The Wayward Bus Quotes
"To be 'vacilando' means that you're aiming at some place, but you don't care much whether you get there."
"The greatest and best and most beautiful part of Norma lay behind her eyes, sealed and protected."
"It isn't going to take a little time to write but a long time and I don't care, for my bus is something large in my mind."
"Wayward has an overtone of illicitness or illegality, based of course on medieval lore where wayward men were vagabonds."
"A man who varied was not a sound man, and if he persisted no one would do business with him."
"You can't finish a job without blood. That's what my old man used to say."
"All of our so-called successful men are sick men, with bad stomachs, and bad souls."
"Everybody's a tramp some time or other. Everybody. And the worst tramps of all are the ones that call it something else."
"I haven't any idea as to whether it is any good or not, but the people in it are alive, so much so that sometimes they take a tack I didn't suspect they were going to."
"The seat of procreation lay in the mammaries."
"The fellow that figured that out got himself a very nice fee."
"I guess you’re making a little something out of it yourself."
"Sometimes I wish I was there in my own house with them—those—big, thick curtains and a long couch, like, and I’d see all my friends."
"We even have girls right off the streets sometimes in for a cup of tea and talk and just like they were us because we know we owe everything we got to the loyalty of our fans."
"And when the war is o’er and won, I will come back to you, my Number One."
"I live in this county, native of it. The ground’s full of water. San Ysidro River will be up."
"Sometimes she gave in and sometimes she got money or clothes."
"Older men wanted to help her, put her in school or on the stage."
"These were the easiest because she could say yes or no and get it over with."
"What she really wanted was a nice house in a nice town, two children, and a stairway to stand on."
"She’d have a husband, of course, but she couldn’t see him in her picture."
"You just put it out in the air. I don’t know how, but you do it."
"She took off her clothes at stags. A regular agency handled her."
"She’d even read up on nymphomania, enough, anyway, to know that she didn’t have it."
"But one was out of the country now. She didn’t know where."
"Loraine didn’t care much about men; still, she didn’t go for women."
"Louie could always get a job. The company didn’t pay much attention to old ladies’ letters anyway."
"The sky and the sun were washed and clean. The colors were sharp."
"She knew that sooner or later she would have trouble with Louie."
"He wanted this girl more than he had ever wanted anyone, and in a different way."
"You killed it," Louie said to himself. "Oh, you murdered it."
"The great tires sang on the road, a high, twanging song, and the motor throbbed with a heavy beat."
"There's got to be a first time for everybody."
"I wish we could get something to eat. I'm getting hungry."
"You get used to a thing and so you think you like it. I'll get over it the way I'd get over a cold."
"You think I'm kidding? He didn't tell me. He don't even know it yet."
"If we've got to fight somebody again, you know what's the most awful thing? I'll go too."
"I'm not going to be nibbled to death by ducks."
"I wonder how long I can make the day last. Like a peppermint stick. I’ll have to hold on to today until I can get another one as good."
"What kind of a thing am I? What makes these horrible things in me? Am I going crazy?"
"When things are pretty bad my wife says, ‘It’ll be funny some time.’"
"Star light, star bright, first star I see tonight, wish I may, wish I might, get the wish I wish tonight."