Quotes about handlebar (5 quotes) | Quotes of famous people

“Drunk on the wind in my mouth,
Wringing the handlebar for speed,
Wild to be wreckage forever.”

James Dickey (1923–1997) American writer

Cherrylog Road (l. 106–108).
The Whole Motion; Collected Poems, 1945-1992 (1992)

Speed

“I never learned to throw a baseball with confidence, but I knew how to aim a newspaper well enough. I could make my mark from the sidewalk—one hand on the handlebar—with deadeye nonchalance. The paper flew over my shoulder; it twirled over hedges and open sprinklers to land with a fine plop only inches from the door. In the growling gray light (San Francisco still has foghorns), I collect the San Francisco Chronicle from the wet steps. I am so lonely I must subscribe to three papers”

Richard Rodríguez (1944) American journalist and essayist

Darling: A Spiritual Autobiography (2013)

Confidence , Light , Learning

“So, I thought, it's not working. So I threw my breasts out of the window of my Lamborghini, in my mind … no, I threw the breasts out of the window of my Ford Fiesta, in my mind. Actually, I threw them out over the handlebars of my bicycle [mouthing the words] in my mind. And they hit a small child, who ran, "Mum, mum, mum … I've been attacked by … jellyfish!"”

Eddie Izzard (1962) British stand-up comedian, actor and writer

Sexie (2003)

“Stealing a bicycle chain as the handlebars crashed to the ground,
And the back wheel detached from the frame, it kept rolling, yeah,
But aimlessly drifting around.”

Aaron Weiss

Four-Word Letter, Pt 2.
Catch For Us The Foxes (2004)

“To complain that a European Union official is a federalist, is like complaining that a bicycle has handlebars. That's what they are, that's what they do.”

Peter Hitchens (1951) author, journalist

1998-01-98
Peter Hitchens on David Cameron and the EU
YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjmNWwA6V5I
On David Cameron's opposition to Jean-Claude Juncker's appointment