Bus Quotes - Page 7

• The public totally discounts low-probability high-consequence events. The individual says, it's not going to be this plane, this bus, this time.

  Amanda Ripley

  Risk, Events, Management

  Amanda Ripley (2009). “The Unthinkable: Who survives when disaster strikes - and why”, p.63, Random House

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  A man who, beyond the age of 26, finds himself on a bus can count himself as a failure.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Men, Age

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• We are not better than native born Americans, and of course not smarter. We’ve just been to the last stop of this bus.

  Sergei Dovlatov

  Lasts, Born, Courses

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• He looks like a greyhound, but he runs like a bus.

  George Brett

  Baseball, Running, Looks

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• Battlefield Earth is like taking a bus trip with someone who has needed a bath for a long time. It's not merely bad; it's unpleasant in a hostile way.

  Roger Ebert

  Long, Earth, Way

  Roger Ebert (2009). “Your Movie Sucks”, p.21, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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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. If you're on the bus, and you get left behind, then you'll find it again. If you're off the bus in the first place — then it won't make a damn.

  Ken Kesey

  Waiting, Firsts, Pranksters

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

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• Get the right people on the bus, the wrong people off the bus, and the right people in the right seats...

  James C. Collins

  People, Funny Business, Good To Great

  "Good to Great". Book by James C. Collins, 2001.

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• You can find poetry in your everyday life, your memory, in what people say on the bus, in the news, or just what's in your heart.

  Carol Ann Duffy

  Memories, Heart, People

  "Carol Ann Duffy: 'Poetry is in your everyday life, your memory, in what people say on the bus .. or just what's in your heart'". www.mirror.co.uk. May 2, 2009.

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• Bloody men are like bloody buses - you wait for about a year and as soon as one approaches your stop two or three others appear.

  Wendy Cope

  Men, Years, Two

  "Bloody Men" l. 1 (1992)

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• I joined Count Basie's band to make a little money and to see the world. For two years I didn't see anything but the inside of a Blue Goose bus, and I never got to send home a quarter.

  Billie Holiday

  Home, Blue, Years

  Billie Holiday, William Dufty (2011). “Lady Sings the Blues: The 50th-Anniversay Edition with a Revised Discography”, p.70, Broadway Books

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• The best part of basketball, for those people on the inside, is the bus going to the airport after you've won a game on an opponent's floor. It's been a very tough battle. And preferably, in the playoffs. And that feeling that you have, together as a group, having gone to an opponent's floor and won a very good victory, is as about as high as you can get.

  Phil Jackson

  Basketball, Games, Airports

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• Bus stops are far more interesting and useful places to have art than in museums. Graffiti has more chance of meaning something or changing stuff than anything indoors. Graffiti has been used to start revolutions, stop wars, and generally is the voice of people who aren't listened to. Graffiti is one of those few tools you have if you have almost nothing. And even if you don't come up with a picture to cure world poverty you can make somebody smile while they're having a piss.

  Banksy

  Smile, Art, War

  "Banging Your Head Against a Brick Wall". Book by Banksy, 2001.

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• So the mayor of New Orleans would have used his own buses had the people had been white?

  Sean Hannity

  New Orleans, White, People

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• We're all about trying to play better every night, not just singing hit songs ... we ad lib, and every night there's jamming .. it's almost like the Grateful Dead meets Buck Owens some nights, because we'll go off on little adventures and sometimes we do crash the bus!.

  Brad Paisley

  Music, Song, Grateful

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• The Energy Bus serves as a force field to ward off any negativity that tries to infiltrate or enter your team or business. It made a big impact on our team. I recommend it highly!

  Mark Richt

  Team, Impact, Force Fields

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• Girls are like buses, miss one, next fifteen, one comin.

  Gucci Mane

  Girl, Rapper, Missing

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• What will a Hillary Clinton presidency look like? The answer by now seems obvious: It will look like her presidential campaign, which in turn looks increasingly like the first Clinton presidency. Which is to say, high-minded ideals, lowered execution, half truths, outright lies (and imaginary flights), take-no prisoners politics, some very good policy ideas, a presidential spouse given to wallowing in anger and self-pity, and a succession of aides and surrogates pushed under the bus when things don't go right. Which is to say, often.

  Carl Bernstein

  Lying, Self, Ideas

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• When I was 18 years old, I went on the road with my dad after I graduated from high school. And we were riding on the tour bus one day, kind of rolling through the South, and he mentioned a song. We started talking about songs, and he mentioned one, and I said I don't know that one. And he mentioned another. I said I don't know that one either, Dad, and he became very alarmed that I didn't know what he considered my own musical genealogy.

  Rosanne Cash

  Song, Dad, School

  "Rosanne Cash Runs Down Her Father's 'List'". Interview with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. October 5, 2009.

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• There were colored and white waiting rooms everywhere, from doctor's offices to the bus stations, as people may already know. But there were actually colored windows at the post office in, for example, Pensacola, Florida. And there were white and colored telephone booths in Oklahoma. And there were separate windows where white people and black people would go to get their license plates in Indianola, Mississippi. And there were even separate tellers to make your deposits at the First National Bank in Atlanta.

  Isabel Wilkerson

  Doctors, Florida, Waiting Rooms

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• I've always been a lover of hoodies. I'm a guy that travels a lot. I'm a guy that spends a lot of time on a cold air-conditioned tour bus. I'm a guy that likes to watch movies in peace. I'm a guy that likes to travel in the airport in peace.

  Questlove

  Airports, Guy, Likes

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• Maybe because I have spent too much of my life in rock clubs. I don't really go to parties anymore either. I'll usually be in the bus by 11:30 after a show.

  Matt Berninger

  Party, Rocks, Clubs

  Source: the-talks.com

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• Growing up in a house with six brothers and sisters is a lot like being on a tour bus. There's not a whole lot of private space, so you figure out how to make it work.

  Michael Timmins

  Brother, Growing Up, Space

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• I used to sing on the school bus everyday.

  Bobby V

  School, Everyday, Used

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• It's hard either way, at home or on the bus, I think the hardest thing probably for me is going one second from being mom to right out on the stage and having to be that person too. It's hard to switch gears.

  Lee Ann Womack

  Mom, Home, Thinking

  "Lee Ann Womack Hits Road With Toby Keith". Associated Press Interview, www.foxnews.com. May 29, 2005.

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• And I also have a camera, a Web cam, and I have one at home, so I can hook up and talk to the girls, and they can see me while we're on the bus in the middle of nowhere.

  Lee Ann Womack

  Girl, Home, Cameras

  "Lee Ann Womack Hits Road With Toby Keith". Associated Press Interview, www.foxnews.com. May 29, 2005.

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