Alan Bennett Quotes

My main form of exercise is my bike. I don't have a car, so I cycle everywhere.

The one thing I did know - because I've seen many, many of the road trip movies that everyone thinks about - is that death to a road trip movie happens when you spend too much time in the car.

I do not own a car, and my main form of travel to Westminster and in my constituency is by bicycle. I also take my bike on trains to meetings in other parts of the country, which enables me to see other cities and the other parts of the country.

There's a certain amount of freedom involved in cycling: you're self-propelled and decide exactly where to go. If you see something that catches your eye to the left, you can veer off there, which isn't so easy in a car, and you can't cover as much ground walking.

Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night?

I really enjoy not getting in a car and running errands on bikes.

On a bike, being just slightly above pedestrian and car eye level, one gets a perfect view of the goings-on in one's own town.

A lot of fun stuff happens when you go out on a bike compared to when you're in a car. You're more in the environment. It's enjoyable. Even when It's raining It's still fun.

I'm not a car guy. The subway gets me where I need to go efficiently and cheaply, and I don't worry about traffic.

I've got lots of stamina; don't worry about that. I cycle every day - it's OK.

I remember driving to North Carolina when I was a little girl in a snowstorm to get down to my mom's family in the Carolinas. There were chains on the car - it was the late sixties - and we were just singing in the car. Christmas carols.

It isn't unusual to see children climb into a car every morning to be ferried to the front door of a school that's just a few blocks away.

I love sleeping in a moving car more than sleeping in bed.

I love cars, but I love bikes more.

I like to put on hardcore when I have to clean my apartment, which I hate to do, but it's motivational. I like old heavy metal when I'm outside working on my car. Music has definite functions for me.

What Paris has done right is to make it awful to get around by car and awfully easy to get around by public transportation or by bike.

A friend of mine - a cameraman at MTV - lost a lot of weight from cycling, and I thought I'd try it, too, thinking whenever you look at a cyclist they all look super-skinny, so hey, why not? But then it turned into such a psychologically satisfying thing.

I always like a good song: puts me in a good mood.

I was hit by a car once on my bike, but I still rode home.

If one's honest about it, spending time in a car with children is pretty ghastly.

When I'm happy and in a good mood, I just search for other things that maybe connect to me on another level. I talk to my friends and see how they're feeling - see what's going on in their lives.

I love my bike, a hybrid Matrix Express, which is fast, cheap, easy to park and good exercise.

I cycle every weekend. Sometimes I swim.

You can do pretty much anything you want in Dubai. In terms of getting around, everywhere's within half an hour in the car.

The bicycle might just be the greatest of all inventions. It empowers the human machine, and with no input beyond perhaps a trendy isotonic health drink in a brightly coloured bottle at an inflated price.