Cabman Quotes

#1. Walt Whitman, he who laid end to end words never seen in each other's company before outside of a dictionary.

David Lodge

#2. Men get laid, but women get screwed.

Quentin Crisp

#3. To ensnare an elusive answer, camouflage the question.

Khang Kijarro Nguyen

#4. The cabman looked at the pieces of silver, which, appearing very minute in his big, grimy palm, symbolised the insignificant results which reward the ambitious courage and toil of a mankind whose day is short on this earth of evil.

Joseph Conrad

#5. When it comes to health, diet is the Queen, but exercise is the King.

Jack LaLanne

#6. To certain temperaments, especially when previously agitated by any deep feeling, there is perhaps nothing more exasperating, andwhich sooner explodes all self-command, than the coarse, jeering insolence of a porter, cabman, or hack-driver.

Herman Melville

#7. The American flag has not been planted on foreign soil to acquire more territory but for humanity's sake.

William McKinley

#8. When it comes to innovation, business has much to learn from design. The philosophy in design shops is, 'try it, prototype it, and improve it'.

Roger Martin

#9. To fairy flutes, As the light advances, In square black boots The cabman dances.

J.B. Morton

#10. Don't worry about a thing," Tom said.
But I worried about all the things.

Melody J. Bremen

#11. You can spend your life judging people or, you can spend it making friends. Take your pick.

Carroll Bryant

#12. His name," said the cabman, "was Mr. Sherlock Holmes."
Never have I seen my friend more completely taken aback than by the cabman's reply. For an instant he sat in silent amazement. Then he burst into a hearty laugh.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#13. Actors dread working with studios because they dictate what you do in a way that independent movies can't.

Jesse Eisenberg

#14. And very amusing it is to watch," said Jem. "Did you know you twitch your nose when you sleep, like a rabbit?"
"I do not," she said, with a whispered laugh.- In my dreams (Chapter 17) deleted scene- Clockwork Prince

Cassandra Clare

#15. Chekhov will seek out the key situation in the life of a cabman or a charwoman, and make them glow for a brief moment in the tender light of his sympathy.

Robert Wilson Lynd

#16. But people don't change their beliefs easily. Even when their deepest convictions are challenged - by the failure of the world to end, for example - they continue on their way, sticking to the old routine: they get back on their weird bikes and ride again.

Louis Theroux

#17. When I was young I used to listen to everything.

Herbie Hancock

#18. The Koran was assembled from a variety of prior Hagarene texts (hence the contradictions re Jesus' death) in order to provide the Moses-like Muhammad with a Torah of his own ...

Robert M. Price

#19. I suppose this was the first time I had ever felt an urge not to be. Never an urge to die, far less an urge to put an end to myself - simply an urge not to be. This disgusting, hostile and unlovely world was not made for me, nor I for it.

Stephen Fry