Quotes About Commute

We were moving because Eric's office had moved there, and commutes from Bay Ridge to Long Island City uncomfortably reminded us of Latin American immigrants knifed to death by bigots in subway cars en route to one of their three jobs at two in the morning.

Someone once figured out that the average American will spend a cumulative six months of her life waiting for the light to change.

The pay is good and I can walk to work.

Sometimes when I get home at night in Washington I feel as though I had been in a great traffic jam.

34,000 passengers

long commutes make you fat, stressed, and miserable. Even short commutes stab at your happiness.

long commutes make you fat

long commutes make you fat, stressed, and miserable. Even short commutes stab at your happiness. According

I can't have my employees sitting in traffic when they should be in the office. Spending two-and-half hours in the car is a huge waste of productive time.

I had an insanely long commute - New York to D.C. - when I worked at 'National Geographic.' I hate to waste time, so I spent my time by writing about my life on the premise that I might be able to pitch those as short essays to magazines. It wasn't until later that I realized that I was writing a book.

I guess I've been fortunate in having an ongoing film career while being based in Melbourne. I'm happy to commute. A day on a plane. Come on. It's easy.

It's nice going to work and not having to always get on a plane to do it.

Sometimes it feels like I spend half my time in planes or airports.

If you goin' to work, you gonna put my album on. If you happen to be makin' an hour-and-a-half drive, you gonna put my album on, because people spend more time in their car then they do in clubs.

I teach at Columbia, and I'm always looking for books I can lose myself in during the 45 minutes I'm on the train.

The less money you have the more likely you are to live close to polluted roads. Most of us cannot choose to move further away from a main road or add another 40 minutes to our commute so that we can live in a quiet, clean, leafy street.

Everybody knows that L.A. is known for its addiction to the single-passenger automobile, the gridlock, the congestion on the freeways.

Even in downtown office areas, people would probably beg for a shuttle bus service to ferry them swiftly to the railway stations and bus stations, instead of forcing them to travel squashed up in shared-taxis.

subway to Oakland

the faster a society moves, the more it spreads out and the more time it must spend moving.

I want to disrupt what's thought of as the default public radio voice. I want to challenge listeners as they ride the subway, jog on their treadmills, and drive on their commute. Even if the sounds and words we create might require greater concentration and attention, I believe our stories are worth the effort.

For people who live in the suburbs and must commute long distances to work, their wealth will sink as energy prices rise.

I cycle, especially in warm weather. If I have a meeting in town, I would rather cycle than go by car.

Nothing beats weaving through the rush-hour traffic or whizzing past the eternal gridlock that is the Strand.