Cab Quotes

• The postman wants an autograph. The cab driver wants a picture. The waitress wants a handshake. Everyone wants a piece of you.

  John Lennon

  Cab Drivers, Pieces, Want

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• The one thing you shouldn't do is try to tell a cab driver how to get somewhere.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Funny, Witty, Humorous

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• No, in Lethal Weapon I was a taxi cab driver that Mel jumps in front of the taxi and pulls me out of the car and steals the taxi. Then I did some other indie driving for some of the car sequences.

  David R. Ellis

  Taxi Cabs, Car, Weapons

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'm like Cab Calloway: I love the entertainment, and I've loved entertaining people ever since I was little.

  Wyclef Jean

  People, Littles, Entertainment

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• Any time three New Yorkers get into a cab without an argument, a bank has just been robbed.

  Phyllis Diller

  Three, Comedy, Argument

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• I had a job as a paralegal. I drove a cab.

  Larry David

  Jobs, Taxi

  "Angry Middle-Aged Man" by James Kaplan, www.newyorker.com. January 19, 2004.

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• Driving a cab is not really a nurturing type of relationship. You take people and they tip you, they may not tip you, you don't know their names, they don't care about you, you don't care about them.

  Pam Grier

  Names, People, Care

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• Anytime four New Yorkers get into a cab together without arguing, a bank robbery has just taken place.

  Johnny Carson

  New York, Humorous, Taken

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• People say New Yorkers can't get along. Not true. I saw two New Yorkers, complete strangers, sharing a cab. One guy took the tires and the radio; the other guy took the engine.

  David Letterman

  Inspirational, Two, People

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• Brits are far more intelligent and civilised than Americans. I love the fact that you can hail a taxi and just pick up your pram and put in the back of the cab without having to collapse it. I love the parks and places I go for dinner and my friends.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Intelligent, Dinner, Parks

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• What people fear most about tragedy is its randomness - a taxi cab jumps the curb and hits a pedestrian, a gun misfires and kills a bystander. Better to have some rational cause and effect between incident and injury. And if cause and effect aren't possible, better that there at least be some reward for all the suffering.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Gun, Bystanders, Taxi Cabs

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• You'd never think of taking a cab if you had to walk a mile down Chicago's Michigan Avenue. But in a bad city you take a cab just to go around the corner.

  Helmut Jahn

  Thinking, Cities, Chicago

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• I was still in school at the time and Cab was very popular and everybody was doing Cab Calloway so I did.

  Billy Eckstine

  School, Popular Song, Stills

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• It's not a special taste. An American composer should have something to say to a cab driver.

  Morton Gould

  Should Have, Special, Taste

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• I found my first novel difficult. I don't want to make it sound like it's any more difficult than driving a cab or going to any other job, but there are so many opportunities for self-doubt, that you just kind of need to soldier on.

  Anthony Doerr

  Jobs, Writing, Opportunity

  "Off the Page: Anthony Doerr". Live chat, www.washingtonpost.com. October 14, 2004.

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• We call ourselves a free nation, and yet we let ourselves be told what cabs we can and can't take by a man at a hotel door, simply because he has a drum major's uniform on.

  Robert Benchley

  Men, Doors, Uniforms

  Robert Benchley (1970). “Benchley Lost and Found: 39 Prodigal Pieces”, p.43, Courier Corporation

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• We wanted to write a whole song about partying and then taking Yellow Cabs home. That's the weirdest topic we've ever thought of centering a song around.

  Taryn Manning

  Song, Party, Home

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• I literally was saved by a role, from becoming a cab driver. I never did have to wait tables, though, so looking back I guess I had it pretty soft.

  Sam Waterston

  Waiting, Cab Drivers, Roles

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• Here's how you know that you're really drunk: when you get into a taxi cab and you think the fare is the time.

  Dane Cook

  Drinking, Thinking, Taxi Cabs

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• Reading is human contact, and the range of our human contacts is what makes us what we are. Just imagine you live the life of a long-distance truck driver. The books that you read are like the travelers you take into your cab. If you give lifts to people who are cultured and profound, you'll learn a lot from them. If you pick up fools, you'll turn into a fool yourself.

  Victor Pelevin

  Distance, Live Life, Book

  "The Sacred Book of the Werewolf". Book by Victor Pelevin, 2004.

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• The shortest unit of time in the multiverse is the New York Second, defined as the period of time between the traffic lights turning green and the cab behind you honking.

  Terry Pratchett

  New York, Light, Green

  "Lords and Ladies" by Terry Pratchett, Harper, (p. 282), October 2008.

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• An empty cab drove up and Sarah Bernhardt got out.

  Arthur Baer

  Empty

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• I'll tell ya, I don't get no respect... The other day, I got back from a business trip. I got in a cab and said to the driver, "Hey! Take me to where the action is!" So ya know where he took me? He took me to my house!

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Funny, Humor, House

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• Some of us are born rebellious. Like Jean Genet or Arthur Rimbaud, I roam these mean streets like a villain, a vagabond, an outcast, scavenging for the scraps that may perchance plummet off humanity's dirty plates, though often sometimes taking a cab to a restaurant is more convenient.

  Patti Smith

  Dirty, Mean, Humanity

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Die Hard With A Vengeance shooting was a great time, because we had an interesting script. The first script was called Simon Says, and something was going on, because some days we'd get to work, but we wouldn't actually have dialogue. We would go to Bruce's Willis trailer, and they'd say, "Okay, you have to go from 168th Street to 97th Street today. We're going to do it in the cab, and Sam, you say this. Bruce, what do you want to say?" And that's how Bruce's "hey, Zeus!" thing came up.

  Samuel L. Jackson

  Interesting, Today, Vengeance

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