- Ed 'Pimples' Carson: Piece of chocolate cake, please
- Norma , the counter girl: Cake for breakfast? I bet Mr Robert Wagner doesn't start his day wolfing down chocolate cake.
- Van Brunt: You're like me, Mrs. Chicoy. We hate flies.
- Alice Chicoy: Who doesn't?
- Van Brunt: [laughs] Other flies, I guess.
- Alice Chicoy: You're too good lookin' to be off by yourself without me.
- Johnny Chicoy: Just remember, nothing ever happens on a 50-mile bus ride to be jealous of. Miss me?
- Alice Chicoy: Yes. I married you to be with you. Because I couldn't take my eyes off of you. I still can't, Johnny. I'd die if you ever walked out on me.
- Johnny Chicoy: Matter of fact, you wouldn't die. You'd go lookin' for somebody else to pump gas and fill the cigar butts of yours with more money.
- Ed 'Pimples' Carson: [as Johnny is fixing his old bus named Sweetheart] If you're aimin' to sell Sweetheart, there ain't much sense putting a whole lot of work back into it.
- Johnny Chicoy: You never did own a horse, did you... animal of any kind?
- Ed 'Pimples' Carson: Oh, that's different. Animals got feelings.
- Johnny Chicoy: They're both. You drive a bus ten years. It's got feelings too.
- Mildred Pritchard: Who is that?
- Johnny Chicoy: What?
- Mildred Pritchard: The medallion.
- Johnny Chicoy: It's the virgin. Virgin of Guadalupe.
- Mildred Pritchard: What does she do?
- Johnny Chicoy: When you ain't sure about somethin', you ask her.
- Mildred Pritchard: And then she tells you?
- Johnny Chicoy: Then you tell yourself.
- Mildred Pritchard: You're Mexican?
- Johnny Chicoy: Half and half. My mother was Irish.
- Mildred Pritchard: Handsome people, both sides. No wonder you're not so bad looking.
- Elliott Pritchard: Driver, are we on schedule?
- Van Brunt: [Sarcastically] Schedule? Hmph.
- Johnny Chicoy: Mister, this ain't the champagne flight to Chicago.
- Van Brunt: You know where that wind's coming from? Southwest. You know those clouds are coming from? Southwest. You know where all our rain comes from mostly.
- Ernest Horton: Northeast?
- Van Brunt: Yes. No! Southwest.
- Johnny Chicoy: Hey, why don't you take your own advice and shut up for a while, huh?.
- Van Brunt: I wasn't talkin' to you, Chicoy. I was addressin' my fellow passengers. I got the right. I paid my fare!
- Ernest Horton: Thinking about the weather, how about me buying you a nice wet drink when we get to the end of the line?
- Camille Oakes: [Avoiding his come-on line] You know, it was real nice of you giving the kid that compact.
- Ernest Horton: Well, I am nice.
- Camille Oakes: And smart too, I suppose.
- Ernest Horton: I don't know. If I was smart I'd be settling down and married instead of peddlin' stuff around like this. Hey, how about that? Marryin', you and me, huh.
- Camille Oakes: [laughs] It's original. No question about it.
- Ernest Horton: SImple as A-B-C.
- Camille Oakes: [Abruptly] S-E-X, you mean. Look, you're a salesman. So am I. We both know what the score is. It's even. So why don't we call it that and quit, OK?.
- Ernest Horton: I didn't know you were a salesman.
- Camille Oakes: Well, I am. And a good one.
- Ernest Horton: How about that drink?
- Camille Oakes: I don't drink.
- Ernest Horton: Alright, then I'll have two drinks. I'll drink for the both of us..
- Camille Oakes: Fine, you do that. Now why don't you let me alone so I can catch up on what's happening in the rest of the world.
- Mildred Pritchard: [Coming on to the bus driver] You've been driving this bus long?
- Johnny Chicoy: Since you were in fifth grade anyway.
- Mildred Pritchard: I skipped the fifth grade. I was smart.
- Elliott Pritchard: Would you leave her alone, Bernice. We've done enough as it is.
- Mrs. Elliott (Bernice) Pritchard: You know why she was talking to that bus driver, don't you?
- Elliott Pritchard: Because she spilled his coffee.
- Mrs. Elliott (Bernice) Pritchard: She was doing it to test us to see if we care about her. She's still a child looking for her father.
- Elliott Pritchard: Then she better put on her bifocals because I'm right here.
- Ed 'Pimples' Carson: Mr. Chicoy, could you fix it... I mean, could you fix it so you don't call me Pimples, anymore?
- Johnny Chicoy: What's your name? First name?
- Ed 'Pimples' Carson: Ed . Ed Carson. When my old man was alive, he always told me I was a distant cousin to Kit Carson.
- Johnny Chicoy: That's so?
- Ed 'Pimples' Carson: Before I got all these pimples in grammar school, they use to call me Kit.
- Alice Chicoy: [On the phone] Say, when are you comin' back anyway?
- Johnny Chicoy: Well, that's what I was calling about. There was a landslide and the road is closed and I was... we was just...
- Alice Chicoy: [Angrily] Now I get it.
- Johnny Chicoy: What do you mean?
- Alice Chicoy: I mean all of a sudden the road is closed and you've got no place to go except back to mama.
- Johnny Chicoy: Honey, that ain't it.
- Alice Chicoy: You gotta come back anyways so you make it sound like a pretty good deal. You're sorry, I'm sorry, and all those dames are sorry, and Norma's sorry.
- Johnny Chicoy: I called you because I wanted to see ya and I was glad I was gonna see ya. And if you wasn't so drunk, you'd know that was the truth.
- Alice Chicoy: Poor Johnny. Trying to get away and couldn't make it. Now you can't even cry on a blonde's shoulder.
- Camille Oakes: [On the bus] Mind if I sit here?
- Alice Chicoy: Go ahead.
- Camille Oakes: It's none of my business but do you mind if I told you what I did to a guy I was in love with once? I put a chair over his head real hard to keep him from some dame at a party.
- Alice Chicoy: I'll bet you never tried that again.
- Camille Oakes: Don't know. I never saw him after that. He's married. Happily married. Now I make a living. Believe me, breaking a chair over a guy's head can sure work miracles. The kind of miracles that can louse up your whole life.
- Johnny Chicoy: [On the phone] Look, I hadn't oughta left like that. I was too rough on you. I'm sorry, honey.
- Alice Chicoy: Well, you know, Johnny. Sometimes we do things out of love that doesn't seem like love at all. You know what I mean? It's all right. I love you even when you act like a stinker. Even when I act like a stinker and that takes some doing. So you just turn the old bus around and come back double quick.
- Johnny Chicoy: You're a lonely girl, aren't you?
- Mildred Pritchard: What makes you say that?
- Johnny Chicoy: I've got eyes on the back of my neck.
- Johnny Chicoy: What do you want?
- Mildred Pritchard: I don't know. I guess right this second just to be here with you. Aren't you going to make a pass at me? You'll only laugh at me anyway so why bother?
- Johnny Chicoy: I'll bother when you get through arguing with yourself.
- Mildred Pritchard: Will you laugh at me?
- Johnny Chicoy: Do you care?
- Mildred Pritchard: I do very much. I talk too much. I'll bet right this second you're probably saying to yourself, 'why doesn't she just stop talking.'
- Johnny Chicoy: Why don't you?
- Morse: I thought you might need a good shoulder to cry on.
- Alice Chicoy: He said he was comin' back.
- Morse: Aw, you two are no good for each other anyways.
- Alice Chicoy: A lot you know about it.
- Morse: Let him sweat it out. He'll be back one day actin' sorry..
- Alice Chicoy: I don't want him sorry. That's not the way I want him. I'm the one that's sorry. And get off that bed. Get out!
- Morse: Don't get me wrong, Alice. I like Johnny. Just stopped by for coffee and donuts.
- Alice Chicoy: Like fun you did.
- Alice Chicoy: You think I want my customers thinkin' I've got a bunch of goons waitin' on 'em?
- [Alice Grabbing Norma's picture and resume away from her]
- Alice Chicoy: Norma Tracbow. Bust 34; waist 22. What am I running here, a girlie show or something?
- Norma , the counter girl: Give me that picture back or else.
- Alice Chicoy: Don't you threaten me, Miss Movie Queen, and just do your work and quit pretending your somebody you're not.
- Norma , the counter girl: You've got to stop making fun of me.
- Alice Chicoy: Just do one hour of work is all I ask. Just one hour.
- Norma , the counter girl: Don't you push me, Mrs. Chicoy. I'm going. Ever since I came to work for you, you've been picking on me because you're jealous. Not because of work but because you're jealous.
- Alice Chicoy: Jealous? Of you?
- Norma , the counter girl: Of me and every other young girl who came to work here. And frankly, Mrs. Chicoy, I can't blame you for being jealous one little bit..
- Norma , the counter girl: There's some important people on the bus today.
- Ed 'Pimples' Carson: Important people don't ride buses
- Norma , the counter girl: I happen to know Marlon Brando does. Incognito. That way he can study people. It helps his acting.
- Ed 'Pimples' Carson: [Sarcastically] Marlon Brando. Hey, you better get those curlers out of your hair. Start trying to get a crush on a guy you actually know one time. It's more fun.
- Johnny Chicoy: [after the bus avoids a crash and comes to a stand still] Sorry folks.
- Van Brunt: Sorry? By the purist luck we didn't turn turtle!
- Ernest Horton: He coulda killed all of us.
- Van Brunt: I had you figured for a better man.
- Ernest Horton: A better driver anyway. Awful.
- Ed 'Pimples' Carson: He did real good, mister. I'd like to see you drive that good with water in the brake drum.
- Van Brunt: Why didn't he get 'em fixed?
- Mrs. Elliott (Bernice) Pritchard: Bringing us on this road was criminal negligence.
- Elliott Pritchard: It certainly was.
- Van Brunt: It isn't this road. It's the equipment. This should have been condemned long ago.
- Elliott Pritchard: What should have been condemned was that fool bus driver.