London Cabbie Quotes

I learn so much that I previously did not know about the world of the immobile that it is hard to believe it all takes place over a few hours. At random: I learn about the casual indifference of the London cabbie to the wheelchair user and that the clearance on accessible entrances is measured in millimetres less than a knuckle. I learn how intractable it is to push a grown man around for hours and how spontaneity is the privilege of the able-bodied. In solid counterpart to all this grief, I learn about the lengths nurses are prepared to go to assist a purely recreational and ambitious project by one of their patients. ~ Marion Coutts

Strange how much simple wisdom there is to be found in the deformed head and unprepossessing carcase of your typical London cabbie. ~ Auberon Waugh

In rapid succession we passed through the fringe of fashionable London, hotel London, theatrical London, literary London, commercial London, and, finally, maritime London ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

Pardon my French if you're a religious man.'

'I am,' Bill said, grinning.

'Then get outta my cab and go to fucking church,' the cabbie said, and they both burst out laughing. ~ Stephen King

Of course," the cabbie said, "you don't know where you're going unless you know where you're going. ~ Emily St. John Mandel

I could not cherish London and not value Jewish London. The contribution of Jews to London is immense - politically, economically, culturally, intellectually, philanthropically, artistically. ~ Ken Livingstone

Sure I do," countered Lila cheerfully. "There's Dull London, Kell London, Creepy London, and Dead London," she recited, ticking them off on her fingers. "See? I'm a fast learner. ~ V.E Schwab

'Kraken' is set in London and has a lot of London riffs, but I think it's more like slightly dreamlike, slightly abstract London. It's London as a kind of fantasy kingdom. ~ China Mieville

On my early trips to London and Paris, in 2009, I started to shift to more wide-brimmed felt hats similar to Borsalinos and Stetsons. ~ Theophilus London

If I died snowboarding, you could honestly tell everybody in the world that Jeremy London died happy. ~ Jeremy London

As London is suddenly promoted as a super-wealth brand, the England outside London shivers beneath cutbacks, tight circumstances and economic disasters. ~ Morrissey

PLEASE DO NOT ENTER WITHOUT KNOCKING.
PLEASE DO NOT KNOCK. ~ Jack London

London is a roost for every bird. ~ Benjamin Disraeli

Jeffrey Murdock is a colossal turd."
"Can I stitch that on a sampler and put it on Etsy?"
"Sure. ~ Cecilia London

Announcer - "And where are you from Pete?"
Pete Townshend - "London, I'm from London."
Announcer - "London where, exactly?"
Pete - "London, England ~ Pete Townshend

I was brought up in a flat in North London - virtually the last building in London, because north of us was countryside all the way to the coast, and south of us was non-stop London for 20 miles. ~ Jim Crace

I love London. I'm a London fanatic. That's my city. ~ John Boyega

The dominant primordial beast was strong in Buck ~ Jack London

Man always gets less than he demands from life. ~ Jack London

Told me a thing about yourself. All that I know ~ Jack London

My Kindle is full of highly enjoyable, unequivocally filthy smut. ~ Cecilia London

That's Kansas. Or Missouri. One of those corn states. ~ Julia London

Impulse buying really is good for the soul. ~ Lacey London

Limited minds can recognize limitations only in others. ~ Jack London

to contradict him. "You know how she is, ~ Julia London

Meaning, not beauty, is what we are after. ~ Peter London

Well, Buck my boy. ~ Jack London

Some sorts of truth are truer than others. ~ Jack London

The most beautiful stories always start with wreckage. ~ Jack London

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He was a large, fleshy man, weighing at least two hundred pounds, and he quickly became a faithful representation of a quivering jelly mountain of fat. ~ Jack London

Having no new companions, nothing remained for him but to read. ~ Jack London

They seemed to share the kindliness and largeness of John Thornton. ~ Jack London

There's more to love than two pelvises in a tussle. ~ Laura London

When it comes to ye, lass, I doubt even my sanity ~ Julia London

Okay. Hey. Calm down." The rage filled my body head to ~ London Casey

She honestly could not tell if she loved London or loathed it. For she could not decide for herself what London was at all. ~ Miranda Emmerson

Civilization without humanity was just a graveyard ~ Alex London

I'd rather be ashes than dust ~ Jack London

hear the storm raging, could still see ~ Julia London

the human soul is a lonely thing ~ Jack London

Hope could be a cruel bitch ~ Julia London

He was not immoral, but merely unmoral. ~ Jack London

Sagacious agent could, I suppose, be desired, ~ Jack London

Now, you red-eyed devil," he said, ~ Jack London

puny adventurers bent on colossal adventure, pitting ~ Jack London

pretended to be interested in her, allowing ~ Julia London

to squirm my little space in the cosmic dust whence I came, ~ Jack London

Some maundering fancy of going out with the tide suddenly obsessed me. ~ Jack London

In the end, someone would have to pay for it. Everything costs. ~ Alex London

We do not speak of clowns in this office. You know that. ~ Cecilia London

I'd burn the world down if it would make you smile ~ Alex London

If I'm playing a gig in London, it feels so important. The adrenaline rush here is bigger than anywhere else. I kind of like the pressure that London puts you under. ~ Laura Mvula

Laugh a little Syd," Knox said. "Life is too short for perpetual misery. ~ Alex London

He had a method of accepting things, without questioning the why and wherefore. ~ Jack London

It's at your most lunatic moments that I can resist you least. ~ Laura London

No man can be intellectually insulted. Insult, in its very nature, is emotional. ~ Jack London

Knox's father shrugged. "They're children. We don't need their forgiveness. ~ Alex London

Sled shot downhill at their heels. ~ Jack London

DURANTE: They are eighteen year olds in half centenarians' bodies. ~ Billy London

We should all get a little forgiveness - without it, there can be no kindness. ~ Alex London

Showers early, then clearing. When Barry Manilow began moaning about Mandy, who came and who gave without takin', the cabbie snapped the radio off. Bill ~ Stephen King

To me, the difference between New York and London is that things are boring and staid in London. ~ Theo James

If you go into an underground train in London - probably anywhere, but chiefly in London - there's that sense of almost entering a ghostly dimension. People are very still and quiet; they don't exchange many pleasantries. ~ Seamus Heaney

For the last time in his life he allowed passion to usurp cunning and reason, ~ Jack London

Said. Computers are like cars. They should just work. No one wants to know how. ~ Julia London

Caroline scrambled off his lap, gazing down at the Persian rug. "Is this thing Scotchgarded? ~ Cecilia London

Great poems know more than their poets, but they cannot exist without them. ~ Alex London

Again from its brumal sleep ~ Jack London

All I wanted,' London said later, 'was a quiet place in the counry to write and loaf in and get out of Nature that something which we all need, only the most of us don't know it. ~ Jack London

L.A. style is more laid back than London, mainly because it's always sunny. In London, the cold means you get to rock layers. And you can't go wrong with a trench coat! ~ Jessica Lowndes

Although I have lived in London, I have never really considered London my home because it was always going to be a stopping-off point for me, and it has been too. ~ Annie Lennox

Cities have sexes: London is a man, Paris a woman, and New York a well-adjusted transsexual. ~ Angela Carter

Sacredam!" he cried, when his eyes lit upon Buck. "Dat one dam bully dog! Eh? How moch? ~ Jack London

I felt very special in Paris, more special than I felt in London. I love London for different reasons. I've always been close to London, being English. But somehow, there's something special about living as an Englishwoman in Paris. ~ Charlotte Rampling

London's so busy, London's manic half the time. ~ Tom Hopper

It was good to be admired for something. Everyone should feel that way sometimes, he thought. ~ Alex London

Old longings nomadic leap, Chafing at custom's chain; Again from its brumal sleep Wakens the ferine strain. ~ Jack London

Also he saw one dog, that would neither conciliate nor obey, finally killed in the struggle for mastery. ~ Jack London

Wakens the ferine strain. ~ Jack London

woe of unnumbered generations ~ Jack London

I grew up in London, and that's where I spend most of my time. Unless I have a really good reason not to be, I'll always be in London. ~ Douglas Booth

I love driving around east London - it's always full of surprises. Actually, I don't drive myself - I like to be driven. ~ Zaha Hadid

It is white. - when asked what the White house was like by a student in East London ~ George W. Bush

Oh, Punky. You should afford to have a bit more humility. But the first goal is for you to stop cursing so much."
"Fuck that," Caroline said.
"You're failing miserably."
"I haven't even started yet. ~ Cecilia London

London is like the grave in one respect
any man can make himself at home there; and whenever a man finds himself homeless elsewhere, he had better either die or go to London. ~ Nathaniel Hawthorne

First one of you to call me Yoko," Todd warned as he stepped up, "is a dead man. ~ Ophelia London

Life streamed through him in splendid flood, glad and rampant, until it seemed that it would burst him asunder in sheer ecstasy and pour forth generously over the world. ~ Jack London

The movie is all illusion. How people wish things were. ~ J.A. London

It is hard when our heroes fall, yes? - Alek Spasky ~ C. Alexander London

People really have to stop dropping guns around us. - Dan ~ C. Alexander London

And just like that, I've become a
romantic. I blame Bruno Mars. ~ Ophelia London

All things change, and we change with them. ~ London Shah

Fear urged him to go back, but growth drove him on. ~ Jack London

She didn't really know London, only lived in it. ~ Ruth Rendell

The moment my son died my own heartbeat turned against me ~ Alex London

I went out with a promiscuous impressionist - she did everybody. ~ Jay London

All you need in life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure ... MARK TWAIN ~ Julia London

If you work hard and try your best absolutely anyone can do anything. ~ Helen Glover British Rowing Gold Medalist London 2012

The function of man is to live, not to exist. ~ Jack London