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Quotes About Bus

Living inside the System is like riding across the country in a bus driven by a maniac bent on suicide . . . though he's amiable enough, keeps cracking jokes back through the loudspeaker . . .
~ Thomas Pynchon
This is a UN bus?' I ask. One of the Somali guys with the guns comes up behind me. As I stand there in the aisle, ready to punch the silent fat guy in the head, the Somali gunman, nodding and smiling, says to me, 'Yeah, UN, UN.' 'Three kids armed with AK-47s, that's some way to greet people,' I tell the fat guy. 'Yeah,' he says, 'welcome to Mogadishu.
~ Kenneth Cain
pain, because the last bus back is pretty
~ Gayle Forman
ive alwasys said i the cook on the bus i at the beach all the time
~ Gayle Lynds
She has somehow missed the bus of life.
~ Iris Murdoch
Some auld cunt, they're always oan the buses at this time, is fartin and shitein at the driver; firing a volley ay irrelevant questions about bus numbers, routes and times. Get the fuck oan or fuck off and die ya foostie auld cunt. Ah almost choked in silent rage at her selfish pettiness and the bus driver's pathetic indulgence of the cunt. People talk aboot youngsters and vandalism, what aboot the psychic vandalism caused by these auld bastards?
~ Irvine Welsh
I'm not very good at relaxing. Reading's the main thing. On the bus, on the tube, on the loo. Literally all the time. I mean, I don't think there's a moment of the day when I wouldn't be if I was left alone.
~ Samuel West
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
When I was nine, we'd take a bus to the seaside. Coming back, we'd take turns entertaining, singing songs and the like. I tried some stand-up comedy. I had a captive audience in that bus. Then I realized I wanted to do more than that.
~ Jim Dale
I refused to be filmed getting off a bus twice. The director said, 'I'm an award-winning director. Please do it', and I said, 'I never thought I'd say this, but I'm an award-winning actress with a bad leg, and if your film depends on seeing me get in and out of a bus, we're in trouble.'
~ Miriam Margolyes
Only some ghastly dehumanised moron would want to get rid of the Routemaster.
~ Ken Livingstone
In that slippery, sliding moment, his disappointment begins to heal. If the bus driver has appeared at this moment, this very day, then there is a reason. All he needs to discover is why. He'll take his time. He'll watch. Surely the reason will be revealed. Reasons usually do.
~ Susan May
You're going to pee in someone's suitcase? Do you have any other ideas? And suddenly Miracolina begins to snicker, then giggle, then giggle, then cackle uncontrollably. He's going to pee in someone's suitcase! Quiet! Do you want people on the bus to hear you? But Miracolina is beyond help. She's entered into a fullfledged laughter fit-the kind that leaves your stomach hurting. They're gonna open their suitcase, she blurts between bursts of glee, And their clothes'll be full of pee!
~ Neal Shusterman
I like to record something pretty much as soon as I have an idea for a song, but I'm on so many buses, I have to record on my mobile.
~ Paolo Nutini
I only started driving lessons because of comedy - before that, there's be no need. There was a bus from where I lived to where I worked and I had a very obliging, mobile sister.
~ Sarah Millican
I don't play the console games too much. I did a little bit growing up, but what I enjoy about my iPhone and the mobile games is you already have your phone with you, so it's easy if you're on a bus ride to just take it out and play.
~ Buster Posey
I wrote 'On Second Thought' in five minutes in the back of my bus going through Montana.
~ Eddie Rabbitt
I used to get two buses to school, and you'd see more or less everyone in the city centre, so I kind of knew everyone around my age group.
~ Danny Welbeck
When you're on tour and you're more or less attached to the hip with people, you're sharing a bus, you're next to one another at all times, for me it's important to find my own space even it's for an hour of the day just to reset.
~ Valentin Chmerkovskiy
purchase of the long-distance ticket would contribute to the airline's decision about how many future flights it should run on this route. Unless bus routes are entirely insensitive to passenger demand – which is, one must admit, a possibility – then the same argument applies to
~ Tim Harford
Oh, never trust a country That won't permit live poultry to ride on the bus.
~ Tom Robbins
The Almost Free Theatre, the Fun Art Bus and the rest of them were phenomena of a decade which was simultaneously playful and desperately serious; and
~ Tom Stoppard
On the bus to St. Louis, a man with a ukulele stood in the aisle and offered to play requests. Someone shouted out, "Freebird," and the man sat back down, visibly angered
~ Kevin Wilson
I prefer to scare myself in the ordinary ways, Daddy. Like letting my children cross the country for college. Why bungee jump when you can put a kindergartener on a school bus? Now, that's real terror.
~ Kristin Hannah