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Tunnel vision can kill creativity. -- Ami Vitale
I like the 'Cirque du Freak' books - 'Tunnel of Blood' by Darren Shan. They're set in England. It's about vampires. -- Jamie Waylett
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
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
In the Tunnel of Desire, past the Tube of Destiny, lies the Turtle of Doubt. We all have to face that turtle, but only the confident ones ever find out that doubt tastes like chicken. -- Jarod Kintz
My favorite new character isn't new, but more fleshed out - Gadd, the alekeep at the Tunnel. He's got him some teeth and tats. His history is hinted at in Discourse, and I plan to explore it more in later books. -- Paul S. Kemp
Authorities in New York City have foiled a plot by terrorists to blow up the Holland Tunnel. There was one awkward moment when officials informed President Bush the Holland Tunnel was safe. Bush then thanked the Dutch authorities for all their help. -- Jay Leno
They roared into the Lincoln Tunnel. A wild, inexplicable excitement mounted in Therese as she stared through the windshield. She wished the tunnel might cave in and kill them both, that their bodies might be dragged out together. She felt Carol glancing at her from time to time. -- Patricia Highsmith
The Master of Ceremonies in 'Bridge and Tunnel' is a wonderful man, if I do say so myself. I talk about all the characters in the third person. But, he is a really congenial... just a good stand-up guy, who happens to be Pakistani-American. He's been here for years. -- Sarah Jones
Learning is a tunnel experience that makes us think more broadly. -- Anna Deavere Smith
Sometimes that light at the end of the tunnel is a train. -- Charles Barkley
Struggling is hard because you never know what's at the end of the tunnel. -- Don Rickles
There is absolutely, 100 percent, a light at the end of the tunnel for anyone who stutters. -- Emily Blunt
There is a light at the end of the tunnel... hopefully its not a freight train! -- Mariah Carey
The light you see at the end of the tunnel is the front of an oncoming train. -- David Lee Roth
If you can see the light at the end of the tunnel, you are looking the wrong way. -- Barry Commoner
People who get trapped in the tunnel vision of making money think that is all there is to life. -- Felix Dennis
Panic causes tunnel vision. Calm acceptance of danger allows us to more easily assess the situation and see the options. -- Simon Sinek
Some actors couldn't figure out how to withstand the constant rejection. They couldn't see the light at the end of the tunnel. -- Harrison Ford
It was definitely some tough moments throughout my life, but I kind of stayed focused and came through the other end of the tunnel. -- Victor Cruz
The magic of Disneyland, walking through the tunnel underneath the train station to Main Street, it just transports you to other places and other times. -- John Lasseter
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
Unhappiness in a child accumulates because he sees no end to the dark tunnel. The thirteen weeks of a term might just as well be thirteen years. -- Graham Greene
There's no light at the end of the tunnel in the Republican message, no promise of better things to come. There's only the present stagnation, followed by a slow decline. -- John Podhoretz
It's that one thing that you're passionate about, that you end up developing tunnel vision for and everything else tends to fall by the wayside. Passion is appealing and universal. -- Johnny Galecki
To be a tennis champion, you have to be inflexible. You have to be stubborn. You have to be arrogant. You have to be selfish and self-absorbed. Kind of tunnel vision almost. -- Chris Evert
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
No matter what you're going through, there's a light at the end of the tunnel and it may seem hard to get to it but you can do it and just keep working towards it and you'll find the positive side of things. -- Demi Lovato
To survive, you've got to keep wheedling your way. You can't just sit there and fight against odds when it's not going to work. You have to turn a corner, dig a hole, go through a tunnel - and find a way to keep moving. -- Twyla Tharp
If you go to a coffee shop or at the airport, and you're using open wireless, I would use a VPN service that you could subscribe for 10 bucks a month. Everything is encrypted in an encryption tunnel, so a hacker cannot tamper with your connection. -- Kevin Mitnick
The thing about a hero, is even when it doesn't look like there's a light at the end of the tunnel, he's going to keep digging, he's going to keep trying to do right and make up for what's gone before, just because that's who he is. -- Joss Whedon
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 kind of became a gym rat. The more results I saw, the more dedicated I became. It is such a great feeling to see your hard work pay off. I mean, if I'm gonna skip the In-N-Out burgers, there better be light at the end of the tunnel! -- Jonathan Lipnicki
When people say, 'You have Alzheimer's,' you have no idea what Alzheimer's is. You know it's not good. You know there's no light at the end of the tunnel. That's the only way you can go. But you really don't know anything about it. And you don't know what to expect. -- Nancy Reagan
Wherever my story takes me, however dark and difficult the theme, there is always some hope and redemption, not because readers like happy endings, but because I am an optimist at heart. I know the sun will rise in the morning, that there is a light at the end of every tunnel. -- Michael Morpurgo
It gives me a sense of tunnel vision. -- Tom Glavine
Lost my ideals in that tunnel of time. -- Jim Croce
I guess when you're young you have tunnel vision. -- Lemmy Kilmister
When your child is sick, you have tunnel vision. -- Nick Cassavetes
The night is a tunnel ... a hole into tomorrow. -- Frank Herbert
I see light at the end of the tunnel. -- Walt Whitman Rostow
Poetry is the tunnel at the end of the light. -- J. Patrick Lewis
Maybe the light's at the other end of the tunnel. -- Ben Fountain
Here is a hall without exit, a tunnel without end. -- Truman Capote
I can see the carrot at the end of the tunnel. -- Stuart Pearce
At last there is light at the end of the tunnel. -- Joseph Alsop
At the end of every light, is a tunnel of darkness. -- Anthony Liccione
Carve a tunnel of hope through the dark mountain of disappointment. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Ambition is a tunnel that you run through that doesn't end. -- Curtis Jackson
No need to fear death. There will be a tunnel and light. -- Anne Carson
Great theories are expansive; failures mire us in dogmatism and tunnel vision. -- Stephen Jay Gould
THE TRAIN came out of the long tunnel into the snow country. -- Yasunari Kawabata
Future forecasting is all about testing strategies - it's like a wind tunnel. -- Jamais Cascio
Seems like the light at the end of the tunnel may be you. -- Steven Tyler
There's a light at the end of the tunnel. And it's a train. -- Margaret Smith
I see the light at the end of the tunnel, so I'm going hard. -- Cam Newton
To the pessimist the light at the end of the tunnel is another train. -- Joan Rivers
I was single-minded and I had tunnel vision. Now it's time for a change. -- Evelyn Ashford
Both are salty, one will give me carpal tunnel, I'll go with the fries. -- Iliza Shlesinger
No matter what you're going through, there's a light at the end of the tunnel. -- Demi Lovato
There's always light at the end of the tunnel... just pray it's not a train. -- Fanfiction.net
She had a penetrating sort of laugh. Rather like a train going into a tunnel. -- P. G. Wodehouse
There is a light at the end of the tunnel, but the way out is through. -- David Allen
I tend to have a kind of tunnel vision when I'm looking at an individual piece. -- Edward Norton
The light at the end of the tunnel is just the light of an oncoming train. -- Robert Lowell
Due to budget cutbacks, the light at the end of the tunnel has been turned off. -- Robert Townsend
If we see light at the end of the tunnel, it the light of the oncoming train. -- Robert Lowell
If we see light at the end of the tunnel, it's the light of the oncoming train. -- James Russell Lowell
I didn't play the game right because I saw a reward at the end of the tunnel. -- Ryne Sandberg
You shouldn't judge someone until you've walk a mile through an underground tunnel in her uncomfortable shoes -- Ally Carter
I first met my wife in the tunnel of love. She was digging it at the time. -- Chic Murray
The current tax code is harder to understand than Bob Dylan reading Finnegans Wake in a wind tunnel. -- Dennis Miller
He'd been wrong, there was a light at the end of the tunnel, and it was a flamethrower. -- Terry Pratchett
I miss walking out of the tunnel, the 90 minutes and the adrenalin rush that I'll never, ever replace. -- Alan Shearer
The problem is, if El Chapo builds a tunnel under the fence, we need to deal with that too. -- Marco Rubio
They have gone. And the tunnel is about to close. So, boys, I am looking for someone to blame. -- Eoin Colfer
There's always light at the end of the tunnel, right? It just depends on how long the tunnel is. -- Henry Paulson
Well, I'm very stubborn. I think I have common sense; I'm probably at times a bit tunnel-visioned, but I'm strong. -- Michelle Pfeiffer
Your mind is like a tunnel that has no end, and a baloon, that even too much air cannot burst. -- Michael Bassey Johnson
Your mind is like a tunnel that has no end, and a baloon, that even too much air cannot burst. -- Michael Bassey Johnson
Light at the end of the tunnel? We don't even have a tunnel; we don't even know where the tunnel is. -- Lyndon B. Johnson
When you have your passion, you never even think about other things. It's tunnel vision. You go until you get it. -- Nicola Peltz
The main thing is to win. You just try to keep your tunnel vision on to get the team the win. -- Jennie Finch
Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy some more tunnel. -- John Quinton
After a while, you can't get any higher. It's like your head is in a wind tunnel - everything is vibrating. -- Method Man
He [Bilbo] fought the real battle in the tunnel alone, before he ever saw the vast danger that lay in wait. -- J. R. R. Tolkien
Persistent people are able to visualize the idea of light at the end of the tunnel when others can't see it -- Seth Godin
The magic's back and we're in a time tunnel, feeling like when we were in our 20s back in the 1970s. -- Peter Criss
Don't wait for a light to appear at the end of the tunnel, stride down there and light the bloody thing yourself. -- Sara Henderson
Sometimes, I stood at the front of the E train, watching the tunnel ahead, imagining what Anthem would look like on stage. -- Jeff Britting
Will our life not be a tunnel between two vague clarities? Or will it not be a clarity between two dark triangles? -- Pablo Neruda
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
I carry on in my own narrow little tunnel and we have very different experiences of life even though we live together. -- Siobhan Fahey
The odds are six to five that the light in the end of the tunnel is the headlight of an oncoming train. -- Paul Dickson
Remember to never answer a phone during sex, even if you hilariously answer with 'I can't talk now, I'm going into a tunnel'. -- Jimmy Carr
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
It seemed that out of battle I escaped Down some profound dull tunnel, long since scooped Through granites which titanic wars had groined. -- Wilfred Owen
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
Life goes on, end of tunnel, TV set Spot in the middle Static fade, statistic bit And soon I fade away, fade away -- Dave Matthews
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
We can see the light but we are still inside the tunnel, ... We have not been able to get to all the communities. -- Pablo Picasso
There is light at the end of the tunnel for India, but it's that of an oncoming train which will run them over. -- Navjot Singh Sidhu
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
It's true. The storms won't last forever. The nasty weather will never last. There is always that light at the end of the tunnel. -- Diana Rose Morcilla
You think you want the blue skies, the open road, but really you want the tunnel, you want to know how the story ends. -- Jenny Offill
Reading can break us out of the tunnel vision of the narrow specialty and lead us into many intriguing and important avenues of thought. -- Gene Edward Veith Jr.
If you do not see light at the end of the tunnel, consider it an opportunity to create an opening yourself, wherever you want. -- Ashok Kallarakkal
At a certain point, I became a kind of musician that has tunnel vision about jazz. I only listened to jazz and classical music. -- Herbie Hancock
extreme visual clarity, tunnel vision, diminished sound, and the sense that time is slowing down. this is how the human body reacts to extreme stress. -- Malcolm Gladwell
Demanding historical (or scientific) veracity as a prerequisite for truth is another kind of tunnel vision. To do so is to mistake poetry for prose. -- Charles Kimball
Maintaining concentration depends on what I call tunnel vision; nothing else in the world exists but the catcher's target, the hitter and my perfect delivery. -- Nolan Ryan
I have carpal tunnel so I can't write more than four hours total without tingling numbness. I take a lot of breaks and do stretches. -- Eden Robinson
You may raise enough money to tunnel a mountain, but you cannot raise money enough to hire a man who is minding his own business. -- Henry David Thoreau
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
I have emerged from the tunnel of grief into the light. Life is better. Not the same, but good and getting better all the time. -- Joyce Brothers
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
Humor is unavoidable. It might not feel funny in the moment, but more often than not there's a light at the end of the tunnel. -- Ron Howard
You've got to use it, the pain. Use it as fuel to move past the torment, to the light at the end of the tunnel -- Thomas E. Sniegoski
There is no doubt that I have lots of words inside me; but at moments, like rush-hour traffic at the mouth of a tunnel, they jam. -- John Updike
The problem with unfilled dreams is that they give us tunnel vision. We focus on ourselves, and that can be depressing and discouraging place to look. -- Donna VanLiere

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