Taxi Quotes - Page 6

• Now architecture consists of order, which in Greek is called taxis ... Order is the balanced adjustment of the details of the work separately, and, as to the whole, the arrangement of the proportion with a view to a symmetrical result.

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  Views, Order, Design

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• Philosophy can only be approached with the most concrete comprehension.

  Karl Jaspers

  Philosophy, Concrete, Comprehension

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• At the violet hour, when the eyes and back Turn upward from the desk, when the human engine waits Like a taxi throbbing waiting I Tiresias, though blind, throbbing between two lives.

  T. S. Eliot

  Life, Eye, Two

  'The Waste Land' (1922) pt. 3

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• In some ways, I've always approached singing as acting, and the voice is just like a way of carrying the song.

  Petula Clark

  Song, Voice, Singing

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• When a woman didn't enjoy it, she leaves early in the morning. Those who had a nice time will wait until the sun comes out, requests breakfast and taxi money.

  Julius Malema

  Morning, Nice, Waiting

  "South African court finds ANC's Julius Malema guilty of hate speech" by David Smith, www.theguardian.com. March 15, 2010.

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• Taxi drivers used to ask me what kind of music I did and I'd say, well, it's kind of jazz, soul, classical - but that makes no sense to anyone. Now I say I just write my own songs. I thought I had to help people get me, but I don't think they need to be spoon-fed. If you connect with me that is cool. I don't need the whole world to feel like I am a soul angel.

  Laura Mvula

  Song, Angel, Writing

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• I'd sing with Roberta Flack in a taxi if you called up and said she'd be in it.

  Peabo Bryson

  Said, Ifs

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• There should be two main objectives in ordinary prose writing: to convey a message and to include in it nothing that will distract the reader's attention or check his habitual pace of reading - he should feel that he is seated at ease in a taxi, not riding a temperamental horse through traffic.

  Robert Graves

  Horse, Reading, Writing

  Robert Graves (2006). “The Long Weekend : a Social History of Great Britain 1918-1939: And, The Reader Over Your Shoulder : a Handbook for Writers of English Prose”, Carcanet Press

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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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• Thus the races, though alike in their physical response to climate, may possibly be different in their mental response because they have approached America by different paths.

  Ellsworth Huntington

  Race, America, Climate

  Ellsworth Huntington (2016). “A Chronicle of Aboriginal America: Juvenile History - - American”, p.5, VM eBooks

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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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• Yves Saint Laurent gave women power, Chanel liberated them and when I joined Lanvin, I thought 'what do I bring to women? One day, I received an SMS from a friend in New York - she was in a taxi on the way to court to face her arsehole ex-husband, and she said to me 'Alber, I am wearing a Lanvin dress, and I feel so protected.' That to me was the biggest compliment I ever received. To have a 500 gram piece of silk make her feel protected - that made me very happy indeed.

  Alber Elbaz

  New York, Husband, One Day

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• Further study of central nervous action, however, finds central inhibition too extensive and ubiquitous to make it likely that it is confined solely to the taxis of antagonistic muscles.

  Charles Scott Sherrington

  Action, Study, Nervous

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• Also, it's good to have more than one profession, in case your own profession goes out of style. A Wall Street trader who's also a belly dancer will do a lot better than a trader who winds up driving a taxi.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Wall, Wind, Dancing

  "'We still have the same disease'". Interview with Margaret Wente, www.theglobeandmail.com. September 13, 2009.

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• Taxi September along Jessore Road Oxcart skeletons drag charcoal load past watery fields thru rain flood ruts Dung cakes on treetrunks, plastic-roof huts Wet processions Families walk Stunted boys big heads don't talk Look bony skulls & silent round eyes Starving black angels in human disguise.

  Allen Ginsberg

  Rain, Eye, Angel

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• I wander though China. Without ever having boarded a plane. My travels take place here in the Tokoyo subways, in the backseat of a taxi... all of a sudden this city will start to go. In a flash, the buildings will crumble. Over the Tokyo streets will fall my China, like ash, leaching into everything it touches. Slowly, gradually, until nothing remains. No, this isn't a place for me.

  Haruki Murakami

  Fall, Cities, Ashes

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• But I did not find any positive inspiration in my studies until I approached my nineteenth year.

  Georg Brandes

  Inspiration, Years, Study

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

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• We have to bring out the truth about how dark and dangerous and evil the taxi side is.

  Travis Kalanick

  Dark, Evil, Sides

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• It is one of the benchmarks of a culture I always think – the page at which it operates. A good way to measure it is to order a taxi and see how irate local people get if it is late.

  Sara Sheridan

  Thinking, Order, People

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• The media character-assassinated me and perceived me as this monster. When you look at my record ... I jumped a taxi as a 21-year-old, which I'm sorry for, and I urinated twice in public. That's in 11 years of football. I've never assaulted women and never been done for drink driving. My conscience is clear.

  Willie Mason

  Football, Sorry, Character

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• The silver swan, who, living had no note, When death approached unlocked her silent throat.

  Orlando Gibbons

  Swans, Bird, Silver

  'The First Set of Madrigals and Motets of Five Parts' (1612) 'The Silver Swan'

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• That came from my mother. She was the biggest influence on my life. I remember once refusing to get on a bus with her because she was wearing a mink, and I thought we should be taking a taxi. She just said, 'Who cares what people think?' and I remember sitting on that bus, being utterly embarrassed, but knowing somehow that she was totally correct.

  Tony Wilson

  Mother, Thinking, Knowing

  "It was the best party... ever". Interview with Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. March 3, 2002.

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• EA SPORTS has a strong partnership with adidas and through this relationship they approached adidas about using some of their top players from around the world.

  Claudio Reyna

  Relationship, Sports, Strong

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• We all approached doing a sequel with great trepidation and skepticism.

  Jason Biggs

  Skepticism, Sequels, Trepidation

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• I often look at a lot of Doctor Who stuff that's about now, which no one has approached me about.

  Sarah Sutton

  Doctors, Looks, Stuff

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