Bus Quotes

• Sometimes I can be walking down the street, or riding a bus, and suddenly I see somebody who remind me of somebody I know back home, and I close my eyes and find myself thinking of the sea, or the taste of grafted mango, or the smell of saltfish frying, and then I come back to myself and open my eyes and realise where I am.

  

  Caryl Phillips
  • Home
  • Eye
  • Taste

• 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
  • Waiting
  • Beer
  • Bus

• Once you're into a story everything seems to apply-what you overhear on a city bus is exactly what your character would say on the page you're writing. Wherever you go, you meet part of your story.

  

  Eudora Welty
  • Writing
  • Character
  • Stories

• I loved Omar Vizquel. He tells some really long jokes, and he has his own way of telling them, but he can make every joke very funny. He would always come up with jokes on the loudspeaker on the bus.

  

  Steve Finley
  • Long
  • Jokes
  • Bus

• I watch people from the top of buses who don't know they're being watched. It's quite fascinating.

  

  Celia Imrie
  • Knows
  • Watches
  • Fascinating

• I don't yell back at my mother. When I'm angry or scared or upset, I don't yell. I stay quiet. I've seen how she is, how she would get with Kent and with me and with other people, life if someone at the pharmacy got in the wrong line or asked too long a question, or if someone on the bus accidentally bumped her. I've watched her my whole life, the way people react to her. It doesn't actually help you get what you want, yelling and being like that. It only makes people think bad of you.

  

  Sara Zarr
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Long

• 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
  • Luck
  • Bus

• The energies of Lagos life- creative, malevolent, ambiguous- converge at the bus stops

  

  Teju Cole
  • Energy
  • Creative
  • Ambiguous

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