Tunnels Quotes - Page 3

• Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery, like the idle curved tunnels of leaf miners on the face of a leaf. We must somehow take a wider view, look at the whole landscape, really see it, and describe what's going on here. Then we can at least wail the right question into the swaddling band of darkness, or, if it comes to that, choir the proper praise.

  Annie Dillard

  Views, Darkness, Looks

  "Pilgrim at Tinker Creek". Book by Annie Dillard, books.google.ru. January 1, 2011.

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• The only way to find out anything about what kinds of lives people led in any given period is to tunnel into their records and to let them speak for themselves

  John Dos Passos

  People, Records, Way

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• Also the wonderful thing about film, you can see light at the end of the tunnel. You did realize that it is going to come to an end at some stage.

  John Hurt

  Light, Realizing, Wonderful

  Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. April 26, 2000.

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• There would be a paragraph about some veteran digging tunnels for the Germans in a slave labor camp, or something like that. Finally I decided to look it up and go further into it.

  Charles Guggenheim

  Slave Labor, Digging, Would Be

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The book begins and ends with the visits to give the impression of a tunnel into their ancestors and family history. I believe in going backwards into the past - I felt I was digging a tunnel back to the past.

  Anita Desai

  Believe, Book, Past

  "Class Interview with Anita Desai". www.baruch.cuny.edu. 2003.

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• I save my dreams and hopes for my kids. When I'm making a wish under a bridge or tunnel, it's always for them.

  Alison Sweeney

  Dream, Kids, Bridges

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If we see light at the end of the tunnel, it's the light of the oncoming train.

  James Russell Lowell

  Funny, Humor, Light

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• Due to budget cutbacks, the light at the end of the tunnel has been turned off.

  Robert Townsend

  Business, Light, Management

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• When you become angry, you enter a tunnel, leaving the light behind you; when you get calm, you exit the tunnel, finding the light in front of you!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Light, Leaving, Behind You

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• Be like a train; go in the rain, go in the sun, go in the storm, go in the dark tunnels! Be like a train; concentrate on your road and go with no hesitation!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Rain, Dark, Storm

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• It is the easiest thing in the world for us to obey God when He commands us to do what we like, and to trust Him when the path is all sunshine. The real victory of faith is to trust God in the dark, and through the dark. Let us be assured of this, that if the lesson and the rod are of His appointing, and that His all-wise love has engineered the deep tunnel of trial on the heavenward road, He will never desert us during the discipline. The vital thing for us is not to deny and desert Him.

  Theodore L. Cuyler

  Wise, Real, Sunshine

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 587), 1895.

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• It gives me a sense of tunnel vision.

  Tom Glavine

  Giving, Vision, Give Me

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• It was like I was in a tunnel. Not only the tunnel under the hotel but the whole circuit was a tunnel. I was just going and going, more and more and more and more. I was way over the limit but still able to find even more.

  Ayrton Senna

  Able, Way, Limits

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• All was black, gloomy and awful. There was no light at the end of the tunnel - or if there was, it was an oncoming train.

  Terry Pratchett

  Light, Black, Awful

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• We're all looking from the point of view of our own reality tunnels. And when we begin to realize that we're all looking from the point of view of our own reality tunnels, we find that it is much easier to understand where other people are coming from. All the ones who don't have the same reality tunnel as us do not seem ignorant, or deliberately perverse, or lying, or hypnotized by some mad ideology, they just have a different reality tunnel. And every reality tunnel might tell us something interesting about our world, if we're willing to listen.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Lying, Reality, Our World

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• Whenever you do any one thing intensely over a period of time you have to give up other lives you could be living. You have to have a real single-minded kind of tunnel vision if you want to get anything significant accomplished. Especially if the desire is not to be a businessman, but to be a creative person.

  Steve Jobs

  Giving Up, Real, Creative

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• There's no light at the end of the tunnel, there isn't even a tunnel. The best thing I can do is get drunk and listen to classical music. Or sleep and wait for death to get closer. Leaving this will not be a horrible thing. Yet I'm glad, somehow, that I threw my words in the air: confetti, celebrating nothing.

  Charles Bukowski

  Sleep, Air, Light

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• Here is a hall without exit, a tunnel without end.

  Truman Capote

  Exit, Ends, Halls

  Truman Capote (2012). “The Grass Harp”, p.236, Vintage

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• We all operate in two contrasting modes, which might be called open and closed. The open mode is more relaxed, more receptive, more exploratory, more democratic, more playful and more humorous. The closed mode is the tighter, more rigid, more hierarchical, more tunnel-visioned. Most people, unfortunately spend most of their time in the closed mode.

  John Cleese

  Humorous, Creativity, Two

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• Wish on everything. Pink cars are good, especially old ones. And stars of course, first stars and shooting stars. Planes will do if they are the first light in the sky and look like stars. Wish in tunnels, holding your breath and lifting your feet off the ground. Birthday candles. Baby teeth.

  Francesca Lia Block

  Baby, Stars, Attitude

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• Sonnet XXV Before I loved you, love, nothing was my own: I wavered through the streets, among Objects: Nothing mattered or had a name: The world was made of air, which waited. I knew rooms full of ashes, Tunnels where the moon lived, Rough warehouses that growled 'get lost', Questions that insisted in the sand. Everything was empty, dead, mute, Fallen abandoned, and decayed: Inconceivably alien, it all Belonged to someone else - to no one: Till your beauty and your poverty Filled the autumn plentiful with gifts.

  Pablo Neruda

  Autumn, Moon, Air

  Pablo Neruda, “Sonnet XXV”

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  Begin with the end in mind.

  Stephen Covey

  Inspirational, Success, Determination

  Stephen R. Covey (2000). “Vision: Defining Your Destiny in Life”, Franklincovey

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• Maybe the light's at the other end of the tunnel.

  Ben Fountain

  Light, Ends, End Of The Tunnel

  Ben Fountain (2012). “Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk”, p.179, Canongate Books

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• When you have your passion, you never even think about other things. It's tunnel vision. You go until you get it.

  Nicola Peltz

  Passion, Thinking, Vision

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Funny thing how you first meet the woman that you marry. I first met the wife in a tunnel of love. She was digging it.

  Les Dawson

  Funny Things, Wife, Digging

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