Holes Quotes - Page 18

• We do have a saying in America: if you're in a hole, stop digging ..... erm, I'm not sure I should have said that.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Should Have, America, Digging

  "Wrestling the World: A Profile of Donald Rumsfeld". Interview with Stan Correy, May 25, 2003.

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• It's not the bullet that kills you, it's the hole.

  Vito Acconci

  Bullets

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• Saving the world was merely a hobby. My *vocation* has been that of
  inspector of desert water holes.

  Edward Abbey

  Water, Hobbies, Desert

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.28, RosettaBooks

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• No man likes to be smoked out of his hole in February.

  Edward Abbey

  Men, Likes, February

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.27, RosettaBooks

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• Son--they say there isn't any royalty in this country, but do you want me to tell you how to be king of the United States of America? Just fall through the hole in a privy and come out smelling like a rose.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Country, Kings, Fall

  Kurt Vonnegut (2007). “The Sirens of Titan”, p.62, Dial Press

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• This is the very center of everything there is. A huge black hole eating up the galaxy. The end of everything.

  Clifford D. Simak

  Black, Eating, Ends

  Clifford D. Simak (2015). “Highway of Eternity”, p.125, Open Road Media

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• I usually set aside a lot of time in advance of a movie with important roles for kids to search, but when you have great ones, they can be a real ace in the hole.

  Wes Anderson

  Real, Kids, Important

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

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• There is seven-eights of it under water for every part that shows. Anything you know you can eliminate and it only strengthens your iceberg. It is the part that doesn't show. If a writer omits something because he does not know it then there is a hole in the story.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Water, Doe, Stories

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• Anybody can dig a hole and plant a tree. But make sure it survives. You have to nurture it, you have to water it, you have to keep at it until it becomes rooted so it can take care or itself. There are so many enemies of trees.

  Wangari Maathai

  Water, Tree, Enemy

  "This much I know". Interview With Juliette Jowit, www.theguardian.com. June 7, 2008.

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• People are always making rules for themselves and always finding loop-holes.

  William Rotsler

  People, Findings, Loops

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• Here's how the people live here, in big house-shaped boxes to keep off 'rain' and 'snow,' holes cut in the sides so they can see out. They move around in smaller boxes, painted different colours, with wheels on the corners. They need this box-culture because each person thinks of herself and himself as locked in a box called a 'body,' arms and legs, fingers to move pencils and tools, languages because they've forgotten how to communicate, eyes because they've forgotten how to see. Odd little planet. Wish you were here. Home soon.

  Richard Bach

  Moving, Rain, Home

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• Let me encourage you to continue to wait with faith. God may not perform a miracle, but he is trustworthy to touch you and make you whole where there used to be a hole

  Lisa Whelchel

  Christian, Waiting, Miracle

  Lisa Whelchel (2009). “The Facts of Life: And Other Lessons My Father Taught Me”, p.131, Multnomah

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• I love planting. I love digging holes, putting plants in, tapping them in. And I love weeding, but I don't like tidying up the garden afterwards.

  Jamaica Kincaid

  Weed, Garden, Digging A Hole

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• We had and incident. I took care of it." "Really." Jace's voice dripped sarcasm. "Do you even know how to use that knife, Clarissa? Without poking a hole in yourself or any innocent bystanders?

  Cassandra Clare

  Sarcasm, Bystanders, Knives

  Cassandra Clare (2009). “City of Ashes”, p.240, Simon and Schuster

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• This hole in my heart is in the shape of you. No one else can fit it. Why would I want them to?

  Jeanette Winterson

  Heart, Shapes, Want

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• It’s so real." "Most dreams are. It isn't until you wake up that you see all the plot holes.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Dream, Real, Plot

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale”, p.780, Simon and Schuster

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• He was losing her incrementally. It might be a few stray hairs listless on the pillow, or the crescents of bitten fingernails tossed behind the headboard, or a dark shape dissolving in soap. As a net is no more than holes tied together, they were bonded by what was no longer there." (ARC p. 63)

  Anthony Marra

  Dark, Hair, Together

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• Evil is simple and empty. Evil has no mysterious depths. We stare into a dark hole and fill it with our fears, but it is only a hole.

  Brent Weeks

  Dark, Simple, Evil

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• I collect flickering stars in old pickling jars, poking holes in the lids so they can breathe.

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt

  Stars, Jars, Breathe

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• Round pegs in square holes tend to have dangerous thoughts about the social system and tend to infect others with their discontents.

  Aldous Huxley

  Squares, Social, Dangerous

  Aldous Huxley (1950). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world”

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• there is a great choice that awaits us every day: whether we go around carving holes in others because we have been so painfully carved ourselves, or whether we let spirit play its song through our tender experience, enabling us to listen, as well, to the miraculous music coming through others.

  Mark Nepo

  Song, Play, Choices

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• How do I soothe his ache when mine was a big gaping hole large enough for both of us to fit in?

  Abbi Glines

  Fit, Enough, Bigs

  Abbi Glines (2014). “Fallen Too Far: A Rosemary Beach Novel”, p.215, Simon and Schuster

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• I think we crushed ourselves down over the centuries. Buried ourselves under greed and hate and whatever other sins we could find until our souls finally hit the rock bottom of the universe. And then they scraped a hole through it, into some ... darker place.

  Isaac Marion

  Hate, Thinking, Rocks

  Isaac Marion (2012). “Warm Bodies: A Novel”, p.221, Simon and Schuster

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• Her best friend was gone and nobody understood that no amount of makeup, fresh air or shopping was going to fill the hole in her heart.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Husband, Heart, Makeup

  Cecelia Ahern (2013). “Cecelia Ahern 2-Book Bestsellers Collection: One Hundred Names, PS I Love You”, p.12, HarperCollins UK

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• I had a cousin once who lived in your dictionary, inside the binding, and there was a tiny hole which he used for a door, and it led out between trichotomy and trick. Now what do you think of that? It was only a few minutes walk to trigger, then over the page to trinity, trinket and trional, and there my cousin used to fall asleep.

  Janet Frame

  Cousin, Fall, Thinking

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