Traffic Jam Quotes

• We are caught in a traffic jam of discursive thought.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Objectivity, Jam, Traffic

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• The car was invented as a convenient place to sit out traffic jams

  Evan Esar

  Car, Jam, Traffic

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• I'm the worst person to be stuck with in a traffic jam.

  Larry King

  Worst Person, Jam, Stuck In Traffic

  Larry King, Greg King, Peter Occhiogrosso (1989). “Tell It to the King”, Jove

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• Life always gives us exactly the teacher we need at every moment. This includes every mosquito, every misfortune, every red light, every traffic jam, every obnoxious supervisor (or employee), every illness, every loss, every moment of joy or depression, every addiction, every piece of garbage, every breath. Every moment is the guru.

  Joko Beck

  Inspirational, Life, Depression

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• A traffic jam is a collision between free enterprise and socialism. Free enterprise produces automobiles faster than socialism can build roads and road capacity.

  Andrew Joseph Galambos

  Liberty, Jam, Libertarian

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• A good science fiction story should be able to predict not the automobile but the traffic jam.

  Frederik Pohl

  Fiction Stories, Able, Jam

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• I'm being followed so much I'm causing traffic jams.

  John Grisham

  Jam, Traffic

  John Grisham (2011). “Three Classic Thrillers 3-Book Bundle: The Firm, The Appeal, The Chamber”, p.299, Dell

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• Drivers in a traffic jam, frustrated by each others presence, are not the most amiable of men.

  David Riesman

  Men, Frustrated, Jam

  David Riesman (1964). “Abundance for What?”, p.255, Transaction Publishers

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• A parade looks like a bunch of people are excited about being in traffic.

  Demetri Martin

  People, Looks, Excited

  Twitter post from Oct 17, 2013

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• There are no traffic jams along the extra mile.

  Roger Staubach

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• I think the idea of getting out of a traffic jam and getting out of work each week and going and doing all this stuff would be really exhausting.

  Paul McCartney

  Thinking, Ideas, Would Be

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• If our goal is to be tolerant of people who are different than we are, then we really are aiming quite low. Traffic jams are to be tolerated. People are to be celebrated.

  Glennon Melton

  People, Goal, Tolerance

  Glennon Doyle Melton (2014). “Carry On, Warrior: The Power of Embracing Your Messy, Beautiful Life”, p.139, Simon and Schuster

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• It's your choice, what you do with the moment. If you're stuck in a traffic jam, you can get angry and honk your horn, or listen to Mozart. But when you have a very specific expectation of how things should be, then, of course, you end up hurting yourself.

  Deepak Chopra

  Hurt, Expectations, Choices

  "Get Inspired: Q&A with Deepak Chopra". Interview with Crystal Tate, www.womansday.com. December 11, 2009.

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• There are no traffic jams when you go the extra mile.

  Zig Ziglar

  Kindness, Jam, Valentine's Day

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• I want to write books that unlock the traffic jam in everybody's head.

  John Updike

  Book, Writing, Novelists

  FaceBook post by John Updike from Dec 22, 2013

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• Transport drives me crazy. I find myself on this constant conveyor belt and the planes, buses, traffic jams, ugh.

  Patrick Wolf

  Crazy, Jam, Ugh

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• If I was a Mayor, I would sort the traffic out and that includes public transport. The traffic jams really get on my nerves.

  Delia Smith

  Nerves, Jam, Mayors

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• Fear and bigotry don’t need explaining. They simply are, like traffic jams and taxes.

  Eileen Wilks

  Fear, Needs, Jam

  Eileen Wilks (2011). “Death Magic”, p.25, Penguin

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• There's no traffic jam on the extra mile.

  Zig Ziglar

  Jam, Miles, Traffic

  FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Nov 21, 2014

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• It is in the ordinary events of every day that we develop the proactive capacity to handle the extraordinary pressures of life. It's how we make and keep commitments, how we handle a traffic jam, how we respond to an irate customer or a disobedient child. It's how we view our problems and where we focus our energies. It's the language we use.

  Stephen Covey

  Children, Commitment, Views

  Stephen R. Covey (2004). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change”, p.92, Simon and Schuster

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• Why do you need to drive a Ferrari to get stuck in a traffic jam anyway? How do people afford these cars?

  James Murdoch

  People, Car, Ferrari

  "This much I know". Interview with Lucy Siegle, www.theguardian.com. June 6, 2009.

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• People nowadays like to be together not in the old-fashioned way of, say, mingling on the piazza of an Italian Renaissance city, but, instead, huddled together in traffic jams, bus queues, on escalators and so on. It's a new kind of togetherness which may seem totally alien, but it's the togetherness of modern technology.

  J. G. Ballard

  Italian, Technology, Cities

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• A sip of wine, a cigarette, And then it’s time to go. I tidied up the kitchenette; I tuned the old banjo. I’m wanted at the traffic-jam. They’re saving me a seat.

  Leonard Cohen

  Wine, Jam, Saving

  Song: Boogie Street, Album: Ten New Songs, 2001

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• When you factor in population growth, it's clear that the mobility model that we have today simply will not work tomorrow. Four billion clean cars on the road are still four billion cars, and a traffic jam with no emissions is still a traffic jam.

  Bill Ford

  Motivation, Inspiration, Technology

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• If a car comes past me in a traffic jam with a boom box going, I jump out of my skin. Those big booming basses. I'm just more sensitive to noise these days.

  George Harrison

  Past, Car, Skins

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