Bus Quotes - Page 31

• Err Houston, we've had a problem. [pause] We've had a main B bus undervolt.

  Jim Lovell

  Apollo, Houston, Problem

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• My resisting being mistreated on the bus did not begin with that particular arrest…I did a lot of walking in Montgomery.

  Rosa Parks

  Mistreated, Particular, Walking

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• I'd see the bus pass every day… But to me, that was a way of life; we had no choice but to accept what was the custom. The bus was among the first ways I realized there was a black world and a white world.

  Rosa Parks

  White, Choices, Black

  Speech by Chris Dodd. Congressional Record (Bound Volumes), Part 11, July 20, 2006.

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• I'm born originally in Toronto, and I have what I call my 'Fame' story. I took a Greyhound bus and went to Alvin Ailey and received Dunham, Horton, Graham technique there, but I could never take my eyes off of Balanchine doing 'Nutcracker'; to me he's the best who ever did it.

  Laurieann Gibson

  Eye, Technique, Stories

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• I have a candle on the bus that smells like caramel brownie. I love anything that smells like food!

  Carrie Underwood

  Smell, Caramel, Brownies

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• The simplest idea of someone coming to your home to pamper you at a time when all your energy is being expended to fight a personal battle, is much more than just feeling good about how you look. Beauty Bus gives its clients renewed internal strength to keep fighting.

  Karen O

  Home, Fighting, Ideas

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• The Colombians are good-tempered people. They are used to waiting for buses that are late, used to riding buses and trains that do not arrive.

  Paul Theroux

  Patience, People, Waiting

  Paul Theroux (2014). “The Old Patagonian Express: By Train Through the Americas”, p.275, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I shoot fantasy. If you want reality, ride the bus

  David LaChapelle

  Reality, Want, Fantasy

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• Traveling by bus, we see many things on the way and just let them pass by. Watch the thoughts of your minds in the same way.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Meditation, Mind, Watches

  Twitter post from Jan 10, 2014

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• There are going to be times when we can't wait for somebody. Now, you're either on the bus or off the bus.

  Ken Kesey

  Waiting, Pranksters

  Quoted in TomWolfe, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (1968)

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• I went down to Houston and I stopped in San 'Antone, I passed up the station for the bus. I was trying to find me something, but I wasn't sure just what... man, I ended up with pockets full of dust.

  Ryan Adams

  Travel, Men, Dust

  Song: Oh My Sweet Carolina, Album: Heartbreaker, 2000

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• There is a pile of dead bodies behind the Mars Hill bus, and by God's grace, it'll be a mountain by the time we're done.

  Mark Driscoll

  Grace, Mountain, Mars

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• If you see me in New York, you'll probably see me on my bicycle riding furiously between a city bus and a taxi cab, hitting one of them on the side and yelling at them.

  Denis O'Hare

  New York, Yelling, Taxi Cabs

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• It is staggering that in the 21st century, half of the world's population - that's three and a half billion people - own no more than a tiny elite whose numbers could all fit comfortably on a double-decker bus.

  Winnie Byanyima

  Numbers, People, Half

  "Oxfam: 85 richest people as wealthy as poorest half of the world" by Graeme Wearden, www.theguardian.com. January 20, 2014.

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• In soaps, people come back from the dead all the time, to the point where death is just a bus stop.

  Anthony Geary

  Bus Stops, People, Soap

  "Exclusive: General Hospital's Anthony Geary On Life, Death and the Future of Luke and Laura". Interview with Michael Logan, www.tvguide.com. October 9, 2013.

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• I thought I was going to die a few times. On the Freedom Ride in the year 1961, when I was beaten at the Greyhound bus station in Montgomery, I thought I was going to die. On March 7th, 1965, when I was hit in the head with a night stick by a State Trooper at the foot of the Edmund Pettus Bridge, I thought I was going to die. I thought I saw death, but nothing can make me question the philosophy of nonviolence.

  John Lewis

  Philosophy, Night, Bridges

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• Travel requires a great deal of energy - whether you go by car, by bus, by train or plane. We'll likely be using hydrogen as our main energy for transport.

  Hermann E. Ott

  Car, Energy, Hydrogen

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I don't think my grandmother would ever be convinced, but my family was convinced that I was convinced, and actually, they came around. My mother ended up going to fundraisers in Chicago that were raising money to send to the students in the South and actually, over years, she went to an elevated train bus station one day at 6:00 a.m. to hand out leaflets protesting the war.

  Diane Nash

  Mother, War, Thinking

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The harsh reality is that America moves on four wheels, powered by conventional internal-combustion engines. At this point, while the elite media (excluding Newsweek) trumpet the benefits of hybrids and Ford and Toyota plan to lead the nation into a low-powered, high-mileage hybrid Utopia, the multitudes remain loyal to the gas-guzzling family bus in the driveway.

  Brock Yates

  Moving, Reality, Media

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• I drove a bus down Sunset Boulevard once, and I didn't kill anyone.

  Sanjaya Malakar

  Sunset, Sunset Boulevard, Boulevard

  "7 Hairy Questions With Sanjaya". Interview with Houston Chronicle, articles.chicagotribune.com. June 7, 2007.

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• Government can ensure that we share schools and streets and lunch counters and buses and elevators and theaters, but let us never forget that only God can give us the power to love each other and to respect each other and to share life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

  Mike Huckabee

  Love, Life, Happiness

  "Huckabee takes it to church on Sunday, addresses racial tensions" By Elizabeth Landers, www.cnn.com. July 19, 2015.

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• Russian men have a saying: "Women are like buses..." That's it.

  Yakov Smirnoff

  Men

  Yakov Smirnoff (1987). “America on six rubles a day”, Vintage

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• I used to run away to New York from Baltimore all the time.I would get on the Greyhound bus and tell my parents I was going to some sorority weekend. I'd even make up fake permission slips, come to New York and just ask people on the street if I could stay with them and go see midnight movies.

  John Waters

  Running, New York, Weekend

  Source: www.timeout.com

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• I had a brief experience in the food industry. I was a bus boy in a Mexican restaurant in Arizona, scraping re-fried beans off people's plates. It teaches you a bit of humility and the importance of a good deodorant.

  Wentworth Miller

  Humility, Boys, People

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• You don't need a bus pass, for me to bust yo ass, nigga.

  Lil Wayne

  Needs, Ass

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