Bus Quotes - Page 5

• It oughtn't to need a war to make us talk to each other in buses, and invent our own amusements in the evenings, and live simply, and eat sparingly, and recover the use of our legs, and get up early enough to see the sun rise.

  Jan Struther

  War, Up Early, Civilization

  "Mrs. Miniver".

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• I used to carry a copy of Ulysses with me everywhere just in case I was knocked down by a bus. It seemed more important than having clean underwear.

  Craig Raine

  Clean Underwear, Important, Ulysses

  "Genius or fallen idol?". Interviews with Sam Jones, www.theguardian.com. February 10, 2004.

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• God's word tells us that righteousness is a gift; it cannot be earned. But godliness is not a gift. We must pay a price to touch godliness through a daily decision to die to self and embrace the cross. God calls us to learn godliness in the classroom of life among people as we sit on airplanes and buses, walk among our neighbors and labor at our factories or desks.

  K.P. Yohannan

  Airplane, Self, People

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• Just slip out the back, Jack, make a new plan, Stan, you don't need to be coy, Roy, just get yourself free. Hop on the bus, Gus, you don't need to discuss much, just drop off the key, Lee, and get yourself free.

  Paul Simon

  Song, Keys, Needs

  Song: 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover

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• Hey there's not a cloud in the sky
  It's as blue as your goodbye
  And I thought that it would rain
  On a day like today
  Hey there's not a cloud in sight
  It's as blue as your blue goodbye
  And I thought that it would rain
  The day you went away
  He's on the buses and the aeroplanes
  With some groceries and a sleeping bag

  Wendy Matthews

  Goodbye, Song, Rain

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• I wanted to be a success on the stage, the screen, or the radio. So I saved my money and when I had bus fare and $16.82 over, I told my mother, Clara, I was going to leave home. She was heartbroken, but she believed in me.

  Carole Landis

  Heartbroken, Mother, Home

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• There is one statesman of the present day, of whom I always say that he would have escaped making the blunders that he has made if he had only ridden more in buses.

  Arthur Helps

  Made, Blunders, Statesmen

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• The more you walk in relationship with the Lord, the more you learn to trust him. I'm learning not to focus so much on the issues I think are so big right now-our bus has broken down, or someone said something that frustrated me. I'm learning to slowly let things roll off my back, to say, 'Hey, God knew about this before it happened and He's got a way out or a plan better than mine.' I've learned to stop freaking out and just trust that God knows what he's doing. He's not going to leave me in a bad place because He never has before.

  Francesca Battistelli

  Thinking, Issues, Broken

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• My mother told me I said to her, at age three, 'I'm going to go to Italy and get my father in a tractor.' 'You've never seen quite so fierce a little boy as you were,' she told me. She tried to explain that I couldn't get my father in a tractor. Apparently I looked at her and narrowed my eyes and said, 'In that case, I'm going in a double-decker bus,' and stomped off. Which is kind of funny, but it's very sad, as well.

  Roger Waters

  Mother, Father, Eye

  "Back To The Wall: Rolling Stone's 2010 Profile of Pink Floyd's Roger Waters". Interview with Brian Hiatt, www.rollingstone.com. October 06, 2011.

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• Have you ever had one of those moments when you know that you're being visited by your own future? They come so rarely and with little fanfare, those moments. They're not particularly photogenic. There's no breach in the clouds to reveal the shining city on a hill. No folk dancing children outside your bus, no production values to speak of- just a glimpse of such quotidian, incontrovertible truth that after the initial shock at the supreme weirdness of it all, a kind of calm sets in. So this is to be my life.

  David Rakoff

  Children, Cities, Clouds

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• In an age of iPhones and Playstations, it's great to see that somebody's still rocking the bus-on-a-string.

  Brandon Stanton

  Iphone, Age, Strings

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• Last week a former Royal Marine who is the boyfriend of the model Kelly Brooks crashed into a bus stop while driving a van carrying a load of dead badgers.
  I mention this solely to remind you that linguists are not kidding when they say … that your command of English enables you to understand sentences that have never occurred before in the entire history of the human species.

  Geoffrey K. Pullum

  Marine, Bus Stops, Lasts

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• People who want to understand democracy should spend less time in the library with Aristotle and more time on the buses and in the subway.

  Simeon Strunsky

  People, Democracy, Library

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• I didn't actually realise what apartheid meant. I'm probably a bit naive, but I thought it was more of a vague segregation, like on the beaches and buses.

  John Deacon

  Beach, Discrimination, Segregation

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• If you've got a huge Hollywood star in your film, they're getting $32 million, and everyone else gets their bus fare.

  Robbie Coltraine

  Stars, Hollywood, Film

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• We are all riding on the same bus.

  Mark Sheppard

  Peace, Riding

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• The debate was wearing me out. Once you've posed that question, it won't go away. I think many people kill themselves simply to stop the debate about whether they will or they won't. Anything I thought or did was immediately drawn into the debate. Made a stupid remark--why not kill myself? Missed the bus--better put an end to it all. Even the good got in there. I liked that movie--maybe I shouldn't kill myself.

  Susanna Kaysen

  Stupid, Thinking, People

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• From watching Lester (Flatt), I learned that it's important to be loyal to the people who made you and bought your music. He called me up to the front of the (tour) bus on the very first trip I went on with him. Lester pointed out two elderly people who were walking towards the but. He said, 'Those two people have been coming to see me since the mid 40's. That's what a country fan is all about.'

  Marty Stuart

  Country, Elderly, Two

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• I think empathy is a guy who punches you in the face at a bus station, and you're somehow able to look at that him and know enough about what situation he was in to know that he had to do that and not to hit back. That's empathy, and nothing ever happens in writing that has that kind of moral heroism about it.

  John Jeremiah Sullivan

  Writing, Thinking, Empathy

  Interview with Allie Tollaksen, ndsmcobserver.com. January 22, 2014.

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• When anything good happens to you in your day, give thanks. It doesn't matter how small it is, say thank you. When you get the perfect parking space, hear your favorite song on the radio, approach a light that turns green, or find an empty seat on the bus or train, say thank you. These are all good things that you are receiving from life.

  Rhonda Byrne

  Inspirational, Song, Space

  Rhonda Byrne (2011). “The Power”, p.114, Simon and Schuster

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• I would rather play with 10 men than wait for a player who is late for the bus.

  Jose Mourinho

  Player, Men, Waiting

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• When I was in high school, I had binders with pictures of tour buses.

  Hunter Hayes

  School, High School, Binders

  "Did Taylor Swift Add Hunter Hayes To Red's Male Muse Club?" by Jocelyn Vena, www.mtv.com. November 14, 2012.

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• For a single girl in London, luck isn't always a glass slipper that fits. Sometimes luck is a splash of mud from a passing bus.

  Elizabeth Jane Howard

  Girl, Glasses, Luck

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• I wave to the double-decker buses from my bike, but the passengers never wave back. Why? Am I not an attraction?

  David Byrne

  Wave, Passengers, Bike

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• If I were running a company today, I would have one priority above all others: to acquire as many of the best people as I could. I'd put off everything else to fill my bus. Because things are going to come back. My flywheel is going to start to turn. And the single biggest constraint on the success of my organization is the ability to get and to hang on to enough of the right people.

  James C. Collins

  Running, Business, Organization

  "Good to Great". Fast Company Interview, www.fastcompany.com. September 30, 2001.

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