Traffic Quotes - Page 6

• Sometimes when I get home at night in Washington I feel as though I had been in a great traffic jam.

  Grace Abbott

  Home, Night, Jam

  Grace Abbott, Judith Sealander (2015). “The Grace Abbott Reader”, p.92, U of Nebraska Press

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• Nobody gives way to anybody. Everyone just angles, points, dives directly toward his destination, pretending it is an all-or-nothing gamble. People glare at one another and fight for maneuvering space. All parties are equally determined to get the right-of-way--insist on it. They swerve away at the last possible moment, giving scant inches to spare. The victor goes forwards, no time for a victory grin, already engaging in another contest of will. Saigon traffic is Vietnamese life, a continuous charade of posturing, bluffing, fast moves, tenacity and surrenders.

  Andrew X. Pham

  Party, Moving, Fighting

  Andrew X. Pham (2010). “Catfish and Mandala: A Two-Wheeled Voyage Through the Landscape and Memory of Vietnam”, p.75, Macmillan

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• You wake up, you wake up, another day, you wake up, you wake up, traffic still moving at the same speed, our eyes looking at the same speed, our minds thinking at the same speed, I wanna see movement, I wanna see change. I wanna wake up for real. I wanna wake up. I wanna wake up. We were meant to live.

  Jon Foreman

  Real, Moving, Eye

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• The car was invented as a convenient place to sit out traffic jams

  Evan Esar

  Car, Jam, Convenient

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• Another air traffic controller fell asleep on the job, but he had a good excuse. He was watching President Obama’s deficit speech.

  Jay Leno

  Jobs, Air, President

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• Michael Jackson is the ultimate traffic accident. People can't take their eyes off him.

  Jeff Zucker

  Eye, People, Accidents

  "NBC Offered to Bump Dateline for Jacko Outtakes" by Roger Friedman, www.foxnews.com. February 17, 2003.

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• Raising people is not some lark. It's serious work with serious repercussions. It's air-traffic control. You can't step out for a minute; you can barely pause to scratch your ankle.

  Kelly Corrigan

  Air, People, Larks

  Kelly Corrigan (2014). “Glitter and Glue: A Memoir”, p.186, Ballantine Books

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• If our family was an airline, Mom was the hub and we were the spokes. You rarely went anywhere nonstop; you went via Mom, who directed the traffic flow and determined the priorities: which family member was cleared for takeoff or landing. Even my father was not immune to Mom's scheduling, though he was given more leeway than the rest of us.

  Will Schwalbe

  Mom, Father, Priorities

  Will Schwalbe (2012). “The End of Your Life Book Club”, p.13, Vintage

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• The best graphics are about the useful and important, about life and death, about the universe. Beautiful graphics do not traffic with the trivial.

  Edward Tufte

  Beautiful, Life And Death, Important

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• The Viennese wash everything. Where else in the world does the government hire public servants to wash public telephone booths and the glass over traffic lights? Every time I see someone doing these things, I smile like a child.

  Jonathan Carroll

  Smile, Children, Glasses

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• True love knows no bargains. It is one-way traffic: giving, giving, giving.

  Swami Satchidananda

  Giving, Way, Knows

  Swami Satchidananda (1987). “The Golden Present: Daily Inspirational Readings”, Integral Yoga Dist

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• Red is one of the strongest colors, it's blood, it has a power with the eye. That's why traffic lights are red I guess, and stop signs as well.... In fact I use red in all of my paintings.

  Keith Haring

  Eye, Light, Blood

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• All things issue from it; all things return to it. To find the origin, trace back the manifestations. When you recognize the children and find the mother, you will be free of sorrow. If you close your mind in judgements and traffic with desires, your heart will be troubled. If you keep your mind from judging and aren't led by the senses, your heart will find peace. Seeing into darkness is clarity. Knowing how to yield is strength. Use your own light and return to the source of light. This is called practicing eternity.

  Laozi

  Mother, Children, Heart

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• When you go through enough dark places, you don't complain about little things. You don't lose your joy because you got stuck in traffic; you don't get offended because a coworker was rude to you. You've been through too much to let that sour you.

  Joel Osteen

  Inspirational, Dark, Rude

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• The point is that petty, frustrating crap like this is exactly where the work of choosing comes in. Because the traffic jams and crowded aisles and long checkout lines give me time to think, and if I don't make a conscious decision about how to think and what to pay attention to, I'm going to be pissed and miserable every time I have to food-shop, because my natural default-setting is the certainty that situations like this are really all about me, about my hungriness and my fatigue and my desire to just get home.

  David Foster Wallace

  Home, Thinking, Giving

  "'Plain Old Untrendy Troubles and Emotions'". www.theguardian.com. September 19, 2008.

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• The US no longer does decisions. It can neither stop the drug traffic nor legalize it. It can neither win wars nor abandon them, neither make money nor stop spending it, neither stop immigration nor assimilate the immigrants. Washington can beat its thumb with a hammer, yes, and notice that it hurts, but it can't stop beating its thumb. That would take a decision, and Washington doesn't do decisions.

  Fred Reed

  Hurt, War, Winning

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• There are never any traffic jams on the extra mile.

  Brian Tracy

  Jam, Miles, Extras

  Brian Tracy (2004). “Getting Rich Your Own Way: Achieve All Your Financial Goals Faster Than You Ever Thought Possible”, p.95, John Wiley & Sons

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• On a traffic light green means 'go' and yellow means 'yield', but on a banana it's just the opposite. Green means 'hold on,' yellow means 'go ahead,' and red means, 'where the hell did you get that banana at?'

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, Mean

  "Strategic Grill Locations". Live Album by Mitch Hedberg, September 7, 1999.

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• Don't you hate when people are late to work. And they always have the worst excuses. "Oh, I'm sorry I'm late, traffic." "Traffic, huh? How do you think I got here; helicoptered in!?"

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Funny, Sorry, Hate

  "Ellen DeGeneres: Here and Now". Comedy, Documentary, June 25, 2003.

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• Wonderful Force of Public Opinion! We must act and walk in all points as it prescribes; follow the traffic it bids us, realize the sum of money, the degree of influence it expects of us, or we shall be lightly esteemed; certain mouthfuls of articulate wind will be blown at us, and this what mortal courage can front?

  Thomas Carlyle

  Wind, Degrees, Public Opinion

  Thomas Carlyle (1855). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: By Thomas Carlyle”, p.195

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• If you are the kind of person who is waiting for the 'right' thing to happen, you might wait for a long time. It's like waiting for all the traffic lights to be green for five miles before starting the trip.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Light, Long, Waiting

  Robert Kiyosaki (2015). “Rich Dad Poor Dad: What The Rich Teach Their Kids About Money That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not!”, p.137, Robert Kiyosaki

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• Watch your thoughts as you watch the street traffic. People come and go; you register without response. It may not be easy in the beginning, but with some practice you will find that your mind can function on many levels at the same time and you can be aware of them all.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Inspiration, Practice, People

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• 33% of urban traffic is actively seeking a parking space.

  Donald Shoup

  Space, Environmental, Urban

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• In seven to ten years video traffic on the Internet will exceed data and voice traffic combined.

  Robert Metcalfe

  Years, Data, Games

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• Cities are for people. A city is where people come to work and raise their families and to spend their money and to walk in the evening. It is not a traffic corridor.

  John Norquist

  Cities, People, Evening

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