Quotes About No Traffic Jam

#1. There's no traffic jam on the extra mile.

Zig Ziglar

#2. I'm the worst person to be stuck with in a traffic jam.

Larry King

#3. My ideal city would be one long main street with no cross streets or side streets to jam up traffic. Just a long one-way street.

Andy Warhol

#4. What a day! She had gotten fired, sat in God-knows-what, got rained on, got caught in a traffic jam, been rejected three times, and, as if that weren't enough sponged on by a mooch of an alien knight who claimed he was protecting her from household appliances.
Knight of a Trillion stars

Dara Joy

#5. If a car comes past me in a traffic jam with a boom box going, I jump out of my skin. Those big booming basses. I'm just more sensitive to noise these days.

George Harrison

#6. 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

#7. A good science fiction story should be able to predict not the automobile but the traffic jam.

Frederik Pohl

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

Delmore Schwartz

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

James Murdoch

#10. It is like sitting in a traffic jam on the San Diego Freeway with your windows rolled up and Portuguese music booming out of the surround-sound speakers while animals gnaw on your neck and diseased bill collectors hammer on your doors with golf clubs.

Hunter S. Thompson

#11. Drivers in a traffic jam, frustrated by each others presence, are not the most amiable of men.

David Riesman

#12. There are never any traffic jams on the extra mile.

Brian Tracy

#13. If I complain about a traffic jam, I have no one to blame but myself.

Steve Wynn

#14. Transport drives me crazy. I find myself on this constant conveyor belt and the planes, buses, traffic jams, ugh.

Patrick Wolf

#15. If you could take a subway from the suburbs in Boston, where I live, to downtown in 10 minutes, that improves your life over sitting in a traffic jam. People should see that.

Noam Chomsky

#16. If you are trying to get from here to there, and you already are late, you know that you are late, and yet you are aligned with the present moment while you are stuck in a traffic jam. You are totally accepting of the moment.

Eckhart Tolle

#17. If I was a Mayor, I would sort the traffic out and that includes public transport. The traffic jams really get on my nerves.

Delia Smith

#18. A traffic jam is a collision between free enterprise and socialism. Free enterprise produces automobiles faster than socialism can build roads and road capacity.

Andrew Joseph Galambos

#19. As I left my cab in the traffic jam, the driver made it clear he didn't like it that I was ending our relationship so unexpectedly

Steve Toltz

#20. I despair about the lack of proper respect shown for the piano. If you want it to sound like a traffic jam, go out in the street and forget the piano. That's not a piano sound.

Oscar Peterson

#21. Cancer - a more or less permanent traffic jam in the body.

Andreas Moritz

#22. It's easy to blame traffic jam
when you're late and in a hurry.

Toba Beta

#23. There is never a traffic jam created from people going the extra mile

Jeff Dixon

#24. 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

#25. If politics left out the manipulation of money, I would perhaps view it more than a partisan traffic jam that never ends.

Zephyr McIntyre

#26. My timing is perfect, and I wind up in a traffic jam. The cars around me are driven by fat cows and bellowing bulls. We roll along, six mph. I can run faster than this. We brake. They chew their cud and moo into their phones until the herd shifts gears and rolls forward again.

Laurie Halse Anderson

#27. The car was invented as a convenient place to sit out traffic jams

Evan Esar

#28. It's not as if any of us wants to live like this, any more than any one person wants to be part of a traffic jam or stadium trampling or the hierarchy of cruelty in high school; it's something we collectively force one another to do.

Tim Kreider

#29. When you factor in population growth, it's clear that the mobility model that we have today simply will not work tomorrow. Four billion clean cars on the road are still four billion cars, and a traffic jam with no emissions is still a traffic jam.

Bill Ford

#30. Traffic in Joburg is like the democratic process. Every time you think it's going to get moving and take you somewhere, you hit another jam.

Lauren Beukes

#31. The epitome of the human realm is to be stuck in a huge traffic jam of discursive thought.

Chogyam Trungpa

#32. I think the idea of getting out of a traffic jam and getting out of work each week and going and doing all this stuff would be really exhausting.

Paul McCartney

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

Jon Stewart

#34. It's your choice, what you do with the moment. If you're stuck in a traffic jam, you can get angry and honk your horn, or listen to Mozart. But when you have a very specific expectation of how things should be, then, of course, you end up hurting yourself.

Deepak Chopra

#35. First, learn how to report traffic jams, then you can talk about football.
(on Bulgarian journalists)

Ivan Slavkov

#36. There is an element of mystique to radio, and I often listen to cricket commentary on radio, especially when one is stuck in a traffic jam.

Rahul Dravid

#37. We are caught in a traffic jam of discursive thought.

Chogyam Trungpa

#38. I want to write books that unlock the traffic jam in everybody's head.

John Updike

#39. There are no traffic jams when you go the extra mile.

Zig Ziglar

#40. Already a sizable traffic jam blocked the Bund. Once again the crush and clutter of Shanghai had engulfed its invaders.

J.G. Ballard

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

Grace Abbott

#42. A sip of wine, a cigarette, And then it's time to go. I tidied up the kitchenette; I tuned the old banjo. I'm wanted at the traffic-jam. They're saving me a seat.

Leonard Cohen