Cabbie's Quotes

#1. The cabbie's eyes sort of glazed over. Canada kills any conversation quick, I learned long ago. It's a little trick of mine.

Esi Edugyan

#2. Still laughing but with the same sorrow she had felt when a hitherto perfectly nice cabbie began to tell her that all the Jews in the first tower has been warned beforehand or that you can't trust Mexicans not to steal the rug from under your feet or that more roads were built under Stalin ...

Zadie Smith

#3. There is no evidence that super PACs have led to a greater percentage of negative ads.

Bradley A. Smith

#4. Clear your mind of whimsy

Maggie Stiefvater

#5. Wherever work is done, victory is attained.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#6. More yoga in the world is what we need.

Diane Lane

#7. One night I asked a cabbie to take me where the action is, he took me to my house.

Rodney Dangerfield

#8. Strange how much simple wisdom there is to be found in the deformed head and unprepossessing carcase of your typical London cabbie.

Auberon Waugh

#9. We all laced together - a brothel madam, an English professor, a mute cook, a quadroon cabbie, and me, the girl carrying a bucket of lies and throwing them like confetti.

Ruta Sepetys

#10. Of course," the cabbie said, "you don't know where you're going unless you know where you're going.

Emily St. John Mandel

#11. I think we are all about to become rootless. It may be time. The soil has become poisonous.

Stan Goff

#12. I took a cabbie to taxi court once. Years ago, this guy didn't want to take me to Brooklyn. Just refused. I explained that I would absolutely take him to Taxi Court because, see, I'm an actor and have pretty much nothing but free time.

Chris Eigeman

#13. When you're representing a sport, people are more likely to judge and comment as, unlike other fields, sport permits every viewer to participate to a certain level.

Vijender Singh

#14. Maybe it was the same with people: if you studied them,you'd see new and different things. But would you like what you saw? Did it depend on who was doing the looking?

Sharon Creech

#15. Kelly Preston is a remarkable human being and a great dramatic actress. It was a privilege as a director to tap into this part of her. Rarely do I make a kind of spiritual connection with my cast. Kelly was a wonderful exception. She is truly very special and I adore her.

George Hickenlooper

#16. I couldn't buy the lice off a sick cat, the cabbie answered from the very depths of self-deprecation.

Nelson Algren

#17. Problems are to the mind what exercise is to the muscles; they toughen and make strong.

Norman Vincent Peale

#18. Caesar. The Ides of March are come. Soothsayer. [2] Ay, Caesar; but not gone.

William Shakespeare

#19. Well it about these really naughty girls they made this huge girls gand they stole stuff from shopes and stuff

Jacqueline Wilson

#20. I do really well under pressure.

Molly Sims

#21. I think people who don't have conflict in their lives are just trying to please people and not really living life to the fullest.

Hope Solo

#22. Productivity is notoriously difficult to predict.

Alan Greenspan

#23. Showers early, then clearing. When Barry Manilow began moaning about Mandy, who came and who gave without takin', the cabbie snapped the radio off. Bill

Stephen King

#24. Pardon my French if you're a religious man.'

'I am,' Bill said, grinning.

'Then get outta my cab and go to fucking church,' the cabbie said, and they both burst out laughing.

Stephen King

#25. Hey," the cabbie yelled. "How's about a tip?"
"You bet-ski," Evie said, heading toward the old Victorian mansion, her long silk scarf trailing behind her. "Don't kiss strange men in Penn Station.

Libba Bray