Holes Quotes

• So Einstein was wrong when he said, "God does not play dice." Consideration of black holes suggests, not only that God does play dice, but that he sometimes confuses us by throwing them where they can't be seen.

  Stephen Hawking

  Science, Play, Black

  Stephen Hawking, Roger Penrose (2010). “The Nature of Space and Time”, p.26, Princeton University Press

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• Black holes result from God dividing the universe by zero.

  Steven Wright

  Zero, Math, Black

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• It is not worth the while to go round the world to count the cats in Zanzibar. Yet do this even till you can do better, and you may perhaps find some "Symmes' Hole" by which to get at the inside at last.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Cat, Zanzibar, World

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “Walden”, p.228, Xist Publishing

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• The only way out of a hole is to climb out.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Way, Climbs

  Cheryl Strayed (2013). “Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Someone Who’s Been There”, p.61, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Love is a hole in the heart.

  Ben Hecht

  Love, Heart, Love You

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• It doesn't matter what it is that leaves a hole inside you. It just matters that it’s there.

  Jodi Picoult

  Matter

  Jodi Picoult (2013). “The Storyteller”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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• Kids deserve the right to think that they can change the world.

  Lois Lowry

  Kids, Thinking, Favorite Words

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• A hole is nothing at all, but you can break your neck in it.

  Austin O'Malley

  Necks, Break

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• When you get on base, holes open up and things happen and you're able to find a way to score runs.

  Nick Johnson

  Running, Able, Way

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• I am not here concerned with intent, but with scientific standards, especially the ability to tell the difference between a fact, an opinion, a hypothesis, and a hole in the ground.

  Serge Lang

  Differences, Facts, Opinion

  Serge Lang (1998). “Challenges”, p.605, Springer Science & Business Media

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• That's me. I can be me a bit at home, but I'm kind of like a square peg in a round hole.

  Mick Ralphs

  Home, Squares, Kind

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• The most interesting guy I've ever played with was King Hassan of Morocco. I went over there on a trip in the early 1970s, and the King and I played five holes. I've never been that nervous in my life.

  Lee Trevino

  Sports, Kings, Interesting

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• The state is out of control, the state is on a spending binge, the state has to stop putting itself in a hole thats getting deeper and deeper and deeper.

  Peter Ueberroth

  States, Spending, Deeper

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• I'm very happy at home. I love to just hang out with my daughter, I love to work in my garden. I'm not a gaping hole of need.

  Uma Thurman

  Daughter, Mother, Home

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If you’re in a hole, stop digging.

  Denis Healey

  Digging, Ifs

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• In trying to scramble out of a hole, it sometimes digs it deeper.

  Wellington Mara

  Trying, Sometimes, Deeper

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• Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person's mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Nature, Conceited, Self

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1886). “Outre-mer and Drift-wood”

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• A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug.

  Josh Billings

  Happiness, Way, Fit

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• Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you.

  Fred Allen

  Life, Men, Objectivity

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• It was regarded as a responsibility of the BBC to provide programs which have a broad spectrum of interest, and if there was a hole in that spectrum, then the BBC would fill it.

  David Attenborough

  Responsibility, Program, Broads

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• I don't go to the cool, trendy restaurants. I go to either the holes in the wall or the super-fancy restaurants where there are no cool people.

  Tyra Banks

  Wall, People, Fancy

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• I wonder if a soldier ever does mend a bullet hole in his coat?

  Clara Barton

  Soldier, Dodging Bullets, Doe

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• The arms race is worse than it ever was, the dumping of creation down a military rat hole is worse than it ever was, the wars across the earth are worse than they ever were.

  Daniel Berrigan

  Military, War, Race

  "A Conversation With Daniel Berrigan". Interview with Alan Fox, www.rattle.com. January 30, 1999.

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• It is not helpful to help a friend by putting coins in his pockets when he has got holes in his pockets.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Friendship, Inspiration, Pockets

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• Probably the closest things to perfection are the huge absolutely empty holes that astronomers have recently discovered in space. If there's nothing there, how can anything go wrong?

  Richard Brautigan

  Space, Perfection, Lovely

  "An Unfortunate Woman: A Journey". Book by Richard Brautigan, p.15, 2000.

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