George Stroumboulopoulos Quotes

A motorcycle is an independent thing.

I was riding dirt bikes when I was a little kid. I got my first Harley Davidson when I was 17 years old. It was a frame with wheels and a tank on it and all the parts in a box.

I've got a sister who races motorcycles and another sister who's a Holy Roller preacher.

My secret passion is motorbikes. I want a Kawasaki Ninja.

I know a little bit about motorcycles and motorcycle riding.

A cactus doesn't live in the desert because it likes the desert; it lives there because the desert hasn't killed it yet.

I would love to drive a MotoGP but I'm not sure Ferrari agrees.

I have a Harley and a Bourget, which I enjoy taking into the countryside.

You can't stay in the desert, you go nuts after 24 hours.

We kept on racing, doing something that Luis [Salom] loved. Fortunately or unfortunately, life goes on.

Why do I live in the desert? Because the desert is the *locus Dei*.

This is one of the charms of the desert, that removing as it does nearly all the accessories of life, we see the thin thread of necessities on which our human existence is suspended.

The extreme clarity of the desert light is equaled by the extreme individuation of desert life forms. Love flowers best in openness and freedom.

Professional motorcycle riders that are pretty young because it's a young man's sport. You're like out of your prime if you're in your mid to late 20s. Which is awful but a lot of guys still do ride into their late 20s. I rode. I just didn't do any of the jumps or races.

I have always watched the Race of Champions on TV every year and dreamed about participating one day. It's fantastic to be invited; I'm so happy.

Oh that the desert were my dwelling-place, With one fair spirit for my minister

Much love much trial, but what an utter desert is life without love.

Give unto us this day the daily manna Without which, in this desert where we dwell, He must go backward who would most advance.

The desert was held in a crazed communism by which Nature and the elements were for the free use of every known friendly person for his own purposes and no more.

I feel 100% a Yamaha rider in my heart. I had a long career and raced with several factory bikes, but the highlight of my career is undoubtedly with Yamaha.

It was the same with Schumacher: the need for the adrenaline rush, to push himself to the limit was always there. So without a Formula One car to race with he went on to do motorcycle racing and other stupid things, and obviously that wasn't enough to keep him happy, so he had a problem to sort out and returning to racing was his answer to the problem.

I grew up in a desert, which has no kind of imagination.

I have at last, after several months' experience, made up my mind that [New York] is a splendid desert--a domed and steepled solitude, where the stranger is lonely in the midst of a million of his race.

In the desert you celebrate nothing but water.

I'm a skydiver, I race motorcycles and I enjoy the thrill of life and for me in this walk of faith there really is no greater thrill than the indwelling of the Holy Spirit in your life.