Quotes and Sayings About Jam
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Do you know the times when one seems to stick fast in circumstances like the fly in the jam-pot? It can't be helped, and I suppose the best thing to do is to lay in a good store of jam!
-- A. C. Benson -
The Law of Raspberry Jam: the wider any culture is spread, the thinner it gets.
-- Alvin Toffler -
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 -
As Estha stirred the thick jam he thought Two Thoughts and the Two Thoughts he thought were these: a) Anything can happen to anyone. and b) It is best to be prepared.
-- Arundhati Roy -
What is it with McDonald's staff who pretend they don't understand you unless you insert the 'Mc' before the item you're ordering? It has to be a McChicken burger...a chicken burger gets blank looks. Well, I'll have a McStraw and jam it into your McEyes, you f**cking McTosser!
-- Billy Connolly -
There are never any traffic jams on the extra mile.
-- Brian Tracy -
My days are jam-packed with carpools, classroom assistance, tending to chickens, dogs and seven acres of olive trees!
-- Carre Otis -
Why was it that jam always coated me so?
-- Catherine Gilbert Murdock -
We would play, then they would play a set, then we would jam on the last song.
-- Charlie Byrd -
I certainly hope my music is in no way, shape or form influenced by anything that would be known as a jam band. If it is, then I'm going to do something else.
-- Charlie Hunter -
The epitome of the human realm is to be stuck in a huge traffic jam of discursive thought.
-- Chogyam Trungpa -
I signed to Def Jam and within two months, I heard that Ja Rule was looking for someone to do a song with.
-- Christina Milian -
What made me want to become a recording artist; I was the first artist that was repeatedly asked by a label to record with them. That label was Def Jam Records.
-- Chuck D -
One problem with how we think about the Bible is that people tend to jam it into narrower categories, when in fact it is many things all at once.
-- David Plotz -
Drivers in a traffic jam, frustrated by each others presence, are not the most amiable of men.
-- David Riesman -
Literary Party: A traffic jam of the lost waiting for the ferry across the Styx.
-- Delmore Schwartz -
You can't jam change down the American people's throat.
-- Dennis Hastert -
Laughter is the jam on the toast of life. It adds flavor, keeps it from being too dry, and makes it easier to swallow.
-- Diane Johnson -
Trevor realized that the odd thing about English is that no matter how much you screw sequences word up up, you understood, still, like Yoda, will be. Other languages don't work that way. French? Dieu! Misplace a single le or la and an idea vaporizes into a sonic puff. English is flexible: you can jam it into a Cuisinart for an hour, remove it, and meaning will still emerge.
-- Douglas Coupland -
I am lucky to be what I am! Thank goodness I'm not just a clam, or a ham, or a dusty jar of sour gooseberry jam! I am what I am - that's a great thing to be!
-- Dr. Seuss -
The only band I was really over-into was Cream. And the only thing I really liked about them was their live stuff 'cause they played two verses, then go off and jam for 20 minutes, come back and do a chorus and end. And I love the live jam stuff, the improvisation.
-- Eddie Van Halen -
Any conversations we hear about 'So who are Pearl Jam marketing to?' are despicable.
-- Eddie Vedder -
Fear and bigotry don’t need explaining. They simply are, like traffic jams and taxes.
-- Eileen Wilks -
That was the very heart of friendship...your willingness to help each other in a jam, to take a friend's problems as your very own.
-- Elise Broach -
When you love something, whether it's jam and cheese sandwiches or wearing your pyjamas as pants, you forget that it was ever anything other than commonplace.
-- Elisha Lim -
As a young girl, I remember singing CeCe Penniston's 'Don't Walk Away.' It was like my jam.
-- Elle Varner -
I admire Eddie Van Halen and Steve Lukather, but they might blow me away quite easily if we were to jam together.
-- Eric Clapton -
The car was invented as a convenient place to sit out traffic jams
-- Evan Esar -
I would love to go and live in the mountains... and make jam.
-- Eve Best -
A good science fiction story should be able to predict not the automobile but the traffic jam.
-- Frederik Pohl
