Traffic Quotes - Page 16

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

  Dave Dutton

  Baby, Thinking, Wardens

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• 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'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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I need no traffic from Google. I don't care if I get one traffic referral from Google, or Bing, or Yahoo, or any of these others. It's always been that way.

  Matt Drudge

  Google, Referrals, Needs

  Source: noworldorder.com

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• Usually without realizing it, our ultimate peace starts and ends in the authority of God alone, which means the solution to living in joy, peace, and harmony with our fellow men has been here for all since the beginning of mankind and throughout civilization. I have yet to feel the urge to argue politics: it reminds me of getting off the freeway to sit in raging traffic.

  Criss Jami

  Mean, Men, Civilization

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• For me, Twitter works best as a way of taking pictures of being stuck in traffic on the Brooklyn Bridge. If people really want to read really funny quips about life, parenting, and pop culture, then by all means read Michael Ian Black's tweets.

  Michael Showalter

  Mean, Brooklyn Bridge, Bridges

  Michael Showalter and Michael Ian Black Have Issues with Twitter" by Michael Showalter and Michael Ian Black, www.esquire.com. July 29, 2009.

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