P. J. O'Rourke

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.

American Comedian

Amitava Kumar

Each employed immigrant has his or her place of work. It is only the taxi driver, forever moving on wheels, who occupies no fixed space. He represents the immigrant condition.

Indian Writer

Karren Brady

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

British Public Servant

Travis Kalanick

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

American Businessman

Gordon Getty

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

Jens Stoltenberg

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

Norwegian Politician

Groucho Marx

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

Paul Sinha

I get football facts thrown at me by taxi drivers.

Logan Green

Our goal was never to create a better taxi.

Katharine Whitehorn

British Journalist

Taxis are commonly used in cities for convenience despite higher costs compared to public transport.

Urban Settings

Fare is the price paid for the ride, often metered, but sometimes flat-rate for common destinations.

Fare Payment

In many places, you can flag down taxis on the street, or find them waiting at cab stands.

Hailing a Taxi

Using 'taxi' as a verb implies incurring a cost for travel, unlike general transportation terms.

Expense Implied

The verb often suggests short, direct trips, rather than long, complex journeys.

Short Trips

Taxiing is a routine part of flights, the movement on the ground before takeoff and after landing.

Pre-Flight Action

Taxiing is controlled by the pilot, not air traffic control, unlike actual flight paths.

Pilot Control

Taxiing occurs on runways and taxiways, designed for ground movement at airports.

Runway Usage

 I was in Dubai. And it's great, there's good people everywhere. And you learn great things about these places. I encourage people always to go visit these places. For example, Dubai -- cool place. They're obsessed with having the biggest, tallest, longest, as we all know. They have a mall there, the Dubai Mall. It is so big, they have taxis in the mall.

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 turned on her phone while the plane was taxiing on the runway, and straightaway there was a message from somebody that she hadn't spoken to since high school, that said, "I am so sorry to see what's happening to you." And then another message from a best friend, "You need to call me right now.

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 They also complement them in other tasks, making that work more valuable and more important. Sometimes they complement human beings directly, making them more productive or more efficient at a particular task. So a taxi driver can use a satnav system to navigate on unfamiliar roads.

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 Like a modern day taxi system, gondolas were leased to boatmen who made the rounds of the city's ferry stations. Passengers paid a fare to be carried from one side of the Grand Canal to the other, as well as to other points around the city. But gondoliers soon developed a bad rap.

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 Your supporters and investors, who have been with you the whole way, believe that the only chance of sort of taking on the powerful, entrenched interests of taxi industry and so forth, is to have someone who is a fierce, relentless competitor,

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 how people get hit by taxi don't do it right so there are three rules all right now we have one last one this is the most important one and it really is important for many reasons it's prepared for impact stay with me prepare for

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 So a friend of mine was riding in a taxi to the airport the other day, and on the way, she was chatting with the taxi driver, and he said to her, with total sincerity,

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 cry describing her she's the love of my life I fell in love with her as she was getting out of a taxi the first time I ever saw her

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 adults protecting their eggs a high-standard the devil that's brilliant one awesome taxi fare must've had