Taxi Quotes - Page 6

• Again I take a taxi to Clichy address, but feel that I do not want to go on loving Henry more actively than he loves me (having realized that nobody will ever love me in that overabundant, overexpressive, overthoughtful, overhuman way I love people), and so I will wait for him. So I ask taxi driver to drop me at the Galeries Lafayette, where I begin to look for a new hat and to shop for Christmas. Pride? I don't know. A kind of wise retreat. I need people too much. So I bury my gigantic defect, my overflow of love, under trivialities, like a child. I amuse myself with a new hat.

  Anais Nin

  Wise, Children, Pride

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

  Karl Jaspers

  Philosophy, Concrete, Comprehension

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• 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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• What I found does the most good is just to get into a taxi and go to Tiffany's. It calms me down right away, the quietness and the proud look of it;nothing very bad could happen to you there.

  Truman Capote

  Doe, Looks, Aspirin

  Truman Capote (2012). “Breakfast at Tiffany's”, p.40, Vintage

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• I approached everything, my job, my family, my romances, with intensity.

  Gene Tierney

  Sexy, Jobs, Intelligent

  Gene Tierney, Mickey Herskowitz (1979). “Self-portrait”, Peter Wyden

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• I do not believe there is a problem in this country or the world today which could not be settled if approached through the teaching of the Sermon on the Mount.

  Harry S. Truman

  Country, Teacher, Retirement

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• Students often approached me about state-paid tuition while I was out campaigning. After I explained to them that if the state pays their tuition now, they will pay higher taxes to pay other people's tuition for the rest of their lives, most of them ended up agreeing with me.

  Jesse Ventura

  People, Tuition, Pay

  Jesse Ventura (2000). “I Ain't Got Time to Bleed: Reworking the Body Politic from the Bottom Up”, p.29, Villard

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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, Taxi Cabs, Sea

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

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• Originality is unexplored territory. You get there by carrying a canoe - you can't take a taxi.

  Alan Alda

  Inspirational, Genius, Territory

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• I don't have a lot to share with other men. My heart sinks when I get into a taxi and someone starts talking to me about football.

  David Walliams

  Football, Heart, Men

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

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• In the taxi I let my hand lie on her leg like a promise, but I had no intention of keeping my promise.

  Graham Greene

  Lying, Hands, Promise

  Graham Greene (1974). “The end of the affair”, Vintage

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• I took my coffee into the dining room and settled down with the morning paper. A woman in New York had had twins in a taxi. A woman in Ohio had just had her seventeenth child. A twelve-year-old girl in Mexico had given birth to a thirteen-pound boy. The lead article on the woman's page was about how to adjust the older child to the new baby. I finally found an account of an axe murder on page seventeen, and held my coffee cup up to my face to see if the steam might revive me.

  Shirley Jackson

  Girl, Baby, Morning

  Shirley Jackson (1966). “The Magic of Shirley Jackson”, p.697, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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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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• 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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