Tunnels Quotes - Page 7

• Technology has also had a big impact, especially on the bike. Now everything is tested aerodynamically, wind tunnels are used to optimize performance, and frames, wheels, water bottles are all tested. Even clothing, like my Castelli Stealth Top, is faster than skin.

  Timothy O'Donnell

  Technology, Impact, Wind

  "Triathlon Gear". Interview with Chris Aung-Thwin, www.askmen.com.

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• For the first time all day I felt safe. Except that Patch had cornered me in a dark tunnel and was possibly stalking me. Maybe not so safe.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Dark, Stalking Me, Safe

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2009). “Hush, Hush”, p.174, Simon and Schuster

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• Because I'm a Thunderclan cat like you," she replied, ad darker shadow in the darkness of the tunnel. "My name is Hollyleaf

  Erin Hunter

  Cat, Names, Darkness

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• His head was swimming, and he was far from certain even of the direction they had been going in when he had his fall. He guessed as well as he could, and crawled along for a good way, till suddenly his hand met what felt like a tiny ring of cold metal lying on the floor of the tunnel. It was a turning point in his career, but he did not know it. He put the ring in his pocket almost without thinking; certainly it did not seem of any particular use at the moment.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Lying, Fall, Swimming

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.43, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Now it was coming to an end, and it was like he was watching the last flicker of light wink out in the darkness of an endless tunnel.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Light, Darkness, Lasts

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• I need him to know that I came for him. I need him to know that somehow, at some point in the tunnels, I began to love him.

  Lauren Oliver

  Needs, I Need Him, Knows

  Lauren Oliver (2015). “Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem”, p.552, Hachette UK

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• people themselves are full of tunnels: winding, dark spaces and caverns; impossible to know all the places inside of them. Impossible even to imagine.

  Lauren Oliver

  Dark, Space, People

  Lauren Oliver (2015). “Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem”, p.498, Hachette UK

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• Finally, Peeta turns to Pollux. "Well, then you just became our most valuable asset." Castor laughs and Pollux manages a smile. We're halfway down the first tunnel when I realize what was so remarkable about that exchange. Peeta sounded like his old self, the one who could always think of the right thing to say when nobody else could... I glance back at him as he trudges along under his guards, Gale and Jackson, his eyes fixed on the ground, his shoulders hunched forward. So dispirited. But for a moment, he was really here.

  Suzanne Collins

  Eye, Thinking, Self

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• Luxembourg was and still is today a crossroads, the place where Germany meets the rest of Europe. The country lost part of its territory to Belgium in the 1800s, and during World Wars I and II the German military overran it. Very few people have visited Luxembourg - when I went there and looked at it, I said, my God, it's built on a rock. And within the rock they had a castle, and within the city there's a network of tunnels so the residents could move around and defend themselves. That was of great interest to me.

  I. M. Pei

  Country, Military, War

  Source: archtalks.com

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• You're always in a tunnel that you can't see the end of. But there's something that took place on this movie that I don't think we expected and that was that once we decided that the entire cast would be real retired opera singers and retired musicians... and these people the phone hadn't rung for them for 20 or 40 years even though they can deliver.

  Dustin Hoffman

  Real, Thinking, Phones

  "Quartet - Dustin Hoffman interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Republican candidate Ben Carson told reporters he thinks American prisons might be too comfortable. As opposed to Mexican prisons that have personal showers with $5 million escape tunnels.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Thinking, Mexican, Ben Carson

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• I just kind of do my thing with sort of tunnel vision for the story and my role and how it fits together.

  Lin Shaye

  Vision, Together, Roles

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• I like the 'Cirque du Freak' books - 'Tunnel of Blood' by Darren Shan. They're set in England. It's about vampires.

  Jamie Waylett

  Book, Blood, Vampire

  "Jamie Waylett Talks About Being 'Crabbe'". Interview with Marie Morreale, www.scholastic.com.

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• Sexist grammar burns into the brains of little girls and young women a message that the male is the norm, the standard, the central figure beside which we are all deviants, the marginal, the dependent variables. It lays the foundation for androcentric thinking, and leaves men safe in their solipsistic tunnel-vision.

  Adrienne Rich

  Girl, Men, Thinking

  Adrienne Rich (1995). “On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose 1966-1978”, p.134, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I would never see him again. But as I watched the tunnel race before my eyes, I was certain of one thing: I did trust him. Now I had only to trust in myself.

  Samantha Shannon

  Eye, Race, Certain

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• Everybody has opinions: I have them, you have them. And we are all told from the moment we open our eyes, that everyone is entitled to his or her opinion. Well, that's horsepuckey, of course. We are not entitled to our opinions; we are entitled to our informed opinions. Without research, without background, without understanding, it's nothing. It's just bibble-babble. It's like a fart in a wind tunnel, folks.

  Harlan Ellison

  Eye, Wind, Understanding

  Commentary on Sci-Fi Channel's "Sci-Fi Buzz", harlanellison.com.

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• Anxiety leads to a narrowing of the field of attention, the so-called tunnel vision, and when people are anxious, they are unable to attend to the total situation as is necessary to enable them to act rationally, but impulsively do the first thing that comes into their heads which is usually determined by what others are doing at the same time.

  James A.C. Brown

  People, Worry, Anxiety

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• As soon as someone is identified as an unsung hero, he no longer is.

  George Carlin

  Stupid, Humorous, Hero

  George Carlin (2002). “Napalm & Silly Putty”, Hyperion

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• Drivers don't always see the (flashing) lights. You can't get tunnel vision. You've got to look everywhere, even when your adrenaline is going.

  Sixto Rodriguez

  Light, Vision, Looks

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• Crime seems to change character when it crosses a bridge or a tunnel. In the city, crime is taken as emblematic of class and race. In the suburbs though, it's intimate and psychological, a mystery resist to generalization, a mystery of the individual soul.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Change, Taken, Character

  Barbara Ehrenreich (1990). “WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES”, Pantheon

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• Some days are better than others ... It's been a long journey, but we're starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel now.

  Brian Robertson

  Journey, Light, Long

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• Retiring for good wasn't difficult. I knew at the time it was right. I was no longer capable of achieving the standards I'd set myself and there was no light at the end of the tunnel.

  Ian Botham

  Retirement, Light, Achieve

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• Obviously, the faster we process information, the more rich and complex our models or glosses - our reality-tunnels - will become.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Reality, Information, Rich

  Robert Anton Wilson (1990). “Quantum Psychology: How Brain Software Programs You and Your World”, New Falcon Publications

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• We the people, so to speak, need to realize that if we can keep ourselves fed, we might get through this long dark tunnel of power down, and mitigate the consequences of CO2.

  Wes Jackson

  Dark, Long, People

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Let's face it: Most companies in most industries have a kind of tunnel vision. They chase the same opportunities that everyone else is chasing, they miss the same opportunities that everyone else is missing. It's the companies that see a different game that win big. The most important question for innovators today is: What do you see that the competition doesn't see?

  Bill Taylor

  Business, Winning, Opportunity

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