Last week a former Royal Marine who is the boyfriend of the model Kelly Brooks crashed into a bus stop while driving a van carrying a load of dead badgers. I mention this solely to remind you that linguists are not kidding when they say … that your command of English enables you to understand sentences that have never occurred before in the entire history of the human species.
People only know what you tell them. And it was true. People gave out their whole life stories to anyone and everyone without a second's thought. Stand at a bus stop,sit in a strange pub,get banged up,and someone would always give you their life story. It was as if they were trying to prove they existed
Walking with Murphy through the bone-freezing chill toward the bus stop, I start shivering. And somehow, when he slips his arm around me to warm me up, it feels right. Righter than anything ever has.
We're hard-wired by 200,000 years of evolution to be sensitive to the idea that someone might be watching us. They might be predators, after all. An uneasy feeling is perfectly natural if you suspect that someone has you in their ocular sights, whether it's a ghost or just some guy at the bus stop.
It feels great seeing posters everywhere, and bus stops promoting 'Black Nativity,' and billboards in Los Angeles. It's overwhelming. I can't wait for everybody to see what I got.
If I meet someone at a bus stop, I want to really meet that person. I don't want to be 'Hugh Jackman, the famous actor. '
Literature transforms and intensifies ordinary language, deviates systematically from everyday speech. If you approach me at a bus stop and murmur Thou still unravished bride of quietness, then I am instantly aware that I am in the presence of the literary.
Standing at the bus stop sucking on a lollipop Once she gets pumping its hard to make the hottie stop
The energies of Lagos life- creative, malevolent, ambiguous- converge at the bus stops
Wow. This makes grand central look like a bus stop in Buttfuck Nebraska.
I slipped at a bus stop; I went one way and my hair went the other. That was the end of my wig.
Bus stops are far more interesting and useful places to have art than in museums.
A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my desk, I have a work station….
I had done my first picture and I didn't have anything to do for awhile. I was asked to come back to New York and do Bus Stop in the role of the cowboy opposite Kim Stanley.
I’m one of those moms who’s at the bus stop with my camcorder every year, with my phone taking a million pictures as they get on the bus.
If one person starts crying, I'll cry. If one person has no money, I'll give them mine. If I had a bicycle growing up, I always felt incredibly guilty when I see someone sitting at the bus stop.
In soaps, people come back from the dead all the time, to the point where death is just a bus stop.
I like that Sarah Palin. She looks like the flight attendant who won't give you a second can of Pepsi. . . She looks like the nurse who weighs you and then makes you sit alone in your underwear for 20 minutes. . . She looks like a real estate agent whose picture you see on the bus stop bench. . . She looks like the hygienist who makes you feel guilty about not flossing. . . She looks like the relieved mom in a Tide commercial.
Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it. "
