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“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.”

Way Stills Ideas Matter Language Hours Understood Odd Remove Screws Flexible Sequence Jam Puff Odd Things

Book:Generation A: A Novel

Source: Generation A: A Novel

“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!”

Knows Seems Circumstances Lays Sticks Stores Best Things Things To Do Do You Know Pot Jam

Author:A. C. Benson

“Cranks live by theory, not by pure desire. They want votes, peace, nuts, liberty, and spinning-looms not because they love these things, as a child loves jam, but because they think they ought to have them. That is one element which makes the crank.”

Thinking Want Children Desire Liberty Theory Ought Pure Elements Vote Live By Nuts Spinning Jam Eccentric Children Love Eccentricity Crank

Book:A Casual Commentary

Source: A Casual Commentary

“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.”

Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

“Drivers in a traffic jam, frustrated by each others presence, are not the most amiable of men.”

Men Drivers Frustrated Traffic Jam Amiable Traffic Jam

Book:Abundance for What?

Source: Abundance for What?

“We fight our way through the massed and leveled collective safe taste of the Top 40, just looking for a little something we can call our own. But when we find it and jam the radio to hear it again it isn't just ours -- it is a link to thousands of others who are sharing it with us. As a matter of a single song this might mean very little; as culture, as a way of life, you can't beat it.”

Way Mean Littles Matter Might Song Culture Fighting Music Taste Safe Beats Radio Collectives Links Jam

Book:Mystery Train: Images of America in Rock 'n' Roll Music: Sixth Edition

Source: Mystery Train: Images of America in Rock 'n' Roll Music: Sixth Edition

“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.”

Want Firsts Made Artist Records Labels Jam

Author:Chuck D

“When 5150 came out rock was king. Post Nirvana and Pearl Jam 1996 is a different story.”

Different Stories Rocks Kings Posts Pearls Jam Pearl Jam

Author:Gary Cherone

“I've never been a jam-band sort of musician.”

Band Musician Jam

Author:Tom DeLonge

“I would love to go and live in the mountains... and make jam.”

Author:Eve Best

“Well ironically my last three roles have all been a mother. One was a Canadian film where the baby was taken away because she is a drug addict, in Irish Jam I play a mother to a four year old. I think in the future I'll be able to handle the role with a lot more depth.”

Thinking Years Wells Play Able Lasts Film Mother Three Roles Taken Four Baby Drug Depth Handle Four Years Addict Jam Drug Addict

Author:Anna Friel

“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.”

Ifs Way Would Be Form Known Shapes Band Music Is Jam

Author:Charlie Hunter