Taxi Quotes

A hospital bed is a parked taxi with the meter running. (Groucho Marx)
I have a driver's licence, but the truth is that I hardly ever drive. I prefer to get around by taxi. View quote
Ferran Adria
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. View quote
Ben Elton
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. View quote
David R. Ellis
I'm a terrible singer, but it helps when I have to call a taxi. View quote
Gordon Getty
"To put it in gentleman's terms if you've been out for a night and you're looking for a young lady and you pull one, some weeks they're good looking and some weeks they're not the best. Our performance today would have been not the best looking bird but at least we got her in the taxi. She wasn't the best looking lady we ended up taking home but she was very pleasant and very nice, so thanks very much, let's have a coffee" - on the "ugly" win against Chesterfield. View quote
Ian Holloway
I get out of the taxi and it's probably the only city which in reality looks better than on the postcards, New York. View quote
Miloš Forman
In New York City, a lot of people think 'the great outdoors' is the area between your front door and a taxi cab. View quote
Michael Bloomberg
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. View quote
P. J. O'Rourke
I love New York. You can pop out of the Underworld in Central Park, hail a taxi, head down Fifth Avenue with a giant hellhound loping behind you, and nobody even looks at you funny. View quote
Rick Riordan
I imagined loading the God of the Sea into a taxi and taking him to the Upper East Side. (Rick Riordan)
I don't have a lot to share with other men. My heart sinks when I get into a taxi and someone starts talking to me about football. View quote
David Walliams
I have done almost every human activity inside a taxi which does not require main drainage. View quote
Alan Brien
I was 20 years old, working as a roofer and a telemarketer and driving a taxi, just barely getting by. A friend of a friend suggested I try acting. I was like, 'Why? What am I going to do? Community theater?' But I took a class, and the teacher thought that I had potential, so I moved to Vancouver and started auditioning. View quote
Cory Monteith
If you see me in New York, you'll probably see me on my bicycle riding furiously between a city bus and a taxi cab, hitting one of them on the side and yelling at them. View quote
Denis O'Hare
If transportation technology was moving along as fast as microprocessor technology, then the day after tomorrow I would be able to get in a taxi cab and be in Tokyo in 30 seconds. View quote
Danny Hillis
I think that anybody's craft is fascinating. A taxi driver talking about taxi driving is going to be very, very interesting. View quote
James Lipton
I was born here in the city, born in the Bronx. Son of a cop. One grandfather was a taxi driver; the other was a firefighter. New York is in my DNA. View quote
Joe Lhota
You know, one of the biggest thrills I have is when famous people recognize me from Taxi. View quote
Marilu Henner
I'd sing with Roberta Flack in a taxi if you called up and said she'd be in it. View quote
Peabo Bryson
It was the sort of day when people walk in the park and solve problems. "We'll simply call the taxi company, David, and request a large one, like one of those vans." Is the sort of thing you would overhear if you were overhearing in the park. (Daniel Handler)
The world gets grimy and the love object is in stark relief from its surroundings. This is love, a pretty thing on an ugly street and why wouldn't you pick it up if it appeared in a taxi cab. View quote
Daniel Handler
My mum went and married a really horrible horrible man, who drove a taxi at night and had a sticky-fingered son and he smoked cigars in the toilet. Smelled terrible! Again, there's no therapy, there's no counseling over the whole situation! Just married the maniac. And there was a new person in her bed now, and I couldn't do my nightly performance anymore. I was nine years old and my show had been canceled! View quote
Tracey Ullman
It's no go the Yogi-Man, it's no go Blavatsky, All we want is a bank balance and a bit of skirt in a taxi. View quote
Louis MacNeice
A New York City taxi driver asked him where to go; Karajan replied "No matter - I am in demand everywhere." View quote
Herbert von Karajan