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Thoughts on Motorcycles

Published: Sep 27, 2018 04:05:04 PM IST

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You do not need a therapist if you own a motorcycle, any kind of motorcycle!
—Dan Aykroyd

On a motorcycle, you can’t really think about more than where you are. There’s a freedom that comes with that —from stress, worry, sweating the small stuff.
—Laurence Fishburne

Note to self: Never ride a motorcycle in stilettos and a miniskirt.
—Maggie Grace

The perfect man? A poet on a motorcycle.
—Lucinda Williams

When I’m riding my motorcycle, I’m glad to be alive. When I stop riding my motorcycle, I’m glad to be alive.
—Neil Peart

There is something about the sight of a passing motorcyclist that tempts many automobile drivers to commit murder.
—Hunter S Thompson

Motorcycle adventures are the perfect antidote to middle age.
—Alex Morritt

I asked God for a bike, but I know God doesn’t work that way. So I stole a bike and asked for forgiveness.
—Emo Philips

A motorcycle is an independent thing.
—Ryan Hurst

That’s all the motorcycle is, a system of concepts worked out in steel.
—Robert M Pirsig

If I could marry my motorcycle, I’d roll her right up to the altar. 
—Flip Wilson

You live more for five minutes going fast on a bike than other people do in all of their life.
—Marco Simoncelli

(This story appears in the 28 September, 2018 issue of Forbes India. To visit our Archives, click here.)

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