Traffic Quotes - Page 13

• A book is so much a part of oneself that in delivering it to the public one feels as if one were pushing one's own child out into the traffic.

  Quentin Bell

  Children, Book, Writing

  Quentin Bell (1990). “Virginia Woolf: a biography”, Vintage

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• Never traffic in unpracticed truth.

  Howard G. Hendricks

  Epic

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• The new American finds his challenge and his love in the traffic-choked streets, skies nested in smog, choking with the acids of industry, the screech of rubber and houses leashed in against one another while the town lets wither a time and die.

  John Steinbeck

  Love, Sky, House

  "Travels With Charley: In Search of America". Book by John Steinbeck, Part 2, 1962.

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• I can’t stop traffic on Fifth Avenue, not unless I walk in front of an oncoming cab.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Fifth Avenue, Walks, Cab

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• Take the high road, there's a lot less traffic up there.

  Phil McGraw

  Taking The High Road, High Road

  "Dr. Phil’s Dos and Don’ts For Co-Parenting With Your Ex". www.huffingtonpost.com. August 29, 2014.

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• I'm not a preacher and I'm not a pastor. But I really feel my career was leading me to make this. The Holy Ghost was working through me on this film, and I was just directing traffic. I hope the film has the power to evangelize.

  Mel Gibson

  Careers, Ghost, Film

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• If you’ve been here, in New York, it has been dominated by the UN General Assembly, the annual event where delegates come from all over the world to f*** up this city’s traffic.

  John Oliver

  New York, Cities, Events

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• I always get scared of traffic cops when I'm driving, like I freak out even when I'm not doing anything wrong. I still think they're going to pull me over and arrest me.

  Leelee Sobieski

  Thinking, Freak, Driving

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

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• Then there are the addicts, the hunger addicts, the rage addicts, the poverty addicts, and power addicts, and the pure addicts who are addicted not to substances but to the oblivion and the tenderness the substances engender. An addict, if you don't mind me saying so, is like a saint. What is a saint but someone who has cut himself off, voluntarily, from the world's traffic and currency?

  Jeet Thayil

  Cutting, Mind, Saint

  "Narcopolis". Book by Jeet Thayil, 2012.

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• The reason I am still sitting at Josef's kitchen table is the same reason traffic slows after a car wreck- you want to see the damage; you can't let yourself pass without that mental snapshot. We are drawn to horror even as we recoil from it.

  Jodi Picoult

  Car, Kitchen, Sitting

  Jodi Picoult (2013). “The Storyteller”, p.164, Simon and Schuster

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• We pull on to the road, where our only company are the wandering cattle, who have become commonplace as traffic lights. Lethargic and listless, they look like they've been roaming the roads of Guinea since the dawn of time. And no doubt they will continue to long after we're gone.

  Tom Hiddleston

  Light, Long, Doubt

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• It's time now to rent a car, roll down the windows and prepare for your first big thrill: the freeways. They're so much fun they should charge admission. Never fret about zigzagging back and forth through six lanes of traffic at high speeds; it erases jet lag in a split second. You're now heading toward Hollywood, like any normal tourist. Breathe in that smog and feel lucky that only in L.A. will you glimpse a green sun or a brown moon. Forget the propaganda you've heard about clean air; demand oxygen you can see in all its glorious discoloration.

  John Waters

  Fun, Moon, Air

  John Waters (1986). “Crackpot, the Obsessions of John Waters”, Vintage

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• We think of it as a sort of traffic accident of the heart. It is an emotion that scares us more than cruelty, more than violence, more than hatred. We allow ourselves to be foiled by the vagueness of the word. After all, love requires the utmost vulnerability. We equip someone with freshly sharpened knives; strip naked; then invite him to stand close. What could be scarier?

  Diane Ackerman

  Heart, Thinking, Knives

  Diane Ackerman (2011). “A Natural History of Love: Author of the National Bestseller A Natural History of the Senses”, p.20, Vintage

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• Stop the traffic...let 'em through.

  Louis Tomlinson

  Ems

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• We gather the things we learned, and they don't nearly add up to fill the space of a life. You will miss the taste of Froot Loops. You will miss the sound of traffic. You will miss your back against his. You will miss him stealing the sheets. Do not ignore these things.

  David Levithan

  Space, Missing, Sound

  David Levithan (2014). “Two Boys Kissing”, p.7, Egmont UK

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• Nominally a great age of scientific inquiry, ours has become an age of superstition about the infallibility of science; of almost mystical faith in its non-mystical methods; above all-which perhaps most explains the expert's sovereignty-of external verities; of traffic-cop morality and rabbit-test truth.

  Louis Kronenberger

  Faith, Science, Age

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• Somebody who talks about how much they're eating and counts calories is unattractive to me. And when you limit yourself in the things you eat, it affects your mood. I've seen people who are a nightmare to be around because they're not eating. That's why I always have an apple in my purse or a Luna Bar in the glove box in case I get stuck in traffic - I don't even want to be alone in the car with myself if I'm hungry!

  Nina Dobrev

  Beauty, Apples, Car

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• As security or firewall administrators, we've got basically the same concerns [as plumbers]: the size of the pipe, the contents of the pipe, making sure the correct traffic is in the correct pipes, and keeping the pipes from splitting and leaking all over the place. Of course, like plumbers, when the pipes do leak, we're the ones responsible for cleaning up the mess, and we're the ones who come up smelling awful.

  Marcus J. Ranum

  Awful, Size, Cleaning

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• If you always look forward, will you go straight? In order to do so, you have to look to your sides and rear and check the traffic signs. And you have to ask for directions from other people.

  Lee Eun-sung

  Drama, Order, Your Side

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• A Buddha is not a man of concentration, he is a man of awareness. He has not been trying to narrow down his consciousness; on the contrary, he has been trying to drop all barriers so that he becomes totally available to existence. Watch... existence is simultaneous. I am speaking here and the traffic noise is simultaneous. The train, the birds the wind blowing through the trees - in this moment the whole of existence converges. You listening to me, I speaking to you, and millions of things going on - it is tremendously rich.

  Rajneesh

  Men, Wind Blowing, Bird

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• Mind can only desire, and each desire is going to be frustrated. Instead of bringing more meditation, it will bring you more frustration. Instead of bringing you more love, it will bring to you more anger. Instead of silence and peace, it will bring more traffic of thoughts.

  Rajneesh

  Frustration, Silence, Meditation

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• Vodka! That's a child's drink, why am I drinking this stupid drink, oh and why am I on a traffic island?

  Dylan Moran

  Funny, Children, Stupid

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• Dictatorships are one-way streets. Democracy boasts two-way traffic.

  Alberto Moravia

  Motivational, Freedom, Democracies Have

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• Any moment now..." The girl [Calypso] stared out at the water. No magical raft appeared. "Maybe it got stuck in a traffic," Leo said.

  Rick Riordan

  Girl, Water, Calypso

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• I am adrenaline slammed into inertia: a fast car stuck in traffic.

  Gayle Forman

  Car, Stuck In Traffic, Adrenaline

  Gayle Forman (2013). “Just One Day”, p.228, Penguin

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