have invented and ridden. It does no violence to our normal reactions: It does not pretend to free us from our normal environment. – J.B. Jackson

Category:
Bicycling

When I see an adult on a bicycle, I do not despair for the future of the human race. – H.G. Wells

Category:
Bicycling

Life is like riding a bicycle; we can keep from falling if we keep moving. Only a few trick-riders can stand still and not tumble. – Author Unknown, c.1922

Category:
Bicycling

Messengers and mountain bikers share a common chromosome. – James Bethea

Category:
Bicycling

Random Quotes

You can involve yourself in electronics, computers, puzzles… theres a lot of creativity and brain working. Theres a lot to model trains that people dont realize. – Gary Coleman

Category:
Computers

I do get recognized, but I must say Edinburgh is a fantastic city to live if youre well-known. There is an innate respect for privacy in Edinburgh people, and I also think theyre used to seeing me walking around, so I dont think Im a very big deal. – J. K. Rowling

Category:
respect

It is precisely the purpose of the public opinion generated by the press to make the public incapable of judging, to insinuate into it the attitude of someone irresponsible, uninformed. – Walter Benjamin

Category:
Attitude

Evaluate what you want — because what gets measured, gets produced. – James A. Belasco

Category:
Praise