The Wayward Bus (1957)

Will Wright: Van Brunt

Quotes 

• Van Brunt : You're like me, Mrs. Chicoy. We hate flies.

  Alice Chicoy : Who doesn't?

  Van Brunt : [laughs]  Other flies, I guess.

• 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!

• 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.