Sheene Quotes & Sayings

I'd get to within a yard of that door you walk through and the thing would go mad. I used to carry an X-ray in my briefcase, to show them. But I had all the metal taken out. — Barry Sheene

Spring, spring! Bytuene Mershe ant Averil, when spray biginneth to spring! When shaws be sheene and swards full fayre, and leaves both large and longe! When the hounds of spring are on winter's traces, in the spring time, the only pretty ring time, when the birds do sing, hey-ding-a-ding ding, cuckoo, jug-jug, pu-wee, ta-witta-woo! And so on and so on and so on. See almost any poet between the Bronze Age and 1805. — George Orwell

In fact, you could say that I became a poet by renouncing poetry. — Aime Cesaire

I thought: This is not racing, it's a suicide mission. — Barry Sheene

I race in two or three classic races a year and I may carry on for 10 more years or I may stop tomorrow. — Barry Sheene

My advice to young film-makers is this: don't follow trends, start them! — Frank Capra

Everywhere, words are mixing. Words and lyrics and dialogue are mixing in a soup that could trigger a chain reaction. Maybe acts of God are just
the right combination of media junk thrown out into the air. The wrong words collide and call up an earthquake. The way rain dances called storms,
the right combination of words might call down tornadoes. Too many advertising jingles commingling could be behind global warming. Too many
television reruns bouncing around might cause hurricanes. Cancer. AIDS. — Chuck Palahniuk

The advantage of the rain is that, if you have a quick bike, there's no advantage. — Barry Sheene

They were ridiculous times. After I won my world championship in 1976, I went to Japan. — Barry Sheene

You must remember, Madame Harris, elegance is in the details. — Lynn Sheene

Nobody within motorcycling has or deserves any respect. — Barry Sheene

I think we can all agree that every child's home deserves to be protected equally under the law, that there is dignity in every child's home. — Martin O'Malley

It's not as if there's a noise problem, because they use the same circuits as Formula One. — Barry Sheene

Death was hardest on the living. - Cody Forester, Wolfsbane Brew — Roxanne Smolen

I decided there and then to sue the bastards. — Barry Sheene

It wasn't about the money. I just wanted them to admit it was their fault. — Barry Sheene

I think everyone's had their pound of flesh and now it's time to move on. — Tony Blair

I vowed I would do everything I could to stop the Isle of Man counting towards the world championship. And it was stopped, so they love me in the Isle of Man. — Barry Sheene

Endless motorbike talk can and does bore me. — Barry Sheene

I was actually away in Africa doing 'Generation Kill' while everyone was auditioning for Twilight. They all had, like, five different auditions: I was so lucky that I came back from Africa just in time and the actor who was playing Emmett fell through, lucky for me! — Kellan Lutz

The desire for more positive experience is itself a negative experience. And, paradoxically, the acceptance of one's negative experience is itself a positive experience. This — Mark Manson

There aren't many berry bushes where I'm from."
"And just where would that be?"
His hand paused on a berry like it was a monumental decision whether to pluck it or not. He finally pulled and explained he was from a small town in the southernmost part of Morringhan. When I asked the name, he said it was very small and had no name ...
"A town with no name? Really? How very odd." I waited for him to scramble, and he didn't disappoint me.
"It's only a region. A few scattered dwellings at most. We're farmers there. Mostly farmers. And you? Where are you from?" ...
I took the berry still poised in his fingers and popped it in my mouth. Where was I from? I narrowed my eyes and smiled. "A small town in the northernmost part of Morrighan. Mostly farmers. Only a regions, really. A few scattered dwellings. At most. No name."
He couldn't restrain a chuckle. "Then we come from opposite but similar worlds, don't we? — Mary E. Pearson

I put the number 7 on my t-shirt because this is the number of my championships but also because it was the number of Barry Sheene, who was a great hero of mine and a truly great racer, — Valentino Garavani

And that is how we are. By strength of will we cut off our inner intuitive knowledge from admitted consciousness. This causes a state of dread, or apprehension, which makes the blow ten times worse when it does fall. — D.H. Lawrence