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Quotes About Riders

Safety is number one at Uber... so we make sure the system is in place so riders get the safest ride possible.
~ Travis Kalanick
The bus was going at a vertiginous speed. Night fell. Through the fogged-up windows the riders thrown against one another, as the bus shook along, saw fantastic landscapes unfold looking nothing like those of Parisian boulevards.…When Pearl White woke up, the bus had as if run aground on a deserted field. Thousands of empty cans were the only presence in these in-decipherable lands." [From, Homme sans tête]
~ Pierre Drieu la Rochelle
One medal. One shot. One lap. Eight riders. No lanes. No right of way. Just go.
~ Caroline Buchanan
You could go out on a Sunday spin in Carrick-on-Suir, and it's a small town, but you could have 80 riders. That wouldn't even be everyone, in the group. It's just such a good environment to bring guys through, the support and the experience.
~ Sam Bennett
Though little known in the U.S., the Dakar is a sports juggernaut in Europe, where France's state broadcasting company runs more than 25 hours of coverage, and the leading drivers and riders are accorded the same status we give to Super Bowl quarterbacks.
~ Jonathan Miles
Poetry is a puppet-show, where riders of skyrockets and divers of sea fathoms gossip about the sixth sense and the fourth dimension.
~ Carl Sandburg
One-fourth of humanity must be eliminated from the social body. We are in charge of God's selection process for planet Earth. He selects, we destroy. We are the riders of the pale horse, Death.
~ Barbara Marx Hubbard
The bank told us we ought to sell this house to pay off our overdraft. Riders saved the day. I was so pleased when it got to number one, I went all around the fields crying and crying.
~ Jilly Cooper
As many of the riders before me had been held up and robbed of their packages, mail and money that they carried, for that was the only means of getting mail and money between these points.
~ Calamity Jane
People should remember that in the 2000s, the gun lobby got a lot passed: they got riders added to appropriations bills. They got immunity for the gun industry. They successfully managed the expiration of the assault weapons ban.
~ Chris Murphy
Some riders believe in all the hype at the TT; have a successful week, give up work then go and buy motorhomes and cars. I like to get back to normal afterwards and go to work.
~ Guy Martin
Most riders, experienced riders, if they go down in a crash and don't get up straight away then they know something is wrong.
~ Chris Hoy
Yeah? What'd you name all those cats?" Death, Famine, Pestilence, War, and Mr. Whiskers." You named your cats after the riders of the apocal--wait. Mr. Whiskers?" Well, there are only four horsemen.
~ Richelle Mead
Identify you as messenger...to other Riders. The words were gasped as if he were forcing air in and out of his lungs by sheer will to extend his life. Fly...Rider, with great speed. Don't read m-message. Then they can't tor-torture...it from you. If captured, shred it and toss it to the winds. Then, because his voice had grown so faint, she had to lean very close to hear his final words. Beware the shadow man. A cold tremor ran through Karigan's body. I'll do my best, she told him.
~ Kristen Britain
We welcome and encourage motorcycle riders from all over the country to come visit and stay in West Virginia while riding on our scenic roads.
~ Jim Justice
The TT is a very precious thing to the riders. These guys that do the roads are very unique people. On the first hand you've got the bravery, the knowledge of the circuit, the guys live this - this is what they are about. I am very aware of that.
~ Keith Flint
In 2012, a hamburger cost Amtrak $16.15, with riders paying $9.50. This means that we, the taxpayers, are forced to pick up the tab for the remaining $6.65 through subsidies provided to Amtrak.
~ Phil Gingrey
HIs riders knew most of this, even if they did not see it with the dire clarity Corlath was forced to....
~ Robin McKinley
Cows are stupid. Almost as brainless as the humans who herd 'em on horseback.
~ Robert Newton Peck
A lot of the riders end up in Monaco, but I don't need to be there for the tax purposes because I'm from the Isle of Man.
~ Mark Cavendish
But many people doubt female riders because they say we're not strong enough.
~ Michelle Payne
The bronze rider of Mnementh, Lord F'lar, will require quarters for himself. I, F'nor, brown rider, prefer to be lodged with the wingmen. We are, in number, twelve." F'lar liked that touch of F'nor's, totting up the wing strength, as if Fax were incapable of counting.
~ Anne McCaffrey
All through my long life," I said, "I have seen such ruin. Magnificent cities are created by men and women with such dreams. Then there come the riders of the North or the East and they trample and destroy the magnificence; all that men and women have created is no more. Fear and misery follow this destruction. And nowhere is it more visible than in the ruins of your home-Kiev Rus.
~ Anne Rice
No mortal lights illuminated the scene: not even a few candles flickering dimly in the windows of the White Tower. There was only the ethereal moonlit glow surrounding the court of the Daoine Sidhe, who waited on fair steeds like so many ghostly riders on a procession out of Hell.
~ Elizabeth Bear