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
Related Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said: I am not commanding you, but I ... NICHOLAS SPARKS I will never forget the vision of Jamie walking towards me. NICHOLAS SPARKS As these images were going through my head, my breathing suddenly went still. I looked at Jamie, the... NICHOLAS SPARKS It's irresponsible. You learn, and like I told him this morning, if he has to go somewhere, call a c... DWANE CASEY How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful. EVANS G. VALENS Lᴏᴠᴇ ɪs ʟɪᴋᴇ ᴛʜᴇ ᴡɪɴᴅ ... Yᴏᴜ ᴄᴀɴ'ᴛ sᴇᴇ ɪᴛ, ʙᴜᴛ ʏᴏ... NICHOLAS SPARKS Some people never take a chance and never know what it's like to live life to the full. CHLOE THURLOW Are you trying to get run over by a cab?" "Don't be ridiculous. We could never get a cab ... CASSANDRA CLARE To know wisdom is to be all knowledgeable ,to use that knowledge for the greater good is to no that ... GARY F EVANS... The petty theft charge is a result of him taking a cab and stiffing the cab driver. He took a cab fr... JANE ROBISON To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting. STEPHEN CHBOSKY You don't have to learn much out of books, it's like if you want to learn about cows, you go milk on... HARPER LEE You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them. HARPER LEE Casting is a convoluted kind of trip. No one likes to be typed - even if you're a cab driver, or... HARRY DEAN STANTON If I could grant wishes do you think I would be driving a cab? NEIL GAIMAN My first job was with an auto plant, Kansas City - they treated you like slaves. From there I went b... ED ASNER Love is always patient and kind. It is never jealous. Love is never boastful or conceited. It is nev... A WALK TO REMEMBER I've been offered 'Celebrity Fit Club', where you have to take off your shirt and get on... STEVE SCHIRRIPA Festivals are great because you get to just walk around the corner and see a new band that you'v... JOHNNY MARR I've never been a depressive, but I felt quite close to the edge at times. But you never know wh... JONATHAN DIMBLEBY Women have to harness their power - its absolutely true. It's just learning not to take the firs... CHER If you wait for inspiration you'll be standing on the corner after the parade is a mile down the... BEN NICHOLAS Until you walk a mile in another man's moccasins you can't imagine the smell. ROBERT BYRNE The one thing you shouldn't do is try to tell a cab driver how to get somewhere. JIMMY FALLON It is strange being in a crowd where no one knows your face or cares for your purpose. In Lykos, I w... PIERCE BROWN You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace." I looked up at him and arched a brow. "I'm a girl... TAMMARA WEBBER There are approximately two trillion cells in the human body. You are never alone, there are always ... DWIGHT W. HAYES She filed the image away as an excellent and insulting question to ask the earl at an utterly inappr... GAIL CARRIGER if it doesn't come bursting out of you in spite of everything, don't do it. unless it... CHARLES BUKOWSKI Plunging in “truths” about God is like walking on the bottom of a sea that is not there, searchi... MARIANA FULGER A Ritual to Read to Each Other If you don’t know the kind of person I am and... WILLIAM STAFFORD I’ll always be limited because I’m me and he’s he. I could put myself in his situation and wal... MICHAEL SOLL Is science fiction of today to be tomorrow's science fact, if we think of it the idea of the flip ph... GARY F EVANS... People are never quiet. It's go, go, go. I'm a go-getter, but you need rest and silence, jus... DANA HILL I wish he had taken that cab back. It's so dark up there on Nova. You're not going to make it if you... TOM O'ROURKE I just reminded guys that if you do go out to dinner and have a cocktail or drink, don't drive, beca... DWANE CASEY Picture it in your mind's nostril: you get in a cab in time to catch twin thugs named Vomit and ... SLOANE CROSLEY Driving a cab is not really a nurturing type of relationship. You take people and they tip you, they... PAM GRIER I am often asked how it is that I am able to value people to such a deep degree. Apparently, I exhib... C. JOYBELL C. The first time I landed in New York and got a cab to my hotel, I was completely struck by it: a feel... AMERICA FERRERA Notting Hill is a very different carnival from anywhere else. This is an international city, so it r... WALSHY FIRE It's extraordinary to think that if you walked into a room and said you had never heard of Hamle... ROBERT WINSTON In a city where you walk around, it's impossible to plan your day and your life as accidents wil... JASON SCHWARTZMAN Film is built for kinetic movement and crash and burn. It's a great tool for spectacles. But if ... MEL GIBSON A man who loves a bad name cares less about the future of his great grand children. DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) If we all took a minute to reflect upon the wrong we do we would be quite surprised or shocked.Inste... GARY F EVANS... I know it's bad to generalize, but when you think about billionaires, you just think this guy is... SABRINA BRYAN The story goes as the line follow... alone... loony.... ... That's what's happening.... DEYTH BANGER I really don't know the Chicago School. You see, I never walk. I always take taxis back and fort... LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE Men don't know enough about being courteous toward women. You should get into a cab before a wom... THOM BROWNE Housework can't kill you, but why take a chance? PHYLLIS DILLER I'd ban all automobiles from the central part of the city. You see, the automobile was just a pa... LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI I've never had anyone just stick their hands through my hair. Yet. If they ask, I go, 'OK, y... CHARLIE WHITE If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship... RAY BRADBURY If you stand still in any city long enough, you see everyone pass you by. So you're in Chicago. ... GLEN HANSARD If someone's going to talk about me, I'd want it to be positively. The way many write, you... DOROTHY STRATTEN A railroad station? That was sort of a primitive airport, only you didn't have to take a cab 20 mile... RUSSELL BAKER I run from Horatio Street down just past Battery Park City and back. It's amazing to run and see... ANDY COHEN They may not have enough of their own to take a stand, but they can do it if someone shows them how. DAN GROAT It's not a special taste. An American composer should have something to say to a cab driver. MORTON GOULD The Park Avenue of poodles and polished brass; it is cab country, tip-town, glassville, a window-wa... GAY TALESE The Park Avenue of poodles and polished brass; it is cab country, tip-town, glassville, a window-was... GAY TALESE There are just some kind of men who-who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learn... HARPER LEE The role of the
Christian is to let other people know what Jesus has done, not to
think of themselve... LEWIS N. ROE Naturalistic atheism debunks itself. It
has no power to explain even some
of the most basic principl... LEWIS N. ROE It's important to understand that if
someone calls themselves a Christian, it does not automatically... LEWIS N. ROE A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung... PETER WESSEL ZAPFFE I walked to Seward School first through fourth grade. It's just amazing to me now that we'd ... STONE GOSSARD If you turned into a wolf, there's no reason why you'd become evil and start eating people, ... MARTIN MILLAR If you get stuck, get away from your desk. Take a walk, take a bath, go to sleep, make a pie, draw, ... HILARY MANTEL If you destroyed half the pharmaceutical production in the United States, we'd think it's a ... NOAM CHOMSKY Long-time viewing of Internet violence tend to change a person's temperament, making the person pron... YOU QUANXI If positive and healthy materials are absent, negative materials are sure to be dominant in the cybe... YOU QUANXI In a robust global business environment, our business units operated well in the first quarter. More... HARRY YOU The Board of Directors and I are pleased to recognize Peter's outstanding contribution to the succes... HARRY YOU We are pleased to close the books on 2004 following the painstaking review of almost five years of f... HARRY YOU Well, you can't know it without something having been sneezed. A.A. MILNE We'll be Friends Forever, won't we, Pooh?' asked Piglet. Even longer,' Pooh answered.” ... A.A. MILNE People take years learning how to act; it's a skill, not just a job. If I tried it out and thoug... TRAVIS FIMMEL When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing w... A.A. MILNE Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and s... CARTER CROCKER You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part. HENRY JAMES If you're on a freeway and want to know if you're being followed, what you do is enormously ... SALMAN RUSHDIE The negative effects of combat were nightmares, and I'd get jumpy around certain noises and stuf... SEBASTIAN JUNGER GOD IS ALWAYS WITH US HE'S NEVER TOOK A SICK DAY ! MITCHELL GREEN Never give up on you. In order to make a difference you would have to somehow be different. JOHNNIE DENT JR. Love, what you DO,
Respect, who DOES for you,
Appreciate, who DOES for others,
Salute, who DOES for ... PRITISH PATTANAIK But I like being nasty. I like being cranky. Especially if it's a cold day in Chicago, it's ... FISHER STEVENS A smile will go the mile, while a frown will take you down. ANTHONY LICCIONE Stairs to climb are difficult it takes time and effort and going down is easies job... what do I mea... DEYTH BANGER That's what they do in Europe. You go down to the city hall and you become legally connected. Yo... TONY CAMPOLO When people call something a 'fail,' it's because you tried to accomplish something but ... BEN HUH Nobody pays attention to the way a person's shirt folds around his shoulder when they sit down, ... JOHN LASSETER Catherine Boyd: I need to call a phone. Can I use your cab? Ed Walters: There's a cab in the office. IQ It takes a CONSTANT flowing of gas from the cylinder to keep the fire burning under your pot. “WOO... OLAOTAN FAWEHINMI I've been pretty lucky with neighbors. But back in 1998, I lived, like, literally next door to W... IKE BARINHOLTZ We need to be sure anyone who would ride in a cab with you would be safe, JANET TAYLOR To know the hurt of what losing a loved one brings. Well put it this way time does not heal, you lea... GARY F EVANS... You go to Los Angeles or New York or Miami or Chicago, and you see Latinos everywhere; they are invo... THALIA My mother, who died aged 82, had Alzheimer's. Losing your memory is bad enough, but everything s... BONNIE TYLER
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