Bus Quotes - Page 23

• I sometimes think it ironic for an ex-seaman, longshoreman, truck driver, policeman, bus driver, etc... to find success writing children's novels.

  Brian Jacques

  Children, Writing, Thinking

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• When I was in school, I used to look out the window and see the big red double-deck buses driving by. It just looked so free.

  Brian Johnson

  School, Looks, Red

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'd really like to get on a Greyhound bus and go backpacking across America.

  David Morrissey

  America, Backpacking, Greyhounds

  "Is this it?". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. April 24, 2009.

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• I mangle phrases constantly. The other day I was chatting with my boyfriend and I said to him, 'He really sold him under the bus.' And he said, 'I think you meant 'threw him under the bus,' or 'sold him up the river.

  Cristin Milioti

  Thinking, Rivers, My Boyfriend

  "Once Star Cristin Milioti Gets Into the Sister Act in Sleepwalk With Me". Interview with Iris Wiener, www.theatermania.com. August 24, 2012.

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• My second album was written while I was on the road promoting the first record. I tried to take my personal experiences and elevate them to universal experiences, so that I wasn't writing songs about living on a tour bus or being on a TV set for the first time.

  Kate Voegele

  Song, Writing, Albums

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• Getting on the bus and touring was my life. And when that was not around, I felt myself a bit lost at times, because that was all I had.

  Keith Urban

  Lost, Touring, Felt

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• Read as much as you write. Go out and meet other writers. Look for stories in everything around you - music, movies, family, strangers, your bus ride to work, and of course the streets. Also - keep moving forward, keep creating new things. Leave evidence of yourself in this world. Imagine what your legacy could be and try to create it.

  Kevin Sampsell

  Moving, Writing, Creating

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Being an actress wasn't a plan at all, so what's happened to me is very strange. Life isn't very normal, even though I'm still very much a normal girl. I ride the subway, I ride the bus, and all of that.

  Gabourey Sidibe

  Girl, Subway, Actresses

  "Gabourey Sidibe Interview THE BIG C". Interview, collider.com. August 17, 2010.

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• I took the first James Kelman novel, 'The Bus Conductor Hines', home to my dad. I thought, 'My dad will like this; it's written in Scots.' But my dad said: 'I can't read that.' He was reading James Bond and John le Carre. That was part of what attracted me to crime - the idea of getting a wide audience.

  Ian Rankin

  Dad, Reading, Home

  "Gothic Scot". Interview with Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. March 17, 2001.

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• We were never organized readers who would see a book through to its end in any sory of logical order. We weave in and out of words like tourists on a hop-on, hop-off bus tour. Put a book down in the kitchen to go to the bathroom and you might return to find it gone, replaced by another of equal interest. We are indiscriminate.

  Eleanor Brown

  Sister, Book, Order

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• They used to laugh at me when I refused to ride on all those double decker buses, all because there was no driver on the top.

  Joni Mitchell

  Laughing, Dense, Used

  Song: Twisted

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• One of my jobs as an actor, regardless of who I play - even if I'm playing a despicable character - is to make people think that that character could exist, that he's real, and the way to do that is to make him believable. He doesn't have to be likable or charming, but he just has to be believable. That is someone who I could see on a bus. That is someone who I could walk past in the street.

  Dominic Monaghan

  Jobs, Real, Character

  Source: dailydead.com

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• I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real sentences. But our innocence goes awfully deep, and our discreditable secret is that we don't know anything at all, and our horrid inner secret is that we don't care that we don't.

  Dylan Thomas

  Real, Dirty, Optimistic

  Dylan Thomas, Paul Ferris (1985). “The collected letters”, Scribner

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• Meditation is not contemplation because it is not thinking at all - consistent, inconsistent, crazy, sane. It is not thinking at all; it is witnessing. It is just sitting silently deep within yourself, looking at whatsoever is happening inside and outside both. Outside there is traffic noise, inside there is also traffic noise - the traffic in the head. So many thoughts - trucks and buses of thoughts and trains and airplanes of thoughts, rushing in every direction. But you are simply sitting aloof, unconcerned, watching everything with no evaluation.

  Rajneesh

  Crazy, Airplane, Thinking

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• We have far too many kids. At one time in the playpen there was standing-room only. It looked like a bus stop for midgets. It used to get so damp in there, we'd have a rainbow above it.

  Phyllis Diller

  Funny, Baby, Children

  Phyllis Diller (2006). “Like a Lampshade in a Whorehouse: My Life in Comedy”, p.68, Penguin

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• The silence of snow, thought the man sitting just behind the bus driver.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Men, Snow, Silence

  Orhan Pamuk (2006). “Snow”, p.3, Vintage

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• Do I as a Christian understand myself? Do I know my own real identity? My own real destiny? I am a child of God, God is my Father; heaven is my home; every day is one day nearer. My Saviour is my brother; every Christian is my brother too. Say it over and over again to yourself first thing in the morning, last thing at night, as you wait for the bus, any time when your mind is free, and ask God that you may be enabled to live as one who knows it is all utterly and completely true. For this is the Christians secret of the Christian life, of a God-honouring life.

  J. I. Packer

  Christian, Morning, Brother

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• Most poor people are not on welfare. . . I know they work. I'm a witness. They catch the early bus. They work every day. They raise other people's children. They work every day. They clean the streets. They work every day. They drive vans with cabs. They work every day. They change beds you slept in these hotels last night and can't get a union contract. They work every day . . .

  Jesse Jackson

  Motivational, Children, Night

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• A little old lady sitting at the front of the bus can do nothing to change civil rights.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Rights, Sitting, Littles

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• What happens when we're dead? The irony is that all our questions wil be answered after we die. We spend our whole life trying to figure out the truth and the only way we'll find out what it is, is to get hit by a bus. And the only comfort that religion offers is that God is driving that bus.

  John Ryman

  Religious, Atheist, Trying

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• It's a unique situation as well because England is a small country, so it makes it easy for the fans to travel. If we play down in London, they get buses and we'll get three or four thousand fans come down. They'll all sit in the same area and show their support for the team.

  Claudio Reyna

  Country, Travel, Team

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• Let me speak frankly: separate but equal is a fraud. It is the language that tried to push Rosa Parks to the back of the bus. It is the motif that determined that black and white people could not possibly drink from the same water fountain, eat at the same table or use the same toilets.

  David Lammy

  Gay, Black And White, People

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• Usually, I'm on the bus by now, having a beer and waiting for everyone else. This is cutting into my beer time.

  Craig Berube

  Beer, Cutting, Hockey

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• A bus came. The soldier turned away from her and walked toward it. Tatiana watched him. Even his walk was from another world; the step was too sure, the stride too long, yet somehow it all seemed right, looked right, felt right. It was like stumbling on a book you thought you had lost. Ah, yes, there it is.

  Paullina Simons

  Book, Long, Soldier

  Paullina Simons (2009). “The Bronze Horseman”, p.32, Harper Collins

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• You learn to cope with whatever you have to cope with. I spent my childhood in New York, riding on subways and buses. And you know what you learn if you're a New Yorker? The world doesn't owe you a damn thing.

  Lauren Bacall

  New York, Childhood, Riding

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

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