Bus Quotes - Page 15

• Throwing things horrified me. I suffered extreme, paralyzing anxiety when it came to anything remotely athletic. I wouldn't even run to catch the school bus because I knew I'd trip and then get teased for a year.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Running, School, Years

  Augusten Burroughs (2007). “Possible Side Effects”, p.261, Macmillan

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• I'll never forget you. Your husband will beat you with an extension cord and the bus will pull away leaving you standing there in tears, but you were my mother.

  Denis Johnson

  Mother, Husband, Leaving

  Denis Johnson (2009). “Jesus' Son: Stories”, p.39, Macmillan

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• Now give me a kiss, say you love me and off you go." "Sure, Aunt Lu," I said, and I gave her the kiss she wanted. Then I ran out and caught my bus. I didn't say I loved her. I guess I did. But asking someone to say they love you--and she always asked--is like buying yourself a birthday present. It's more than likely exactly what you want. But it must make you feel awfully sad to get it.

  Avi

  Love You, Kissing, Aunt

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• An empty bus hurtles through the starry night Perhaps the driver is singing and happy because he sings.

  Gunter Grass

  Night, Singing, Empty

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• Look at all the buses now that want exact change, exact change. I figure if I give them exact change, they should take me exactly where I want to go.

  George C. Wallace

  Change, Giving, Looks

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• I was sitting on the bus, and the sign said if you're ready to better your life, come to Medgar Evers College, and I got off the bus and went to Medgar Evers College.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  College, Sitting, Said

  "Move Over Oprah, It's Iyanla". abcnews.go.com. August 10.

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• Who is more in touch with the problems of this country? One of those guys who goes off to Oxford or to University of Yale, or someone who has lived in buses, in the Metro, in the street?

  Gloria Trevi

  Country, Yale, Oxford

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• People write about getting sick, they write about tummy trouble, they write about having to wait for a bus. They write about waiting. They write three pages about how long it took them to get a visa. I'm not interested in the boring parts. Everyone has tummy trouble. Everyone waits in line. I don't want to hear about it.

  Paul Theroux

  Writing, Long, People

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• Rebellion is what you make of it. When you've been on a tour bus for two months straight, and then you get in your car and drive wherever you want, that can feel rebellious.

  Taylor Swift

  Two, Car, Want

  "Taylor Swift’s Sexual Assault Testimony Was A Lesson In Communication" by Joel Schwartzberg, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 11, 2017.

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• My uncles, who are farmers in Minooka, Illinois - I grew up with them and their pickup trucks and mustaches, and to me that was masculinity: big hairy sweaty guys who could pick up a bus.

  Nick Offerman

  Uncles, Illinois, Guy

  "Our Valentine Gift to You". Interview with Kera Bolonik, nymag.com. February 7, 2010.

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• It might sound naive to suggest that whether you order a chicken patty or a veggie burger is a profoundly important decision. Then again, it certainly would have sounded fantastic if in the 1950's you were told that where you sat in a restaurant or on a bus could begin to uproot racism.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Order, Racism, Decision

  "Eating Animals". Book by Jonathan Safran Foer, 2009.

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• I'd love to have a program like 'Dr. Laura.' I studied psychology at the University of Miami, and when I rode the bus home from school, perfect strangers would strike up conversations with me and end up telling me their life stories. I think they could sense that I was studying to help people. That, or I have a face like a priest.

  Gloria Estefan

  School, Home, Thinking

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• Individually the poor are not too tempting to thieves, for obvious reasons. Mug a banker and you might score a wallet containing a month's rent. Mug a janitor and you will be lucky to get away with bus fare to flee the crime scene.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Bankers, Thieves, Lucky

  "Preying on the Poor". www.tomdispatch.com. May 17, 2012.

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• I think I'm a fun flatmate. I'm always cheerful. I go on tour with my band so it's 12 people on one bus and I feel like I'm the one who's happy in the morning. I'm not a chaotic person, but I might slack off on doing the dishes from time to time.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Morning, Fun, Thinking

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• The sad reality is that there are no purely domestic issues in Israel. Issues that would be dealt with by municipalities in other countries - such as how to deal with a dangerous bridge or how to resolve conflicts between religious and secular bus riders - become major international issues when they occur in Israel.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Country, Religious, Reality

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• Now I can broadcast to an audience of several million people on the 'Today' programme. I can talk about the day's news. But on radio, believe it or not, we have notes and scripts. And while we might ad lib the odd wryly amusing asides, they come at the frequency of a suburban bus. About one every 90 minutes.

  Evan Davis

  Believe, People, News

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• I remember once acting really cool on a bus with this girl named Stephanie. When I got home, I realized that I had a really big zit on my forehead. If you have acne problems, you really shouldn't be acting like Don Juan.

  John Cusack

  Girl, Home, Acting

  "Being John Cusack". Interview with Andrew Goldman, www.elle.com. November 23, 2009.

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• One of the fears of having too much work is not having time to observe. And once you get recognised, there is nowhere for you to look any more. You can't sit on a night bus and watch it all happen.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Night, Watches, Looks

  "Benedict Cumberbatch on playing Sherlock Holmes". Interview with Amanda Mitchison, www.theguardian.com. July 16, 2010.

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• Air travel is the safest form of travel aside from walking; even then, the chances of being hit by a public bus at 30,000 feet are remarkably slim. I also have no problem with confined spaces. Or heights. What I am afraid of is speed.

  Sloane Crosley

  Air, Feet, Space

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• Getting older is fine. There is nothing you can do to stop it so you might as well stay on the bus.

  John Byrne

  Getting Older, Might, Fine

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• On buses and trains, I always think about the inexhaustible variety of human genes. We see types, and occasionally twins, but never doubles. All faces are unique, and this is exhilarating, despite the increasingly plastic similarity of TV stars and actors.

  A. S. Byatt

  Stars, Unique, Thinking

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• History shows that all protest movements rely on symbols - boycotts, strikes, sit-ins, flags, songs. Symbolic action on whatever scale - from the Montgomery Bus Boycott to wearing a simple wristband - is designed to disrupt our everyday complacency and force people to think.

  Hugh Evans

  Song, Simple, Thinking

  "Highlighting the Plight of the Poor" by Hugh Evans, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 20, 2011.

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• I tell the players that the bus is moving. This club has to progress. And the bus wouldn't wait for them. I tell them to get on board.

  Alex Ferguson

  Soccer, Moving, Player

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• For a split second, Harry thought how absurd it was for Tonks to expect the dummy to hear her talking that quietly through a sheet of glass, when there were buses rumbling along behind her and all the racket of street full of shoppers. Then he reminded himself that dummies could not hear anyway.

  J. K. Rowling

  Glasses, Talking, Splits

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• Do you remember? When the fights seemed to go on and on, and always ended with us in bed, tearing at each other like maybe that could change everything. In a couple of months you'd be seeing somebody else and I would too; she was no darker than you but she washed her panties in the shower and had hair like a sea of little punos and the first time you saw us, you turned around and boarded a bus I knew you didn't have to take. When my girl said, Who was that? I said, Just some girl.

  Junot Diaz

  Girl, Couple, Fighting

  Junot Diaz (2012). “This Is How You Lose Her”, p.53, Faber & Faber

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