Benneville Deisher Quotes & Sayings

I got a lot of mail from organizations concerned with bike safety. Then I got a couple from people who wanted my support for mandatory helmet laws. I can't support that. If you pass a law like that you'll do more harm than good, because you'll make people think they've done something about the problem when they haven't. — Dave Barry

Really, in a lot of ways being a cyclist is like being a vampire. First of all, both cyclists and vampires are cultural outcasts with cult followings who clumsily walk the line between cool and dorky. Secondly, both cyclists and vampires resemble normal humans, but they also lead secret double lives, have supernatural powers, and aren't governed by the same rules as the rest of humanity - though cycling doesn't come with the drawbacks of vampirism. Cyclists can ride day or night, we can consume all the garlic we want, and very few of us are afflicted with bloodlust or driven by a relentless urge to kill. — BikeSnobNYC

Not all questions can be answered. — Edward Abbey

Every man should know something of law; if he knows enough to keep out of it, he is a pretty good lawyer. — Josh Billings

I have to go and say farewell to all the countries that I have been to, if I can. I am 73 now, it is taxing on me. — Miriam Makeba

The church thrives where people are focused on Jesus, not where they are focused on church. — Wayne Jacobsen

Dinner is not what you do in the evening before something else. Dinner is the evening. — Art Buchwald

One central need in life is to fulfill its own potential. — Rollo May

God doesn't require us to succeed, he only requires that you try. — Mother Teresa

1. Define a misbehavior 2. Explain the cause of the misbehavior 3. Discuss the negative effects of the misbehavior — Joy Berry

Film's thought of as a director's medium because the director creates the end product that appears on the screen. It's that stupid auteur theory again, that the director is the author of the film. But what does the director shoot-the telephone book? Writers became much more important when sound came in, but they've had to put up a valiant fight to get the credit they deserve. — Billy Wilder

There is only one player who is doing things that I could never do - and that is Messi. — Francesco Totti

Screw the idea of inventing monsters. Here, we just had to look around. Pay attention. — Chuck Palahniuk

Jackson, my dear is like a rooster," Kelly Sue explained. "He is the type of man my mama used to say, thinks the sun comes up just to hear him crow. He may have seen the light at one point but now he thinks he controls the sunrise. — Erik Volk

No part of me believes this is actually happening, and I don't think it'll feel real until we're cruising down the interstate wondering what the ratio of fun to awkwardness will be this weekend. — Winter Renshaw