Quotes of Traffic - somelinesforyou

“ No man undertakes a trade he has not learned, even the meanest; yet everyone thinks himself sufficiently qualified for the hardest of all trades, that of government. ”

- Socrates

“ Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale. Everything can be had so dirt cheap that one begins to wonder whether in the end anyone will want to make a bid. ”

- Soren Kierkegaard

“ That morning, summer sulked and gathered darkly over Charlotte, and heat shimmered on pavement. Traffic teemed, people pushing forward to promise as they drove through new construction, and the past was bulldozed away. ”

- Patricia Cornwell

“ There is a lot of room for improvement in Social Security. We owe our children the most financially sound system possible. They will have paid into it their entire working lives. They deserve to be protected by it. for our children and grandchildren. ”

- Mitch McConnell

“ 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

“ I trained as a theater actor and you had a bare stage and you had to pretend, one prop and you are in the middle of 8th Ave. and traffic is just going by. ”

- Benicio Del Toro

“ As late as 1842 a train was started only when sufficient traffic was waiting along the road to warrant the use of the engine. ”

- John Moody

“ I was side-swiped by a car while riding my bike in New York. I was talking on my cellphone and not concentrating when I veered into traffic. ”

- Andrea Martin

“ There is only one immutable law in life - in a gentleman's toilet, incoming traffic has the right of way. ”

- Hugh Leonard

“ The illegal trafficking in prescription medications constitutes a particularly troublesome aspect of the substance abuse problem in America. ”

- Dick Durbin

“ All they have to do is look down at the traffic and suddenly they don't feel like flying is that expensive a way to travel after all. ”

- Jim Herron

“ I have some road rage inside of me. Traffic, especially in L.A., is a pet peeve of mine. ”

- Katie Holmes

“ Diverting the internal traffic between the Writer as Angel of Light and the Writer as Hustler is that scribbling child in a grown-up body wondering if anybody is listening. ”

- Herbert Gold

“ 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

“ It is a strange trade that of advocacy. Your intellect, your highest heavenly gift is hung up in the shop window like a loaded pistol for sale. ”

- Thomas Carlyle

“ The trade of critic, in literature, music, and the drama, is the most degraded of all trades. ”

- Mark Twain

“ The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals. ”

- Adam Smith

“ Your truck is under water. ”

- Louis Armstrong

“ I am for free commerce with all nations; political connection with none; and little or no diplomatic establishment. ”

- George Washington

“ The local community regards this project as critical in ensuring traffic dangers are tackled now. ”

- David Wilson

“ The trade of banks is the buying and selling of interest and exchange. ”

- William Petty

“ If we don't get the trucks rolling down the highway, we don't eat. Everybody suffers. It's in everybody's benefit to keep these trucks moving again. ”

- Bruce Weber

“ In placing my trade I had no improper information. My transaction was entirely lawful. ”

- Martha Stewart

“ Parents are traffic signs that are always in our blind spots. ”

- Jeremy Preston Johnson

“ I'm the worst person to be stuck with in a traffic jam. ”

- Larry King

“ If you haven't seen your wife smile at a traffic cop, you haven't seen her smile her prettiest. ”

- Kin Hubbard

“ If you don't have a policeman to stop traffic and let you walk across the street like you are somebody, how are you going to know you are somebody? ”

- John C. White

“ Any mother could perform the jobs of several air-traffic controllers with ease. ”

- Lisa Alther

“ All of us are watchers — of television, of time clocks, of traffic on the freeway — but few are observers. Everyone is looking, not many are seeing. ”

- Peter M. Leschak

“ In the city a funeral is just an interruption of traffic; in the country it is a form of popular entertainment. ”

- George Ade
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