Holes Quotes - Page 15

• According to the Captain of The Honorable Company of Edinburgh Golfers, striking your opponent or caddie at St Andrews, Hoylake or Westward Ho! meant that you lost the hole, except on medal days when it counted as a rub of the green.

  Herbert Wind

  Golf, Edinburgh, Caddies

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• When that happens [the demise of golf], old men will furtively beckon to their sons and, like fugitives from the guillotine recalling the elegant orgies at the court of Louis XV, will recite the glories of Portmarnock and Merion, of the Road Hole at St. Andrews, the sixth at Seminole, the eighteenth at Pebble Beach. They will take out this volume from its secret hiding place and they will say: "There is no question, son, that these were unholy places in an evil age. Unfortunately, I had a whale of a time."

  Alistair Cooke

  Beach, Son, Golf

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• On one hole, I hit an alligator so hard, he's now my golf bag.

  Bob Hope

  Golf, Bags, Alligators

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• I was asked by a golfer how to lower his scores. I replied start playing 9 holes instead of 18. I worked for me, it cut my scores in half.

  Brian Weiss

  Golf, Cutting, Half

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• It breaks towards the center of the earth when it is above the hole.

  Brian Weiss

  Golf, Earth, Break

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• My caddie 'Stovepipe' tried to talk me into hitting a 3-wood. But I took out the turf rider (4-wood) instead. The moment I hit it, I felt something in my bones. Walter Hagen was playing with me and Bobby Jones was on the green. 21 people were behind the green. The sun was going down. I wasn't sure it had gone in the hole until I saw all 21 people jumping up and down.

  Gene Sarazen

  Golf, Jumping, People

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• I never played a perfect 18 holes. There is no such thing. I expect to make at least seven mistakes a round. Therefore, when I make a bad shot, I don't worry about it. It is just one of the seven.

  Walter Hagen

  Mistake, Golf, Perfect

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• G is for Green, that's constructed to roll in every direction away from the hole.

  Richard Armour

  Golf, Green

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• I didn't miss the putt. I made the putt. The ball missed the hole.

  Peter Jacobsen

  Golf, Missing, Balls

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• Grief is a solitary journey. No one but you knows how great the hurt is. No one but you can know the gaping hole left in your life when someone you know has died. And no one but you can mourn the silence that was once filled with laughter and song. It is the nature of love and of death to touch every person in a totally unique way. Comfort comes from knowing that people have made the same journey. And solace comes from understanding how others have learned to sing again.

  Helen Steiner Rice

  Song, Hurt, Laughter

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• That which tears open our souls, those holes that splatter our sight, may actually become the thin, open places to see through the mess of this place to the heart-aching beauty beyond. To Him. To the God whom we endlessly crave.

  Ann Voskamp

  Heart, Sight, Soul

  Ann Voskamp (2011). “One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are”, p.22, Zondervan

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• In each man's heart there lies a hole. A dark abyss of need, the filling of which takes precedence over all else.

  Kate Morton

  Lying, Heart, Dark

  Kate Morton (2009). “The Forgotten Garden”, p.337, Simon and Schuster

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• You do angry. I just saw it. And you left at least one hole in my carpet to prove it.

  Deborah Harkness

  Saws, Carpet, Prove It

  Deborah Harkness (2014). “All Souls Trilogy”, p.168, Penguin

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• Where did you get that?" Jace looked down and saw that the spider demon's poison had eaten a hole in his shirt, leaving a good deal of his left shoulder bare. "The shirt? At Macy's Winter sale.

  Cassandra Clare

  Winter, Leaving, Poison

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (4 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels”, p.768, Simon and Schuster

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• As always, the blessed relief of starting, a feeling that was like falling into a hole filled with bright light. As always, the glum knowledge that he would not write as well as he wanted to write. As always the terror of not being able to finish, of accelerating into a brick wall. As always, the marvelous joyful nervy feeling of journey begun.

  Stephen King

  Wall, Fear, Blessed

  Stephen King (2016). “Misery: A Novel”, p.50, Simon and Schuster

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• His mind’s always on something else. He’d live in a ratty cardigan, and he’s always worrying holes in the pockets of his pants. He can never seem to find his wallet or anything in the refrigerator. And just when you think he’s not paying any attention to what you’re saying or doing, he comes up with exactly the right answer or solution.”", [J.D. Robb, Celebrity In Death"“People""who expect perfection in a mate miss a lot of fun—and sweetness.", [J.D. Robb, Celebrity In Death]

  Nora Roberts

  Fun, Thinking, People

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• The life I walk binds my hands it makes me take things that I don’t understand I walk this dark world unknowing of what they hold true, forgetting the me I once knew, until you. The life I walk eternally was all I knew nothing more held me here to this earth until you. I feel the pain of every heart I take I feel the desire to replace all that I have grown to hate Darkness holds me close but the light still draws my empty soul The emptiness where I used pain to fill the hole no longer controls me, no longer calls me because of you.

  Abbi Glines

  Pain, Hate, Heart

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• who burned cigarette holes in their arms protesting the narcotic tobacco haze of Capitalism

  Allen Ginsberg

  Arms, Cigarette, Haze

  Allen Ginsberg (2001). “Howl and Other Poems: Pocket Poets Number 4”, p.13, City Lights Publishers

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• The emptiness where I used pain to fill the hole no longer controls me, no longer calls me because of you.

  Abbi Glines

  Pain, Emptiness, Used

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• Absoballylutely top hole, wot. A and B the C of D I'd say. . . Above and Beyond the Call of Duty.

  Brian Jacques

  Call Of Duty, Above And Beyond, Wot

  Brian Jacques, Peter Standley (2002). “Taggerung”

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• The human mind is a powerful thing in many ways, but in others it's endlessly fragile—it takes only a single moment of pure terror to tear a hole in it, like a finger through a cobweb, leaving you forever just a shadow, a half-person.

  Alexander Gordon Smith

  Powerful, Forever, Leaving

  Alexander Gordon Smith (2010). “Escape from Furnace 2: Solitary”, p.50, Faber & Faber

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• The truth is that the world is full of dragons, and none of us are as powerful or cool as we’d like to be. And that sucks. But when you’re confronted with that fact, you can either crawl into a hole and quit, or you can get out there, take off your shoes, and Bilbo it up.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Powerful, Dragons, Shoes

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• Alaska has long been a magnet for dreamers and misfits, people who think the unsullied enormity of the Last Frontier will patch all the holes in their loves. The bush is an unforgiving place, however, that care nothing for hope or longing.

  Jon Krakauer

  Thinking, Alaska, Long

  "Into the Wild". Book by Jon Krakauer, 1996.

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• Girls like her, my grandfather once warned me, girls like her turn into women with eyes like bullet holes and mouths made of knives. They are always restless. They are always hungry. They are bad news. They will drink you down like a shot of whisky. Falling in love with them is like falling down a flight of stairs. What no one told me, with all those warnings, is that even after you’ve fallen, even after you know how painful it is, you’d still get in line to do it again.

  Holly Black

  Love, Girl, Fall

  Holly Black (2012). “Black Heart”, p.18, Simon and Schuster

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• When wiggling through a hole the world looks different than when scrubbed clean by the wiggle and looking back.

  Mark Nepo

  Wiggling, Different, Looks

  Mark Nepo (2013). “Seven Thousand Ways to Listen: Staying Close to What Is Sacred”, p.65, Simon and Schuster

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