#bicycle

To ride a bicycle is in itself some protection against superstitious fears, since the bicycle is the product of pure reason applied to motion. Geometry at the service of man! Give me two spheres and a straight line and I will show you how far I can take them. Voltaire himself might have invented the bicycle, since it contributes so much to man’s welfare and nothing at all to his bane. Beneficial to the health, it emits no harmful fumes and permits only the most decorous speeds. How can a bicycle ever be an implement of harm? ↗

— Angela Carter

#reason #science #superstition #science

It's been a long time since I've written old-fashioned sword and sorcery; I'm hoping it's like riding a bicycle. ↗

— Lynn Abbey

#bicycle #hoping #i #like #long

A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle. ↗

— Gloria Steinem

#fish #like #man #without #woman

I've lost all my money on these films. They are not commercial. But I'm glad to lose it this way. To have for a souvenir of my life pictures like Umberto D. and The Bicycle Thief. ↗

— Vittorio De Sica

#commercial #films #glad #his way #i

In 1941 I finished at Allison Intermediate School (grades 7-9), and started at North High School, commuting by bicycle about 5 miles from home to school. ↗

— Vernon L. Smith

#allison #bicycle #commuting #finished #grades

In the 9th grade I began my first wage work for the West Side Drug store delivering prescriptions and sundries on my bicycle to customers who called in orders. ↗

— Vernon L. Smith

#bicycle #called #customers #delivering #first

I bicycle 12,000-foot mountain passes, run, cross train, skate-ski, hike and mountain bike. ↗

— Carre Otis

#bike #cross #hike #i #mountain

Love is a bicycle with two pancakes for wheels. You may see love as more of an exercise in hard work, but I see it as more of a breakfast on the go. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#bicycle #breakfast #exercise #funny #humor

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