Traffic Quotes - Page 16

• We did such a great job of creating the interstate highway system in Oklahoma City that we don't have traffic congestion. You can actually get a speeding ticket during rush hour in the city. That's how great our traffic flows.

  Mick Cornett

  Jobs, Oklahoma City, Cities

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• I don't think I would worry about an oversaturation of information if it was indeed information. It is the slovenly, hasty traffic in cliché and sensationalism and bad reasoning that bothers me. I love finding arcane primary texts on the web. The people who think to put them up are heroes of mine.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Hero, Thinking, People

  "One of Obama’s Favorite Writers Redefines Spirituality". Interview with Gregory Barber, www.motherjones.com. October 25, 2015.

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• If I put too many instruments on stage it will become crowded just like Bangalore traffic!

  Trilok Gurtu

  Bangalore, Stage, Instruments

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• Let your voice be heard, whether or not it is to the taste of every jack-in-office who may be obstructing the traffic. By all means, render unto Caesar that which is Caesar's - but this does not necessarily include everything that he says is his.

  Denis Johnston

  Mean, Voice, Office

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• I couldn't direct traffic. It's hard enough just acting.

  Mickey Rourke

  Acting, Enough, Direct

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Well, the clues are there. They always are. Which is why when crimes are solved decades after the fact, it's obvious that the clues had always been right in front of them. A traffic ticket in Brooklyn is how they got ["Son of Sam" serial killer] David Berkowitz. You've just got to look.

  James Ellroy

  Son, Serial Killer, Looks

  Interview with Chris Wallace, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 9, 2014.

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• I remember one little rainy day I went searching for this apartment and I saw so many people standing on a stoop on the corner in the rain. Later I realized, that was drug traffic. They were all buying drugs.

  Ai Weiwei

  Rain, People, Drug

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I have the ordinary experience of having the blender bottom come off in my room upstairs. I have the ordinary experience of being anonymous when I'm in an airplane talking to air-traffic control, and they don't know who they're talking to. I have a lot of common experiences. What's important is to be able to see yourself, as having commonality with other people and not determine, because of your good luck, that everybody is less significant, less interesting, less important than you are.

  Harrison Ford

  Airplane, Good Luck, Talking

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. January 20, 2010.

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• To the somnambulist, sleep-walking may seem more pleasant and less hazardous than wakeful walking, but the latter is the wiser mode of locomotion in the congested traffic of a modern community. It is about time to abandon judicial somnambulism.

  Jerome Frank

  Sleep, Community, May

  Jerome Frank (1930). “Law and the Modern Mind”, p.171, Transaction Publishers

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• Every year, August lashes out in volcanic fury, rising with the din of morning traffic, its great metallic wings smashing against the ground, heating the air with ever-increasing intensity.

  Henry Rollins

  Morning, Air, August

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• If you're on a freeway and want to know if you're being followed, what you do is enormously vary your speed. You accelerate to 100 and slow down to 30 and then accelerate again. In a city, you make a lot of turns against the stream of traffic. You go around a roundabout twice.

  Salman Rushdie

  Cities, Want, Speed

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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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• When you traffic in monsters, that's the risk you run, that you'll find one too monstrous to stomach.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Running, Risk, Monsters

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “The Scorpio Races”, p.98, Scholastic UK

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• There is no doubt that I have lots of words inside me; but at moments, like rush-hour traffic at the mouth of a tunnel, they jam.

  John Updike

  Patience, Tunnels, Doubt

  John Updike (2012). “Self-Consciousness: Memoirs”, p.80, Random House

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• The day we learn to allow an ambulance to pass through in traffic, might be the first step towards being a truly responsible society.

  Boman Irani

  Society, Might, Firsts

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• (Obama's) a nice person, he's very articulate this is what's been used against him, but he couldn't sell watermelons if it, you gave him the state troopers to flag down the traffic.

  Dan Rather

  Nice, Racism, Flags

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• The human race is divided into two sharply differentiated and mutually antagonistic classes: a smal l minority that plays with ideas and is capable of taking them in, and a vast majority that finds them painful, and is thus arrayed against them, and against all who have traffic with them.

  H. L. Mencken

  Two, Race, Class

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• They've said I want to direct pictures. I couldn't direct traffic.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Sick, Want, Said

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• Fear and bigotry don’t need explaining. They simply are, like traffic jams and taxes.

  Eileen Wilks

  Fear, Needs, Jam

  Eileen Wilks (2011). “Death Magic”, p.25, Penguin

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• Traffic congestion is caused by vehicles, not by people in themselves.

  Jane Jacobs

  People, Vehicle, Congestion

  Jane Jacobs (2016). “The Death and Life of Great American Cities”, p.229, Vintage

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• As we see censorship it is a stupid giant traffic policeman answering "Yes" to "Am I my brother's copper?" He guards a one-way street and his semaphore has four signs, all marked "stop.

  Franklin P. Adams

  Brother, Stupid, Giants

  Franklin P. Adams (''F.P.A.'') (1944). “Nods and Becks”

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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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• Doing stand-up comedy is in the middle of a traffic jam getting everybody moving again.

  Jon Stewart

  Moving, Jam, Comedy

  "Jon Stewart, Faking It and Making It". "Fresh Air" with Dave Davies, www.npr.org. July 22, 2005.

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• A car crossed two lanes of traffic, flipped, and landed on my dad's car. I don't blame cars. My dad loved cars. I don't have many memories of my dad. The love of cars is all I have of him, really.

  Tim Allen

  Memories, Dad, Two

  “Tim Allen: What I've Learned” by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. October 11, 2011.

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• I heard the other day of a man who paid a psychologist $50 to cure him of an inferiority complex - and later was fined $25 and costs for talking back to a traffic cop.

  Shelley Berman

  Men, Talking, Cost

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