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.
I think that anybody's craft is fascinating. A taxi driver talking about taxi driving is going to be very, very interesting.
Originality is unexplored territory. You get there by carrying a canoe - you can't take a taxi.
I think right now is when we need to hear different voices coming out of all parts of the world. You can't just hear the politicians and the military leaders. You have to hear from the taxi drivers. You have to hear from the painters. You have to hear from the poets. You have to hear from the school teachers and the filmmakers and musicians.
'Taxi Driver' was the best thing that ever happened to me, and I didn't become a weirdo and squawk like a chicken.
I imagined loading the God of the Sea into a taxi and taking him to the Upper East Side.
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.
I saw myself driving through Eternity in a timeless taxi.
When I would work freelance in production in Chicago, there were a lot of times when I was working for cheap, bad people, and I was working for slave wages anyway, so there were some times when I might have filled out a couple of blank taxi receipts and kept some petty cash. But like I say, I was very selective. It was only people that I thought were assholes. The people that I liked I went far and above saving them money, much less taking it. But that's it. I'm pretty moral. I don't even like stealing jokes.
When I was growing up in New York City, my father was a taxi driver for a time.
I was approached personally by the Gibson Corporation.
I quickly discovered that trying to go play golf while living in Manhattan was about as easy as trying to grab a taxi while standing out in front of Saks Fifth Avenue in the freezing rain on the last shopping day before Christmas.
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.
America is replicated at every level of British life, from the taxi driver to the prime minister.
I had a job as a paralegal. I drove a cab.
I'd sing with Roberta Flack in a taxi if you called up and said she'd be in it.
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.
An empty taxi drew up outside 10 Downing Street and Clement Attlee got out of it.
Someone did a study of the three most-often-heard phrases in New York City. One is "Hey taxi. " Two is "What train do I take to get to Bloomingdales?" And three is "Don't worry, it's only a flesh wound.
People who treat waitresses or waiters rudely - or taxi drivers - I have very little tolerance for those people. They work really hard. They deserve courtesy and respect.
