Bus Quotes - Page 12

• I think whenever we think of our hometowns, we tend to think of very specific people: with whom you rode on the school bus, who was your next door neighbor you were playing with, who your girlfriend was. It's always something very specific.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Girlfriend, School, Thinking

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• We tilt our heads back and open wide. The snow drifts into our zombie mouths crawling with grease and curses and tobacco flakes and cavities and boyfriend/girlfriend juice, the stain of lies. For one moment we are not failed tests and broken condoms and cheating on essays; we are crayons and lunch boxes and swinging so high our sneakers punch holes in the clouds. For one breath everything feels better. Then it melts. The bus drivers rev their engines and the ice cloud shatters. Everyone shuffles forward. They don't know what just happened. They can't remember.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Cheating, Girlfriend, Lying

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• Animals aren't any better equipped to survive an emergency than humans are. Few people missed the fact that after Hurricane Katrina, people died because buses and emergency shelters wouldn't allow their animals.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Animal, People, Shelter

  "Pets Should Be Evacuated, Too" by Ingrid Newkirk, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 20, 2011.

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• Writing books is fun because after I do a show for a couple hours, I'm in a bus for 22 hours. It's not hard for me to look out the window and tell a joke here and there.

  Willie Nelson

  Couple, Fun, Book

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• Imagine a city where graffiti wasn't illegal, a city where everybody could draw whatever they liked. Where every street was awash with a million colours and little phrases. Where standing at a bus stop was never boring. A city that felt like a party where everyone was invited, not just the estate agents and barons of big business. Imagine a city like that and stop leaning against the wall - it's wet.

  Banksy

  Wall, Party, Bus Stops

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• Conner Lassiter. Scheduled to be unwound the 21st of November-until you went AWOL. You caused an accident that killed a bus driver, left dozens of others injured, and shut down an interstate highway for hours. Then, on top of it, you took a hostage AND shot a Juvey-cop with his own tranq gun." ..."He's the Akron AWOL?!

  Neal Shusterman

  Gun, Dozen, November

  Neal Shusterman (2012). “Unwind Unboxed: Unwind; UnStrung: an Unwind story; UnWholly”, p.385, Simon and Schuster

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• We're so special, when you look in the dictionary under short bus, there's a group picture of us,'' Stevie Rae said, sounding weak but definately alive.

  P. C. Cast

  Special, Groups, Looks

  P. C. Cast, Kristin Cast (2010). “Untamed: A House of Night Novel”, p.337, Macmillan

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• I looked at Thalia. "You're afraid of heights." Now that we were safely down the mountain, her eyes had their usual angry look. "Don't be stupid." That explains why you freaked out on Apollo's bus. Why you didn't want to talk about it." She took a deep breath. Then she brushed the pine needles out of her hair. "If you tell anyone, I swear—" No, no," I said. "That's cool. It's just… the daughter of Zeus, the Lord of the Sky, afraid of heights?

  Rick Riordan

  Daughter, Stupid, Eye

  Rick Riordan (2007). “The Titan's curse”

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• I wasn't aiming at the school bus, but of course I got expelled anyway.

  Rick Riordan

  School, Mythology, Field Trip

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• How do you feel? (Maggie) Like I got hit by a bus that decided to back up a few times and make sure it finished the job. I think it must have ground its tires on my ribs during the last run. You know, just in case I might actually want to breathe again in my lifetime. (Wren)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Running, Jobs, Thinking

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• I'm physically completely mal-coordinated. My best friend used to make me run for the bus just to give herself a quick, cheap laugh because I definitely don't have that sophisticated cool thing down.

  Emily Mortimer

  Friendship, Running, Giving

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• I look at autism like a bus accident, and you don't become cured from a bus accident, but you can recover.

  Jenny McCarthy

  Autism, Looks, Jenny

  "The Autism Debate: Who's Afraid of Jenny McCarthy?". Interview with Karl Taro Greenfeld, content.time.com. February 25, 2010.

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• In the 1970s, 'The Boys on the Bus' exposed how a clubby pack of male political reporters ruled the road to the White House and shaped the news. Four decades later, an outsider gal from Alaska has commandeered the 2012 media bus - and left Beltway journalism insiders eating her dust.

  Michelle Malkin

  Boys, Alaska, Media

  "Chasing Sarah: The boys behind the bus" by Michelle Malkin, www.washingtonexaminer.com. May 31, 2011.

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• I want to disabuse people of the idea that knowledge is power. Knowing how to get to Detroit is not the same thing as having the bus fare.

  Andrew Vachss

  Ideas, Knowing, People

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• Everything was becoming allegorical, understood by the group mind, and especially this: "You're either on the bus...or off the bus.

  Tom Wolfe

  Mind, Groups, Becoming

  Tom Wolfe (2008). “The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test”, p.97, Macmillan

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• I put my hand on him. Touching him has always been important to me, it was something I lived for. I never could explain why. Little, nothing touches, my fingers against his shoulder, the outsides of our thighs touching as we squeeled together on the bus. I couldnt explain it, but I needed it. Sometimes I imagined stiching all of our little touches together. How many hundreds of thousands of fingers brushing against each other does it take to make love?

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Hands, Making Love, Touching

  "Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close". Book by Jonathan Safran Foer, April 1, 2005.

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• You're either on the bus or off the bus.

  Tom Wolfe

  Hippie, Across The Universe, Pranksters

  Tom Wolfe (2008). “The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test”, p.97, Macmillan

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• Money may not buy happiness, but I'd rather cry in a Jaguar than on a bus.

  Francoise Sagan

  Funny, Money, Humor

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• You know what it's like. Sometimes, you meet a wonderful person, but it's only for a brief instant. Maybe on vacation or on a train or maybe even in a bus line. And they touch your life for a moment, but in a special way. And instead of mourning because they can't be with you for longer, or because you don't get the chance to know them better, isn't it better to be glad that you met them at all?

  Marian Keyes

  Vacation, Mourning, Special

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• People only know what you tell them.And it was true.People gave out their whole life stories to anyone and everyone without a second's thought.Stand at a bus stop,sit in a strange pub,get banged up,and someone would always give you their life story.It was as if they were trying to prove they existed

  Martina Cole

  Bus Stops, People, Giving

  Martina Cole (2008). “Close”, p.36, Hachette UK

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• If a double-decker bus
  Crashes into us
  To die by your side...
  The pleasure - the privilege is mine.

  Steven Morrissey

  Your Side, Sides, Crash

  "Song: 'There Is a Light That Never Goes Out'". 1986.

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• I closed my eyes and rested my head against his chest, wishing sincerely that Rhiannon would get hit by a bus.

  P. C. Cast

  Eye, Wish, Sincerely

  P.C. Cast (2006). “Divine By Mistake”, p.538, LUNA

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• I fall in love with Britain every day, with bridges, buses, blue skies... but it’s a brutal world, man.

  Pete Doherty

  Falling In Love, Men, Blue

  Metro, August 25, 2006.

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• I'm one of those people, in any country I'm in, if somebody could just put me in a car or a bus, I'll look out the window and say, 'OK, there's the Tower of London, there's Buckingham Palace, there's Big Ben,' and if it all takes about five minutes, perfect. I've seen all of it and I can go home.

  Gilbert Gottfried

  Country, Home, People

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• It's so important to take vitamins. People always get ill on tour because of the close proximity in the bus with everyone.

  Ellie Goulding

  People, Important, Vitamins

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". german.imdb.com.

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