Taxi 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.

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.

I was in school studying civil engineering.

A guy approached me on the street and said that I had a interesting look-very exotic. He told me I should try to be in the industry.

I read,' I say. 'I study and read. I bet I've read everything you've read. Don't think I haven't. I consume libraries. I wear out spines and ROM drives. I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it.

I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it.

Life is like riding in a taxi. Whether you are going anywhere or not, the meter keeps ticking.

Despite the fact that computer speeds are measured in nanoseconds and picoseconds - one billionth and one trillionth of a second, respectively - the smallest interval of time known to man is that which occurs in Manhattan between the traffic signal turning green and the taxi driver behind you blowing his horn.

I get out of the taxi and it's probably the only city which in reality looks better than on the postcards, New York.

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

A hospital bed is a parked taxi with the meter running.

If you've ever really been poor you remain poor at heart all your life.

I've often walked when I could very well afford to take a taxi because I simply couldn't bring myself to waste the shilling it would cost.

An empty taxi drew up outside 10 Downing Street and Clement Attlee got out of it.

When a man and a woman see each other and like each other they ought to come together - wham - like a couple of taxis on Broadway, not sit around analyzing each other like two specimens in a bottle.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

People come to this country from all over the world to pursue their dreams of driving a taxi or selling hot dogs or working in a sweatshop.

Another woman approached me while I was having lunch at the Russian Tea Room in New York and told me that the reason she had become a lawyer was because she had read 'Rage of Angels'. To me, that kind of feedback has more meaning than any sales figures.

I think that anybody's craft is fascinating.

A taxi driver talking about taxi driving is going to be very, very interesting.

Once, I took a taxi. I hate those limousines. They stink and their drivers have been driving dead people to the cemeteries.

The fact that slang is apt and forceful makes its use irresistibly tempting.

Coarse or profane slang is beside the mark, but "flivver," "taxi," the "movies," "deadly" (meaning dull), "feeling fit," "feeling blue," "grafter," a "fake," "grouch," "hunch" and "right o!" are typical of words that it would make our spoken language stilted to exclude.

Calling a taxi in Texas is like calling a rabbi in Iraq.

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

I have done almost every human activity inside a taxi which does not require main drainage.

No collection of people who are all waiting for the same thing are capable of holding a natural conversation. Even if the thing they are waiting for is only a taxi.

After all, what is your host's purpose in having a party? Surely not for you to enjoy yourself; if that were their sole purpose, they'd have simply sent champagne and women over to your place by taxi.

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.

If, in New York, you arrive late for an appointment, say, "I took a taxi".

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.

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

This is what you do on your very first day in Paris.

You get yourself, not a drizzle, but some honest-to-goodness rain, and you find yourself someone really nice and drive her through the Bois de Boulogne in a taxi. The rain's very important. That's when Paris smells its sweetest. It's the damp chestnut trees.

I approached the bulk of my schoolwork as a chore rather than an intellectual adventure.