“The highway construction truck tore up the street at forty miles an hour.”
Philip K. Dick (1928–1982) American author
Source: Lies, Inc. (1984), Chapter 12 (p. 132)
Part of the speech to the students of the Georgia Institute of Technology (Summer 2010)
“The highway construction truck tore up the street at forty miles an hour.”
Philip K. Dick (1928–1982) American author
Source: Lies, Inc. (1984), Chapter 12 (p. 132)
John Cage (1912–1992) American avant-garde composer
"Communication", the third of the Composition as a Process lectures, John Cage gave in Darmstadt in 1958 and published in Silence.
1950s
Bill Engvall (1957) American comedian and actor
Here's your sign.
Now That's Awesome (2000)
Blue Collar Comedy Tour: The Movie (2003)
Here's Your Sign
Phil Ochs (1940–1976) American protest singer and songwriter
Source: The Broadside Tapes 1 (made in the 1960s; published c. 1980), Liner notes
“My stomach was very badly burned when we filmed the shot of a truck exploding underneath Varan.”
Haruo Nakajima (1929–2017) Japanese actor
As quoted by David Milner, "Haruo Nakajima Interview" http://www.davmil.org/www.kaijuconversations.com/nakajima.htm, Kaiju Conversations (March 1995)
Robert Rauschenberg (1925–2008) American artist
1960's, I never thought of it as much of an ability,' (1968)
“When I'm with you, bells go off in my head like a moving truck that's backing up.”
Jodi Picoult (1966) Author
Source: Vanishing Acts
“She's a slob, she talks like a truck driver.”
Donald J. Trump (1946) 45th President of the United States of America
2010s, 2011
“The optimist sees the future as a rabbit sees the oncoming truck - getting bigger, not closer.”
Steve Aylett (1967) English satirical author