(6 quotes found)
“New York waiters, probably the surliest in the Western world are better images of their city than that journalistic favorite-the taxi driver.”
Alan Brien
“I have done almost every human activity inside a taxi which does not require main drainage.”
“The country is laid out in a haphazard, sloppy fashion, offensive to the tidy, organized mind.”
“Violence is the repartee of the illiterate.”
“The majority of them give the impression of being men who have been drafted into the job during a period of martial law and are only waiting for the end of the emergency to get back to a really congenial occupation such as slum demolition . . .”
“The blue-rinse warbler and her horn-rimmed mate are rare and overdue this year.”
