Tunnel Quotes

See also Core English Vocabulary (T) Quotes

"There is a light at the end of the tunnel...hopefully it`s not a freight train!"

- Mariah Carey

"I have this great fear of people - not when I`m on the runway, but backstage. In a room full of people, I really suffer. I sort of go into a tunnel and I feel very removed. I get so tense, I can`t swallow, and my heartbeat goes way up. It still happens now, although I`m better at controlling it."

- Linda Evangelista

"Vincent was so incredible, so sweet. When we went to Cannes for the film, you know the moment when I come out from the tunnel and we see me for the first time completely with blood all over, he was crying. I said, `Vincent, come on. It`s just a movie. We know it`s not real." (on her husband`s support when Irréversible (2002) was released).

- Monica Bellucci

There is a light at the end of the tunnel... hopefully its not a freight train!

- Mariah Carey

Gretchen was my light at the end of a long tunnel of pain and struggle. She made sure I got my act together and life has been so much better since she has been in it.

- Danny Bonaduce

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

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

- John Hurt

I can see the light at the end of the tunnel. Hopefully it`s salvation, not a train coming at me.

- Justin Guarini

The light you see at the end of the tunnel is the front of an oncoming train.

- David Lee Roth

We were like two tired old men walking out of the tunnel, and then we were like two kids having a good time. We were holding each other up.

- Roger Clemens

"I love the inpatience of New York... You ever had somebody not-ask you for directions, but demand them? You`re just innocently walking down the street, you hear a horn, all of a sudden some guy`s like, `HOLLAND TUNNEL!!!` ...You know like you were supposed to fax this guy directions. Suddenly, you`re wasting HIS time. `Let`s go buddy! Holland tunnel!` `...Uh..I-I was just going to the store... I didn`t realize it was my shift. Well, let`s see... the Holland Tunnel is in my ass... alright?"

- Jim Gaffigan

I hate to sound like a Pollyanna, ... but in a way (the ordeal) was kind of a blessing. It puts things in perspective. You learn who your friends are; you realize the importance of family. I was 18 when I did Sound of Music . My life started to get very linear; I started to get tunnel vision. (The injury) opened my eyes as to how I wanted to be as a human being.

- Laura Benanti

For me, as I began to see the light at the end of the tunnel, I became aware of how on an instinctive level I made choices to cover myself.

- Rene Auberjonois

Every time I`m shooting a movie I want to kill myself. Because I don`t see the light in the end of the tunnel.

- Emir Kusturica

I`d been living in the tunnel for about three months before the idea came up about making the film and really became good friends with the people.

- Marc Singer

In the fifties I had dreams about touching a naked woman and she would turn to bronze or the dream about hot dogs chasing donuts through the Lincoln Tunnel.

- Robert Klein

With two more guys on the court who might review Roe and put it back where it belongs, we`re seeing a light at the end of the tunnel.

- John Lydon

If those drivers were just with Busch teams, I think everything would be fine. It`s their research and development, their constant testing and wind tunnel time; it`s hard to compete with those types of teams.

- Kenny Wallace

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

I wanted to make an album that was painfully honest, like (Bruce) Springsteen`s `Tunnel of Love,`

- Darren Hayes

I remember writing `I want to act` on my bed in lipstick. I think I told my mum I wanted to be an actress and she said I needed an agent to do that. I must have said: `Well, I`m going to get one` - and I think that`s why. She was devastated. She said: `Please don`t be an actress, be a doctor or lawyer.` But I was very tunnel-visioned about it all. I`m an only child and I spent a lot of time alone. I played a lot of imaginary games. I just wanted to dress up and be weird, I suppose.

- Jemima Rooper

You`re talking to somebody who two years ago couldn`t figure out how to use e-mail and who now has carpal tunnel. It has totally changed in that these films would not be getting out to people the way they`re getting out without the Internet.

- Robert Greenwald

If they can see the light at the end of the tunnel, they don`t get frustrated and stick with us, ... We had some kids graduate in 2005 who in the past would not have made it.

- Dan Montgomery

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

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

There is light at the end of the tunnel, and, personally, even though I loved the base and was sad to see it go, I think it was the best thing that ever happened.

- Daniel Stewart

When a train goes through a tunnel and it gets dark, you don`t throw away the ticket and jump off. You sit still and trust the engineer.

- Corrie Ten Boom

I didn`t play the game right because I saw a reward at the end of the tunnel.

- Ryne Sandberg

The summer of 1830 I... blasted the tunnel through the rock to take water from the dam above the falls for the mill... In 1831 we lowered the tunnel four feet, and built a new dam across the creek.

- Alena Nardinger

We feel like we have excellent access in and out. When you look at the transportation woes in Hampton Roads, trying to get the funding for a new bridge and tunnel, we already have that in place. That is a key thing that is putting us in a key position.

- Ann Cook

Those are encouraging signs, that`s for sure. We see light at the end of the tunnel, but with this virus, we still can`t be certain. We stay cautious, hoping she`ll be recovered before the Olympics start.

- Annick Coupe

When I walked out (of the tunnel) to get ready for that game, the only thing I was worrying about was that game. I would have liked to have been able to walk off the field victorious, but we didn`t. And I`m part of the reason we didn`t.

- Antarrious Williams

These two, and the U.S. team, are in such a good space right now. They are strictly tunnel vision. No distractions. No reason for distractions. I think they`re going in as strong as they could be.

- Anthony Tolliver

I`m just another old ski racer to them. If they weren`t so tunnel vision right now, they might be interested or have the time to ask questions. But I understand where they are at this moment.

- Anthony Tolliver

I really am excited, but I am in no way going to rest on my laurels. Now, there`s light at the end of the tunnel.

- Barbara Kenny

If you look at the (Howard Street train) tunnel fire for instance, we evacuated a small contingent of people in that area, plus Camden yards on top of that. But if you were at the Inner Harbor having dinner, you didn`t even know the tunnel fire was going on,

- Barry Bingham Jr