#bicycle

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

— Gloria Steinem

#fish #like #man #without #woman

The bicycle is a former child's toy that has now been elevated to icon status because, presumably, it can move the human form from pillar to post without damage to the environment. ↗

— Brock Yates

#been #bicycle #child #damage #elevated

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

So there is something perhaps more difficult to conceive of, sometimes born of resignation and sometimes not- a life in which not getting it is the point and not the problem; in which the project is to learn how not to ride the bicycle, how not to understand the poem. Or to put it the other way round, this would be a life in which getting it – the will to get it, the ambition to get it – was the problem; in which wanting to be an accomplice didn’t take precedence over making up one’s mind. ↗

— Adam Phillips

#getting-it #life

I simply haven't the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits and then suddenly stops in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds. ↗

— Quentin Crisp

#bicycle #cause #force #give #give me

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

Guys would sleep with a bicycle if it had the right color lip gloss on. They have no shame. They're like bull elks in a field. ↗

— Tori Amos

#bull #color #field #gloss #guys

I used to bicycle to work across the George Washington Bridge, but my wife told me it wasn't professional. ↗

— Mehmet Oz

#bicycle #bridge #george #george washington #i

When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised that the Lord doesn't work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me. ↗

— Emo Philips

#asked #bicycle #every #every night #forgive

Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle. ↗

— Helen Keller

#bicycle #brain #effort #gift #greatest