"Riding a race bike is an art - a thing that you do because you feel something inside."
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"I was always fast riding bikes with my brother who got me on a bike. There was little to do so I ended up riding everywhere. It was both my transportation, entertainment, and a good way perhaps to make a living I hope."
"A vegan riding a hummer contributes less to greenhouse gas emissions than a meat eater riding a bicycle."
"Those who foolishly sought power by riding the back of the tiger ended up inside"
"No one can teach riding so well as a horse."
"When perfectionism is driving us, shame is riding shotgun and fear is that annoying backseat driver!"
"That's what I want, that kind of recklessness where the poem is even ahead of you. It's like riding a horse that's a little too wild for you, so there's this tension between what you can do and what the horse decides it's going to do."
"The goal is to live with God like composure on the full rush of energy, like Dionysus riding the leopard, without being torn to pieces."
"The influence of the Gang of Four should not be underrated, but it should be noted that 97 or 98 per cent of the population hate them intensely for their crimes. This was shown by the mass movement against the Gang of Four which erupted at Tiananmen Square on April 5, 1976, when the Gang were still riding high, Chairman Mao was critically ill and Premier Zhou had passed away."
"No longer riding on the merry-go-round, I just had to let it go."
"There is something about riding a unicorn, for those people who still can, which is unlike any other experience: exhilarating, and intoxicating, and fine."
"I am completely focused on being strong, riding fast, and enjoying myself. With the new generation of riders, only the chronometer counts. I need to be faster than them on track."
"All in green went my love riding"
"With so much money riding on reported numbers, human nature is to manipulate them. And with so many doing it, you get Serpico effects, where everyone rationalizes that it's okay because everyone else is doing it. It is always thus."
"Sometimes you get tired of riding in taxicabs the same way you get tired riding in elevators. All of a sudden, you have to walk, no matter how far or how high up."
"Chris Christie said he will top Donald Trump's Iowa State Fair helicopter entrance by riding in on a pony. As a result, all the ponies in Iowa have gone into hiding."
"When I'm riding my bicycle I feel like a Buddhist who is happy just to enjoy his mundane existence"
"Actually, when I was little I even dreamed about riding a black cat."
"On the cliffs of your wild cat charms I'm riding."
"Every job requires a certain riding of a horse."
"I've been riding on the crest of a slump lately."