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
A good science fiction story should be able to predict not the automobile but the traffic jam. — Frederik Pohl
When you're in your lane, there's no traffic. — Ava DuVernay
This isn't life in the fast lane, it's life in the oncoming traffic. — Terry Pratchett
This isn't life in the fast lane, it's life in the oncoming traffic. — Terry Prachett
There are no traffic jams along the extra mile. — Roger Staubach
If you make more roads, you will have more traffic. — Jan Gehl
When everything's coming your way, you're in the wrong lane. — Steven Wright
I want to write books that unlock the traffic jam in everybody's head. — John Updike
Let's have a moment of silence for all those who are stuck in traffic on their way to the gym to ride stationary bicycles. — Tommy Wood
They say the universe is expanding. That should help with the traffic. — Steven Wright
I have some road rage inside of me. Traffic, especially in L.A., is a pet peeve of mine. — Katie Holmes
Adding highway lanes to deal with traffic congestion is like loosening your belt to cure obesity. — Lewis Mumford
roads were made for journeys not destinations — Confucius
Short Traffic Jam Quotes
The highway of life is filled with flat squirrels that couldn't make a decision. — John C. Maxwell
The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking spaces. — Will Rogers
You can't find the right roads when the streets are paved. — Bob Marley
When you come to a roadblock, take a detour. — Mary Kay Ash
I'm going to take the high road because the low road is so crowded. — Mia Farrow
People don't go there anymore. It's too crowded. — Yogi Berra
I don't live in the fast lane I live on the off ramp. — Fred Shero
Traffic signals in New York are just rough guidelines. — David Letterman
Busy is the death of productivity. — Naval Ravikant
April prepares her green traffic light and the world thinks Go. — Christopher Morley
Traffic Jam Image Quotes
There are no traffic jams along the extra mile.
Stuck In Traffic Jam Quotes
I'm the worst person to be stuck with in a traffic jam. — Larry King
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
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
The epitome of the human realm is to be stuck in a huge traffic jam of discursive thought. — Chogyam Trungpa
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
Why do you need to drive a Ferrari to get stuck in a traffic jam anyway? How do people afford these cars? — James Murdoch
No Traffic Jam Quotes
There are no traffic jams when you go the extra mile. — Zig Ziglar
The Extra Mile will have no traffic jams. — Unknown
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
There are no traffic jams in the second mile. — Unknown
If I complain about a traffic jam, I have no one to blame but myself. — Steve Wynn
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
There are no traffic jams on the extra mile. — Zig Ziglar
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
Nice Quotes
It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership. — Nelson Mandela
You can do nice things for people all of the time and it's never noticed but as soon as you make one mistake it's never forgotten. — Tyga
I live right in front of my daughter. I have a little house right in front of her because I can stay in touch. It's like a little commune, and it's very nice, because you can be close. I can see my granddaughter. I live very close to my brother, too, and my son. We're a very close family. — Debbie Reynolds
There is nothing wrong with having a good job, there is nothing wrong with having a nice house, there is nothing wrong with that. There is something wrong when that is your goal. — Nouman Ali Khan
When a woman didn't enjoy it, she leaves early in the morning. Those who had a nice time will wait until the sun comes out, requests breakfast and taxi money. — Julius Malema
Now here's a funky introduction of how nice I am
Tell your mother, tell your father, send a telegram. — Phife Dawg
Be nice to people on your way up because you'll meet them on your way down. — Wilson Mizner
Sometimes I am two people. Johnny is the nice one. Cash causes all the trouble. They fight. — Johnny Cash
I don't care if you're black, white, straight, bisexual, gay, lesbian, short, tall, fat, skinny, rich or poor. If you're nice to me, I'll be nice to you. Simple as that. — Eminem
Don't just show kindness in passing or to be courteous. Show it in depth, show it with passion, and expect nothing in return. Kindness is not just about being nice; it's about recognizing another human being who deserves care and respect. — Colin Powell
Traffic Congestion Quotes
Traffic congestion is caused by vehicles, not by people in themselves. — Jane Jacobs
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
As people talk, text and browse, telecommunication networks are capturing urban flows in real time and crystallizing them as Googles traffic congestion maps. — Carlo Ratti
As the horsepower in modern automobiles steadily rises, the congestion of traffic steadily lowers the average possible speed of your car. This is known as Progress. — Sydney J. Harris
There is no magical solution because urban traffic congestion arises from the fact that a lot of people want to be in the same place at the same time often. — William J. Mitchell
Nobody uses his car in New York, because so many people use it that traffic is congested and unbearably slow. — George Mikes
None of the proposed inter-city solutions would have offered more frequent or more affordable service than existing options like bussing. Busses can also be easily re-routed around gas leaks, car accidents, or traffic congestion. — Mark Noble
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
Teach kids not to fight. Can they change taxes? I'd get rid of all the congestion charges, because they've not stopped traffic. They're a waste of time, not that I'm getting all political. — Peter Andre
Stuck In Traffic Quotes
I was stuck in traffic for four hours on the way up and three and a half hours on the way down. — Nirmal Purja
Let's have a moment of silence for all those Americans who are stuck
in traffic on their way to the gym to ride the stationary bicycle. — Earl Blumenauer
Most people walk around with headphones on. They're barely encountering or dealing with their fellow person, or if they're in a car they're in this kind of cocoon, stuck in suburban rush hour traffic or something. — DJ Spooky
The modern world is a crowd of very rapid racing cars all brought to a standstill and stuck in a block of traffic. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
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
I am adrenaline slammed into inertia: a fast car stuck in traffic. — Gayle Forman
If you're stuck in traffic, call a friend or listen to a favorite podcast. If you're waiting in a long line, make friends with a person in line with you. There are lots of ways we can change the vibe. — Gabrielle Bernstein
Don't call me when you're stuck in traffic. It's not my fault that radio sucks and did it ever occur to you that there wouldn't be so much traffic if people like you put down the phone and concentrated on the road... besides I can't talk now, I'm in the car behind you trying to watch a DVD. — Bill Maher
I was stuck in traffic and I looked in the mirror and in the car behind me there was a couple having a horrible argument and right below their image it said "Objects In Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear". I just thought, man I hope so because she was pretty mad. — Demetri Martin
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
Traffic Quotes
Christians, like snowflakes, are frail, but when they stick together they can stop traffic. — Vance Havner
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
Realistically, 50 to 80 percent of all traffic is people downloading stuff for free. — Kim Dotcom
If you haven't seen your wife smile at a traffic cop, you haven't seen her smile her prettiest. — Kin Hubbard
I wasnt privy to all of the intelligence that was coming in about Guatemala, but I did see the traffic that was coming in from Guatemala City, because it was very relevant to me, and of course I exchanged what I had with the chief of station in Guatemala City. — E. Howard Hunt
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
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
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
Not only is a LinkedIn group free to create, it can enable you to offer your professional network a vibrant, useful information resource, all while driving traffic to your site and increasing sales. — Lewis Howes
In New York, there are so many potholes, they're like craters on the moon. That's another traffic thing. — Jimmy Fallon
Rush Hour Quotes
To me, my nephew is the angel of my world. It is my absolute happiest moment whenever he smiles at me. I have stopped working 24 hours a day like I was before, and I rush back home to see him whenever I can after work. That always makes my day. — Li Bingbing
Playing a three-hour Rush show is like running a marathon while solving equations. — Neil Peart
You're always in a rush, or else you're too exhausted to have a proper conversation. Soon enough, the long hours, the traveling, the broken sleep have all crept into your being and become part of you, so everyone can see it, in your posture, your gaze, the way you move and talk. — Kazuo Ishiguro
When I was 13, Eddie Murphy was to me what Chris Tucker was to 13-year-olds when I made 'Rush Hour.' And 'Rush Hour' really came out of the fact that I grew up watching 'Beverly Hills Cop' and '48 Hrs.' — Brett Ratner
Do you understand the words that are coming out of my mouth? — Jackie Chan
Don’t go searching for a subject, let your subject find you. You can’t rush inspiration. … Once your subject finds you, it’s like falling in love. It will be your constant companion. Shadowing you, peeping in your windows, calling you at all hours to leave messages like, Only you understand me. — Colson Whitehead
I grew up driving old pickup trucks on the ranch with my dad, and I still always find myself driving like I'm out in an open field, except I'm in LA on La Cienega in the middle of rush-hour traffic. — Amber Heard
You really get the most out of sweet corn if you pick the corn off the stalk and rush it to a pot of boiling water. The longer you wait, the more sugar you lose. But if you get it in the first half hour, that is the sweetest corn ever. — Sam Donaldson
The action star's life is very short. Back in Asia, I can do whatever I want to do. I'm the producer, I'm the director, I can do so many things, but in Hollywood any time I present a script they say: "No, no, no, Rush Hour 3, Rush Hour 4." — Jackie Chan
The best things said come last. People will talk for hours saying nothing much and then linger at the door with words that come with a rush from the heart. — Alan Alda
Traffic Light Quotes
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
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
The average person spends two weeks over their lifetime waiting for the traffic light to change. — Tom Waits
If it's important to you and you want to do it 'eventually', just do it and correct course along the way. — Tim Ferriss
Someday’ is a disease that will take your dreams to the grave with you.… If it’s important to you and you want to do it ‘eventually,’ just do it and correct course along the way. — Blake Mycoskie
He sits in his car at traffic lights on his way out sometimes and tries to estimate how many times he has sat here, waiting at these traffic lights on his way somewhere without you, hoping to meet someone with the capacity to consign you to an anecdote, to be eventually confused with others — Elliot Perlman
There was a time when the respect and trust my children had for me would have made you sick to your stomach. They believed I could blow on a red traffic light and turn it green. — Erma Bombeck
It's easy to get depressed and think, "Well, what's the point?" But it's the same as, "Well, we're all going to die, so what's the point in brushing my teeth or even saying hello to anyone or obeying traffic lights." You can do that, but that's certainly not going to take you anywhere. — Viggo Mortensen
Someday is a dis-ease that will take your dreams to the grave with you. — Tim Ferriss
If one would cancel all traffic rules and switch off all traffic lights, watching city traffic on TV would be also awfully interesting! — Oleg Romanishin
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
To create is to bring something into existence that wasn’t there before. It could be a conversation, the solution to a problem, a note to a friend, the rearrangement of furniture in a room, a new route home to avoid a traffic jam. — Rick Rubin
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
The car was invented as a convenient place to sit out traffic jams — Evan Esar
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
We are caught in a traffic jam of discursive thought. — Chogyam Trungpa
It is in the ordinary events of every day that we develop the proactive capacity to handle the extraordinary pressures of life. It's how we make and keep commitments, how we handle a traffic jam, how we respond to an irate customer or a disobedient child. It's how we view our problems and where we focus our energies. It's the language we use. — Stephen Covey
Transport drives me crazy. I find myself on this constant conveyor belt and the planes, buses, traffic jams, ugh. — Patrick Wolf
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
Fear and bigotry don’t need explaining. They simply are, like traffic jams and taxes. — Eileen Wilks
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
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
I also think stress is related to control. When you're in charge of your life, you tend to not care about losing control of things that don't really matter like traffic jams. — Marilu Henner
I remember traffic jams
Motor boys and girls with tans
Nearly was and almost rans
I remember this, this
...
At the edge of the continent — Michael Stipe
We humans are basically content with a two-dimensional world, which is what we-ve always occupied. We travel mostly on the ground, have traffic jams, parking problems , and we-d do a lot better to look up a little bit because there is that great aerial highway that-s always ready to go, you Don't have to pave it and the benefits are very great. — Paul MacCready
Sometimes when I get home at night in Washington I feel as though I had been in a great traffic jam. — Grace Abbott
[Cycling] is easily the quickest way around central London, faster than bus, Tube or taxi. You can predict precisely how long every journey will take, regardless of traffic jams, Tube strikes or leaves on the line. It provides excellent exercise. It does not pollute the atmosphere. It does not clog up the streets. — Jeremy Paxman
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
Drivers in a traffic jam, frustrated by each others presence, are not the most amiable of men. — David Riesman
There are never any traffic jams on the extra mile. — Brian Tracy
Doing stand-up comedy is in the middle of a traffic jam getting everybody moving again. — Jon Stewart
An old man turned ninety-eightHe won the lottery and died the next dayIt's a black fly in your ChardonnayIt's a death row pardon two minutes too lateIt's a traffic jam when you're already lateIt's a no-smoking sign on your cigarette breakIt's like ten thousand spoons when all you need is a knifeIt's meeting the man of my dreamsAnd then meeting his beautiful wife. — Alanis Morissette
A parade looks like a bunch of people are excited about being in traffic. — Demetri Martin
I'm being followed so much I'm causing traffic jams. — John Grisham
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
In 'Roma,' I wanted to get across the idea that underneath Rome today is ancient Rome. So close. I am always conscious of that, and it thrills me. Imagine being in a traffic jam at the Coliseum! Rome is the most wonderful movie set in the world... As was the case with many of my film ideas, it was inspired by a dream. — Federico Fellini
First, learn how to report traffic jams, then you can talk about football.
(on Bulgarian journalists) — Ivan Slavkov
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