Traffic Quotes - Page 14

• A red traffic light loomed, and Cecilia slammed her foot on the brake. The fact that Polly no longer wanted a pirate party was breathtakingly insignificant in comparison to that poor man (thirty!) crashing to the ground for the freedom that Cecilia took for granted, but right now, she couldn’t pause to honor his memory, because a last-minute change of party theme was unacceptable. That’s what happened when you had freedom. You lost your mind over a pirate party.

  Liane Moriarty

  Memories, Party, Men

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• The beaten path is the safest, but the traffic's terrible.

  Jeffery Taylor

  Inspirational, Life, Motivation

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• The haters can't see me, the money's in the way like traffic.

  Wiz Khalifa

  Hate, Way, I Hate You

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• As a recluse I couldn't bear traffic. It had nothing to do with jealousy, I simply disliked people, crowds, anywhere, except at my readings. People diminished me, they sucked me dry.

  Charles Bukowski

  Reading, People, Dry

  Charles Bukowski (2007). “Women”, Ecco

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• What is precious is never to forget, The delight of the blood drawn from ancient springs, Breaking through rocks in worlds before our earth; Never to deny its pleasure in the simple morning light, Nor its grave evening demand for love; Never to allow gradually the traffic to smother, With noise and fog the flowering of the spirit.

  Stephen Spender

  Morning, Spring, Simple

  "Poems (I Think of Those Who Were Truly Great)". Book by Stephen Spender, 1933.

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• In railway halls, on pavements near the traffic, They beg, their eyes made big by empty staring And only measuring Time , like the blank clock. No, I shall weave no tracery of pen-ornament To make them birds upon my singing tree: Time merely drives these lives which do not live As tides push rotten stuff along the shore.

  Stephen Spender

  Eye, Bird, Tree

  Stephen Spender (2015). “New Collected Poems of Stephen Spender”, p.50, Faber & Faber

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• The Zen master walks in his garden, alone. There is no traffic there. There is no shopping there. There are only the flowers.

  Frederick Lenz

  Flower, Garden, Shopping

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• The city itself swung slowly toward us silent as a dream. No sign of life but puffs of steam from skyscraper chimneys, the motion of the traffic. The mighty towers stood like tombstones in a graveyard, leaning against the sky and waiting for -- for what? Someday we'll know.

  Edward Abbey

  Dream, Tombstone, Sky

  Edward Abbey (1954). “Slumgullion stew: an Edward Abbey reader”, E P Dutton

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• Centralization of society's vital services in giant computer centers, reservoirs, nuclear power plants, air- traffic control centers, 100-story skyscrapers, and government compounds increases its vulnerability. ... choosing his targets, today's saboteur could pollute a city's water supply, dynamite power transmission towers, cripple an airport control center, destroy a corporate or government computer center.

  Anatol Rapoport

  Airports, Government, Cities

  "Computer crime" by Gerald McKnight, (p. 203), 1973.

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• His idea of traffic safety is going too fast for the cops to catch up.

  Mira Grant

  Ideas, Safety, Cop

  Mira Grant (2010). “Feed: The Newsflesh Trilogy:”, p.188, Hachette UK

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• An isolated man like Alexander Selkirk might feel the benefit of a stock of provisions, tools and other means of facilitating industry, although cut off from traffic, with other men.

  William Stanley Jevons

  Mean, Cutting, Men

  William Stanley Jevons (1970). “The Theory of Political Economy”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• The illusion of the seventh veil was the illusion that you could get somebody else to do it for you. To think for you. To hang on your cross. The priest, the rabbi, the imam, the swami, the philosophical novelist were traffic cops, at best. They might direct you through a busy intersection, but they wouldn't follow you home and park your car.

  Tom Robbins

  Philosophical, Home, Thinking

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• The truth is that stress doesn't come from your boss, your kids, your spouse, traffic jams, health challenges, or other circumstances. It comes from your thoughts about these circumstances.

  Andrew Bernstein

  Inspirational, Stress, Kids

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• What men have given the name of friendship to is nothing but an alliance, a reciprocal accommodation of interest, an exchange of good offices; in it is nothing but a system of traffic, in which self-love always proposes to itself some advantage.

  Francois Alexandre Frederic, duc de la Rochefoucauld-Liancourt

  Men, Self, Names

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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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• 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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• Starting in 98 when I was researching Traffic, I got to meet really serious people in Washington, which for a screenwriter was kind of a great gift. And I really valued these guys; I stayed in touch with them, and I find their point-of-view quite interesting.

  Stephen Gaghan

  Views, People, Interesting

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

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• Cancer - a more or less permanent traffic jam in the body.

  Andreas Moritz

  Cancer, Jam, Body

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• There may not be a hell, but those who judge may create one. I think people are over-taught. They are over-taught everything. You have to find out by what happens to you, how you will react. I'll have to use a strange term here... "good." I don't know where it comes from, but I feel that there's an ultimate strain of goodness born in each of us. I don't believe in God, but I believe in this "goodness" like a tube running through our bodies. It can be nurtured. It's always magic, when on a freeway packed with traffic, a stranger makes room for you to change lanes... it gives you hope.

  Charles Bukowski

  Running, Believe, Thinking

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• Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us.

  Eric Hoffer

  Compassion, Evil, Literature

  Eric Hoffer (1955). “The passionate state of mind, and other aphorisms”

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• A disagreement or incident involving someone who's not that important to you, like a guy who cut you off in traffic or a rude cashier, is something that should roll off your shoulders. Save the effort for resolving conflicts with the people you cherish.

  Joel Osteen

  Cutting, People, Effort

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• It's important to see things in perspective. Automobile traffic is responsible for only 12 percent of total CO2 emissions. One should be able to point this out without being accused of changing the subject.

  Martin Winterkorn

  Perspective, Important, Able

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Nobody likes paying tolls. It's difficult to explain the concept of dynamic tolling, where the price varies to maintain the flow of traffic. And it's difficult to explain why highway widenings don't wind up helping commuters in the long run.

  Robert James Thomson

  Running, Wind, Long

  Source: live.washingtonpost.com

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• I'm not a big city guy...there's too many people, there's too much traffic.

  Jeremy Bonderman

  Cities, People, Guy

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• I hate the traffic over there. Why don't they start to build moving pathways to replace all the streets? I see New York in a very futuristic way, but they must do something new.

  Gianni Versace

  New York, Hate, Moving

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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