C. L. R. James Quotes

I don't see traffic fines as a substitute for a commuter tax.

Motors that are vulnerable to shorting out because of snow ingestion should have snow filters installed over air intakes, and spare motors should be ready to replace any failed motors.

Metro shows no signs of being able to make its trains run on time. This occurs during single-tracking and it occurs during normal rush hour service.

If you're driving more than 50 mph through a neighborhood where the speed limit is 25 mph, I question whether you should keep your driver's license. You're a menace to society.

I love the cameras and don't mind mailing in my check when I fail to pay attention and go too fast.

That's the original problem from which the escalator mess stems. There's just too many of them.

Metro, built in the late 20th century, is the most escalator-dependent system in the world.

SafeTrack - I keep saying this - is not going to fix Metro. It's a speeded up track work program, compressing three years of already planned work on the track bed into about a year.

I'm surprised when I see someone doing the logical, commonsense thing: Walk facing the oncoming traffic.

Many police officers watch for vehicles without headlights because it's a telltale of a drunk driver.

I don't know of any source for online maps showing the platform, stairs, escalators, elevators, mezzanines and other station details.

When different generations of cars are combined into one train, it messes with the loudspeaker system.

Drivers tend to look for other drivers, rather than for pedestrians or cyclists.

When I look at the faces of turning drivers, I mostly see them looking in the direction of oncoming motorists rather than at the people they're about to turn into.

I wish the dashboard indicators for lights were standardized throughout the auto industry.

If the Metro general manager, Paul Wiedefeld, says those extra hours for maintenance are necessary to help fix the system and make it safer, then that gets top priority.

I don't like the midnight closing on weekends. It's one thing to tell people they have to drive to Jiffy Lube Live in the outer suburbs.

I don't see any possible excuse for any driver anywhere to endanger people.

My philosophy is: Everybody needs to look out for everybody else.

The cars themselves are getting smarter and will be increasingly able to assist drivers - to the point where the cars will be completely automated.

There are easily accessible programs to help aging drivers maintain their skills, or recognize when they need to give up their cars.

One great love in a single lifetime was enough for anyone.

The curse of modern times is the propensity of male hormones in places where they can do the most damage

Such physical matters were nice, yet, to him, intelligence and passion born of living, the ability to move and be moved by subtleties of the mind and spirit, were what really counted.

Anyone who can feel that way about a woman is worth lovin himself.

The reality is not exactly what the song started out to be, but it's not a bad song.

The heart never forgets, never gives up, the territory marked off for those who came before.

I am the highway and a peregrine and all the sails that ever went to sea

This kind of certainty comes but just once in a lifetime!

The market kills more artistic passion than anything else.

An inherent kindness exists in the process of aging ... we are allowed to move along gradually.

We're all getting lashed to the great wheel of uniformity.

It often happens that people come to believe in their own fictions.

Justice in politics has an uncomfortable habit of being rough.

The fact is that Margaret Thatcher was never really a Conservative.

The United States is in many ways the biggest ghetto in the world.

I have heard many arguments which influenced my opinion, but never one which influenced my vote.

I grew up on basketball, volleyball, that sort of thing. For me, track and field was a whole 'nother beast.

That was my goal in portraying Jesse Owens: bringing that level of humanity so people could understand who he was as a person.

I want to be a superhero, I want to be Spider-Man or Batman. Will you let me know if you have any connections? Let's make it happen.

Plastic people flashing fake smiles at a pretend world.

God can only be of service to me and I to him, not in the past, nor in the future, but only right now in this moment.

My point is that the social forces liberals like to point to are real - I absolutely agree - but, at the same time, a good grounding from a family can make a huge difference.

Violence can behave like a disease. That insight gives a different frame of reference that is designed to take the judgment out of it, to take the good-versus-bad-people view out of it.

I'm not someone who gives prescriptives at the end of my films.

Sometimes sentiments were better left in song.

When you work in film, you have to be pretty fluent in explaining your vision, especially when speaking to actors, and I found speaking to actors to be so challenging and intimidating on set.

I'd never written a book or a story that required meeting people, and that's not necessarily my best skill, even in English. I prefer to do my research in books.

I think that "ambition" is a weird and often negatively used word.

Here she comes now, say, Mony, Mony. Shoot 'em down, turn around, come on, Mony.