Traffic Quotes - Page 2

• The purpose of road traffic is speed, not safety.

  Janusz Korwin-Mikke

  Safety, Purpose, Speed

  Polskie Radio Program III Radio Station, November 10, 2006.

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• He waved to the city and said good-bye. The city responded by carrying on the way it always did, traffic moving forward uninterrupted, without slowing, as if it were trying to demonstrate its permanence and show him it would still be there if he ever wanted to return. That promise was the best and only thing he could ask of it.

  Matthew J. Kirby

  Moving, Cities, Bye

  Matthew J. Kirby (2012). “The Clockwork Three”, p.372, Scholastic Inc.

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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, Theory

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

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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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• Secure web servers are the equivalent of heavy armoured cars. The problem is, they are being used to transfer rolls of coins and cheques written in crayon by people on park benches to merchants doing business in cardboard boxes from beneath highway bridges. Further, the roads are subject to random detours, anyone with a screwdriver can control the traffic lights, and there are no police.

  Gene Spafford

  Light, Bridges, People

  Simson Garfinkel, Gene Spafford (1997). “Web Security & Commerce”, O'Reilly Media

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• One of my favorite activities is just to drive and listen to music - of course, only when there's no traffic.

  Jacqui Holland

  My Favorite, Listening To Music, Courses

  "Interview with Actress Jacqui Holland on Beauty, Aging, and Embracing Pain". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.

  Dan Rather

  Funny, Memorial Day, Block

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• You're just like crosstown traffic, so hard to get through to you.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Relationship, Hard

  Song: Crosstown Traffic

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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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• 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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• Much of the lifeblood of blogs is search engines - more than half the traffic for most blogs.

  Matt Mullenweg

  Half, Search Engine, Engines

  "WordPress makes a stand for open source morality". Interview with Tim Anderson, www.theguardian.com. October 11, 2007.

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• I love traffic. It's fantastic. New York traffic is so relaxing.

  Chris Kattan

  New York, Fantastic

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Traffic terrifies me.

  Moby

  "Musician Moby". "Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. May 20, 2011.

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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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• Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work, driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for, in order to get to a job that you need so you can pay for the clothes, car and the house that you leave empty all day in order to afford to live in it.

  Ellen Goodman

  Jobs, Humor, Order

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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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• First you learn to drive fast. Next, you learn to drive fast in traffic. Then, you learn how to do it for 500 miles.

  Alan Kulwicki

  Next, Firsts, Miles

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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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• The best car safety device is a rear-view mirror with a cop in it.

  Dudley Moore

  Views, Mirrors, Safety

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• Delhi came as a shock. There were so many people, and oh, the traffic.

  Tina Turner

  People, Delhi, Shock

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• I stand on the sidewalk watching it because the responsibility is mine and I must, I take a very firm hold on the handles of the baby carriage and I wheel it into the traffic.

  Grace Abbott

  Girl, Baby, Responsibility

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• When men were all asleep the snow came flying, In large white flakes falling on the city brown, Stealthily and perpetually settling and loosely lying, Hushing the latest traffic of the drowsy town.

  Robert Bridges

  Lying, Fall, Men

  "London Snow" l. 1 (1890)

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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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• Happiness is, in truth, a very cheap thing, when the heart will be contented to traffic with nature - art has quite a different price.

  Sarah Josepha Hale

  Happiness, Art, Different

  Sarah Josepha Buell Hale (1835). “Traits of American Life”, p.216

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• Traffic signals in New York are just rough guidelines.

  David Letterman

  Funny, Sarcastic, New York

  "Late Show with David Letterman",

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