Quotes for All
Why should anyone steal a watch when he could steal a bicycle? Flann O’Brien
In Italy it’s full-on stardom when you’re a cyclist – eating in restaurants for free, it’s great. David Millar
The day I notice a cyclist obey a stop sign is the day I’ll stop enjoying watching them bounce off my hood. Daniel Tosh
I am kind of like a diesel. It is the cyclist in me. Clara Hughes
The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets. Christopher Morley
A friend of mine – a cameraman at MTV – lost a lot of weight from cycling, and I thought Id try it, too, thinking whenever you look at a cyclist they all look super-skinny, so hey, why not? But then it turned into such a psychologically satisfying thing. Carson Daly
When Cameron’s Conservatives come to power it will be a golden age for cyclists and an Elysium of cycle lanes, bike racks, and sharia law for bike thieves. And I hope that cycling in London will become almost Chinese in its ubiquity. Boris Johnson
We’ve been trying to sell cyclists of all ages and abilities on very detailed and demanding education and training programs designed to make them more like motorists. Bicyclists have shown they don’t want this. What cyclists repeatedly tell us they do want is more safe places to ride, and it is time we listened to … Read more
When the spirits are low, when the day appears dark, when work becomes monotonous, when hope hardly seems worth having, just mount a bicycle and go out for a spin down the road, without thought on anything but the ride you are taking. Arthur Conan Doyle
Cyclists. I really hate them. I wish they would not be so self-righteous and realise they are a danger to pedestrians. I wish cyclists would not vindictively snap off wing mirrors on cars when they were trying to cross in front of the car at a danger to motorists and pedestrians.
A. S. Byatt