Driving a motorcycle is like flying. All your senses are alive. When I ride through Beverly Hills in the early morning, and all the sprinklers have turned off, the scents that wash over me are just heavenly. Being House is like flying, too. You're free of the gravity of what people think.
Interpretation
Driving a motorcycle evokes a sense of freedom and heightened awareness, similar to the experience of flying.
In this quote, Hugh Laurie draws a parallel between riding a motorcycle and flying, emphasizing the exhilarating feelings of freedom and sensory engagement that come with both experiences. He reflects on the joy of riding through Beverly Hills, where the fresh morning scents enhance this sense of liberation, highlighting that true freedom comes from letting go of societal judgments and expectations.
In practice
This quote can be used during a speech about the importance of pursuing passions that make you feel alive.
L.A. runs on optimism, enthusiasm and flattery. I think you can go a little bit crazy. I've heard people say there's a limit to the number of years you can stay in this city without going slightly mad. It's just too damn sunny in every dimension - weather-wise, socially and professionally.
Acting is largely about putting on masks, and music is about removing them.
I know a lot of people think therapy is about sitting around staring at your own navel - but it's staring at your own navel with a goal. And the goal is to one day to see the world in a better way and treat your loved ones with more kindness and have more to give.
As a real person, he wouldn't last a minute, would he? But drama is about imperfection. And we've moved away from the aspirational hero. We got tired of it, it was dull. If I was House's friend, I would hate it. How he so resolutely refuses to be happy or take the kind-hearted road. But we don't always like morally good people, do we?
To tell you the truth, the older I get, the less I know. I keep meeting people, both older and younger, who seem to have accrued so much more knowledge or expertise or certainty about who they are and the jobs they do. I just marvel at it.
I have a reverence for medicine because I hero-worshiped my father [a former doctor], and because I admire doctors, I admire study, empiricism and rational thought. I don't study, empiricize or think rationally myself - but I admire it in others.
I've had good times on drugs...bad times on drugs...But I've had good and bad relationships...and I'm not giving up pussy.
I hoped our lives would continue this way forever, but inevitably the past came knocking. Not the good kind that was collectible but the bad kind that had arthritis.
Live for yourself and you will live in vain; Live for others, and you will live again.
But if you're gonna dine with them cannibals Sooner or later, darling, you're gonna get eaten . . .
It's much easier for me to make major life, multi-million dollar decisions, than it is to decide on a carpet for my front porch. That's the truth.
Danger is the spice of life and you’ve got to take a risk now and then…that’s what makes life worthwhile.
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