Jam Quotes

• The rule is, jam tomorrow and jam yesterday - but never jam today.

  Lewis Carroll

  Food, Yesterday, Cooking

  Though the Looking-Glass ch. 5 (1872)

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• It is as healthy to enjoy sentiment as to enjoy jam.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Healthy, Sentimental, Emotion

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• once it's jam, it can't be strawberries anymore.

  Marilyn Wallace

  Past, Strawberries

  Marilyn Wallace (1993). “So Shall You Reap”, Crimeline

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• There are no traffic jams along the extra mile.

  Roger Staubach

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• We may take breaks and do other things, but we feel we'll ultimately have Pearl Jam as a family.

  Stone Gossard

  Pearls, May, Break

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• If you can't slam with the best, then jam with the rest.

  Charles Barkley

  Slam, Ifs

  "Fictional character: Charles Barkley". Video Game "Barkley, Shut Up and Jam: Gaiden", 2008.

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• I would love to go and live in the mountains... and make jam.

  Eve Best

  Mountain

  "Eve Best: 'Webster is like learning to eat with a chainsaw'". Interview With Kate Kellaway, www.theguardian.com. February 25, 2012.

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• Music has always been my protection against the world, from a very young age. I feel safe inside of a jam.

  Trey Anastasio

  Birthday, Age, World

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• That's why I hate to get started in these jam sessions. I'm always the last one to leave.

  Elvis Presley

  Hate, Lasts, Session

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• Some of the jam we thought was for tomorrow, we've already eaten

  Tony Benn

  Politics, Tomorrow

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• That jam was so much fun that by the end of the tour, we just jammed on all of the songs.

  Charlie Byrd

  Song, Fun, Journey

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• The Law of Raspberry Jam: the wider any culture is spread, the thinner it gets.

  Alvin Toffler

  Law, Culture, Raspberries

  "Forbes Book of Quotations: 10,000 Thoughts on the Business of Life". Book edited by Ted Goodman, 2016.

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• Terror is as much a part of the concept of truth as runniness is of the concept of jam. We wouldn't like jam if it didn't, by its very nature, ooze. We wouldn't like truth if it wasn't sticky, if, from time to time, it didn't ooze blood.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Time, Truth, Blood

  Jean Baudrillard (1990). “Cool Memories”, p.197, Verso

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• Now, that's enough.
  [Lat., Ohe! jam satis est.]

  Horace

  Satisfaction, Enough

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• I also think stress is related to control. When you're in charge of your life, you tend to not care about losing control of things that don't really matter like traffic jams.

  Marilu Henner

  Stress, Thinking, Losing Control

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• With Pearl Jam, everybody is so good at what they do, it's hard to get up the courage to say, Can I sing this part, or, I want to play guitar. I feel like I have more courage to do that.

  Jeff Ament

  Guitar, Play, Pearls

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• Louis Pasteur said, 'Chance favors the prepared mind.' If you're really engaged in the writing, you'll work yourself out of whatever jam you find yourself in.

  Michael Chabon

  Writing, Finding Yourself, Mind

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• At a certain point my novels set. They set just as hard as that jam jar. And then I know they are finished.

  Ivy Compton-Burnett

  Jars, Certain, Novel

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• Well ironically my last three roles have all been a mother. One was a Canadian film where the baby was taken away because she is a drug addict, in Irish Jam I play a mother to a four year old. I think in the future I'll be able to handle the role with a lot more depth.

  Anna Friel

  Mother, Baby, Taken

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• When 5150 came out rock was king. Post Nirvana and Pearl Jam 1996 is a different story.

  Gary Cherone

  Kings, Rocks, Different

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• Our last jam session was this past Christmas. Dad played his harmonica, mom sang in English and Italian, and I played guitar. I'm so happy that we could share that musical experience for one last time.

  Tony Visconti

  Christmas, Mom, Dad

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• Not only did I get to play with these great international musicians, but I also had the opportunity to jam with the local celebrities in Toronto, people like the Walsh Brothers, David Wilcox, Kim Mitchell and the like. It was a great learning experience.

  Jeff Healey

  Brother, Opportunity, Play

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• Sometimes when I get home at night in Washington I feel as though I had been in a great traffic jam.

  Grace Abbott

  Home, Night, Sometimes

  Grace Abbott, Judith Sealander (2015). “The Grace Abbott Reader”, p.92, U of Nebraska Press

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• When the generation after me started getting on the cut, a lot of them would call me over to hang out or go jam and scratch and they were always separate from each other.

  Kid Koala

  Cutting, Scratches, Generations

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• My first jam was at Hotel Diplomat opening for Hollywood.

  Kurtis Blow

  Hollywood, Diplomats, Firsts

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