quotes 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 -
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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 OtisSource : "Speaking for the Silent" by Carre Otis, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 7, 2012.
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Why was it that jam always coated me so?
-- Catherine Gilbert Murdock -
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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 MilianSource : "Christina Milian...music maven". AskMen Interview, www.askmen.com.
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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 PlotzSource : Source: www.washingtonpost.com
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Drivers in a traffic jam, frustrated by each others presence, are not the most amiable of men.
-- David RiesmanSource : David Riesman (1964). “Abundance for What?”, p.255, Transaction Publishers
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Literary Party: A traffic jam of the lost waiting for the ferry across the Styx.
-- Delmore Schwartz -
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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 -
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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 -
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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 -
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I would love to go and live in the mountains... and make jam.
-- Eve BestSource : "Eve Best: 'Webster is like learning to eat with a chainsaw'". Interview With Kate Kellaway, www.theguardian.com. February 25, 2012.
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A good science fiction story should be able to predict not the automobile but the traffic jam.
-- Frederik Pohl -
Regarding jam sessions: Jazz musicians are the only workers I can think of who are willing to put in a full shift for pay and then go somewhere else and continue to work for free.
-- George Carlin -
Cheese and jam are really nice. Cheese and apple as well. Cheese and grapes are good.
-- Georgie HenleySource : "Interview: James Mcavoy & Georgie Henley (Narnia)". Interview with Devin Faraci, www.chud.com. December 8, 2005.
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It is as healthy to enjoy sentiment as to enjoy jam.
-- Gilbert K. Chesterton -
Sometimes when I get home at night in Washington I feel as though I had been in a great traffic jam.
-- Grace AbbottSource : Grace Abbott, Judith Sealander (2015). “The Grace Abbott Reader”, p.92, U of Nebraska Press
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It's the faster bands that made me want to play guitar, bands like The Jam.
-- Graham Coxon -
I could probably throw harder if I wanted, but why? When they're in a jam, a lot of pitchers...try to throw harder. Me, I try to locate better.
-- Greg Maddux -
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The labels are in a jam. For a company to do well in music now, it's got to be in all aspects of the business. And Live Nation is the risk-taker. It's leading the charge.
-- Guy OsearySource : "Meet the upstart new company that is changing the face of music" by David Smith, www.theguardian.com. July 12, 2008.
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Fantasy is like jam. . . . You have to spread it on a solid piece of bread. If not, it remains a shapeless thing . . . out of which you can’t make anything.
-- Italo Calvino -
At a certain point my novels set. They set just as hard as that jam jar. And then I know they are finished.
-- Ivy Compton-Burnett -
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There was so much great music around in the 60s, stuff like The Small Faces, but I also love The Jam.
-- Iwan Rheon -
In January of 1995, my family and I moved to Seattle. Pearl Jam did the first of their live radio broadcasts, Monkey Wrench Radio, along with many other Seattle musicians.
-- Jack Irons -
I began both auditioning with Pearl Jam and recording for Eleven. In the fall of 1994, I joined Pearl Jam.
-- Jack Irons -
I know a few chords on the guitar, but I wouldn't be able do a show or even be part of a jam session with one.
-- Jake Shimabukuro -
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With Pearl Jam, everybody is so good at what they do, it's hard to get up the courage to say, Can I sing this part, or, I want to play guitar. I feel like I have more courage to do that.
-- Jeff Ament -
I'm being followed so much I'm causing traffic jams.
-- John GrishamSource : John Grisham (2011). “Three Classic Thrillers 3-Book Bundle: The Firm, The Appeal, The Chamber”, p.299, Dell
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I want to write books that unlock the traffic jam in everybody's head.
-- John UpdikeSource : FaceBook post by John Updike from Dec 22, 2013
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Mike, the best band to ever come out of Seattle was, of course, Pearl Jam. And that's what I expect the Seahawks to do - just jam it up the middle.
-- Jon GrudenSource : "8 Ridiculous Things Jon Gruden Said On Monday Night Football" by Tony Manfred, www.businessinsider.com. October 29, 2013.
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Jam! I love my jam. I've just had a batch of it come through, I've been making it.
-- Kate Moss -
My life was over, finished, and I’d never seen Pearl Jam play live
-- Kristen Ashley -
My first jam was at Hotel Diplomat opening for Hollywood.
-- Kurtis Blow -
I'm the worst person to be stuck with in a traffic jam.
-- Larry King -
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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 BeukesSource : Lauren Beukes (2010). “Zoo City”, p.84, Jacana Media
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I always felt as a horn player, a jam session wasn't satisfying enough for me. I should have been a rhythm section player, actually.
-- Lee Konitz -
once it's jam, it can't be strawberries anymore.
-- Marilyn WallaceSource : Marilyn Wallace (1993). “So Shall You Reap”, Crimeline
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Before we can leave our parents, they stuff our heads like the suitcases which they jam-pack with homemade underwear.
-- Maxine Hong Kingston -
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Conscious effort inhibits and ‘jams’ the automatic creative mechanism.
-- Maxwell Maltz -
There's probably a bunch of Power Stripe floating through the Def Jam offices right now.
-- Method Man -
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 -
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 -
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The Jam were a good band, however I feel that the Style Council were better. A lot of people I know will disagree with me. Some things we did with The Style Council were misinterpreted or over their heads.
-- Paul WellerSource : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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It’s a trifle. It’s got all of these layers. First there’s a layer of ladyfingers, then a layer of jam, then custard, which I made from scratch, then raspberries, more ladyfingers, then beef sauteed with peas and onions, then a little more custard, and then bananas, and then I just put some whipped cream on top!
-- Rachel -
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 -
Let's put the jam on the lower shelf so the little people can reach it
-- Ralph Yarborough -
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Phish is such a good band; they just make stuff up as a jam band.
-- Sharon Jones -
There are songs I really enjoy playing. I like playing "Say It" live because it's a long jam, kind of like shoegaze, so I do enjoy that.
-- Stephan Jenkins -
We may take breaks and do other things, but we feel we'll ultimately have Pearl Jam as a family.
-- Stone Gossard -
It's a very complex scenario, and certainly Dave was, and is, not the only person in Pearl Jam with personality flaws. Everybody in this band exhibits some form of neurotic behavior. And we couldn't find a balance, a mutual respect for each other.
-- Stone Gossard -
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I enjoy doing housework, ironing, washing, cooking, dishwashing. Whenever I get one of those questionaires and they ask what is your profession, I always put down housewife. It's an admirable profession, why apologize for it. You aren't stupid because you're a housewife. When you're stirring the jam you can read Shakespeare.
-- Tasha Tudor -
When you stir your rice pudding, Septimus, the spoonful of jam spreads itself round making red trails like the picture of a meteor in my astronomical atlas. But if you stir backwards, the jam will not come together again. Indeed, the pudding does not notice and continues to turn pink just as before. Do you think this is odd?
-- Tom Stoppard -
Some of the jam we thought was for tomorrow, we've already eaten
-- Tony Benn -
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Someone who eats pancakes and jam can't be so awfully dangerous. You can talk to him.
-- Tove Jansson -
One can't be too dangerous, if they like to eat pancakes. Especially with jam on it.
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My family was all musicians. We jam all the time.
-- Tyler Hilton -
My breakdancing crew used to go to the mall and squat a piece of cardboard there; we had our jam box, and I'd spin on my head and make about forty bucks a day, which was pretty good back then. I was only 14 years old, so I would chase the girls around the mall and eat some pizza and have some change left over.
-- Vanilla IceSource : Interview with Dimitri Ehrlich, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 14, 2011.
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Often, we melt into our ecstasies as though they were jams, as though we were sinking into syrupy bowls of gooseberries, of raspberries, of bilberries.
-- Violette LeducSource : Violette Leduc (1966). “The Woman with the Little Fox: Three Novellas”
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There are no traffic jams when you go the extra mile.
-- Zig Ziglar -
If I want to make - I don't know - strawberry jam, I'm going to have to add something to strawberries to make it gelatinous and thick, right? I'm going to have to add pectin or something like that.But if I want to make cranberry sauce, all I have to do is pop some cranberries in a little saucepan and when it cools off, it'll be thick and gelatinous. So what's up with cranberries?
-- Ari ShapiroSource : "TV Chef Alton Brown Shares Tips On The Science Of Thanksgiving Dinner". "All Things Considered" with Ari Shapiro, www.npr.org. November 24, 2016.
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For those dependent on their gardens for fresh food, it was often a case of feast or famine... (One settler wrote), "Strawberries were now so plentiful that... I made 287 lbs of jam..."
-- Bee Dawson -
Science is my JAM. I am very excited to see where science and technological advancements will take us in the next few decades.
-- Benjamin StoneSource : Interview with Ocean Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. December 31, 2013.
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Check out the produce bin in your fridge or your cabinet before you buy more. When you see something on the verge of going bad, freeze it, turn it into a sauce, make jam.
-- Dana CowinSource : "How ugly food can end hunger". Interview with Lauren Lee-Johnson, edition.cnn.com. November 23, 2015.
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Meyer lemons are a splurge, but they're so wonderful. You could make a Meyer lemon curd or a jam. You could make a salad with slices of Meyer lemon. You could make a Meyer lemon tart and top the tart with candied slices of the lemons. You could use the lemons in a salsa to go over grilled fish or in a ceviche.
-- Dorie GreenspanSource : Source: live.washingtonpost.com
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If I could be a country music star, I'd do it in a heartbeat. I'd hit the road and just jam out.
-- Justin DeeleySource : "17 Questions With Justin Deeley". Interview with Emily Laurence, www.seventeen.com. January 9, 2012.
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When you're travelling, your day is jam-packed. I just don't have time to whip out a PC all the time. But I can whip out a BlackBerry and tweet. I keep a constant diary of where I'm at and why I'm there.
-- Kevin O'Leary -
Transport drives me crazy. I find myself on this constant conveyor belt and the planes, buses, traffic jams, ugh.
-- Patrick Wolf -
It feels like the older you get - or maybe that doesn't even matter - you have to get a forcing incentive to do stuff. It doesn't matter how fun it is to jam or have dinner with someone or whatever. You just have to force yourself into making it happen. That's my technique for doing things that I really like to do - it can happen on so many things.
-- Pontus Winnberg -
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People wonder if the Pearl Jam audience will get into The Buzzcocks. Eddie Vedder is a big Buzzcocks fan. He used to come to see Buzzcocks before he was in Pearl Jam. If his fans like what he likes, I guess that they might like The Buzzcocks.
-- Steve Diggle -
Cancer - a more or less permanent traffic jam in the body.
-- Andreas Moritz -
I don't know enough about hip-hop, though I've heard some great hip-hop. I just did a thing with Qwest Love - we did a performance together in Memphis at the Folk Alliance Festival, and we had a great jam and a conversation.
-- Bela FleckSource : Source: therumpus.net
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Some of my biggest moments have been in jam sessions, but I don't want to talk about them. There were always other people involved.
-- Coleman Hawkins -
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I was producing demos for a band that was called Physical Ed. Out of production of demos I went and did a few jam sessions with then in Northern California clubs, but I never actually toured with them.
-- Ronnie Montrose -
I'm going down the apples and pears, into the jam jar, down the frog and toad into the rub-da-dub-dub, and I'm going to have pig's ear.
-- Gianfranco Zola -
There's gonna be all the twists and turns you would expect and twists and turns you did not expect. The finale is probably the most jam-packed episode there's ever been. Things are packed into it like sardines. All of the life is squeezed in there. They lengthened it to 90 minutes because there's just so much. It's a supersized monstrosity.
-- Sonequa MartinSource : "'Walking Dead's' big finale: Six shows to watch this week" by Henry Hanks, www.cnn.com. March 28, 2015.
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Music came first and I started to jam with people I couldn't communicate in their language. Then, because I could make friends thanks to music, they started to talk to me. Then I started to learn English.
-- Hiromi -
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First, learn how to report traffic jams, then you can talk about football. (on Bulgarian journalists)
-- Ivan Slavkov -
Me + Love Songs on KOST=embarrassing car jam sesh.
-- Joanna Garcia