Traffic Quotes - Page 15

• There's only a couple times when fame is ever helpful. Sometimes you can get into a restaurant where the kitchen is just closing. Sometimes you can avoid a traffic violation. But the only time it really matters is in the emergency room with your kids. That's when you want to be noticed, because it's very easy to get forgotten in an ER.

  Bill Murray

  Couple, Kids, Kitchen

  "Bill Murray: The ESQ+A". Interview with Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. May 23, 2012.

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• The number of stressors has multiplied exponentially: traffic, money, success, work/life balance, the economy, the environment, parenting, family conflict, relationships, disease. As the nature of human life has become far more complicated, our ancient stress response hasn't been able to keep up.

  Andrew Bernstein

  Stress, Numbers, Balance

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• Do I wear a helmet? Ugh. I do when I'm riding through a precarious part of town, meaning Midtown traffic. But when I'm riding on secure protected lanes or on the paths that run along the Hudson or through Central Park - no, I don't wear the dreaded helmet then.

  David Byrne

  Running, Central Park, Parks

  "David Byrne and Jeremy Deller: Audio Games". Modern Painters Interview, www.blouinartinfo.com. March 17, 2010.

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• Traffic was very, very free. It was great.

  Jim Capaldi

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• The essence of childhood, of course, is play, which my friends and I did endlessly on streets that we reluctantly shared with traffic.

  Bill Cosby

  Essence, Play, Childhood

  Twitter post from Nov 11, 2009

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• The Holy Ghost was working through me on this film, and I was just direction traffic.

  Mel Gibson

  Ghost, Film, Holy

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• I've become convinced that nostalgia is a fundamentally unhealthy modality. When you see it, it's usually attached to something else that's really, seriously bad. I don't traffic in nostalgia. We're becoming a global culture.

  William Gibson

  Culture, Becoming, Nostalgia

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• If you haven't seen your wife smile at a traffic cop, you haven't seen her smile her prettiest.

  Kin Hubbard

  Smile, Wife, Funny Marriage

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• My wife and I, we like to ride where there's not much traffic.

  Evel Knievel

  Wife, My Wife

  Interview With Tony Marx, mnmotorcycle.com. June 6, 2001.

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• Many of my friends back in New York and elsewhere have a glib or dismissive attitude toward Los Angeles. It's a place of strip malls and traffic and not much else, in their opinion.

  Moby

  New York, Attitude, Opinion

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• Of course prostitutes have babies. Where do you think traffic wardens come from?

  Dave Dutton

  Baby, Thinking, Wardens

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• What radical constructivism may suggest to educators is this: the art of teaching has little to do with the traffic of knowledge, its fundamental purpose must be to foster the art of learning.

  Ernst von Glasersfeld

  Art, Teaching, Purpose

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• These are the things I learned: share everything, play fair. Don't hit people. Put things back where you found them. Clean up your own mess. Don't take things that aren't yours. Say you're sorry when you hurt somebody. Wash your hands before you eat. Warm cookies and cold milk are good for you. Live a balanced life. Learn some and think some and draw some and paint and sing and dance and play and work some every day. Take a nap every afternoon, and, when you go out into the world, watch for traffic, hold hands, and stick together.

  Robert Fulghum

  Hurt, Sorry, Thinking

  Robert Fulghum, “All I Really Need To Know I Learned In Kindergarten”

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• I'm going to introduce you to a revolutionary thought - you can go slower and get there quicker. And that's to do with flow. As soon as you made it two lanes and brought in the 70 (mph) and 50 (mph), you got there quicker. It meant the flow of the traffic was better, there were less accidents, less deaths, I think that's an important factor.

  John Prescott

  Thinking, Mph, Two

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• I'm for the death penalty, I'm pro-abortion, I'm pro-assisted suicide, I'm pro-regular suicide. Anything that'll get the traffic moving.

  Bill Maher

  Suicide, Moving, Abortion

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• If you're walking with your lady on the sidewalk, I still like to see a man walking street-side, to protect the lady from traffic. I grew up with that, and I hate to see something like that get lost. I still like to see that a man opens the door. I like those touches of chivalry that are fast disappearing.

  Betty White

  Hate, Men, Doors

  "Follow a lady's word: Betty White dispenses some relationship advice for the average male". Q&A, www.heraldextra.com. May 13, 2011.

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• I don't know: Why aren't people fascinated by air traffic controllers?

  Kurt Fuller

  Air, People, Controllers

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Those who refuse to support and defend the state have no claim to protection by that state. Killing an anarchist or a pacifist should not be considered "murder" in a legalistic sense. The offense against the state, if any, should be "Using deadly weapons within city limits," or "Creating a traffic hazard," or other misdemeanor.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Peace, War, Cities

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• Popular culture no longer craves archangels and new dawns. Pop culture traffics in vampires and deads of night.

  James Wolcott

  Night, Vampire, Dawn

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• Democracy is disruptive. Around the world, peaceful protesters are being demonised for this, but there is no right in a democratic civil society to be free of disruption. Protesters ideally should read Gandhi and King and dedicate themselves to disciplined, long-term, non-violent disruption of business as usual - especially disruption of traffic.

  Naomi Wolf

  Kings, Long, Peaceful

  "How to Occupy the moral and political high ground" by Naomi Wolf, www.theguardian.com. November 5, 2011.

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• Mobile notifications put people in a state of perpetual emergency interruption - similar to what 911 operators and air traffic controllers experienced back in the '70s and '80s.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Air, People, Emergencies

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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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• Oh Jake," Brett said, "We could have had such a damned good time together." Ahead was a mounted policeman in khaki directing traffic. He raised his baton. The car slowed suddenly, pressing Brett against me. Yes," I said. "Isn't it pretty to think so?

  Ernest Hemingway

  Thinking, Car, Together

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Sun Also Rises”, p.297, Simon and Schuster

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• Despite the fact that computer speeds are measured in nanoseconds and picoseconds - one billionth and one trillionth of a second, respectively - the smallest interval of time known to man is that which occurs in Manhattan between the traffic signal turning green and the taxi driver behind you blowing his horn.

  Johnny Carson

  Travel, Home, Men

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• The two greatest enemies of the individual in the modern world are communism and psychiatry. Each wages a relentless war against that which makes a person an individual: communism against the ownership of property, psychiatry against the ownership of the self (mind and body). Communists criminalize the autonomous use of capital and labor, and harshly punish those who "traffic" in the black market, especially in foreign currencies. Psychiatrists criminalize the autonomous use of the self, and harshly punish those who "traffic" in self-abuse, especially in self-medication and self-destruction.

  Thomas Szasz

  War, Self, Two

  Thomas Stephen Szasz (1990). “The Untamed Tongue: A Dissenting Dictionary”, Open Court Publishing Company

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