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.

Political science without biography is a form of taxidermy.

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

I've started collecting taxidermy: I've got a red squirrel, called Steve. I made sure he came with certificates so we know he wasn't just killed for stuffing.

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.

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

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.

I had a job as a paralegal. I drove a cab.

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

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

So I wanted to sing inspirational music, and that's exactly how I approached it - only the words have been changed to declare my relationship with God.

I'd love to be approached to do ordinary things more.

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.

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.

Philosophy can only be approached with the most concrete comprehension.

What people fear most about tragedy is its randomness - a taxi cab jumps the curb and hits a pedestrian, a gun misfires and kills a bystander. Better to have some rational cause and effect between incident and injury. And if cause and effect aren't possible, better that there at least be some reward for all the suffering.

I was approached personally by the Gibson Corporation.

I hate it. I hate taxidermy shops and all that crap.

I would never understand photography, the sneaky, murderous taxidermy of it.

Silence sat in the taxi, as though a stranger had got in.

This walking business is overrated: I mastered the art of doing it when I was quite small, and in any case, what are taxis for?

I feel like having an actual taxidermy-ed mammal would get gross, like its hair would get dirty and stuff.

Every taxi driver I have ever spoken to has a theory of gender.

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.