Top 100 Quotes About The Bus
#1. The bus stops and out get the sort of people who travel by bus between cities: students, old people--mainly women--and the middle-aged who cannot afford the train and who have never grown old enough to drive. Out we get, and away we go, the young, the old, and the failed girls.
Joanna Walsh
#2. I rode the bus alone, I walked around the city alone, I did my shopping alone, and I drank alone.
Hiromi Kawakami
#3. Too bad brooms can't really fly. Now if you miss the bus you can't just go in your room and fly to school with a nimbus two thousand!
Rupert Grint
#4. You know who we hear about all the rappers from? The bus drivers.
Dan Auerbach
#5. In New York, pretending to be above the struggle means no seat on the bus and a table next to the kitchen.
Mason Cooley
#6. 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
#7. Soon the two children will walk down Edgehill Road from the bus stop like burros under their knapsacks,
Elizabeth Alexander
#8. My resisting being mistreated on the bus did not begin with that particular arrest ... I did a lot of walking in Montgomery.
Rosa Parks
#9. They would not get closer to the truth that night. They watched a period of hockey in silence. Winkler insisted on doing the dishes. Herman insisted on driving him to the bus stop.
Anthony Doerr
#10. You do realize that you completely 'threw Kyle under the bus,' I told him. 'Like threw him under and then put it in reverse
Shelly Crane
#11. I love audiences, but they're not there to drive the bus. Whenever you ask opinions or anticipate opinions you can get pretty terrible art, or non-art. You need a single guiding intelligence, even in a collaborative form.
William Monahan
#12. That is what madness is, isn't it? All the wheels fly off the bus and things don't make sense any more. Or rather, they do, but it's not a kind of sense anyone else can understand.
Audrey Niffenegger
#13. When me and my brother Eagle-Eye were kids, life was about hitting the road, getting on the bus. We loved it.
Neneh Cherry
#14. If your agent or publisher is jumping up and down at the thought of your novel, it's because they're picturing the movie poster on the side of the bus.
Dave Morris
#15. When the bus or the plane rolled or flew through the night, they sang songs of their own composition about Mr Nixon and the Republicans in chorus with the Kennedy staff and felt that they, too, were marching like soldiers of the Lord to the New Frontier.
Theodore White
#16. I often took the bus to her apartment, where we drank bourbon and ginger ale, listened to the music we wanted to impress each other with, which eventually turned into listening to the music we actually liked.
Rob Sheffield
#18. Whenever you're in an army group and somebody says, 'I think we're all getting on the bus to Abilene here,' that is a red flag.
Susan Cain
#19. The energies of Lagos life- creative, malevolent, ambiguous- converge at the bus stops
Teju Cole
#20. We expected that good-to-great leaders would begin by setting a new vision and strategy. We found instead that they first got the right people on the bus, the wrong people off the bus, and the right people in the right seats - and then they figured out where to drive it.
James C. Collins
#22. Look, I don't really know where we should take this bus. But I know this much: If we get the right people on the bus, the right people in the right seats, and the wrong people off the bus, then we'll figure out how to take it someplace great.
James C. Collins
#23. Normally I'm really lucky because I can go down to my local shops and no one cares. I take the Tube and the bus so it's kind of the perfect balance.
MyAnna Buring
#24. So Henry found himself stepping off the bus three stops early and wandering over to the Panama Hotel, a place between worlds when he was a child, a place between times now that he was a grown man.
Jamie Ford
#25. Or in the early days we didn't have the bus, we had a station wagon.
Mel Tillis
#26. Driving from Denver, the deforestation we saw was absolutely amazing," Emma added. "Deforestation?" "Not a tree in sight for as far as the eye could see. I guessed they were all cut down for your log cabins. We all took pictures out the bus window, American greed.
Mike Faricy
#27. We now have contestants who will not let anything get in their way of victory. Some contestants have thrown each other under the bus this season.
Ryan Seacrest
#28. I'll never forget that first night with the team. Going to the ballpark on the bus was the hardest 30 minutes of my life. I had to walk down that aisle between all the players. I really didn't know too much about the Detroit Tigers at that time.
Al Kaline
#29. Poetry is what you find
in the dirt in the corner,
overhear on the bus, God
in the details, the only way
to get from here to there.
Elizabeth Alexander
#30. You don't go to the library and walk along and pick out a topic. You are riding the bus, or shopping at Safeway, and all of a sudden the idea comes to you.
Edward P. Jones
#31. Come on," she said, smiling for the first time since she'd stepped on the plane. "We need to get to the bus before Ian plugs his iPod into the speakers."
Dan shuddered. "I'd rather face a thousand Vespers than listen to Beethoven.
Clifford Riley
#32. I have a cameo in every movie. In '50/50,' I'm in the back of the bus.
Jonathan Levine
#33. The bus had a name too. Elaborately painted letters across the back declared it to be "Old but Sexy." It occurred to me that as I slipped inexorably into middle age, such a title might be the best I myself could hope for.
Lyn Hamilton
#34. Don't miss the bus, boy. You're missing a lot of things in the world, better not miss that bus.
Robert Cormier
#35. I'm pretty obsessed with 'The Real Housewives of New Jersey.' I usually watch it on the bus after a show with my husband Jimi. As much as he will deny it, he loves the show as much as I do.
Karen Fairchild
#36. Outside the bus the smell of sulphur hit Bond with sickening force. It was a horrible smell, from somewhere down in the stomach of the world.
Ian Fleming
#37. If the family you came from sucked, make up a new one. Look at all the people there are to choose from. If the family you are in hurts, get on the bus. Like now.
Lidia Yuknavitch
#38. I heard David Sedaris read live recently which was a complete delight. Few writers make me laugh out loud on the bus. He does.
Hattie Morahan
#39. Being liked by the boys and girls on the bus doesn't necessarily earn you the respect of the people back home. Standing up to them, giving as good as you get, all that helps.
Susan Estrich
#40. 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
#41. We were sitting on the bus one day and there were 5 of us hanging out. There was only one beer left in the cooler and we actually all took a little cup and split it. It was a pathetic day in a rock and roll when five grown men have to be sitting there sharing a beer.
Zakk Wylde
#42. Just as Sarah Keeler had taught me that children die, Wendy taught me that you don't have to wade through the insanity; you can get off the bus. This scared me so much that a sweaty panic swept over me. From that moment on I knew it was possible to end my own life. (157)
Monica Holloway
#43. I remember I could do - I did Bart Simpson once on the bus. I did, like, a really good Bart Simpson voice on the bus, obviously before I hit puberty. And everybody went, 'Whoa, that sounds just like Bart Simpson.'
Bill Hader
#44. And it's not over-the-top, in-your-face likeable. It's subtle. The kind of likeable that lures you in and before you know it you've bought the ticket, boarded the bus, and are miles into the pleasant journey before you question where you're even going in the first place.
Kim Holden
#45. I get a lot of sleep on the bus. I bring two dogs with me, who keep me grounded. I guess that's just in my soul. It's good to know that you're good at something.
Emmylou Harris
#46. You've missed the bus. Are you calling in sick again? It's the second time in two years. The boss will frown upon it.
Benjamin R. Smith
#47. The building is a tumbling house of cards behind me. The bus bitches are paper cutouts.
Jolene Stockman
#48. Couldn't dance because it would awaken carnal desire, which in my case was not only awake, it was dressed and down on the corner waiting for the bus.
Garrison Keillor
#49. If you miss the bus, miss the train, you'd be left behind. So everyone says, let's get on the train, let's get on the bus and go faster and get rich ... I just didn't like that kind of lifestyle. I love to read books, to listen to music.
Haruki Murakami
#50. In the book i'm reading (The Principal) the main chareter best friend has to go to a differnt school. I can picture them waiting at the bus stop together crying.
Jerry Spinelli
#51. Once I'm at the arena with the guys in the dressing room, and in the bus, and on the plane, I'm a player. And I sit in the back with the players and I play cards and try to take their money.
Mario Lemieux
#52. If Rosa Parks had taken a poll before she sat down in the bus in Montgomery, she'd still be standing.
Mary Frances Berry
#53. If you want more joy in your daily life, smile at the people you meet in the street, the woman sitting beside you on the bus or standing next to you in the queue at the airport, the waiter who brings your food, your colleagues or your employer. There's a great chance they'll smile back.
Thorbjorg Hafsteinsdottir
#54. 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
#55. When you live with someone on the bus, for four days a week, you really have to get along.
Miranda Lambert
#56. Directing your first film is like showing up to the field trip in seventh grade, getting on the bus, and making an announcement, 'So today I'm driving the bus.' And everybody's like, 'What?' And you're like, 'I'm gonna drive the bus.' And they're like, 'But you don't know how to drive the bus.'
Mike Birbiglia
#57. I received an award for 25 million in [album] sales the night before the bus accident [in 1990].
Gloria Estefan
#58. Bureaucratic cultures arise to compensate for incompetence and lack of discipline, which arise from having the wrong people on the bus in the first place.
James C. Collins
#59. The crocodile on the bus goes
snap, snap, snap
Jane Cabrera
#60. I dont want to win? If that were the case why the heck am I on the bus 16 hours a day, shaking thousands of hands, giving hundreds of speeches, getting pillared in the press and cartoons and still staying on message to win?
George W. Bush
#61. Like all buses, it comes when it comes. You can wait with frustations, angers or feeling of victimhoods or you can wait with patience and relaxation, either way, it won't make the bus come any way faster
Daniel Gottlieb
#62. Impala when his dad bought her a new Taurus. ... He didn't ride the bus anymore, because he'd have the whole seat to himself. Not that the Impala
Rainbow Rowell
#63. There are only so many hours you can sit on the bus and watch TV or play basketball or whatever we do to pass the time before we go out onstage.
Kenny Chesney
#64. I like drawing people in the airport or on the bus or in venues. I like catching people in the moment. It's a similar inspiration for me in terms of songwriting.
James Bay
#65. For a few minutes the roof of the bus remains visible among the stunted trees, a tiny white gleam in a wild green sea, growing smaller and smaller, and then it's gone.
Jon Krakauer
#66. I loved my father. Most people did. He did try his best. He did provide for his family. He taught me many things and gave me a work ethic that made me who I am today: a guy who would throw his own father under the bus in a book about parenting.
Jim Gaffigan
#67. In search of a pay phone. He found a phone inside the bus depot. He dialed his bank's number from memory. Nine-forty in the West, twelve-forty in the East. Lunch time in Virginia, but someone should be there.
Lee Child
#68. As a kid, I grew to define what I didn't want my life to be like by sitting behind moaning women on the bus, hearing them bang on about their aches and pains, both real and imagined.
Julie Burchill
#69. If you're impatient while waiting for the bus, tell yourself you're doing 'Bus waiting meditation.' If you're standing in a slow line at the drugstore, you're doing 'Waiting in line meditation.' Just saying these words makes me feel very spiritual and high-minded and wise.
Gretchen Rubin
#70. Whether you live in a city or a small town, and whether you drive a car, take the bus or ride a train, at some point in the day, everyone is a pedestrian.
Anthony Foxx
#71. And somehow I had always resisted driving very slowly back and forth in front of his house. Willpower? No. I figured his front gate was equipped with security cameras and I would just be embarrassing myself. And this street was definitely not on the bus line.
Jennifer Echols
#72. I thought of Emmett Till, and when the bus driver ordered me to move to the back, I just couldn't move.
Rosa Parks
#73. At the rear of the bus, the driver wrenched a big chunk of smoking metal out of the engine compartment. The bus shuddered, and the engine roared back to life.
The passengers cheered.
Darn right!" yelled the driver. He slapped the bus with his hat. "Everybody get back on board!
Rick Riordan
#74. Honestly some folk will take offence at anything, I met a bloke with no legs this morning while at the bus stop, all I asked was "How are you getting on?"
Billy Connolly
#75. Through thick and thin, we're brothers to the bitter end. And if you're going to hell, buddy, I'm driving the bus.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#76. I don't drive. I live in L.A., but I take the bus. I know, I'm weird!
Carol Ann Susi
#77. You wouldn't want to move if you sat next to me on the bus. Or maybe you would.
Richard Dawson
#78. I opened my mouth to tell him he was full of shit, to tell him I knew he'd thrown me under the bus, but all that came out was, Braaiinns.
Diana Rowland
#79. In the 1970s, 'The Boys on the Bus' exposed how a clubby pack of male political reporters ruled the road to the White House and shaped the news. Four decades later, an outsider gal from Alaska has commandeered the 2012 media bus - and left Beltway journalism insiders eating her dust.
Michelle Malkin
#81. I have a candle on the bus that smells like caramel brownie. I love anything that smells like food!
Carrie Underwood
#82. My wife gets so jealous. She came home from work and was mad at me because there was a pretty girl on the bus she thought I would have liked.
Ray Romano
#83. I was the guy on the swim team entertaining the bus on the way to the meets.
Kevin Hart
#84. The dream state just before wakening when it seems perfectly logical for the goldfish not to like peeling its own potatoes on the bus.
Kate Griffin
#85. Alex Hailey, who traced his roots all the way to the back of the bus. Never got a dinner!
Red Buttons
#86. I'm like everyone else, on the stage it's good. Not too much fun in the hotel or the airplane or the bus, but you got to do it.
Ringo Starr
#87. How come the Muggles don't hear the bus?" said Harry.
"Them!" said Stan contemptuously. "Don' listen properly, do they? Don' look properly either. Never notice nuffink, they don'.
J.K. Rowling
#88. The teacher can always tell when you did your homework on the bus.
Cynthia Lewis
#89. Standing at the bus stop sucking on a lollipop
Once she gets pumping its hard to make the hottie stop
LL Cool J
#90. If Lana Walters had given any thought to dying, she'd have assumed it would hurt more. Instead, when the bus hit her, the lights simply went out. One moment of inattention and then, nothing. Next she knew, she was weightless, flying above Boston.
Mae Archer
#91. Now, you're either on the bus or you're off the bus.
Ken Kesey
#92. The bus scares me. Way too many gross people on the bus. Sixty-five people on the bus and I was the last one on. I felt like calling Unsolved Mysteries. 'Yeah, I found everybody.
Kathleen Madigan
#93. I tried to convince the kids at the bus stop to climb up with me, even a little ways, but all of them said they didn't want to get dirty. Turn down a chance to feel magic for fear of a little dirt? I couldn't believe it.
Wendelin Van Draanen
#94. Nothing about this scene is right, but at this point, I'm so full of wrong, I'll do whatever they want and ask myself for forgiveness later. I'm driving the bus to hell anyway. May as well take a little vacation while I'm in town.
Kendall Grey
#95. When you let Soul drive the bus, life flows more effortlessly.
From the book, Doing a 360, page 8
Nancy Ash
#96. If I were stepping down from the bus at the rich end of town instead of the trailer park, I wouldn't have to watch every word I said to make sure it wasn't slang for an orgasm.
Jennifer Echols
#97. People believe those fairytales about falling in love at first sight at the bus, subway, or at the streets. But it doesn't make sense how they'd laugh at the ones who fell in love at first sight through TV screens. Loving a celebrity IS a type of love. Love is fair to everyone.
Tablo
#98. Cultivating literature as I do upon a little oatmeal, and driving, when in a position to be driven at all, in that humble vehicle, the 'bus, I have had, perhaps, exceptional opportunities for observing their mutual position and behaviour; and it is very peculiar.
James Payn
#100. 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
