Bike Messengers Quotes & Sayings

I think there's a lot projected on beautiful women, period. At least, maybe this is just my fear, but I do sometimes feel dismissed before I've even been allowed to participate. I have moments of feeling really wounded. But I am pretty optimistic, and I do enjoy a lot of my life. — Shalom Harlow

It was bad enough to be swallowed up by the intrinsic anger of New York City traffic and its seemingly mad competition between cars, cabs, the ubiquitous delivery trucks, the kamikaze bike messengers and the always-in-a-damn hurry pedestrians. — Nora Roberts

If life is to be sustained, hope must remain ... — Erik Erikson

We often regret we did not do otherwise, when that very otherwise would, in all probability, have done for us. — Charles Caleb Colton

It is very easy to speak words of wisdom from a comfortable distance, when one sees no reality, no details, none of the effect on men's minds. — Lord Acton

When I was in New York, I took my bike everywhere for transportation. I didn't have a fixed-gear bicycle, like a lot of the messengers do, but I had a stripped-down deal - having lost a few good ones in New York - and I did 10 to 15 miles a day just getting around the city. — Thomas Gibson

The man who carried out the attack is still in power and still insane, so we shall expect another attack any minute. — Muammar Al-Gaddafi

Celibacy bestows on a man the qualified freedom of a besieged city where one sometimes has to eat rats. — Sean O Faolain

Earlier this month the State Department gave the umpteenth performance of its popular play, Please Tread on Me, with Ceylon as guest star, and the usual cast. — William F. Buckley Jr.

In the past, when I saw bike messengers, I would just see them as individuals. Then, I realized that they're all tied together. — Dania Ramirez

Music is the human treatment of sounds. — Jean Michel Jarre

I asked my publisher what would happen if he sold all the copies of my book he'd printed. He said I'll just print another ten. — Eric Sykes

Everyone has come to understand that unconditional love is a reality, but with as shelf life of about eight to ten seconds. [p. 110] — Anne Lamott

We do not know how life began. — Tracy Irwin Storer

We can learn to act and think in ways that sow seeds of our future well-being, gradually becoming more aware of what causes happiness as well as what causes distress. — Pema Chodron

Humanity is actually much more cooperative and empathic than [it's] given credit for. — Frans De Waal

I love nature, in spite of what it did to me. — Bette Midler