Greyhounds Quotes - Page 2

• I've noticed that Henry needs an incredible amount of physical activity all the time in order to be happy. It's like hanging out with a greyhound.

  Audrey Niffenegger

  Order, Needs, Incredibles

  Audrey Niffenegger (2014). “The Time Traveler's Wife”, p.160, Simon and Schuster

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• By nature a philosopher is not in genius and disposition half so different from a street porter, as a mastiff is from a greyhound

  Adam Smith

  Different, Genius, Half

  Adam Smith (1784). “An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations”, p.24

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• Sometimes the fluffy bunny of incredulity zooms around the bend so rapidly that the greyhound of language is left, agog, in the starting cage.

  David Mitchell

  Bunnies, Fluffy, Cages

  David Mitchell (2012). “Cloud Atlas (Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition): A Novel”, p.173, Random House Group

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• I was washing dishes at the Greyhound bus station at the time and I said, 'Awap bop a lup bop a wop bam boom, take 'em out!'

  Little Richard

  Ems, Bops, Dishes

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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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• Greyhound Bus Lines motto: "We Stop For Some Damn Thing Every 200 Yards."

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Travel, Yards

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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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• In his youth Michael Owen was literally a greyhound.

  Jamie Redknapp

  Youth

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• It seems wrong and unfair that Christmas, with its stressful and unmanageable financial and emotional challenges, should first be forced upon one wholly against one's will, then rudely snatched away just when one is starting to get into it. Was really beginning to enjoy the feeling that normal service was suspended and it was OK to lie in bed as long as you want, put anything you fancy into your mouth, and drink alcohol whenever it should chance to pass your way, even in the mornings. Now suddenly we are all supposed to snap into self-discipline like lean teenage greyhounds.

  Helen Fielding

  Morning, Teenage, Lying

  Helen Fielding (2016). “Bridget Jones's Diary: Picador Classic”, p.19, Pan Macmillan

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• I hate the bloody highways. I hate hamburgers, I hate Greyhound buses. I'd have liked to have been in America during the Jazz Age, or the Golden Age of Hollywood.

  Shane MacGowan

  Hate, America, Age

  Source: shanemacgowan.com

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