Motorcycle Quotes

You live more in five minutes on a bike like this going flat out than some people live in a lifetime.

Try to remember the reason you started riding a motorcycle in the first place. For me, it was a couple of things but mostly rebellion.

If I'm out trailriding, I have a favorite motorcycle. Riding on the road, I've got a favorite. If I'm jumping, I have a favorite, and if I'm racing, I have a favorite.

I'm a big bike fan - my homies got Harleys and all kind of choppers - but to be honest I'm scared to ride motorcycles like that.

It wasn't until I went to college and I got my first motorcycle that I understood the thrill of speed.

Anybody can jump a motorcycle. The trouble begins when you try to land it

There's the difference between hardcore motorcycle riders and people who own motorcycles. Some people ride'em and some people trailer'em.

If you don't ride in the rain, you don't ride.

I have to get a licence to drive a motorcycle to protect myself and the people around me. I am adamant there should be some sort of licensing required to have children.

Oh I've done bungee jumping. Skydiving, I have motorcycles that I ride. I'm a little bit of an adrenaline junkie in that way.

Every time I start thinking the world is all bad, then I start seeing people out there having a good time on motorcycles. It makes me take another look.

Note to self: Never ride a motorcycle in stilettos and a miniskirt.

I'm just a careful person around wheels and stuff like that. I try to be as cautious as I can, cause I lost friends to motorcycle accidents and car accidents. So I don't ever play around anything like that.

I look my best when I take my helmet off after a long motorcycle ride. I have a glow and a bit of helmet hair.

A motorcycle is an independent thing.

I admit to wasting my life messing around with fast cars and motorcycles.

I bought a little hideaway up north, so I'll ship my motorcycle up there. It's much less dangerous than West Hollywood.

Riding a motorcycle on today's highways, you have to ride in a very defensive manner. You have to be a good rider and you have to have both hands and both feet on the controls at all times.

If you wait, all that happens is that you get older.

A person filled with gumption doesn’t sit about stewing about things. He’s at the front of the train of his own awareness, watching to see what’s up the track and meeting it when it comes. That’s gumption. If you’re going to repair a motorcycle, an adequate supply of gumption is the first and most important tool. If you haven’t got that you might as well gather up all the other tools and put them away, because they won’t do you any good.

Calling upon my years of experience, I froze at the controls.

You do not need a therapist if you own a motorcycle, any kind of motorcycle!

As soon as you say 'I do,' you'll discover that marriage is like a car. Both of you might be sitting in the front seat, but only one of you is driving. And most marriages are more like a motorcycle than a car. Somebody has to sit in the back, and you have to yell just to be heard.

Neither the mouse nor the boy was the least bit surprised that each could understand the other. Two creatures who shared a love for motorcycles naturally spoke the same language.

That's all the motorcycle is, a system of concepts worked out in steel.

A jerk on a motorcycle is equal to a leaf, because I find it beautiful when these things fall.

I really love to ride my motorcycle. When I want to just get away and be by myself and clear my head, that's what I do.

Being shot out of a cannon will always be better than being squeezed out of a tube. That is why God made fast motorcycles, Bubba.

I don't want a pickle, I just want ride on my motorcikle. I don't want to die, I just want a ride on my motorcy........cle.

Although motorcycle riding is romantic, motorcycle maintenance is purely classic.

Passing my motorcycle theory test gave me a disproportionate feeling of greatness.

I would be screwed if I got hurt on my motorcycle and couldn't wrestle.

[Bob] Dylan crashed his motorcycle in 1967, and almost died. A few years ago, he referred to the experience as a "transfiguration."

At an early age I told myself I would never quit skating, I would never quit riding BMX and being a motorcycle junkie. I just can't stop doing those things.

Our children tremble in their teen-age cribs, whirling off on a thumb or a motorcycle.

The connection of the car to the driver is the seat. You are strapped in tightly in it. On the motorcycle, you can move around. The G-forces feel different. It's probably harder to change from the car to the motorcycle.

Some people will tell you that slow is good - but I'm here to tell you that fast is better. I've always believed this, in spite of the trouble it's caused me. Being shot out of a cannon will always be better than being squeezed out of a tube. That is why God made fast motorcycles, Bubba.

One of the things about the whole Harley motorcycle culture is that it's a little bit renegade.

A zest for living must include a willingness to die.

Easy Rider' was never a motorcycle movie to me. A lot of it was about politically what was going on in the country.

A motorcycle functions entirely in accordance with the laws of reason, and a study of the art of motorcycle maintenance is really a miniature study of the art of rationality itself.

I don't write under the ghost of Faulkner. I live in the same town and find his life and work inspiring, but that's it. I have a motorcycle and tool along the country lanes. I travel at my own speed.

The motorcycle is a device created by the team of God and Darwin to rid the world of useless young males.

On my tombstone they will carve, "IT NEVER GOT FAST ENOUGH FOR ME.

When I was old enough to ride a motorcycle and got my license, I bought a '69 Sportster.

Our cheeky sidekick. We're like a motorcycle and sidecar.

It's not an easy task building a motorcycle company. Your window for success is relatively small. You can't afford a lot of hiccups if you don't have another business supporting you.

The first thing I ever rode when I was a kid was a motorcycle, so I knew how to drive a motorcycle before a car.

You see, I don't know how to ride a motorcycle, actually.

I had a major motorcycle accident on CHIPs that gave me a 50-50 chance to live. I broke a lot of bones and fractured ribs and broken wrists.