Top 299 Taxi Quotes & Sayings

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

The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.

I took a cabbie to taxi court once. Years ago, this guy didn't want to take me to Brooklyn. Just refused. I explained that I would absolutely take him to Taxi Court because, see, I'm an actor and have pretty much nothing but free time.

Again I take a taxi to Clichy address, but feel that I do not want to go on loving Henry more actively than he loves me (having realized that nobody will ever love me in that overabundant, overexpressive, overthoughtful, overhuman way I love people), and so I will wait for him. So I ask taxi driver to drop me at the Galeries Lafayette, where I begin to look for a new hat and to shop for Christmas. Pride? I don't know. A kind of wise retreat. I need people too much. So I bury my gigantic defect, my overflow of love, under trivialities, like a child. I amuse myself with a new hat.

'Taxi Driver' was one of the happiest moments of my career.

I understand that some people are angry about taxi services. A taxi fare hike should be accompanied by better customer service.

I get football facts thrown at me by taxi drivers.

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.

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

Everyone should try a taxi, as it is part of the New York experience.

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

If he (The New York Taxi Driver) talked to me, he might lose his concentration, which would be very bad because the taxi has some kind of problem with the steering, probably dead pedestrians lodged in the mechanism, the result being that there is a delay of 8 to 10 seconds between the time the driver turns the wheel and the time the taxi actually changes direction, a handicap that the driver is compensating for by going 175 miles per hour, at which velocity we are able to remain airborne almost to the far rim of some of the smaller potholes.

You know, one of the biggest thrills I have is when famous people recognize me from Taxi.

I have a drivers licence, but the truth is that I hardly ever drive. I prefer to get around by taxi.

When I was growing up in New York City, my father was a taxi driver for a time.

Sometimes I get drunk and I get into arguments with taxi drivers. And I get out the cab and I slam the door. That's not the way to win an argument with a taxi driver. The way to win is you get out of the cab and you leave the door open. And then he has to step out and come around and close that door. And while he's doing that, I'm on the other side opening the other doors-and we just go around and around and around, and I got my own Benny Hill situation going on in life.

'Taxi' made a big difference because it got me into comedy.

Originality is unexplored territory. You get there by carrying a canoe - you can't take a taxi.

You take responsibility for your children but you're not always the taxi driver and that doesn't make you a bad parent.

I was in a taxi the other night, and we started talking about life and the taxi driver goes, 'Chaos and creativity go together. If you lose one per cent of your chaos, you lose your creativity.' I said that's the most brilliant thing I've heard. I needed to hear that years ago.

I saw myself driving through Eternity in a timeless taxi.

America is replicated at every level of British life, from the taxi driver to the prime minister.

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.

I think that anybody's craft is fascinating. A taxi driver talking about taxi driving is going to be very, very interesting.

Personally, I would really like the entire production staff of Taxi Driver,' and all the characters including prosecutor Kang Ha Na, to come back together and continue the stories of Rainbow Taxi.

I remember getting my first cell phone in New York, getting into a taxi and thinking "This is the end of solitude in the back of a taxi." What used to happen in the back of a taxi? You looked out the window. My brain has become less able to spend lengths of time without shifting, and I worry about that.

Life is like a taxi. The meter just keeps a-ticking.

Well, that covers a lot of ground. Say, you cover a lot of ground yourself. You better beat it - I hear they're going to tear you down and put up an office building where you're standing. You can leave in a taxi. If you can't get a taxi, you can leave in a huff. If that's too soon, you can leave in a minute and a huff. You know, you haven't stopped talking since I came here? You must have been vaccinated with a phonograph needle.

I saw 'Taxi Driver,' and 'Taxi Driver' kind of saved my life. The scene where Robert De Niro is looking at himself in the mirror saying, 'You talkin' to me? You talkin' to me? Who the hell else are you talkin' to?' That's the scene that changed my life by changing my attitude about acting.

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.

I'm a terrible singer, but it helps when I have to call a taxi.

The best moment of love is when the lover leaves in the taxi.

I'd sing with Roberta Flack in a taxi if you called up and said she'd be in it.

Our goal was never to create a better taxi.

I've never been derogatory towards taxi drivers.

We have to bring out the truth about how dark and dangerous and evil the taxi side is.

I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it.

In 'Taxi,' I kept doing the same scene for three years. I was underused.

[My] dream writers room: "'Taxi.' I need to write for someone named Judd."

Taxi Driver' is about taking revenge for the people who were hurt.

I imagined loading the God of the Sea into a taxi and taking him to the Upper East Side.

Life is like riding in a taxi. Whether you are going anywhere or not, the meter keeps ticking.

I was a really bad taxi driver. I only collided twice but it was one time too much.

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.

If you got into a taxi and the driver started driving backward, would the taxi driver end up owing you money?

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".

It's the only thing to do when you're in London - hang out in a taxi.

I think I would rather be a prime minister than a taxi driver.

Even running to catch a train or a taxi, you can enjoy the high energy of the moment.

I wrote 'Big Yellow Taxi' on my first trip to Hawaii. I took a taxi to the hotel and when I woke up the next morning, I threw back the curtains and saw these beautiful green mountains in the distance. Then, I looked down and there was a parking lot as far as the eye could see, and it broke my heart this blight on paradise. That's when I sat down and wrote the song.

Taxi drivers up and down the country are at the vanguard of the electric vehicle revolution.

If I drive my SUV I'm supporting terrorism. Okay, I'll take a taxi, Is that better?

I have no limo. In cities, I usually hail a taxi like everyone else.

A hospital bed is a parked taxi with the meter running.

I have a driver's licence, but the truth is that I hardly ever drive. I prefer to get around by 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.

Whereas most technologies tend to automate workers on the periphery doing menial tasks, blockchains automate away the center. Instead of putting the taxi driver out of a job, blockchain puts Uber out of a job and lets the taxi drivers work with the customer directly.

But then again, you know, the pimp in TAXI DRIVER has this reason, given the environment he was living in.

Pack the one bag. Unpack it, pack it, unpack it, pack it: passeport, ticket, book, taxi, airport, check-in, beer, announcement, stairs, airplane, fasten seat-belt, air born, flight, rocking, sun, stars, space, hips of strolling stewardesses, read, sleep, clouds, falling engine speed, descent, circling, touch down, earth, unfasten seat-belt, stairs, airport, immunization book, visa, customs, questions, taxi, streets, houses, people, hotel, key, room, stuffiness, thirst, otherness, foreignness, loneliness, fatigue, life.

I don't ride the subway. Either I walk, or I take a New York City taxi.