”Nothing compares to the simple pleasure of a bike ride.”
– John F. Kennedy”The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets.”
– Christopher Morley”Melancholy is incompatible with bicycling.”
– James E. Starrs”Life is like riding a bicycle: in order to keep your balance, you must keep moving”.
– Albert Einstein”Why should anyone steal a watch when he could steal a bicycle?
– Flann O’Brien
”Natten gick hän, och det grydde till dag, och de seglade ständigt.”
– Ur Odyssén (i Erland Lagerlöfs översättning).
”The open road, the dusty highway, the heath, the common, the hedgerows, the rolling downs! Camps, villages, towns, cities! Here today, up and off to somewhere else tomorrow! Travel, change, interest, excitement! The whole world before you, and a horizon that’s always changing!”
– Herr Padda planerar en utflykt (Kenneth Grahame, Det susar i säven, 1908).
”Believe me, my young friend, there is nothing — absolutely nothing — half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.”
– Råttan berättar för Mullvaden om innebörden av meningsfull sysselsättning (Kenneth Grahame, Det susar i säven, 1908).
”Det är så sällan jag läser… Jag bortser då från serietidningar som åker ner i trunken lika självklart som tennisutrustningen och bandspelaren när jag packar för en ny turné. Jag kan inte ge någon förklaring till mitt obetydliga läsintresse…”
– Björn Borg talar ut om sin litteraturkonsumtion (1973).
”Shut up and play!”
– Miles Davis
”When people believe in boundaries, they become part of them.”
– Don Cherry
”Creative arts raise a person to another level of consciousness as if you could imagine life before words.”
– Charlie Haden
”Sometimes when you start losing detail, whether it’s in music or in life, something as small as failing to be polite, you start to lose substance.”
– Benny Goodman
“Jazz is music made by and for people who have chosen to feel good in spite of conditions.”
– Johnny Griffin
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