"When I'm riding my bicycle I feel like a Buddhist who is happy just to enjoy his mundane existence"
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"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."
"The stretch of the limousine usually is inversely proportional to the self esteem of the person riding in it."
"Life is like riding a bicycle. If you want to stay balanced you've got to keep moving forward."
"A skittish motorbike with a touch of blood in it is better than all the riding animals on earth, because of its logical extension of our faculties, and the hint, the provocation, to excess conferred by its honeyed untiring smoothness."
"Before I went on stage at Kyle Hutton's Real Life Real Music Festival, I heard one of his songwriting students, Abbey Hirvela, sing; she was in the poet's saddle and riding that horse like she owned it. She was good! I probably ruined her by showing her how to make an E chord without the 3rd though."
"Bessie: 'Why don't you get married?' Zooey: 'I like riding in trains too much. You never get to sit next to the window anymore when you're married."
"Why is it called Piggie-back riding? I'm not a piggie!"
"But you see, that's the gilded prison of fashion. We're riding in private jets, and meantime I was so incredibly, painfully sad and lonely."
"He learned the arts of riding, fencing, gunnery, And how to scale a fortress - or a nunnery."
"It comes in handy in situations like that. People always expect you to be riding around in stretch limousines all the time, but I will sometimes take public transportation if it's convenient, and it does surprise people, you see the heads turn."
"My earliest memory is of the best Christmas gift ever, a toy train. I remember riding that thing all through our house."
"People loved their horses, too. But you don't keep riding your horse to work just because you love it."
"Been riding broomsticks since she was fifteen."
"Opportunity beckons more surely when misfortune comes upon a person than it ever does when that person is riding the crest of a wave of success. It sharpens a person's wits, if that person will let it, enabling him or her to see more clearly and evaluate situations with a more knowledgeable judgment."
"God, children know something they can't tell; they like Red Riding Hood and the wolf in bed!"
"On rides you see things that trigger ideas. And most the time it's just not doing anything but riding ... letting it all go."