The best sitting room at Manor Farm was a good, long, dark-panelled room with a high chimney-piece, and a capacious chimney, up which you could have driven one of the new patent cabs, wheels and all. At the upper end of the room, seated in a shady bower of holly and evergreens, were the two best fiddlers, and the only harp, in all Muggleton. In all sorts of recesses, and on all kinds of brackets, stood massive old silver candlesticks with four branches each. The carpet was up, the candles burnt bright, the fire blazed and crackled on the hearth, and merry voices and light-hearted laughter range through the room.
Quotes about cabs (15 Quotes)
The office workers have nowhere to go. The weekly drivers have cabs with them all the time, so we have contract workers and school trip we do.
Our number one recommendation is to have a plan before you go out. Designate a driver who doesn't drink. Use cabs.
We wanted to write a whole song about partying and then taking Yellow Cabs home. That's the weirdest topic we've ever thought of centering a song around.
Obviously a fraud of this magnitude came as a real shock. It exposed a weakness in one of our control systems and highlighted the risk that all institutions face when the number of digits in our currency grows to such large levels. We have certainly learned from this incident and those lessons will make Cabs even stronger.
Over the years we have had to replace shoes (treads on the rolling tracks) and we added two driver cabs. We also recently added an exhaust system to reduce the decibel level because we needed extreme hearing protection for workers around the crawler.
We call ourselves a free nation, and yet we let ourselves be told what cabs we can and can't take by a man at a hotel door, simply because he has a drum major's uniform on.
Most of the staff was much younger, but she was always the first one up and the last to bed. She never rode cabs when she could walk, and she was always calling out for us to walk up the escalator instead of ride.
I hope they don't end up driving cabs in a couple days.
They're really pushing us, too. They've put up billboards on the freeway. Ads on the backs of taxi cabs. TV and radio commercials. Newspaper and magazine ads all over the country. Things just blew up for us all of a sudden. They're actually trying to make us into real stars.
It's causing a small disruption, but there's no lack of taxi cabs at the airport. We'll just make adjustments as need be.
Don't exchange a lot of money ahead of time. In Europe, credit cards are accepted almost everywhere. I was in Iceland recently and they even take credit cards in taxi cabs.
Based on our experience, and the number of cabs that are not licensed, if you see a lot of Yellow Cabs running around town odds are some of them aren't licensed.
You need to step out and talk to some folks who get no government money, and I don't mean agriculture, I mean people driving cabs and selling insurance.
We're happy for the attention. But the poor people who ride in our cabs every day, they built this company and they keep us rolling.