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There are no traffic jams along the extra mile. -- Roger Staubach
Traffic signals in New York are just rough guidelines. -- David Letterman
Delhi came as a shock. There were so many people, and oh, the traffic. -- Tina Turner
Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides. -- Margaret Thatcher
If our goal is to be tolerant of people who are different than we are, then we really are aiming quite low. Traffic jams are to be tolerated. People are to be celebrated. -- Glennon Melton
I stand on the sidewalk watching it because the responsibility is mine and I must, I take a very firm hold on the handles of the baby carriage and I wheel it into the traffic. -- Grace Abbott
Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work, driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for, in order to get to a job that you need so you can pay for the clothes, car and the house that you leave empty all day in order to afford to live in it. -- Ellen Goodman
There's no traffic jam on the extra mile. -- Zig Ziglar
Traffic is only one of the side effects of growth. -- Roy Barnes
April prepares her green traffic light and the world thinks Go. -- Christopher Morley
Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic. -- Dan Rather
I want to write books that unlock the traffic jam in everybody's head. -- John Updike
A good science fiction story should be able to predict not the automobile but the traffic jam. -- Frederik Pohl
There are times I might coach one or two workouts a year when the regular coach gets caught in traffic -- Mark Spitz
Whether he is an artist or not, the photographer is a joyous sensualist, for the simple reason that the eye traffics in feelings, not in thoughts. -- Walker Evans
A good catcher is the quarterback, the carburetor, the lead dog, the pulse taker, the traffic cop and sometimes a lot of unprintable things, but no team gets very far without one. -- Miller Huggins
When men were all asleep the snow came flying, In large white flakes falling on the city brown, Stealthily and perpetually settling and loosely lying, Hushing the latest traffic of the drowsy town. -- Robert Bridges
Since you cannot control the weather, or the traffic, or the one you love, or your neighbors, or your boss, then you must learn to control you... the one whose response to the difficulties of life REALLY counts. -- Jim Rohn
In Japan, they have TV sets in cars right now, where you can punch up traffic routes, weather, everything! You can get Internet access already in cars in Japan, so within the next 2 to 3 years it's gonna be so crazy! -- Glenn Danzig
Life always gives us exactly the teacher we need at every moment. This includes every mosquito, every misfortune, every red light, every traffic jam, every obnoxious supervisor (or employee), every illness, every loss, every moment of joy or depression, every addiction, every piece of garbage, every breath. Every moment is the guru. -- Joko Beck
Online I see people committing 'social media suicide' all the time by one of two ways. Firstly by responding to all criticism, meaning you're never going to find time to complete important milestones of your own, and by responding to things that don't warrant a response. This lends more credibility by driving traffic. -- Timothy Ferriss
People nowadays like to be together not in the old-fashioned way of, say, mingling on the piazza of an Italian Renaissance city, but, instead, huddled together in traffic jams, bus queues, on escalators and so on. It's a new kind of togetherness which may seem totally alien, but it's the togetherness of modern technology. -- J. G. Ballard
I hear the word 'tolerance'-tha t some people are trying to teach people to be tolerant of gays. I'm not satisfied with that word. I am gay, and I am not seeking to be 'tolerated'. One tolerates a toothache, rush-hour traffic, an annoying neighbor with a cluttered yard. I am not a negative to be tolerated. -- Chely Wright
He waved to the city and said good-bye. The city responded by carrying on the way it always did, traffic moving forward uninterrupted, without slowing, as if it were trying to demonstrate its permanence and show him it would still be there if he ever wanted to return. That promise was the best and only thing he could ask of it. -- Matthew J. Kirby
Traffic terrifies me. -- Moby
Traffic was very, very free. It was great. -- Jim Capaldi
Traffic is only one of the side effects of growth -- Roy Barnes
Traffic congestion is caused by vehicles, not by people in themselves. -- Jane Jacobs
Traffic accidents have increased 100 percent in the city since the hurricane. -- Don Kelly
I had more fun making Traffic than either of the Ocean's films. -- Steven Soderbergh
Traffic was as much an emotional problem as it was a mechanical one. -- Tom Vanderbilt
Traffic is one of the most powerful films to come out in recent years. It blew me away. -- Mary Hart
I have some road rage inside of me. Traffic, especially in L.A., is a pet peeve of mine. -- Katie Holmes
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
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
Mock mockers after that That would not lift a hand maybe To help good, wise or great To bar that foul storm out, for we Traffic in mockery. -- William Butler Yeats
Smart cities are those who manage their resources efficiently. Traffic, public services and disaster response should be operated intelligently in order to minimize costs, reduce carbon emissions and increase performance. -- Eduardo Paes
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
One of my problems is I'm not really sure if I slot into rock or not. I've always tried to combine world music, folk, jazz, blues and rock, and have done since Traffic. -- Steve Winwood
Traffic is about drugs. As detailed a portrait as I can muster about what is happening in the drug world, from top to bottom, from policy to how things move on the street. -- Steven Soderbergh
If our goal is to be tolerant of people who are different than we are, Chase, then we really are aiming quite low. Traffic jams are to be tolerated. People are to be celebrated. -- Glennon Doyle Melton
Traffic growled and snarled, rising at times to a machine-gun rata-tat-tat, while pedestrians were scuttling about with that desperate ratlike urgency characteristic of all big American cities, but which reaches its ultimate in New York. -- Fritz Leiber
I remember, when I was writing 'Traffic,' talking to top federal drug-enforcement officials and having them say they read it and found it very good and believable, except the scene where the girl describes her resume. -- Stephen Gaghan
I wanted very much to do Traffic and at one point it looked like I was going to work on it. And then, of course, Catherine Zeta-Jones had her relationship with Michael Douglas and it suddenly didn't happen. -- Kevin Costner
It gives us a look into a world that's very much like 'Traffic' was for drugs, this movie is for gun running. Dark at times, but I think Nic Cage is an incredible person to watch and very entertaining. -- Jared Leto
Everything that Traffic ever did, I'd give Steve a complete lyric, titled, written out with the verse, the bridge, the shape and rhyme and then Steve had to figure out how the meter of the words would fit musically. -- Jim Capaldi
Traffic in the streets of Bombay is chaotic at best. Riding a bicycle is a dangerous occupation. However, there are hundreds of them on the streets competing with the cars and buses and lorries because it is the poor man's mode of transport. -- Rohinton Mistry
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
I'm not a believer that you have to write every day. If I felt industrious, I'd spend ten hours a week writing. The writing is going on all the time in my head; the trick is to capture it. Showers are great. Traffic jams are great. -- Julia Glass
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
Traffic counting was very boring and cold to sit out on the streets of New Haven in five pairs of pants - well, that's an exaggeration; it was three pairs of pants - in November for hours and hours clicking buttons counting which cars go left, right, and forward. -- John Hodgman
They say the universe is expanding. That should help with the traffic. -- Steven Wright
If you provide good alternatives for public transport, you won't have traffic problems. -- Jaime Lerner
This isn't life in the fast lane, it's life in the oncoming traffic. -- Terry Pratchett
If I complain about a traffic jam, I have no one to blame but myself. -- Steve Wynn
If you haven't seen your wife smile at a traffic cop, you haven't seen her smile her prettiest. -- Kin Hubbard
The essence of childhood, of course, is play, which my friends and I did endlessly on streets that we reluctantly shared with traffic. -- Bill Cosby
Relationships are like traffic lights. And I just have this theory that I can only exist in a relationship if it's a green light. -- Taylor Swift
They were so clever finding ways to get me the ball. They had to do more than just give up open shots. They had to avoid fouls and pass me the ball in traffic. -- Wilt Chamberlain
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
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
According to 'Star Trek' mythos, Starfleet Command - operational headquarters for a flotilla of craft that keep the cosmic peace - is located in San Francisco's Presidio, in the shadow of the Golden Gate Bridge (still carrying traffic, even in the 23rd century). -- Seth Shostak
City life is stressful. Everybody is running around like crazy, stuck in traffic jams trying to make meetings, trying to make ends meet, trying to meet deadlines, trying to get kids to and from activities. There aren't enough hours in the day for all this business. -- Rebecca Pidgeon
Do I wear a helmet? Ugh. I do when I'm riding through a precarious part of town, meaning Midtown traffic. But when I'm riding on secure protected lanes or on the paths that run along the Hudson or through Central Park - no, I don't wear the dreaded helmet then. -- David Byrne
It's a noisy environment we all live in, whether it's traffic or the workplace, so it's very difficult to think about your life in general. A lot of people are afraid to do that. They like to hide behind their work and not face up to a big problem in their life. -- Enya
Some ISPs are blocking all BitTorrent traffic, because BitTorrent can be used to share files in a piratical way. Hollywood lobbying groups are trying to pass laws which would force ISPs to block or degrade BitTorrent traffic, too. Personally, I think this is like closing down freeways because a bank robber could use them to get away. -- Wil Wheaton
Stockholm is unique in that it's built on islands and surrounded by water, so you get this enormous sense of freedom. It's got everything you could possibly need - everything New York or London has but without all the people and traffic. It's also become a very creative city, not only for music but also for fashion and computer games. -- Bjorn Ulvaeus
If you're walking with your lady on the sidewalk, I still like to see a man walking street-side, to protect the lady from traffic. I grew up with that, and I hate to see something like that get lost. I still like to see that a man opens the door. I like those touches of chivalry that are fast disappearing. -- Betty White
There's only a couple times when fame is ever helpful. Sometimes you can get into a restaurant where the kitchen is just closing. Sometimes you can avoid a traffic violation. But the only time it really matters is in the emergency room with your kids. That's when you want to be noticed, because it's very easy to get forgotten in an ER. -- Bill Murray
In Toronto, I grew up taking a subway, I grew up taking a bus. I spent my formative adult years in New York City, walking the streets, taking the subway. You're connected to the larger whole. L.A. is so spread out, and you're so incubated inside those cars and it's so exhausting to deal with the traffic, without really having the human contact. -- Enrico Colantoni
When kids run up to me and ask, 'What happened?' I just lean over and whisper, 'Cigarettes.' And once I was in a car and this girl at traffic lights was giving me the eye. She could only see my head, so I decided to do a 360 in the car seat to freak her out. Her face was like, 'Whoa, what is going on?' She sped off really quickly. -- Nick Vujicic
Swearing when in heavy traffic. -- Paulo Coelho
Never traffic in unpracticed truth. -- Howard G. Hendricks
Never be afraid to stop traffic. -- Iris Apfel
Stop the traffic...let 'em through... -- Louis Tomlinson
More traffic means more advertising dollars. -- Jeff Zucker
Take the road less traveled...there's less traffic!!! -- Monika Zands
Parades are man's attempt to make traffic exciting. -- Demetri Martin
Dictatorships are one-way streets. Democracy boasts two-way traffic. -- Alberto Moravia
When you're in your lane, there's no traffic. -- Ava DuVernay
I don't want traffic behavior, I want social behavior. -- Hans Monderman
Relentless and cynical traffic-trawling is bad for the soul. -- Nick Denton
33% of urban traffic is actively seeking a parking space. -- Donald Shoup
I couldn't direct traffic.It's hard enough just acting. -- Mickey Rourke
There are no traffic jams on the extra mile. -- Zig Ziglar
The purpose of road traffic is speed, not safety. -- Janusz Korwin-Mikke
Since you cannot control the weather, or the traffic, -- Jim Rohn
I'm being followed so much I'm causing traffic jams. -- John Grisham
We are caught in a traffic jam of discursive thought. -- Chogyam Trungpa
If you make more roads, you will have more traffic. -- Jan Gehl
There are never any traffic jams on the extra mile. -- Brian Tracy
The beaten path is the safest, but the traffic's terrible. -- Jeffery Taylor
In churches, we live with the danger of one-way verbal traffic. -- Ravi Zacharias
I love traffic. It's fantastic. New York traffic is so relaxing -- Chris Kattan
There is no traffic congestion on the straight and narrow path. -- Thomas Dewar, 1st Baron Dewar
Uh uh uh, turning the car into oncoming traffic...is counterproductive! -- Jim Carrey
I don't know: Why aren't people fascinated by air traffic controllers? -- Kurt Fuller
Mother, may I go and maffick, Tear around and hinder traffic? -- Hector Hugh Munro
They've said I want to direct pictures. I couldn't direct traffic. -- Marilyn Monroe
I hate sitting in traffic, because I always get run over. -- Milton Jones
Take the high road, there's a lot less traffic up there. -- Phil McGraw
There are no traffic jams when you go the extra mile. -- Zig Ziglar
The screams of a hurt woman were indistinguishable from everyday traffic. -- Toni Morrison
I am the sworn, eternal and uncompromising enemy of the liquor traffic. -- Billy Sunday
True love knows no bargains. It is one-way traffic: giving, giving, giving. -- Swami Satchidananda
Friendship is a traffic wherein self-love always proposes to be the gainer. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Few people understand the psychology of dealing with a highway traffic cop. -- Hunter S. Thompson
Any mother could perform the jobs of several air-traffic controllers with ease. -- Lisa Alther
I don't see traffic fines as a substitute for a commuter tax. -- Robert James Thomson
I am adrenaline slammed into inertia: a fast car stuck in traffic. -- Gayle Forman
You're just like crosstown traffic, so hard to get through to you. -- Jimi Hendrix
Cancer - a more or less permanent traffic jam in the body. -- Andreas Moritz
The haters can't see me, the money's in the way like traffic. -- Wiz Khalifa
I'm the worst person to be stuck with in a traffic jam. -- Larry King
Anybody who thinks talk is cheap has never argued with a traffic cop. -- Henny Youngman
Accessibility drives traffic and growth in technology. That's a proven trend in technology. -- Sean Plott
Of course prostitutes have babies. Where do you think traffic wardens come from? -- Dave Dutton
My wife and I, we like to ride where there's not much traffic. -- Evel Knievel
Art is like an ill-trained Labrador retriever that drags you out into traffic. -- Annie Dillard
The car was invented as a convenient place to sit out traffic jams -- Evan Esar

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