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A hospital bed is a parked taxi with the meter running. -- Groucho Marx
The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi. -- Fred Allen
I think that anybody's craft is fascinating. A taxi driver talking about taxi driving is going to be very, very interesting. -- James Lipton
I get out of the taxi and it's probably the only city which in reality looks better than on the postcards, New York. -- Milos Forman
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Was I always going to be here? No I was not. I was going to be homeless at one time, a taxi driver, truck driver, or any kind of job that would get me a crust of bread. You never know what's going to happen. -- Morgan Freeman
Calling a taxi in Texas is like calling a rabbi in Iraq. -- Fran Lebowitz
Silence sat in the taxi, as though a stranger had got in. -- Elizabeth Bowen
If, in New York, you arrive late for an appointment, say, "I took a taxi". -- Andre Maurois
I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it. -- David Foster Wallace
I have done almost every human activity inside a taxi which does not require main drainage. -- Alan Brien
You know, one of the biggest thrills I have is when famous people recognize me from Taxi. -- Marilu Henner
Originality is unexplored territory. You get there by carrying a canoe - you can't take a taxi. -- Alan Alda
Any time three New Yorkers get into a cab without an argument, a bank has just been robbed. -- Phyllis Diller
Taxi Driver' was the best thing that ever happened to me, and I didn't become a weirdo and squawk like a chicken. -- Jodie Foster
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. -- Dane Cook
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. -- Ben Elton
More are the names of God and infinite are the forms through which He may be approached. In whatever name and form you worship Him, through them you will realise Him. -- Ramakrishna
I think if you look back at all those great comedies on television in the past, it's all lovable losers that gathered together - 'Taxi' and 'Cheers,' 'Seinfeld' and 'Friends.' -- Matthew Perry
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. -- Virginia Woolf
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. -- David R. Ellis
And lastly from that period I remember riding in a taxi one afternoon between very tall buildings under a mauve and rosy sky; I began to bawl because I had everything I wanted and knew I would never be so happy again. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
I try to steal from the best. Suck it all in. 'Taxi Driver' is really a bible for film actors, a master class. A lot of emotional power, a lot of emotional depth but it's contained and you just see the tip of the iceberg. -- Sam Rockwell
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. -- Josh Radnor
That came from my mother. She was the biggest influence on my life. I remember once refusing to get on a bus with her because she was wearing a mink, and I thought we should be taking a taxi. She just said, 'Who cares what people think?' and I remember sitting on that bus, being utterly embarrassed, but knowing somehow that she was totally correct. -- Tony Wilson
'Taxi Driver' was one of the happiest moments of my career. -- Cybill Shepherd
[My] dream writers room: "'Taxi.' I need to write for someone named Judd." -- Judd Apatow
Emotionally, shows like 'Cheers' and 'Taxi' were classic sitcoms when I was growing up. -- Dan Harmon
I watched 'Rocky' and 'Raging Bull' and 'Taxi Driver' over and over again. They spoke to you, man. -- Paddy Considine
'Taxi Driver' wasn't autobiographical in terms of the actual events, but I did draw on my own mental state. -- Paul Schrader
Taxi Driver' wasn't autobiographical in terms of the actual events, but I did draw on my own mental state. -- Paul Schrader
I remember being very influenced by 'Taxi Driver', and also Tommy Lee Jones in 'Coal Miner's Daughter' a little bit. -- Sam Rockwell
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I am a big fan of the TV series 'Taxi' which combined comedy and pathos better than any other show I've seen. -- Douglas Wood
'Taxi Driver' was the best thing that ever happened to me, and I didn't become a weirdo and squawk like a chicken. -- Jodie Foster
We were in love with 'Mean Streets' and 'Taxi Driver.' We had no idea why nothing remotely like that was done in Denmark. -- Mads Mikkelsen
Of course, De Niro has had a long history of memorable performances. Everyone knows 'Taxi Driver' and 'Raging Bull,' but 'Awakenings' really did something for me. -- Adriane Lenox
On 'Taxi,' I had the great fortune of directing many wonderful episodes, none more classic than Reverend Jim's driving test. It was maybe the funniest show I did. -- James Burrows
Taxi drivers used to ask me what kind of music I did, and I'd say, 'Well, it's kind of jazz, soul, classical' - but that makes no sense to anyone. -- Laura Mvula
Taxi Driver' is a movie that changed my life and made me a serious actor. Scorsese and De Niro. I give credit for anything that I've ever done as an actor. -- Michael Biehn
'Taxi Driver' is a movie that changed my life and made me a serious actor. Scorsese and De Niro. I give credit for anything that I've ever done as an actor. -- Michael Biehn
I'm shocked at being recognized. You go to places you don't think you would be and still, you are. Taxi drivers often recognise me... but I haven't got a free ride yet. -- Dan Stevens
With 'Taxi Driver,' I had this eureka moment. I realized that acting could be much more than what I had been doing. I had to build a character that wasn't me. -- Jodie Foster
Taxi drivers are the ones who pay me the most attention. They seem to be into River Cottage and have a dream of moving to the country, so I have chats with them. -- Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall
I love Taxi Driver. When I saw it the first time, I didn't understand it, but I loved it because I thought the guy was really cool when he's talking to himself in the mirror. -- Vincent Paronnaud
One of the things about the '70s films I love - the films 'Nightcrawler' is being compared to, like, 'Taxi Driver' - is that they never put their flawed characters into any one box. -- Dan Gilroy
I wish I could write 'Taxi Driver,' or 'Blue Velvet,' something brave, audacious, dramatic and dark. I don't know if I have the darkness in my own soul to be able to tap into it, unfortunately. -- Stephen Merchant
You know, one of the biggest thrills that I have is when famous people recognize me from "Taxi." When I was working with George C. Scott on "The Titanic," he knew every episode. He would quote lines from it. . . -- Marilu Henner
[I was filmed] against a blue screen [in the Star Wars]. All the rest came later, in Lucasland. They did have me take gun lessons, though. I went to the same guys who taught Robert De Niro for Taxi Driver. -- Carrie Fisher
The Taxi Ride,' from my second album, is one people want to hear a lot. I'm consciously trying to walk on the sunny side of the street, to really lift myself into a place of greater positivity, and that's a sad song. -- Jane Siberry
It goes without saying that 'Buncha Losers' comedies speak to tough times. The massive unemployment of the Reagan years gave us 'Taxi,' 'Cheers' and the genre-defining 'Night Court,' a show you could never admit to watching without making people feel sorry for you. -- Rob Sheffield
Taxi September along Jessore Road Oxcart skeletons drag charcoal load past watery fields thru rain flood ruts Dung cakes on treetrunks, plastic-roof huts Wet processions Families walk Stunted boys big heads don't talk Look bony skulls & silent round eyes Starving black angels in human disguise. -- Allen Ginsberg
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
I think I would rather be a prime minister than a taxi driver. -- Jens Stoltenberg
I'm a terrible singer, but it helps when I have to call a taxi. -- Gordon Getty
I have a driver's licence, but the truth is that I hardly ever drive. I prefer to get around by taxi. -- Ferran Adria
Once, I took a taxi. I hate those limousines. They stink and their drivers have been driving dead people to the cemeteries. -- Klaus Kinski
When I'm a brunette, it's four times harder to hail a taxi. Then I go blonde again, and suddenly there are taxis everywhere. -- Sally Phillips
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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. -- Jack Dorsey
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. -- W. Daniel Hillis
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I love getting back to Wivenhoe. I get out of my wig, bustle and costume in three minutes flat at the end of the play before jumping into a taxi outside the theater and catching the train home. -- Joan Hickson
Brits are far more intelligent and civilised than Americans. I love the fact that you can hail a taxi and just pick up your pram and put in the back of the cab without having to collapse it. I love the parks and places I go for dinner and my friends. -- Gwyneth Paltrow
My father worked in the Post Office. A lot of double shifts. All his friends were in the same situation - truck drivers, taxi cab drivers, grocery clerks. Blue collar guys punching the clock and working long, hard hours. The thought that sustained them was the one at the center of the American dream. -- Gary David Goldberg
When you grumble about a taxi being dirty, people your own age will absolutely agree with you, whereas younger people say, 'You should be so lucky to have a taxi - I walk to work!' So I have lots of young friends, who fortunately don't treat me as a guru, a person that knows all the answers. -- Ian Mckellen
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. -- Jeffrey Kluger
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. -- Cory Monteith
I can say with a solid degree of authority that I am a selfish person. I spontaneously forget the names of more people than not, unless I want to make out with them. I will take the last square of toilet paper off the roll without thinking twice. I tip taxi drivers so poorly I'm amazed none of them have run over my foot while speeding off. -- Sloane Crosley
Life is like a taxi. The meter just keeps a-ticking. -- Louise Erickson
I saw myself driving through Eternity in a timeless taxi. -- Katherine Mansfield
The best moment of love is when the lover leaves in the taxi. -- Michel Foucault
Every taxi driver I have ever spoken to has a theory of gender. -- Judith Butler
Football kickers are like taxi cabs. You can always go out and hire another one. -- Buddy Ryan
An empty taxi drew up outside 10 Downing Street and Clement Attlee got out of it. -- Clement Attlee
If I drive my SUV I'm supporting terrorism. Okay, I'll take a taxi, Is that better? -- Greg Giraldo
When I asked him how long he had been driving a taxi, he said, Dree mouse. -- Mike Royko
America is replicated at every level of British life, from the taxi driver to the prime minister. -- Timothy Garton Ash
I'd sing with Roberta Flack in a taxi if you called up and said she'd be in it. -- Peabo Bryson
I was a really bad taxi driver. I only collided twice but it was one time too much. -- Jo Nesbo
When I was growing up in New York City, my father was a taxi driver for a time. -- Diane Lane
Even running to catch a train or a taxi, you can enjoy the high energy of the moment. -- Eckhart Tolle
We have to bring out the truth about how dark and dangerous and evil the taxi side is. -- Travis Kalanick
Life is like riding in a taxi. Whether you are going anywhere or not, the meter keeps ticking. -- John C. Maxwell
In New York, I find people so courteous and so generous. Free drinks in bars. Free taxi rides. -- Quentin Crisp
I imagined loading the God of the Sea into a taxi and taking him to the Upper East Side. -- Rick Riordan
But then again, you know, the pimp in TAXI DRIVER has this reason, given the environment he was living in. -- Harvey Keitel
If you got into a taxi and the driver started driving backward, would the taxi driver end up owing you money? -- Steven Wright
I have a drivers licence, but the truth is that I hardly ever drive. I prefer to get around by taxi. -- Ferran Adria
Once I was doing a sponsored walk. In the end I managed to raise so much money, I could afford a taxi. -- Jimmy Carr
Discontented women dream of being rescued by Prince Charming. Discontented men dream of finding a horny blond in the back seat ofa taxi. -- Mason Cooley
Claude Jade is a brave nice young lady. But I don't give any guarantee what she will do on a taxi's back seat. -- Alfred Hitchcock
In New York City, a lot of people think 'the great outdoors' is the area between your front door and a taxi cab. -- Michael Bloomberg
Timmy, who made a daring escape, also made a mistake of paying the taxi driver with a check made out of toilet paper. -- Janet Frame
New York waiters, probably the surliest in the Western world . . . are better images of their city than that journalistic favorite the taxi driver. -- Alan Brien
In the taxi I let my hand lie on her leg like a promise, but I had no intention of keeping my promise. -- Graham Greene
My dad was a New York City cop. His father was a New York City fireman. And my mother's dad was a city taxi driver. -- Joe Lhota
Men still wear cologne, but I wish they wouldn't. No matter what you may believe, all men's fragrances smell like the air freshener in a taxi. -- Patricia Marx
So a man jumps into a taxi and says "King Arthur's close" and the taxi driver says, "don't worry we'll lose him at the next lights". -- Tommy Cooper
People come to this country from all over the world to pursue their dreams of driving a taxi or selling hot dogs or working in a sweatshop. -- Greg Giraldo
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. -- David Walliams
I'm one of the people who will hear a song in a taxi and be like, stop, stop the car. Like, let's go back. What was that? -- DJ /rupture
I live in a bad neighborhood. Why, I saw two complete strangers share a taxi - yeah, one guy took the radio and the other guy took the tires. -- Rodney Dangerfield
When I was in NYU Film School I drove a taxi in New York for two years, I felt like I owned my own business with that little taxi. -- Todd Phillips
The New York Police Department says Iran has conducted surveillance inside New York City. They say Iranian operatives are using special mobile surveillance units. I believe they're called taxi cabs. -- Jay Leno
Mr William, he said, in my life six times have I crashed, and on not one occasion have I ever been killed.( Bevinda Singh taxi driver from City of Djinns -- William Dalrymple
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. -- Joe Lhota
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. -- W. Daniel Hillis
At the violet hour, when the eyes and back Turn upward from the desk, when the human engine waits Like a taxi throbbing waiting I Tiresias, though blind, throbbing between two lives. -- T. S. Eliot
There's been so much corruption and so much cronyism in the taxi industry and so much regulatory capture, that if you ask for permission upfront for something that's already legal, you'll never get it. -- Travis Kalanick
Women often don't want to admit that they like fashion. And yet fashion enthralls everyone, from the taxi driver to the mega-intellectual. I have often asked myself why this is. I don't know the answer. -- Miuccia Prada
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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. -- Rick Riordan
Is that your final answer? Here in New York garbage men, bus drivers, taxi cab drivers, bus drivers, whoever, you know, people just yell it out to me. So that was a lot of fun. -- Regis Philbin
I've played Beckett. I put on in the 1950s the first Australian production of 'Waiting for Godot.' I played Estragon. The most interesting conversation I've had about Beckett was with a Dublin taxi driver. -- Barry Humphries

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