Taxicabs Quotes

#1. Too bad all the people who know how to run this country are busy running taxicabs or cutting hair.

George Burns

#2. I'm terrified to ride a bike in a city - and I grew up riding bikes in the city. I've just heard enough stories - I have enough friends who've been hit by taxicabs and things.

Scarlett Johansson

#3. Every audience has its character; I like America - they love me. I suffer from stage fright, but in America not so much.

Andrea Bocelli

#4. In an open society, no idea can be above scrutiny, just as no people should be beneath dignity.

Maajid Nawaz

#5. So computers are tools of the devil? thought Newt. He had no problem believing it. Computers had to be the tools of somebody, and all he knew for certain was that it definitely wasn't him.

Terry Pratchett

#6. Taxicabs might seem like a luxury item, and given the profound needs of so many disabled people in New York, why would we bother with taxis? I contend that even if you need a taxi once a year - there are times when you need a taxi.

Simi Linton

#7. Some journeys in life can only be traveled alone.

Ken Poirot

#8. Sometimes you get tired of riding in taxicabs the same way you get tired riding in elevators. All of a sudden, you have to walk, no matter how far or how high up.

J.D. Salinger

#9. He was lonely; I wanted to help, of course, but not from so intimate a distance; and lately our meetings had become memorable as a series of comically protracted farewells on station platforms and embarrassed, hasty protestations of friendship made through the windows of departing taxicabs.

M. John Harrison

#10. Rebecca tilted her face up to Jake and she felt his lips brushing lightly against hers. Then his lips were beside her ear, whispering, A lifetime of happiness, Reb, I promise.

Lorraine Heath

#11. There's a story in all of us. All we need to do is decide how to tell it" -Nicci Sefton

Nicci Sefton

#12. Limousines used to be reserved for the ruling class, or, on special occasions, for the working class. Today, limousines are like taxicabs with the door handles still intact.

Erma Bombeck

#13. I am for the art of underwear and the art of taxicabs. I am for the art of ice cream cones dropped on concrete.

Claes Oldenburg

#14. You can't be rich unless everyone else agrees that you're rich.

James Surowiecki

#15. Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.

George Burns

#16. Every relation challenges; every relation asks me to be something, do something, respond. Close off response and what is left? Bearing...enduring...waiting.

May Sarton

#17. The present is never tidy, or certain, or reasonable, and those who try to make it so once it becomes the past succeed only in making it seem implausible.

William Manchester

#18. A twerp was defined as a guy who put his set of false teeth up his rear end and bit the buttons off the backseats of taxicabs.

Kurt Vonnegut