Top 116 Pedal Quotes & Sayings

The brutal reality about aging is that it has only an accelerator pedal. We have yet to discover whether a brake exists for people.

Courage is a gas pedal and fear is a brake; when we go to our destination, we need both!

As an entrepreneur, I try to push the limits. Pedal to the metal.

I've always dreamed that love would be effortlessLike a pedal falling to the ground; a dreamer following his dream.

You can't take your foot off the pedal; you've got to get pucks to the next level.

Every part of every song can have a totally different musical sound, because otherwise if I wanted to go from a verse of one song to the chorus of another, I'd have to go: "Uh, okay, press that pedal and then... press that pedal, and then press that pedal off."

Making a movie is like you're behind the wheel, and you're driving through the obstacle course, and the pedal is down, and you can't brake.

I'm personally not into a guy who wears pedal pushers and a necklace.

I was very lucky growing up, and I got all my dad's and aunts' toys from the 1950s and 1960s and loved those old pedal cars.

In periods when everything was going really well I may have taken my foot off the pedal and got comfortable where I was at, not carrying on to the next level.

If you ever take your foot off the gas pedal, things will spiral out of control, snowball downwards.

The pedal is the soul of the piano.

Can you drive any faster?" Tohr demanded. "I got the pedal to the medal" The angel looked back. "And I don't care what I have to mow over

In this league, you can't take your foot off the gas pedal. You think you have something won, but teams are too good, too talented.

I couldn't pedal a bike as a child, so I had a donkey instead. I loved the power and freedom it had.

Too many people think that reconciliation means you soft-pedal differences.

When I returned to the Touring Car championship, I got the team to create a special brake pedal that I could use with my prosthetic leg.

It's very good to know when you're being lapped on the racetrack, 'cause you've got to put your foot down on the pedal and get going.

I thought it was hilarious when 'Brace for Impact' was released, and people said I had abandoned country, even though the song is dripping with pedal steel. If anything, that tells me I'm making progress.

There's something about a Gucci loafer kicking on a fuzz pedal.

If I were emperor of the world, I would put the pedal to the floor on energy efficiency and conservation for the next decade.

I like mixing things up. That makes it more interesting. I love mixing in slower funk with what I do. I'll add drum and bass and put my foot to the gas pedal and press it to the floor.

Nobody can pedal the bike for you.

Possibly the tragedy of the bicycle is that it was invented too close in time to the car. In the historical scheme, pedal power hardly got under way before the combustion engine appeared and, not only took over the roads, but changed our view of machines. We've forgotten that pedal power is a potent form of energy.

I call it "pedal magic" and only those who ride know the utter ecstasy of bicycling. Pressing a pedal toward Earth gives flight to my fancy. Every rotation powers my traveling machine toward yet another date with destiny. The breeze clears my senses. The wind blows away my troubles. The sun shines upon my future. Spinning spokes create flashing metal upon an endless path-cycling feels like an infinite spiritual rush. It cleanses my mind. All my troubles fade into joy.

When I see a room full of people pedaling away on stationary bikes, I fall into an existential spiral. It's confirmation that all we do as humans is pedal, pedal, pedal, and go nowhere. We're just specks of dust in the universe, riding 1970s stationary bicycles.

You can never take your foot off the gas pedal. You have to play the right way at both ends.

It's about putting the pedal to the metal and not asking any questions at all and just going for it.

Education is a continual process, it's like a bicycle... If you don't pedal you don't go forward.

A piano is a machine, but you've got ivory and there's weight behind the keys and you have this really - you feel the resonance in the instrument, you feel the vibration in the pedal. I mean, these a still very crude.

Grandfather kicked the stop pedal, and my face gave a high-five to the front window.

I started out with acoustic guitar and loop pedal because I thought I wanted to be Ed Sheeran.

Life's too short. You may be on this planet for 80 years at best or who knows, but you can't just pedal around and do the same thing forever.

Hullie's a lot like a garbage can. You step on the pedal with your foot and the top opens up.

In my touring rig, there's a pedal drawer, where I'm able to switch pedals in and out, going into the front of the amp.

I always wanted to race but I never thought it would be possible. My dad put me in a cadet kart when I was seven years old and I wasn't strong enough to hit the brake pedal.

I love this pedal to death. The only way you could keep me from playing one is by chopping off my legs!

I hooked up my accelerator pedal in my car to my brake lights. I hit the gas, people behind me stop, and I'm gone.

I'll never forget the first time I rode a bike with pedal straps. I stopped at a traffic light and fell over like Arte Johnson in 'Laugh-In.'

Activism has to remain active. That's the trademark slogan and that's the mantra, because if your foot doesn't stay on the pedal, the car will stop.

Many people have asked me why there are three pedals in these grand pianos. Well the pedal in the middle is there to separate the two other pedals.

Milestone! This is a momentous occasion," he tells her cheerily. "It should be witnessed by a friend." She throws him an icy gaze, and he does a verbal back pedal. "Aaaand since no friends are present, I'll have to do.

I figure the faster I pedal, the faster I can retire.

I was not using the gears I usually do for time trials - it was either hard [gear] to pedal, or really low [gear] to pedal; [that] was something special of today.

I keep changing my stuff. I used to play through a Marshall JCM800, and then I also had a Randy Rhoads signature amp. So before I was playing EVH, I was playing an ODB pedal. I still have my Dunlop Jerry Cantrell wah pedal because I love that.

Speaking of stage freight. I was terrified! It was in NOLA at an all ages show. I was wearing Jeans, a Van Halen t-shirt, and a bandana on my neck. Once I gripped that microphone stand, I did not let go! I plugged my microphone into a guitar FX pedal. Then at the end of the a Black Sabbath song we were covering, I hit the guitar pedal. It was horrific!

If no God, mankind is a set of bi-pedal carbon units of mostly water. And nothing else

I'll have a chorus pedal or a flanger or an echo, that kind of thing. But as far as specific pedals, the one that's really been a mainstay is the TC Electronic MojoMojo.

I can safely say that any band with a sentence for a name, 6 members or more and carefully combed to the side hairdos are not metal no matter what distortion pedal they have for their guitars.

Poverty is a soft pedal upon the branches of human activity, not excepting the spiritual.

Our economy is on the move and we are creating thousands of new jobs, but we need to keep our foot on the gas pedal.

Early on in my career, I was really into the volume pedal techniques that somebody like Steve Howe or Alex Lifeson would use.

I have an ElliptiGO. It's a standup bicycle. You don't pedal; you stride on it. It allows me to have the same striding motion as running without the impact.

I can say that I don't see myself with the foot on the gas pedal as hard as it's been down for 16 years.

I think at times I have to be careful not to stick my foot in my mouth and not to have the pedal to the metal at all times, because that can hurt me as a quarterback.

My main pedal is the Ibanez Analog Delay, the AD9 or the AD80, whichever one it is. That's my go-to pedal for short delay. I don't think I could live without that pedal.

I do a very poor man's pedal steel on the Stratocaster.

The acclaim I'm getting for 'The Wrestler' means everything in the world to me. But it also means I can't take my foot off the gas pedal.

If the gas pedal on your car is shaped like a bare foot, you might be a redneck.

When Mr. Ludwig invented the bass-drum pedal, that's what made the drum set possible.