Don't let any man into your cab, your home, or your heart, unless he's a friend of labor. — Jimmy Hoffa
Thousand-dollar-an-hour New York professionals who pay $50 an hour for a car and driver so they can work while they commute understand clearly the monetary value of their time. — Edward O. Thorp
The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi. — Fred A. Allen
A hospital bed is a parked taxi with the meter running. — Groucho Marx
Life is like riding in a taxi. Whether you are going anywhere or not, the meter keeps ticking. — John C. Maxwell
I have done almost every human activity inside a taxi which does not require main drainage. — Alan Brien
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
We call ourselves a free nation, and yet we let ourselves be told what cabs we can and can't take by a man at a hotel door, simply because he has a drum major's uniform on. — Robert Benchley
Tesla is in the pole position in the United States to become the autonomous taxi network. — Cathie Wood
Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo. — Oprah Winfrey
There are two modes of transport in Los Angeles: car and ambulance. Visitors who wish to remain inconspicuous are advised to choose the latter — Fran Lebowitz
Public transportation is for jerks and lesbians. — Matt Groening
I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it. — David Foster Wallace
I'm not a car guy. The subway gets me where I need to go efficiently and cheaply, and I don't worry about traffic. — Joe Scarborough
Short Cab Drivers Quotes
Drive-Thru McDonalds was more expensive than I thought...once you've hired the car... — Tim Key
The car has become the carapace, the protective and aggressive shell, of urban and suburban man. — Marshall McLuhan
Composers should write tunes that chauffeurs and errand boys can whistle. — Thomas Beecham
A black, a Puerto Rican and a Mexican are in a car. Who's driving? The police. — Muhammad Ali
Porsche and BMW drivers are arrogant. — Carroll Shelby
Most guys at Berklee are going to wind up truck drivers. — Pat Metheny
It is interesting that the black BMW is the preferred car of so many assholes. — Demetri Martin
Stay humble. Always answer your phone - no matter who else is in the car. — Jack Lemmon
Cab Drivers Image Quotes
Straight roads do not make skillful drivers
Taxi Driver Quotes
When Ava Gardner get in a taxi, the driver knows at once she’s Ava Gardner. It’s the same for Lana Turner or Elizabeth Taylor, but not for me. I’m never Grace Kelly, I’m always someone who looks like Grace Kelly. — Grace Kelly
Whereas most technologies tend to automate workers on the periphery doing menial tasks, blockchains automate away the center. Instead of putting the taxi driver out of a job, blockchain puts Uber out of a job and lets the taxi drivers work with the customer directly. — Vitalik Buterin
Was I always going to be here? No I was not. I was going to be homeless at one time, a taxi driver, truck driver, or any kind of job that would get me a crust of bread. You never know what's going to happen. — Morgan Freeman
Great teachers engineer learning experiences that put students in the driver's seat and then get out of the way.
Women often don't want to admit that they like fashion. And yet fashion enthralls everyone, from the taxi driver to the mega-intellectual. I have often asked myself why this is. I don't know the answer. — Miuccia Prada
I think that anybody's craft is fascinating. A taxi driver talking about taxi driving is going to be very, very interesting. — James Lipton
Once, I took a taxi. I hate those limousines. They stink and their drivers have been driving dead people to the cemeteries. — Klaus Kinski
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
In New York, we tip everyone. We tip doormen, we tip cab drivers, and we tip bartenders at the bar. You'll get quite an evil eye if you don't leave a tip at the bar. — Zach Braff
I was dating a guy once who spoke rudely to a taxi driver. I got out of the cab and walked home. Treat people with respect. I've waited tables, and that's why I just exceedingly overtip. It's exhausting work. — Kesha
Harvey [Weinstein] didn't want to release [MY SON THE FANATIC]; he held it for two years because he wanted a happy ending, although I don't know what that means. Does that mean the taxi driver leaves his wife or doesn't leave his wife? I think it has a happy ending. — Hanif Kureishi
Bus Driver Quotes
I thought of Emmett Till, and when the bus driver ordered me to move to the back, I just couldn’t move. — Rosa Parks
Some years ago there was a study to discover the most stressful occupation. It turned out not to be the head of a large business, football manager or prime minister, but rather: bus driver. — Jonathan Sacks
Nassim Taleb asked why, after a driver crashes his school bus, killing and injuring his passengers, he should be put in charge of another bus and asked to set up new safety rules. — Edward O. Thorp
If doctors are paid the same salary as bus drivers, community would not be crazy about making their children doctors — Nouman Ali Khan
I recruited my dad to be my bass player and fired him on several occasions. He stayed on as a bus driver. — Chely Wright
An empty bus hurtles through the starry night Perhaps the driver is singing and happy because he sings. — Gunter Grass
I'm very proud of being Italian-American, but people don't realize that the mafia is just this aberration. The real community is built on the working man, the guy who's the cop, the fireman, the truck driver, the bus driver. — Chazz Palminteri
We're no longer arguing about riding in the back of the bus, but being the bus driver or the president of the bus company. We're not pushing for the right to buy the hot dog, but selling the hot dog and the right to own the hot dog franchise. — Benjamin Hooks
The silence of snow, thought the man sitting just behind the bus driver. — Orhan Pamuk
The last job I applied for was to be a bus driver for the Chicago Transit Authority in 1957. — Vernon Jordan
Taxi Cabs Quotes
Football kickers are like taxi cabs. You can always go out and hire another one. — Buddy Ryan
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
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
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
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
Is that your final answer? Here in New York garbage men, bus drivers, taxi cab drivers, bus drivers, whoever, you know, people just yell it out to me. So that was a lot of fun. — Regis Philbin
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
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
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
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. — Sayings
Truck Driver Quotes
I love the smell of Waffle House; it's the smell of freedom, being on the open road and knowing that ninety percent of the people eating around you are also on that road. Truck driver's, road-trippers, hangovers--those who don't live that monotonous life of society slavery. — J.A. Redmerski
I'm an actor... I do a job and I go home. Why are you interested in me? You don't ask a truck driver about his job. — James Gandolfini
America is two Mack trucks colliding on a superhighway because all the drivers are on amphetamines. — Phil Ochs
Writing is the hardest work in the world. I have been a bricklayer and a truck driver, and I tell you – as if you haven't been told a million times already – that writing is harder. Lonelier. And nobler and more enriching. — Harlan Ellison
There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive. — B. C. Forbes
I'd like to be a truck driver. I think you could run your life that way. It wouldn't be such a bad way of doing it. It would offer a chance to be alone. — Anne, Queen of Great Britain
I arrived in Hollywood twenty pounds overweight and as strong as an ox. But if I put on a white tails and tux like Fred Astaire, I still looked like a truck driver. — Gene Kelly
The billionaires pay an effective tax rate lower than nurses or truck drivers. That makes no sense at all. There has to be real tax reform, and the wealthiest and large corporations will pay. — Bernie Sanders
David Bowie, for me, was the butchest guy in town. Jagger was like a truck driver. — Hedi Slimane
My father was a truck driver. That's where it all started, and academically I was a disaster at school. My cousin got his name on the honour board; I, at Melbourne High School, I carved mine on the desk. — Lindsay Fox
The postman wants an autograph. The cab driver wants a picture. The waitress wants a handshake. Everyone wants a piece of you. — John Lennon
What cancer does is, it forces you to focus, to prioritize, and you learn what's important. I mean, I don't sweat the small stuff. I used to get angry at cab drivers. It's not worth it.... And when somebody says you have cancer, you realize it's all small stuff. — Joel Siegel
You ever say a phrase you say all the time at the wrong time, feel like a complete idiot? Something like, 'You, too. You, too.' I was getting out of the cab at the airport, and the driver goes, 'Hey, have a nice flight.' 'You, too. You, too. You have a nice flight, too - in case you ever fly some day. — Brian Regan
Now this is over thirty years later and the guy said he was that cab driver. He apologized and he was serious. I felt awful. He might have been spending his whole life thinking he had jinxed me, but I told him he hadn't. My number was up. — Joe Dimaggio
I have a lot of road rage. Mostly with the rickshaw and cab drivers trying to cut me; it's the traffic. Grrrr! — Kajol
I had the cab driver drive me here backwards, and the dude owed me $27.50. — Mitch Hedberg
It's probably similar to being in New York City and having a cab driver behind you and you're driving too slow. It's not the most pleasant thing. — Barry Sanders
It's not a special taste. An American composer should have something to say to a cab driver. — Morton Gould
I literally was saved by a role, from becoming a cab driver. I never did have to wait tables, though, so looking back I guess I had it pretty soft. — Sam Waterston
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
Moving to Australia was not a career move, but a quality of life issue. It has no guns, no God, and no gangster rap. As an Ethiopian cab driver said to me the other day when I was returning from a gig in Sydney, Australia is a peaceful, democratic place. I like the relatively stress free lifestyle. It's worth the drop in income. — Franklyn Ajaye
You know, before I would think, my cab driver hates me. Now I think my limo driver hates me. — Ray Romano
It's weird - the cab driver is playing very loud dance music and yet it doesn't really feel like a party. — Eugene Mirman
Tokyo cab drivers are all ex-kamikaze pilots. — Bob Hope
I keep mementos from everything I've done. I've got my cab driver's license from 'Happiness.' I've got a pair of glasses and a belt buckle from playing John Lennon. I've got a pair of sunglasses from playing Andy Warhol... It's all in a box in the garage. — Jared Harris
We have trained girls [rescued from sex trafficking] as carpenters, as masons, as security guards, as cab drivers. And each one of them are excelling in their chosen field, gaining confidence, restoring dignity, and building hopes in their own lives. — Sunitha Krishnan
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
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
I want to see riots! I want to see the kind of riots where cab drivers are afraid to pick up white people! I want to see this guy! — Bill Maher
Sometimes I get frustrated in traffic. I typically start going deep with my cab driver and Twitter feed - simultaneously - to take my mind off the gridlock. I enjoy live-tweeting my cab rides. — Andy Cohen
Every songwriter lives to have at least one song that a cab driver who asks 'You write anything I know?' will recognize. — Rupert Holmes
I was just school class clown and that was it. Someday I'll get a job as a cab driver or whatever. — John Leguizamo
New York has made me so paranoid, too. Whenever I visit another city, I always act like I'm from there, so the cab driver doesn't rip me off. I'm always like, "Yeah, it's good to be back home. Back here where I grew up. Yeah. Here in Tokyo. ... Uh, driver, I need to go to my old stomping grounds. That would be the Holiday Inn. And the address appears to be the pound sign." — Jim Gaffigan
I'll tell ya, I don't get no respect... The other day, I got back from a business trip. I got in a cab and said to the driver, "Hey! Take me to where the action is!" So ya know where he took me? He took me to my house! — Rodney Dangerfield
Anyway, a spokesman for Barack Obama says the prisoners that are released from Guantanamo will either be sent back to their home countries or enter the New York City cab driver training program. — Jay Leno
When you're in Los Angeles, everybody you meet is writing a movie, and they want you to be in it. Every cab driver is writing a movie! — William Sadler
You see, the Mets are losers, just like nearly everybody else in life. This is the team for the cab driver who gets held up and the guy who loses out on a promotion because he didn't maneuver himself to lunch with the boss enough. It is the team for every guy who has to get out of bed in the morning and go to work for short money on a job he does not like. The Yankees? Who does well enough to root for them, Laurence Rockefeller? — Jimmy Breslin
From the cab stepped a tall old man. Black raincoat and hat and a battered valise. He paid the driver, then turned and stood motionless, staring at the house. The cab pulled away and rounded the corner of Thirty-sixty Street. Kinderman quickly pulled out to follow. As he turned the corner, he noticed that the tall old man hadn't moved but was standing under the streetlight glow, in mist, like a melancholy traveler frozen in time. — William Peter Blatty
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
Reading is human contact, and the range of our human contacts is what makes us what we are. Just imagine you live the life of a long-distance truck driver. The books that you read are like the travelers you take into your cab. If you give lifts to people who are cultured and profound, you'll learn a lot from them. If you pick up fools, you'll turn into a fool yourself. — Victor Pelevin
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