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Motorcycle Quotes

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

– Maggie Grace

I had been warned not to get on a motorcycle, sort of. I think there is a clause in most general basic contracts to keep yourself in one piece and not alter your looks without telling them first.

– Charisma Carpenter

I jumped 18 cars on a motorcycle, so I did almost everything.

– David R. Ellis

If I weren’t doing what I’m doing today… I’d be traveling around the world on the back of a motorcycle.

– Donna Karan

I have been hearing gossip and lies since I began working. When I was 17, I used to get very angry because I opened a magazine and I saw myself in a picture on a motorcycle, and the headline was, ‘I’m getting married next month.’

– Penelope Cruz

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.

– Evel Knievel

I followed a girl I met in Japan to Los Angeles and ended up working in a motorcycle store. I quit the job one night, went to a party in the Hollywood Hills and ended up yelling at a bunch of people. Someone saw me yelling and asked me to be in a play. The first night, there was an agent in the audience who took me on and sent me out for jobs.

– Norman Reedus

I just wear jeans, big motorcycle boots and T-shirts that are way too big for me. I like anything that has lived a little bit, that has traces of life on it. Knitwear that’s a tiny bit too long because you’ve pulled it with your hands, or jeans that are starting to get holes.

– Clemence Poesy

One of the things that’s interesting to me is I find things like caffeine and stunts actually relax me. When they’re putting a bit of gel on my arm and lighting me on fire, or when I’m about to go into a high-speed car chase or rev a motorcycle up pretty fast, I find everything else around me slows down.

– Nicolas Cage

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.

– Eric Bana

My buddy David Wells is a big motorcycle guy, so when I go visit him in San Diego, he takes me out on his bike. He’s got some antique Indians. I never really rode during my career, because I was afraid I’d fall off and ruin my career.

– David Cone

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

– Dennis Hopper

You know, Motorcycle Diaries has no incredible stories, no sudden plot twists, it doesn’t play that way. It’s about recognizing that instance of change and embracing it.

– Gael Garcia Bernal

And, actually it was interesting because I had done a lot of traveling in the United States and Canada and Mexico on my motorcycle; and I was really, it was the first time I had really gotten out of the Minnesota area to speak of.

– Duane G. Carey

I once rode a motorcycle across Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco!

– Cara Black

Some people say it might be good for your career to die and then come back again. I have died many ways, car crashes, motorcycle crashes, etc. But, I am still alive.

– Mark-Paul Gosselaar

I never rode a motorcycle before ‘CHiPs.’

– Erik Estrada

So if you’re on the motorcycle, on the track you’re not thinking at all about what’s happening next week or tomorrow or anything. You’re literally thinking about the turn you’re setting up and there’s something about that I find very cathartic and meditative.

– Dax Shepard

I think our slow, humble beginnings in surf shops, ski shops, bike shops, and motorcycle shops have been extremely important for our success. GoPro is all about celebrating an active lifestyle and sharing that with other people. It’s authentic. It’s not a brand that we went out and bought a bunch of ads for to create.

– Nick Woodman

The first jolt I received in my life was when I lost my father in a motorcycle accident when I was eight. I would have been with him if he hadn’t turned down my request to go out with him that afternoon.

– Nobu Matsuhisa

If I ever go onstage at the Oscars, you can guarantee I’ll be wearing my motorcycle boots.

– Dean Winters

So if one, or two, or a handful of guys sells drugs for their own personal gain and profit who just so happens to be a member of the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club, we want that same consideration.

– Chuck Zito

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.

– Evel Knievel

I don’t have a mullet, but going into season one on ‘The Walking Dead,’ I asked to have a mullet, and everybody talked me out of it. Because I’d have to wear a mullet when we were not shooting every day. I have that motorcycle, wings on my vest, the crossbow… Maybe a mullet would’ve thrown me over the edge.

– Norman Reedus

All girls like guys who are tough. Obviously, riding a motorcycle – I don’t want to say that there’s a bad boy quality – but there’s definitely a tough and macho thing about a guy who rides a motorcycles and that element of danger. That’s really sexy.

– Marisa Miller

I feel best in a ragged pair of red Honda Motorcycle pants. I have taken them to Machu Picchu, to the Knob Creek Machine Gun festival, and backstage to Cirque du Soleil – just the right touch to make you untouchable. No one quite dares to throw you out, because perhaps you are a world class motocross racer.

– Jonathan Franklin

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.

– Kyle Chandler

The best way for guys to communicate is just don’t talk to each other for nine hours. That’s why I like long motorcycle rides. It’s a great way for guys to socialize and not socialize.

– Justin Theroux

I go to Australia probably once every two years. It’s wide-open spaces there, so I just rent a motorcycle and ride out to the middle of the continent. For hours, you don’t see anybody.

– Larry Fitzgerald

With all due respect to the people who made the motorcycle movies during the ’60s, I felt the sophistication level could be a bit higher, and I felt I could raise the bar on that, too.

– Larry Bishop

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