Welcome to Cab Quotes, where we delve into the intriguing and often amusing world of taxi rides. From the bustling streets of New York City to the tranquil lanes of Paris, taxis serve as both a mode of transportation and a window into the diverse tapestry of human experiences. Whether it’s the memorable conversations with chatty drivers, the unexpected detours, or the shared moments with fellow passengers, every cab ride holds a story waiting to be told.
In this curated collection, we bring you a mosaic of quotes capturing the essence of cab culture. From witty remarks to poignant reflections, these snippets encapsulate the myriad emotions and observations that arise during those fleeting moments spent in the backseat of a taxi. So, buckle up and prepare to embark on a journey through the lens of cab quotes. Feel free to use these quotes to adorn your photos, add flair to your social media posts, or simply to reminisce about your own taxi adventures. After all, as the saying goes, Life is a journey, not a destination, and what better way to explore it than through the unique perspective of a cab window.
On a Friday night in 1983, I was in a taxi in New York riding home from dinner with friends. A drunk driver ran a red light and hit the cab, and I was thrown toward the glass partition. I tried to duck, but my face hit the glass, and the impact fractured my cheekbone, my eye socket, my collarbone and several ribs. Iman
I always try to write the best song I can in the moment, and those songs are often going to end up on Death Cab for Cutie records. I don’t set out to write a solo song or write a band song. I just write, and where that songs ends up is kind of TBD. Ben Gibbard
I found my first novel difficult. I don’t want to make it sound like it’s any more difficult than driving a cab or going to any other job, but there are so many opportunities for self-doubt, that you just kind of need to soldier on. Anthony Doerr
I really love Death Cab. John Rzeznik
Definitely one of the biggest influences on my music is the music that Ben Gibbard’s associated with, so Death Cab and The Postal Service. Gnash
I spend a fair amount of time chatting to black cab drivers in London. Katie Hopkins
People say New Yorkers can’t get along. Not true. I saw two New Yorkers, complete strangers, sharing a cab. One guy took the tires and the radio; the other guy took the engine. David Letterman
I’ve had dinner with two Beatles and a Rolling Stone;I’ve said ‘hello’ to Whitney Houston and shared a cab with Larry Adler. Harry Enfield
I had a job as a paralegal. I drove a cab. Larry David
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
People are always asking me if the industry is changing, and my answer is always that it is changing only as much as we are. Many South Asian actors complain about being pigeonholed into playing terrorists and cab drivers, but it’s time that we stop talking about it. The industry will always say ‘No’ till we have enough to convince them. Sarita Choudhury
Sometimes I get frustrated in traffic. I typically start going deep with my cab driver and Twitter feed – simultaneously – to take my mind off the gridlock. I enjoy live-tweeting my cab rides. Andy Cohen
I remember playing in Union City, and we had crap games after we finished playing at night. We would go next door to the cab stand where they were playing gin rummy and betting $1,000 a hand. Frank Vincent
My first job was with an auto plant, Kansas City – they treated you like slaves. From there I went back to Chicago, worked in steel mills, drove a cab, stuff like that. Ed Asner
Any time three New Yorkers get into a cab without an argument, a bank has just been robbed. Phyllis Diller
I would still rather be in Silicon Alley. I like the West Coast also, but it’s sort of fragmented. You have companies in downtown San Francisco, companies in Mountain View, and people are driving between them all. It’s kind of nice in New York to just jump in a cab and reach another company so easily. Jon Oringer
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
Everything in New York is a fight. It’s a fight to get on the subway. It’s a fight to go to CVS. It’s a fight to get a cab. And eventually, it wears you down. Alexandra Bracken
I’m so impatient. I can’t even stand waiting for a cab, and I’m always early for everything. In training, it means I want to run my personal best every session – but it takes time. Jessica Ennis-Hill
Where I grew up in South East London you became a cab driver or worked in a flower market. Rob Beckett
You ain’t got to wait on a cab no more; just call your Uber, and it pulls up. But waiting isn’t an option: that’s just a big part of life. Trip Lee
I am not opposed to doing a side project, like Death Cab for Cutie, where it’s completely different from my own band. Ryan Tedder
I made one rule for myself, and I really try to live it: Play music you love, with people you love, for people you love. If I can’t be that kind of musician, I’ll drive a cab. Arturo O’Farrill
I have a lot of road rage. Mostly with the rickshaw and cab drivers trying to cut me; it’s the traffic. Grrrr! Kajol
I look around my neighborhood, and I see people hailing a cab or ordering their food and then paying for it all with their phone. I’ve read about that stuff for a really long time, and now it’s starting to become commonplace. Ben Silbermann
I have worked out I can quite happily jog the distance to work as long as I hail a cab first and leave my high heels on the back seat. Emily Maitlis
I’ve always been so confused about being a girl. Not in a Bruce Jenner way, just… there’s that expectation where you walk into a room, and it’s like, Is it OK to be a woman?’ Or, you know, you’re looking for your keys in the back of a cab, and sometimes the driver can treat you like you’ve had a lobotomy. Andrea Riseborough
I was the first female cab driver in the city of Pittsburgh. Frances Arnold
You know, before I would think, my cab driver hates me. Now I think my limo driver hates me. Ray Romano
Back in the day, when we’d get into a town, I would go in the phone book and look up record stores. Then I’d take a bus or a cab and check them out. Fred Schneider
Some of us are born rebellious. Like Jean Genet or Arthur Rimbaud, I roam these mean streets like a villain, a vagabond, an outcast, scavenging for the scraps that may perchance plummet off humanity’s dirty plates, though often sometimes taking a cab to a restaurant is more convenient. Patti Smith
I’m a Londoner. Embankment. Big Ben. Cab drivers. Luke Goss
If I am going to get in a cab to go home, and I see a sign for an open house, I will go in. I like real estate because I am the boss. Lorraine Bracco
It’s pretty funny, just driving by in a cab, and you see a huge billboard of yourself on the side of a hotel, like a 100-by-100 poster hanging up. Patrick Kane
With cab drivers, I always say I’m from Brazil. I don’t say I’m from Israel. It’s happened more than once that someone is blaming me for the government’s policy. And I say, ‘Listen, I live here. I’m a musician. I don’t call the shots.’ Anat Cohen
I was at a book convention, in a cab. On one side of me was Arthur Schlesinger; on the other side was William Manchester – real heavyweights. All they were doing was asking me about Charles Manson. The only thing that enables me not to be bored is the people talking about it – they’re so interested. Vincent Bugliosi
Some of the best navigators in the world are London taxi cab drivers. They have to learn 25,000 streets and how to get from one to the other. John O’Keefe
Anytime four New Yorkers get into a cab together without arguing, a bank robbery has just taken place. Johnny Carson
Maps help us in tracking our cabs – if they’re idle, headed for a booking, or in the midst of a trip. With custom systems built atop maps using available APIs, we are able to manage our inventory extremely well, predict ETAs for customers, and optimally allocate the nearest cab to a booking request. Bhavish Aggarwal
I’ll never forget the first moment I stepped on a Broadway stage. It was in Grease, and I knew it was momentous. My parents were there, and I got into a cab with them afterward and started crying. Helene Yorke
If you look at a company like Uber, a company that so anti-establishment that cab companies are trying to find ways to shut it down, one could compare that to how Public Enemy and NWA went after then-modern society in hip hop. Troy Carter
The first time I landed in New York and got a cab to my hotel, I was completely struck by it: a feeling of life and chaos, 24 hours around the clock, just like in London. And whatever your problem is, it’s insignificant. You’re just a small part of something very big. America Ferrera
Driving a cab is not really a nurturing type of relationship. You take people and they tip you, they may not tip you, you don’t know their names, they don’t care about you, you don’t care about them. Pam Grier
I remember sneaking a look at films like ‘D.C. Cab’ and ‘Doctor Detroit’ when my parents weren’t watching. ‘One Crazy Summer’ with John Cusack was one of my favorites. Bobby Moynihan
I’m a real dumb-dumb in real life. I’m just book smart. But definitely not street smart. The other day I lost my jacket in a cab. And I’ll forget things every time I leave the house. Masi Oka
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
I think it would be super, hella cool to hop into a cab & hear my song on the radio – like, ‘Yeah!’ – and also be like, ‘Who is this Griz guy? He’s horrible.’ That’d be really cool. GRiZ
I remember flying in, driving down 101 in a cab, and passing by all these tech companies like Yahoo! I remember thinking, ‘Maybe someday we’ll build a company. This probably isn’t it, but one day we will.’ Mark Zuckerberg
You’d never think of taking a cab if you had to walk a mile down Chicago’s Michigan Avenue. But in a bad city you take a cab just to go around the corner. Helmut Jahn
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. Denis O’Hare
This is real beef. Me and Stevie Wonder. He took my girl from me. We went to this concert. I told her she can go meet him, and she went and met him, and she came back and she was like, ‘Man, here go $100, why don’t you take a cab home.’ Deon Cole
When I was 16 or 17, I started listening to Death Cab, and I started writing my own songs. I was writing alternative rock, and I had a seven-piece band. The shift was just iterations of experimentation and finding what sounded right. When I stumbled on the sound and vibe that I currently have, it was kind of by chance. Verite
I’m like Cab Calloway: I love the entertainment, and I’ve loved entertaining people ever since I was little. Wyclef Jean
The marginal people on the trading desks, there’s no skill set. If they don’t trade derivatives, I don’t know what they can do. The next stop is driving a cab. James Chanos
There were days when my dad and grandpa had to work and I would call a cab to get to school. I felt a little embarrassed and would get out a block before school. There were kids getting dropped off in a Mercedes or Lexus. I didn’t want them to see me. Shaun Livingston
You’re at LaGuardia, and you get in a cab, and it’s taking you into Brooklyn, and you’re on the BQE, and you can see the skyline, the whole skyline, and it’s so beautiful. Kevin Morby
I keep mementos from everything I’ve done. I’ve got my cab driver’s license from ‘Happiness.’ I’ve got a pair of glasses and a belt buckle from playing John Lennon. I’ve got a pair of sunglasses from playing Andy Warhol… It’s all in a box in the garage. Jared Harris
Men don’t know enough about being courteous toward women. You should get into a cab before a woman so she doesn’t have to slide across the seat. And you should always go first into a revolving door so she doesn’t have to push – unless it’s moving, then let her go first. Thom Browne
Consider one possible future that could occur soon, where autonomous trucks travel highways with a human ‘monitor’ in the cab who can assist with particularly challenging driving like navigating city centres and ensure goods are delivered safely. Cathy Engelbert
Astana is a government city, not a tourist city, but all you do is tour it. You tour it in the cab from the airport, passing the gleaming new English-language Nazarbayev University and then the new soccer stadium, speed-skating track, and ten-thousand-seat velodrome. Keith Gessen
When I was 9, my parents let me take a cab to the mall all by myself. I had hardly any money to spend, but I did have a very specific list of things I wanted to do: buy cookies and sit on the furniture at Sears. Leslie Mann
Why can’t a seven-foot guy play a doctor? Why can’t I be a teacher? Why can’t I be a football coach? Why can’t I be a cab driver? Anything. Anything else than that. I can cry. I can do those things that they think the big guys can’t do. So just give us a chance. Grizz Chapman
I’ve been offered ‘Celebrity Fit Club’, where you have to take off your shirt and get on a scale. I got kids, man. I’m not going to humiliate myself. I’d rather drive a cab. Steve Schirripa
In New York, we tip everyone. We tip doormen, we tip cab drivers, and we tip bartenders at the bar. You’ll get quite an evil eye if you don’t leave a tip at the bar. Zach Braff
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 endured humiliating experiences trying to get a cab in the various cities I’ve visited and lived in. Available taxis – as indicated by their roof lights – locked their doors with embarrassingly loud clicks as I approached. Or they’ve just ignored my hail altogether. Jenna Wortham
The one thing you shouldn’t do is try to tell a cab driver how to get somewhere. Jimmy Fallon
I don’t have to really be in the 60s. Every time I hail a cab in New York, and they pass me by and pick up the white person, then I get a dose of it. Or when they don’t want to take you to Harlem. I grew up with that. Queen Latifah
Death Cab always gets right of first refusal on everything I write, but I tend to know early on. There’s a song that has yet to be released – it might come to light at some point in the near future – that when I was writing it, I was really proud of it lyrically. Ben Gibbard
Casting is a convoluted kind of trip. No one likes to be typed – even if you’re a cab driver, or whatever you do. Harry Dean Stanton
I always think you can tell a lot about a person by how they talk to their cab driver. Jeremy Strong
I was in New York City and my sister and cousin came out to see me, and I brought a guitar on stage. But all the audience wanted was for me to play so they weren’t listing to anything I was saying, I bombed hard. On the cab ride home, my sister pulled a sticker off the cab and put it on my guitar which I still have today in my man cave. Bert Kreischer
I was still in school at the time and Cab was very popular and everybody was doing Cab Calloway so I did. Billy Eckstine
My father, Fukujuro, drove a cab and my mother, Itsuko, was a homemaker. My parents often took me to see Impressionist exhibits. At home, I would paint pictures in a similar style. Takashi Murakami
The postman wants an autograph. The cab driver wants a picture. The waitress wants a handshake. Everyone wants a piece of you. John Lennon
In my early teens, I was working in a Wimpy Bar and delivering cab company cards to make cash. I also ran a tuck shop at school. I struggled academically because of being dyslexic. When I saw other families and what they had, it inspired me. I thought, ‘I can get that, too, if I work hard.’ Theo Paphitis
I decided to go and find India on my own. So, I hired a cab for a drive round old Delhi. I was knocked off center by the sheer energy that goes into daily survival. Art Malik
I literally was saved by a role, from becoming a cab driver. I never did have to wait tables, though, so looking back I guess I had it pretty soft. Sam Waterston
I got so broke that I had to take a job on a show called ‘BrainRush.’ That was purely for money. I was hosting this game show where it’s like ‘Cash Cab’ on a roller coaster, which is extreme, especially for me, since I hate roller coasters. Lamorne Morris
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 like musk and oud in a really, really delicate way. Because sometimes, if there’s too much oud, it just smells like you’re in the back of a cab in Harlem and I can’t do it. Saint Jhn
Here I am sitting in the back of a cab with Catherine Zeta-Jones who is telling me Michael Douglas has fond memories of me – it just makes me feel good as a human being. John Schneider
From folk to tribal to Cab Calloway, Cole Porter, Gershwin to the Rolling Stones, whose first record was all covers, to country-western, bebop, blues, and even the referencing in classic hip hop to cliched love ballads of the ’80s or whatever – that is kinda gone, and that’s just terrifying to me. Cat Power
I would suggest one to book a cab or take a bus from Birmingham and visit the coastline in Cornwall. Located in the southern part of the country, Cornwall has a coastline of over 400 miles. Smriti Mandhana
Picture it in your mind’s nostril: you get in a cab in time to catch twin thugs named Vomit and Cologne assaulting a defenseless pine-tree air freshener. Sloane Crosley
I’ve been driving in the city for years because, as a stand-up in N.Y.C., you can perform at more comedy clubs a night if you have a car. Getting from club to club by subway is too slow at night and too expensive by cab. So, many comics live far out from Manhattan and drive in every night. Judah Friedlander
XTC is my favorite band; I’m a huge Neil Young fan, Jayhawks, all that type of stuff. I like Death Cab for Cutie, also Ryan Adams. I try to impress my children: ‘Have you listened to such-and-such?’ They’re not impressed. Nathaniel Philbrick
As soon as a roast is announced, I get everybody – family, friends, waitresses, cab drivers – giving me jokes about the person getting roasted. I’m the mouthpiece for the masses. Jeff Ross
We are not selling the black cab in large enough volumes. We want to expand globally. Li Shufu
I recently had a few days off while shooting a movie in Budapest, so I took a cab from the set to the airport, looked at the departure board, and decided where I wanted to go right then and there. I spent four days in Rome and didn’t tell anyone I was going. Cory Monteith
The greatly anticipated 2009 Masters was like going to a Broadway hit and finding out that the star, Sir Tiger Woods, was off that night, and his replacement was the cab driver who dropped you off at the theater. Dan Jenkins
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