Jam Quotes - Page 6

• Literary Party: A traffic jam of the lost waiting for the ferry across the Styx.

  Delmore Schwartz

  Party, Waiting, Lost

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• There was always a real reason for everything - why spoons tarnished, and jam furred, and people declined into God, or drink, or card games.

  Edna O'Brien

  Real, Games, People

  Edna O'Brien (1979). “A Rose in the Heart”, Doubleday Books

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• There are songs I really enjoy playing. I like playing "Say It" live because it's a long jam, kind of like shoegaze, so I do enjoy that.

  Stephan Jenkins

  Song, Long, Kind

  "Get Back to That Place: Third Eye Blind's Stephan Jenkins Talks Touring Again and Why He Adores Tove Lo". Interview with Kelly Bender, people.com. June 30, 2015.

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• I was in Nashville and I was having just the most amazing time there, discovering who I was as an artist because that is such a music city. Everyone there is so friendly and inspiring and down to jam.

  Lisa Origliasso

  Artist, Nashville, Cities

  Source: www.fuse.tv

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• I was always into sports games. Never really played anything else. I grew up on games like Madden and NBA Jam.

  Chris Paul

  Sports, Nba, Games

  Source: www.ign.com

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• Before we can leave our parents, they stuff our heads like the suitcases which they jam-pack with homemade underwear.

  Maxine Hong Kingston

  Parent, Underwear, Stuff

  Maxine Hong Kingston (2010). “The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts”, p.98, Vintage

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• My first place in Nashville was like Animal House. The whole band lived under one roof, and most nights the jam sessions ended close to sunrise.

  Charlie Worsham

  Animal, Night, Nashville

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• I still have my old Nintendo 64 that works. And I hook it up, and I still play the original Goldeneye. Im that geek. I have an NBA Jam arcade machine in my office at SNL.

  Taran Killam

  Nba, Play, Office

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• My days are jam-packed with carpools, classroom assistance, tending to chickens, dogs and seven acres of olive trees!

  Carre Otis

  Dog, Tree, Acres

  "Speaking for the Silent" by Carre Otis, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 7, 2012.

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• Everything that happens to you is self-created. Whenever you're responding to any situation, whether it's a sip of coffee, or a traffic jam, or a love note, or criticism from a boss, or rainy weather, you're in fact responding to a signal that you generated within yourself.

  Deepak Chopra

  Coffee, Weather, Self

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• One problem with how we think about the Bible is that people tend to jam it into narrower categories, when in fact it is many things all at once.

  David Plotz

  Thinking, People, Facts

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• People seek to put you in an off-balance situation so they can get to you. Psychic people, people who meditate, are more susceptible; they are more open and sensitive. It is easier to jam them.

  Frederick Lenz

  Psychics, People, Balance

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• I write at all different times. I write in my bed, I write at the table. I need to get it together. I'm working on a book and working, and just jam it in whenever it makes sense.

  Lena Dunham

  Book, Writing, Together

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• I'm not a fan of anybody music who I feel like a sucka. I don't listen to you. They play you in the club, you can have the #1 jam, but if I know your character, how can I listen to your music?

  Gucci Mane

  Character, Play, Clubs

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• Why do you need to drive a Ferrari to get stuck in a traffic jam anyway? How do people afford these cars?

  James Murdoch

  People, Car, Ferrari

  "This much I know". Interview with Lucy Siegle, www.theguardian.com. June 6, 2009.

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• No one can be so welcome a guest that he will not become an annoyance when he has stayed three continuous days in a friend's house. [Lat., Hospes nullus tam in amici hospitium diverti potest, Quin ubi triduum continuum fuerit jam odiosus siet.

  Plautus

  House, Three, Guests

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• If the air is jam-full of sounds which we tune in with, why should it not also be full of feels and smells and things seen through the spirit, drawing particles from us to them and them to us like magnets?

  Emily Carr

  Air, Drawing, Smell

  Emily Carr (2009). “Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr”, p.293, D & M Publishers

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• Hang in there. If you believe what you're doing is unique. Otherwise give up or sound like Nirvana or Pearl Jam.

  Joey Ramone

  Giving Up, Believe, Unique

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• To my surprise, I felt a certain springy keenness. I was ready to hike. I had waited months for this day, after all, even if it had been mostly with foreboding. I wanted to see what was out there. All over America today people would be dragging themselves to work, stuck in traffic jams, wreathed in exhaust smoke. I was going for a walk in the woods. I was more than ready for this.

  Bill Bryson

  America, People, Would Be

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• My family was all musicians. We jam all the time.

  Tyler Hilton

  Musician, My Family

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• I play guitar quite a bit, because I'm always in search of something. I don't play to jam, but because I'm fishing. I'm looking for something, that I hope you can never find. If I do find it, I'm afraid I won't have a need to do this any more.

  Robbie Robertson

  Guitar, Fishing, Play

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• I'm not going to listen to the hottest Hip Hop station in my city because that's not where I'm at right now. I'm going to listen to the smooth jams of the 90's and early 2000's. That's where I am and that's where my audience is.

  Ginuwine

  Cities, Hip Hop, Hips

  Source: youknowigotsoul.com

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• The shower is my time to open up my operatic chops, because of the enormous echo. You sound five times as big in the shower, so I break into some "Nessun Dorma" from Puccini 's Turandot or Pearl Jam. You've got to go big when you're in the shower. There's no half-singing in the shower, you're either a rock star or an opera diva.

  Josh Groban

  Stars, Echoes, Rocks

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Practically all we know is that thousands of native Haitians have been killed by American Marines, and that many of our own gallant men have sacrificed their lives at the behest of an Executive department in order to establish laws drafted by the Assistant Secretary of the Navy. ... I will not empower an Assistant Secretary of the Navy to draft a constitution for helpless neighbors in the West Indies and jam it down their throats at the point of bayonets borne by U.S. Marines.

  Warren G. Harding

  Marine, Men, West Indies

  "Democracy at the Point of Bayonets". Book by Mark Penceny, 1999.

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• From literature to ecology, from the escape velocity of galaxies to the greenhouse effect, from garbage disposal methods to traffic jams, everything is discussed in our world. But the democratic system, as if it were a given fact, untouchable by nature until the end of time, we don't discuss that.

  Jose Saramago

  Garbage Disposal, Our World, Literature

  Jose Saramago's intervention in the World Social Forum in Porto Alegre, February 1992.

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