“Something tells me a bomb would pretty much take our bus out.”
Ben Moody (1981) American musician
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“Congressmen should not take the bus.”
'Parlamentar não deve andar de ônibus', diz deputado Jair Bolsonaro http://odia.ig.com.br/noticia/rio-de-janeiro/2013-08-12/parlamentar-nao-deve-andar-de-onibus-diz-deputado-jair-bolsonaro.html. O Dia (12 August 2013).
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Ken Kesey (1935–2001) novelist
Source: The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (1968), Ch. 6 : The Bus
Context: 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.
“As we say in Portugal, they brought the bus and they left the bus in front of the goal.”
José Mourinho (1963) Portuguese association football player and manager
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Paul Rudnick book I Shudder
Source: I Shudder (2009), p. 188
“I did not get on the bus to get arrested. I got on the bus to go home.”
Rosa Parks (1913–2005) African-American civil rights activist
Quoted in Rita Dove, "Rosa Parks: Her simple act of protest galvanized America's civil rights revolution," http://www.time.com/time/time100/heroes/profile/parks01.html Time (1999-06-14)by kurtis
A. P. Herbert (1890–1971) British politician
"Seeing It Through", London Transport poster by Eric Kennington (1944).
Oprah Winfrey (1954) American businesswoman, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist
Variant: Everyone wants to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.
Tom Wolfe book The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
On Kesey's coining of the phrase "on the bus", in The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (1968), Ch. VI : The Bus; as Paul Grushkin reports, in Dead Letters: The Very Best Grateful Dead Fan Mail (2011), p. 120, the statement became a famous evocation of an attitude:
The phrase became a metaphor for 1960s culture rethinking — if you were "on the bus" you were "with it."
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (1968)
