Bicycle Quote by Iris Murdoch Download Open image “The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man.” — Iris Murdoch ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Bicycle Bike Biking Civilized Cycles Cycling Cyclists Known Known To Man Men Riding a bicycle Touring
The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man. Other forms of transport grow daily more nightmarish. Only the bicycle remains pure in… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
The bicycle had, and still has, a humane, almost classical moderation in the kind of pleasure it offers. It is the kind of machine… — J. B. Jackson Copy Share Image
The bicycle... has been responsible for more movement in manners and morals than anything since Charles the Second. Under its influence, wholly or in… — John Galsworthy Copy Share Image
Bike is the most democratic transport vehicle. Bike is the most daring, challenging as it gives its owner the tempting feeling of freedom, that… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
Riding a bicycle is the summit of human endeavour - an almost neutral environmental effect coupled with the ability to travel substantial distances without… — Jeremy Corbyn Copy Share Image
The very existence of the bicycle is an offense to reason and wisdom. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
A bicycle is the long-sought means of transportation for all of us who have runaway hearts. — Lance Armstrong Copy Share Image
The bicycle is a vehicle of revolution. It can destroy the tyranny of the automobile as effectively as the printing press brought down despots… — Daniel Behrman Copy Share Image
Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is. — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
One doesn't have to get anywhere in a marriage. It's not a public conveyance. — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
“I think being a woman is like being Irish... Everyone says you're important and nice, but you take second place all the time.” — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods. — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
emotions really exist at the bottom of the personality or at the top. in the middle they are acted. this is why all the… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
I have used the word "attention," which I borrow from Simone Weil, to express the idea of a just and loving gaze directed upon… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
Starting a novel is opening a door on a misty landscape; you can still see very little but you can smell the earth and… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
Art and morality are, with certain provisos…one. Their essence is the same. The essence of both of them is love. Love is the perception… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
being homosexual doesn't determine a man's whole character any more than being heterosexual does. — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
All artists dream of a silence which they must enter, as some creatures return to the sea to spawn. — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
“Oh if only I could take my mother away and never know of these things again. But it was impossible, the machine would go… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
I stand and rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel...the picture of free, untrammeled womanhood. — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
Can you understand why the Congress, most states and most cities refuse to pass legislation requiring the registration and licensing of any and all… — Malcolm Forbes Copy Share Image
My father had Parkinson's, though he actually died following a bicycle accident. — KT Tunstall Copy Share Image
At that age, it's one of the worse things in the world to wake up and not see your bike where you left it. — Curtis Jackson Copy Share Image
I think if I got a bicycle from my father, I should give a car to my son. — Lech Walesa Copy Share Image
It has been explained to me that toys are packaged in shards, to be assembled by the middle-aged and butter-fingered, because this makes it… — Jean Kerr Copy Share Image
I simply want to celebrate the fact that right near your home, year in and year out, a community college is quietly - and… — Kay Ryan Copy Share Image
Let me tell you what I think of bicycling. I think it has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world.… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
If we’re going to talk about transport, I would say that the great city is not the one that has highways, but one where… — Enrique Penalosa Copy Share Image
Like a fish needs a bicycle. A goldfish riding a bicycle underwater. I need a man like a fish needs a bicycle. — Irina Dunn Copy Share Image
I love a bicycle, and I haven't been without at least one since I was three years old. — James May Copy Share Image
