Cab Quotes - Page 3

• While we're waiting for a cab I'll give you your lesson for today. Don't listen to what your teachers tell ya, you know. Don't pay attention. Just, just see what they look like and that's how you'll know what life is really gonna be like.

  Woody Allen

  Teacher, Giving, Waiting

  "Fictional character: Clifford Stern". "Crimes and Misdemeanors", www.imdb.com. 1989.

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• I could stay living in this city if they just installed Blaupunkts in the cabs.

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Cities, Ifs

  Bret Easton Ellis (2014). “American Psycho: Picador Classic”, p.13, Pan Macmillan

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• Oh dear,' said Eddie. 'We'd better hurry. Tinto, call me a cab.' All right,' said Tinto. 'You're a cab.

  Robert Rankin

  Said, Call Me, Dear

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• When her hands reached out and poured the tea, it was as if she also poured something into me while I sat there sweating in my cab. It was like she held a string and pulled on it just slightly to open me up. She got in, put a piece of herself inside me, and left again.

  Markus Zusak

  Hands, Tea, Pieces

  Markus Zusak (2007). “I Am the Messenger”, p.48, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• There were always men looking for jobs in America. There were always all these usable bodies. And I wanted to be a writer. Almost everybody was a writer. Not everybody thought they could be a dentist or an automobile mechanic but everybody knew they could be a writer. Of those fifty guys in the room, probably fifteen of them thought they were writers. Almost everybody used words and could write them down, i.e., almost everybody could be a writer. But most men, fortunately, aren't writers, or even cab drivers, and some men - many men - unfortunately aren't anything.

  Charles Bukowski

  Jobs, Writing, Men

  "Factotum". Book by Charles Bukowski, Ch. 73, 1975.

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• In the cab to the station, he told me that when he was growing up he'd see a look of pleasure cross his mother's face and ask what she was thinking: she'd say, I was just thinking of your father. "That's how I want us to be," Archie said. I smiled. "What?" I said, "I was just thinking of your father.

  Melissa Bank

  Mother, Growing Up, Father

  Melissa Bank (2005). “The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing”, p.115, Penguin UK

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• The magnificent lobby of the Chrysler Building - faced with rare marbles, aglitter with decorative metalwork, and surmounted by a ceiling painted with a totemic image of the tower itself - leads to elevator cabs inlaid with exotic woods in fanciful patterns. The entire route from street to office is invested with ceremony, dignity, and delight.

  Martin Filler

  Office, Ceilings, Towers

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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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• I take cabs if I need to get somewhere or I take car service. I don't drive, I wouldn't mind riding a bike... People think that because you become an entertainer you gotta have this rock star thug image. I'm an artist, man. I'm going to live like an artist.

  ASAP Rocky

  Stars, Artist, Thug

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• I recently had a few days off while shooting a movie in Budapest, so I took a cab from the set to the airport, looked at the departure board, and decided where I wanted to go right then and there. I spent four days in Rome and didn't tell anyone I was going.

  Cory Monteith

  Airports, Rome, Boards

  "Fun Fearless Males 2011: Cory Monteith". Interview with Korin Miller, www.cosmopolitan.com. March 7, 2011.

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• Oh, it's lovely to see you!' Franny said as the cab moved off. 'I've missed you.' The words were no sooner out than she realized that she didn't mean them at all.

  J. D. Salinger

  Mean, Lovely, Missed You

  j.d. salinger (1961). “franny and zooey”

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• All these things that crib and cab in your brain, in your imagination, are in fact things that might well in later life drive you insane.

  Diana Wynne Jones

  Imagination, Brain, Insane

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• The winter evening settles down With smell of steaks in passageways. Six o'clock. The burnt-out ends of smoky days. And now a gusty shower wraps The grimy scraps Of withered leaves about your feet And newspapers from vacant lots; The showers beat On broken blinds and chimney-pots, And at the corner of the street A lonely cab-horse steams and stamps. And then the lighting of the lamps.

  T. S. Eliot

  Lonely, Horse, Winter

  Prufrock (1917) "Preludes"

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• My family was poor, my father drove a cab for a living, but we felt normal because everybody else was in the same boat.

  Bob Cousy

  Basketball, Father, Normal

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• Tokyo cab drivers are all ex-kamikaze pilots.

  Bob Hope

  Funny, Humorous, Japan

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• What the mind cab conceive, it can achieve

  Napoleon Hill

  Inspirational, Life, Success

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• Granuaile looked terminally depressed when she emerged from the bathroom with raven hair and, as a result rather Goth by accident. She didn't want to get her picture taken. "Aughh!" she said miserably, looking in the vanity mirror in the truck of the cab and fingering a wavy curl near her temple. "This sucks more than anything has ever sucked before. You know what we look like? A couple of emo douche bags." "Well, look at the bright side, Granuaile. Emo Douche Bags would be a great band name." [That's brilliant! It's already the unofficial name of more bands than I can count.]

  Kevin Hearne

  Emo, Couple, Taken

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• I'm pleased to see that the cab is cluttered with cough drop wrappers and empty milk bottles and bits of mud-smeared newspapers made brittle by age. Neatness makes me feel like I have to be on my best behavior. Clutter is my natural habitat.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Age, Bottles, Habitat

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• As a kid, I imagined lots of different scenarios for my life. I would be an astronaut. Maybe a cartoonist. A famous explorer or rock star. Never once did I see myself standing under the window of a house belonging to some druggie named Carbine, waiting for his yard gnome to steal his stash so I could get a cab back to a cheap motel where my friend, a neurotic, death-obsessed dwarf, was waiting for me so we could get on the road to an undefined place and a mysterious Dr. X, who would cure me of mad cow disease and stop a band of dark energy from destroying the universe.

  Libba Bray

  Stars, Kids, Dark

  Libba Bray (2009). “Going Bovine”, p.257, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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• I'll cab it home." "Naw. I'll hang until you're through. Then I'll drag you back to your apartment. Watch you throw up for an hour. Push you into bed. Before I leave I'll get the coffee machine set up. Aspirin will be right next to the sugar bowl." "I don't have a sugar bowl." "So it'll be next to the bag." Butch smiled. "You'd have made a great wife, Jose." "That's what mine tells me.

  J.R. Ward

  Coffee, Home, Wife

  J.R. Ward (2005). “Dark Lover: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood”, p.169, Penguin

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• We are shoulder to shoulder due to the size of the cab, and if Gratton is made of flour and potatoes, Sean is made of stone and driftwood and possibly those prickly anemones that sometimes wash up on shore.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Size, Stones, Potatoes

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “The Scorpio Races”, p.134, Scholastic UK

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• Theres no such thing as vampire mojo,"said Jace,rather eeirly echoing Clarys earlier comment."And I was following Clary,but then she got into a cab,and I cant follow a cab.So I doubled back and followed you instead.Mostly for something to do" "You were following Clary?"Simon echoed."Heres a hot tip : Most girls dont like being stalked

  Cassandra Clare

  Girl, Vampire, Hot

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• Nate stared, slack-jawed as the cab merged with the traffic and became impossible to spot. That was it. They chose each other. Just then, the dark sky lit up with fireworks. A cab sailing the street honked in celebration . In the night air , Nate thought he could hear Serena and Blairs' laughter, though he knew that was impossible; they were too far away by now. But as we know, in this city anything is possible

  Cecily von Ziegesar

  Laughter, Dark, Night

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• well, death says, as he walks by, I'm going to get you anyhow no matter what you've been: writer, cab-driver, pimp, butcher, sky-diver, I'm going to get you

  Charles Bukowski

  Sky, Pimp, Cab Drivers

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• Roarke "I'll drop you." Eve "No, better I catch a cab or take the underground. This guy sees me show up in a hot car with a fancy piece behind the wheel, he's not going to like me." Roarke "You know how I love being referred. to as your fancy piece." Eve "Sometimes you're my love muffin.

  Nora Roberts

  Car, Guy, Wheels

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