Traffic Light Quotes

• The average person spends two weeks over their lifetime waiting for the traffic light to change.

  Tom Waits

  Light, Average, Two

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• If you are the kind of person who is waiting for the 'right' thing to happen, you might wait for a long time. It's like waiting for all the traffic lights to be green for five miles before starting the trip.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Light, Long, Waiting

  Robert Kiyosaki (2015). “Rich Dad Poor Dad: What The Rich Teach Their Kids About Money That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not!”, p.137, Robert Kiyosaki

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• April prepares her green traffic light and the world thinks Go.

  Christopher Morley

  Easter, Spring, Thinking

  Christopher Morley (1931). “John Mistletoe”, Doubleday, Doran

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• On a traffic light green means 'go' and yellow means 'yield', but on a banana it's just the opposite. Green means 'hold on,' yellow means 'go ahead,' and red means, 'where the hell did you get that banana at?'

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, Mean

  "Strategic Grill Locations". Live Album by Mitch Hedberg, September 7, 1999.

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• Relationships are like traffic lights. And I just have this theory that I can only exist in a relationship if it's a green light.

  Taylor Swift

  Light, Green, Traffic

  "Taylor Swift Single Forever? Singer Says She Might Never Get Married". Wonderland magazine Interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 08, 2013.

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• If it's important to you and you want to do it 'eventually', just do it and correct course along the way.

  Tim Ferriss

  Entrepreneur, Important, Want

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Someday is a dis-ease that will take your dreams to the grave with you.

  Tim Ferriss

  Dream, Entrepreneur, Ease

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If one would cancel all traffic rules and switch off all traffic lights, watching city traffic on TV would be also awfully interesting!

  Oleg Romanishin

  Light, Cities, Interesting

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• Red is one of the strongest colors, it's blood, it has a power with the eye. That's why traffic lights are red I guess, and stop signs as well.... In fact I use red in all of my paintings.

  Keith Haring

  Eye, Light, Blood

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• He sits in his car at traffic lights on his way out sometimes and tries to estimate how many times he has sat here, waiting at these traffic lights on his way somewhere without you, hoping to meet someone with the capacity to consign you to an anecdote, to be eventually confused with others

  Elliot Perlman

  Confused, Light, Car

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• There was a time when the respect and trust my children had for me would have made you sick to your stomach. They believed I could blow on a red traffic light and turn it green.

  Erma Bombeck

  Children, Blow, Light

  Erma Bombeck, Bil Keane (2011). “Just Wait Till You Have Children of Your Own!”, p.139, Fawcett

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• For all of the most important things, the timing always sucks. Waiting for a good time to quit your job? The stars will never align and the traffic lights of life will never all be green at the same time. The universe doesn't conspire against you, but it doesn't go out of its way to line up the pins either. Conditions are never perfect. "Someday" is a disease that will take your dreams to the grave with you. Pro and con lists are just as bad. If it's important to you and you want to do it "eventually," just do it and correct course along the way.

  Tim Ferriss

  Inspirational, Dream, Stars

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Americans are incredibly inpatient. Someone once said that the shortest period of time in America is the time between when the light turns green and when you hear the first horn honk.

  Jim Rohn

  Funny, Time, Light

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Apr 06, 2013

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• Remove all the traffic lights, yellow lines, one-way systems and road markings, and let blissful anarchy prevail. I imagine it would produce a kind of harmony.

  Sadie Jones

  Yellow, Light, Lines

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• The universe doesn't conspire against you, but it doesn't go out of its way to line up the pins either. Conditions are never perfect.

  Tim Ferriss

  Perfect, Lines, Way

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• What are you so mad about? That we still have a government? We still have “traffic lights.” We’re sorry. The government’s not perfect, but some people wish it was better, not gone.

  Jon Stewart

  Sorry, Light, Government

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• What is spiritual experience? A snowflake melting, a bee sucking honey, a fat man at a traffic light. Trivia.

  Frederick Franck

  Spiritual, Men, Light

  Frederick Franck (1974). “Pilgrimage to now/here”

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• The shortest unit of time in the multiverse is the New York Second, defined as the period of time between the traffic lights turning green and the cab behind you honking.

  Terry Pratchett

  New York, Light, Green

  "Lords and Ladies" by Terry Pratchett, Harper, (p. 282), October 2008.

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• It's easy to get depressed and think, "Well, what's the point?" But it's the same as, "Well, we're all going to die, so what's the point in brushing my teeth or even saying hello to anyone or obeying traffic lights." You can do that, but that's certainly not going to take you anywhere.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Thinking, Light, Saying Hello

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• In all my life I'd never been approached this way, the car pulling up, the Where you going? It was something I wish had happened hundreds of times. I was a looker - someone who looked over at every car at every traffic light, hoping something would happen, and almost never finding anyone looking back - always everyone looking forwards, and every time I felt stupid. Why should people look at you? Why should they care?

  Dave Eggers

  Stupid, Light, People

  Dave Eggers (2009). “You Shall Know Our Velocity”, p.221, Vintage

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• What did Doctor Doom really want? He wanted to rule the world. Now, think about this. You could walk across the street against a traffic light and get a summons for jaywalking, but you could walk up to a police officer and say "I want to rule the world," and there's nothing he can do about it, that is not a crime. Anybody can want to rule the world. So, even though he was the Fantastic Four's greatest menace, in my mind, he was never a criminal!

  Stan Lee

  Thinking, Doctors, Light

  "Stan Lee's Amazing Marvel Universe". Book by Roy Thomas, 2006.

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• The Viennese wash everything. Where else in the world does the government hire public servants to wash public telephone booths and the glass over traffic lights? Every time I see someone doing these things, I smile like a child.

  Jonathan Carroll

  Smile, Children, Glasses

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• To be honest, I don't really consider myself a prodigy. Learning the piano, I have encountered some difficulties. There are many challenges in playing and I've grown frustrated at times... But because I like to play the piano, I never thought of giving up. I was always able to overcome difficulties in pianistic techniques. Yes, there might be some 'traffic lights', but they all turned 'green'.

  George Li

  Giving Up, Light, Play

  Interview with Elijah Ho, www.thecounterpoints.com. January 26, 2012.

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• The latest incarnation of Oedipus, the continued romance of Beauty and the Beast, stand this afternoon on the corner of Forty-second Street and Fifth Avenue, waiting for the traffic light to change.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Light, Oedipus

  "The Hero with a Thousand Faces". Book by Joseph Campbell, 1949.

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• Drinks like this tend to get called Traffic Lights or Rainbow's Revenge or, in places where truth is more highly valued, Hello and Good-Bye, Mr. Brain Cell.

  Terry Pratchett

  Revenge, Light, Cells

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