Bicycle Quote by Richard Ballantine Download Open image “A human and a bicycle are the perfect synthesis of body and machine.” — Richard Ballantine ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Bicycle Body Computers Humans Machines Perfect Synthesis
Just as the ideal of classic Greek culture was the most perfect harmony of mind and body, so a human and a bicycle are… — Richard Ballantine Copy Share Image
The bicycle is the perfect transducer to match man's metabolic energy to the impedance of locomotion. Equipped with this tool, man outstrips the efficiency… — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
“When man invented the bicycle he reached the peak of his attainments. Here was a machine of precision and balance for the convenience of… — Elizabeth West 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 bicycle might just be the greatest of all inventions. It empowers the human machine, and with no input beyond perhaps a trendy isotonic… — James May Copy Share Image
A human being is not a machine. Especially when it comes to creating. — Azzedine Alaia Copy Share Image
Bicycles are pieces of art. You get that combination of kinetic engineering, but then, besides the welds, the paint jobs, the kind of the… — Robin Williams Copy Share Image
Functionally, a man is somewhat like a bicycle. A bicycle maintains its poise and equilibrium only so long as it's moving forward towards something. — Maxwell Maltz Copy Share Image
The bicycle is the most efficient machine ever created. Converting calories into gas, a bicycle gets the equivalent of three thousand miles per gallon. — Bill Strickland Copy Share Image
To me the bicycle is in many ways a more satisfactory invention than the automobile. It is consonant with the independence of man because… — Louis J. Halle Copy Share Image
Possibly the tragedy of the bicycle is that it was invented too close in time to the car. In the historical scheme, pedal power… — Richard Ballantine Copy Share Image
Just as the ideal of classic Greek culture was the most perfect harmony of mind and body, so a human and a bicycle are… — Richard Ballantine Copy Share Image
The bicycle is its own best argument. You just get a bike, try it; start going with the thing and using it as it… — Richard Ballantine 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
