Jam Quotes
277 quotes by 257 authors
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It was how wars really ended, Dieffenbaker supposed -- not at truce tables but in cancer wards and office cafeterias and traffic jams. Wars died…
— Stephen King
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A sip of wine, a cigarette, And then it’s time to go. I tidied up the kitchenette; I tuned the old banjo. I’m wanted at…
— Leonard Cohen
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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…
— Arundhati Roy
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I'm 17 years old. I'm not a straight-A student or anything. Even so, I figured out how to make an Internet that they can't wiretap.…
— Cory Doctorow
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Blake took a small roll from the tray on the table, then put it back in favor of a larger one. And maybe a little…
— Julia Quinn
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We did make use, from time to time, of candles, neckties, scarves, shoelaces, a little water-color paintbrush, her hairbrush, butter, whipped cream, strawberry jam, Johnson’s…
— Spider Robinson
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I want to write books that unlock the traffic jam in everybody's head.
— John Updike
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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…
— Joko Beck
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They all broke the rules. They all crossed into forbidden territory. They all tampered with the laws that lay down who should be loved and…
— Arundhati Roy
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I'll use the knives for spreading jam, and the gas to warm my greying love.
— Charles Bukowski
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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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Alex decided he’d had enough. He put down his knife. “All right,†he said. “You’ve made it pretty clear that you don’t want to work…
— Anthony Horowitz
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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…
— Tasha Tudor
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After tiny has tried ballerina pose, swing-batter-batter pose, pump-up-the-jam pose, and top-of-the-mountain-sound-of-music pose in the reflection of the bean, he walks us to a bench…
— David Levithan
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Fine. I’m a Skotos (Xypher) That means what? You have toe jam? (Simone)
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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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…
— Italo Calvino
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Are you going to give a speech?' she asked gaily. He gave a choked laugh. 'Of course not,' he said. 'Not for ages.' 'My cousin…
— Charles Finch
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His face held a certain impassivity; you see it in all waiters and valets. They might want to jam a knife through your left eye…
— Ann Aguirre
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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…
— Tom Stoppard
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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…
— Hunter S. Thompson
Who Wrote These Jam Quotes
257 authors contributed a total of 277 Jam Quotes, led by these top contributors: