Sheene Co 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

If you'll quit moaning and crying, I'll use the things to make you into someone I can use in the lives of others to show them that no matter where they've been, no matter how deep the hole, no matter how painful the trial, there's hope. There is victory. — Kay Arthur

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

If someone would have the goodness to inform me whether I am assisting at a tragedy or a farce I should be grateful, — Georgette Heyer

The candidates at the Republican debate looked like a town council that was outlawing dancing. They looked like a board of directors that was lying about poisoning a river. — David Letterman

The samskaras that were developed in previous incarnations are usually hidden by the temporary amnesia of infancy and by the transient personality. — Frederick Lenz

In the face of impermanence and death, it takes courage to love the things of this world and to believe that praising them is our noblest calling. — Joanna Macy

Let's have a little honesty," I said instead. "You want me every day. You want me every hour, just as I want you. You fantasize about my control, my commands, my gaze on your naked skin. You want me to hurt you. You want my cock inside you, fucking you until everything else falls away." With every word, her gaze flickered a little. The front of prim professionalism would never hide the need inside her. "Just admit it," I said quietly. "To me and to yourself. — Annabel Joseph

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

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

Magic doesn't suit everyone. Only those prepared to take full responsibility for themselves should apply. — Peter J. Carroll

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

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

By following the concept of one country, two systems, you dont swallow me up nor I you. — Deng Xiaoping

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

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

Sacred interpreter of human thought,
How few respect or use thee as they ought!
But all shall give account of every wrong,
Who dare dishonor or defile the tongue;
Who prostitute it in the cause of vice,
Or sell their glory at a market-price! — William Cowper

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

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

I am annoyed to find myself continually described by people whom I have never set eyes on as bad-tempered. — Evelyn Waugh

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

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

If a person feels he can't communicate, the least he can do is shut up about it. — Tom Lehrer

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