Cab Quotes - Page 3

• And so I continue in borderline poverty, save for my one indulgence, no, my single absolute necessity: I take cabs. Yes, on occasion, when I wish to see what people with unpleasant skin conditions are wearing, I do take the subway. I have never, I am proud to say, taken the bus, because people who take the bus have given up.

  Paul Rudnick

  Taken, People, Wish

  Paul Rudnick (2009). “I Shudder: And Other Reactions to Life, Death, and New Jersey”, Harper

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• Tokyo cab drivers are all ex-kamikaze pilots.

  Bob Hope

  Funny, Humorous, Japan

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• Lucy, dear child, mind your arithmetic. You know in the first sum of yours I ever saw there was a mistake. You had carried two (as a cab is licensed to do), and you ought, dear Lucy, to have carried but one. Is this a trifle? What would life be without arithmetic, but a scene of horrors.

  Sydney Smith

  Life, Children, Mistake

  Sydney Smith, Lady Saba (Smith) Holland Holland (1855). “A memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith”, p.345

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• I didn't want to have to call a cab if I went to the supermarket. So I eventually got a bike, just a beach cruiser, and I rode that thing all over town. I rode it everywhere. I rode it in the rain, I rode it as much as I possibly could. Anytime I could afford the independence of the bike, I used the bike.

  Paul F. Tompkins

  Beach, Rain, Independence

  "Paul F. Tompkins on how and why he spent 25 years without a driver's license". Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. October 10, 2015.

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• Richard Price, who has made a fortune writing fake ghetto books, says he takes a cab into the ghetto, transcribes Black speech for a brief time and returns home. His fake ghetto books have bought him a townhouse in Gramercy Park and home on Staten Island.

  Ishmael Reed

  Book, Home, Writing

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• I'm a real dumb-dumb in real life. I'm just book smart. But definitely not street smart. The other day I lost my jacket in a cab. And I'll forget things every time I leave the house.

  Masi Oka

  Real, Smart, Book

  "'Heroes' Masi Oka is super-geeky". Interview with Florangela Davila, www.seattletimes.com. May 14, 2007.

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• When people say that entertainers should "know your place," they might as well say the same thing about plumbers and teachers and cab drivers. We all should be able to express our views.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Teacher, Views, People

  "Viggo Mortensen Loves Politics". Interview with Nina Siegal, www.alternet.org. October 17, 2005.

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• I drove a cab. But all the girls I knew when I was young who had to work - there were rich girls - but the ones who had to work were waitresses. Because you could always get shifts in a restaurant.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Girl, Rich, Waitress

  "The Voice: Fran Lebowitz". Interview with Francesco Clemente, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 11, 2016.

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• Luckily when you drive a cab there are two things: You don't have a boss in the cab with you, and you are not facing the people that you are making money from.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Two, People, Boss

  "The Voice: Fran Lebowitz". Interview with Francesco Clemente, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 11, 2016.

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• I stopped taking drugs when I was 19, and who wants to drive a cab around New York with drugs in their car?

  Fran Lebowitz

  New York, Car, Drug

  "The Voice: Fran Lebowitz". Interview with Francesco Clemente, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 11, 2016.

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• I'd be terrified even now for a Latin kid wanting to be an actor, but back then? Forget it. They must have thought I was going to be working in restaurants and driving cabs for the rest of my life.

  John Leguizamo

  Latin, Kids, Actors

  Interview with Haley Weiss, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 31, 2016.

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• My dad worked - f - k if I know - seven jobs? He painted a house. He would deliver toilets. He drove a cab, delivered pizzas. Whatever he could do, he did.

  Mila Kunis

  Jobs, Dad, House

  "Mila Kunis on Life With Ashton and Making Babies: 'There's Nothing We Don't Know About Each Other'". Interview with Jonah Weiner, www.glamour.com. July 6, 2016.

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• I think we still have a love for cars, and whether you're going to be driven in a car or whether you drive the car yourself, I think most people still want a good-looking car. That's the reason why, when you order a cab, you prefer a sedan over a minivan to pick you up because it just isn't as cool to be driven somewhere in a minivan.

  Henrik Fisker

  Thinking, Order, People

  "Interview: Henrik Fisker talks new companies, the future of car design and ... minivans". Interview with C.C. Weiss, newatlas.com. December 24, 2016.

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• You can get in a cab in Vancouver and the 20-year-old driver speaks more knowingly of Michael Ovitz than anyone in the industry. They just know! And it's perhaps not unhealthy.

  William Gibson

  Years, Vancouver, Speak

  Source: craphound.com

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• Today, we have a powerful military that serves as a deterrent, but the enemy we have today is not like World War II, where you sign a piece of paper and the war is over. Today they're not in uniform. In my time we knew what the enemy looked like, we knew his weapons systems and such. Today, your cab driver may be the person, you have no idea. I don't know how we got into this fix, but we're there.

  Daniel Inouye

  Powerful, Military, War

  Source: www.achievement.org

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• While the Tamils were inventing cabs and leather jackets, we Greeks were busy inventing philosophy. But I guess everybody needs cabs and leather jackets.

  Romain Gavras

  Philosophy, Greek, Busy

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think books can cure cancer and grow back hair. I can't say it enough. For me, that's why it's so syrupy. It's both syrupy and over the top, and overly sincere, and also dead true. What else can I tell you? A writer can't catch a cab half the time, but when there's a demagogue, when there's a government that wants to suppress, there's a reason that writers end up getting in trouble. It's such a subversive form that can really change people.

  Nathan Englander

  Cancer, Book, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Women have been oppressed for so long in any industry, it just takes time for a shift to happen to create more equality in any field, but I feel like it's slowly happening now. It's just things don't change over night. It's the same for racism, homophobia, xenophobia etc. If you think back even just 15 years and see how different people's mentalities were then, think how much more progress and equality we cab reach in another 15 years.

  Maya Jane Coles

  Night, Thinking, Racism

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• I'm living in L.A., which is hard to get around. I live way out in the suburbs, it's hard for me to get to town. You get five minutes here, then you gotta drive a half hour to the next one. New York was so much easier for standup because you could hit five clubs in a night. Just jump in a cab, pop. Boom, boom, boom. And you could walk to some of 'em, and work out stuff on the way. You can really get some more traction out there. You could work new material easier out there, I thought.

  Rob Riggle

  Night, Work Out, Hours

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• The thing I love about New York is getting lost but not worrying, just wandering and wandering, knowing that there's always a subway only ten blocks away in any direction. There's always a new neighborhood to discover, a new place to lose your bearings in, and yet however alien it seems you can escape. You can always get a cab. All of life's problems can be solved by hailing a cab.

  Colson Whitehead

  Block, Worry, Aliens

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I do feel like L.A. has a very supportive and collaborative energy. I felt that in New York too but also there's so much space here! You can have a home studio. In New York you had to rent a room to do a session or to practice. As a solo artist, it was a lot more expensive. Here there is that comfort in lifestyle a little bit more, being able to breathe a little bit more, and creatively flow, not having to stress about how to get our gear there in a cab and pay by the hour, it's just a different vibe.

  Alex Winston

  Stress, Home, Artist

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• But still it's like I said, when you hop in a cab in Italy and the guy doesn't speak English, uhh, you know, you have to start pointin' at things. You learn how to deal with it. What I'm tryin' to say is that it's not as convenient as touring in the states or say somewhere like Australia or even England where they speak the same language fluently.

  Vinnie Paul

  Speak English, Australia, Guy

  "Pantera Interview" by Spence D., www.ign.com. December 13, 2004.

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• Death Cab is a militantly analog band. We'll continue moving forward with our sound, but there will be no crossover.

  Ben Gibbard

  Moving, Sound, Band

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• I still come from a very working-class family. My mother's still a cleaner. And my brother is the gas man. And my other brother runs a cab. I have become a stratified, different, exotic beast, even more so than I was when I was a young gay man. I just sort of built on that. Now that I've made several films, I don't even know how to placate them with money like so many people do with their families.

  Duncan Roy

  Mother, Running, Brother

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• It's all about respect; he's looking for respect from his buddies. In the last one he just wanted to hang out, to be part of the group, but this time he wants more from his friends. And without giving the story away, he finally gets something that he has been looking for when the mini sloths kidnap him and take him to their tribal area. He gets to be the Fire King and they worship him and there is an amazing scene with a "call and response" sequence in the style of Cab Callow [the legendary American jazz singer and band leader] between him and his audience.

  John Leguizamo

  Kings, Fire, Giving

  "Ice Age 2 - John Leguizamo (Sid) interview". Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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