Taxi Cabs Quotes

• 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, People

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• The New York Police Department says Iran has conducted surveillance inside New York City. They say Iranian operatives are using special mobile surveillance units. I believe they're called taxi cabs.

  Jay Leno

  New York, Believe, Iran

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• Football kickers are like taxi cabs. You can always go out and hire another one.

  Buddy Ryan

  Football, Kickers, Taxi

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• The idea of Twitter started with me working in dispatch since I was 15 years old, where taxi cabs or firetrucks would broadcast where they were and what they were doing.

  Jack Dorsey

  Years, Ideas, Taxi

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• If you see me in New York, you'll probably see me on my bicycle riding furiously between a city bus and a taxi cab, hitting one of them on the side and yelling at them.

  Denis O'Hare

  New York, Yelling, Cities

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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

  Car, Weapons, Cab Drivers

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I remember once going to see him [Ramanujan] when he was lying ill at Putney. I had ridden in taxi-cab No. 1729, and remarked that the number seemed to me rather a dull one, and that I hoped it was not an unfavourable omen. "No," he replied, "it is a very interesting number; it is the smallest number expressible as a sum of two cubes in two different ways."

  G. H. Hardy

  Lying, Two, Numbers

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• It's hard to explaining exactly what happened, but I felt in that moment that the divine, however we may choose to define such a thing, surely dwells as much in the concrete and taxi cabs as it does in the rivers, lakes, and mountains. Grace, I realized, is neither time nor place dependent. All we need is the right soundtrack.

  Josh Radnor

  Rivers, Lakes, Grace

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• When I came to New York it was the first time I'd ever taken a plane, the first time I'd ever gotten a taxi-cab, the first time for everything. And I came here with 35 dollars in my pocket. It was the bravest thing I'd ever done.

  Madonna Ciccone

  New York, Taken, Pockets

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

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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, Drunk

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• If transportation technology was moving along as fast as microprocessor technology, then the day after tomorrow I would be able to get in a taxi cab and be in Tokyo in 30 seconds.

  Danny Hillis

  Motivation, Moving, Inspiration

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• If only men were like New York taxi-cabs and had a light that they can switch on when they're interested and off when they're not available. Then you'd know exactly where you were and you wouldn't have to worry about getting it wrong and being horribly embarrassed. --- Lucy

  Alexandra Potter

  New York, Men, Light

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• She had the perpetual sense, as she watched the taxi cabs, of being out, out, far out to sea and alone; she always had the feeling that it was very, very, dangerous to live even one day.

  Virginia Woolf

  Happiness, Sea, Feelings

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.132, Wordsworth Editions

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• In New York City, a lot of people think "the great outdoors" is the area between your front door and a taxi cab.

  Michael Bloomberg

  New York, Thinking, Cities

  Commencement Address At University Of Oklahoma in Norman, Oklahoma, www1.nyc.gov. May 11, 2007.

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