Holes Quotes - Page 2

• 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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• There is no lake at Camp Green Lake.

  Louis Sachar

  Lakes, Green, Camps

  Louis Sachar (2007). “There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom: Rejacketed”, p.198, A&C Black

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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 was all because of his no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealinggreat-great-grandfather!

  Louis Sachar

  Dirty, Pigs, Digging A Hole

  "Holes". Book by Louis Sachar, June 1, 2011.

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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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• 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 once all-powerful ruler of Iraq was found in a hole, and now sits in a prison cell.

  George W. Bush

  Powerful, Cells, Iraq

  Third Presidential State of the Union Address, delivered 20 January 2004

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• Sometimes the world seems like a big hole. You spend all your life shouting down it and all you hear are echoes of some idiot yelling nonsense down a hole.

  Adam Duritz

  Yelling, Echoes, World

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• The cosmos is about the smallest hole that a man can hide his head in.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Men, Cosmos, Literature

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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• First law on holes - when you're in one, stop digging!

  Denis Healey

  Funny, Life, Law

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• A mouse never entrusts his life to only one hole.

  Plautus

  Mice

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• By the time you get dressed, drive out there, play 18 holes and come home, you've blown seven hours. There are better things you can do with your time.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Home, Play, Hours

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• Do not trust your memory; it is a net full of holes; the most beautiful prizes slip through it.

  Georges Duhamel

  Trust, Beautiful, Memories

  Georges Duhamel (1919). “The Heart's Domain”

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• A hole in one is amazing when you think of the different universes this white mass of molecules has to pass through on its way to the hole.

  Mac O'Grady

  Golf, Thinking, Different Universes

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• For John Howard to get to any high moral ground he would have to first climb out of the volcanic hole he's dug for himself over the last decade. You know, it's like one of those deep diamond mined holes in South Africa, you know, they're about a mile underground. He'd have to come a mile up to get to even equilibrium, let alone have any contest in morality with Kevin Rudd.

  Paul Keating

  Kevin, Lasts, Firsts

  "Keating Criticises Alp Over Compulsory Super Plan". Interview with Eleanor Hall, www.abc.net.au. March 05, 2007.

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• The first rule of holes is when you're in one, stop digging. When you're in three, bring a lot of shovels.

  Thomas Friedman

  Digging, Three, Firsts

  "Imbalances of Power" by Thomas Friedman, www.nytimes.com. May 21, 2008.

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• The bark on the tree was just a little softer.

  Louis Sachar

  Tree, Littles, Bark

  Louis Sachar (2011). “Holes”, p.8, Yearling

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• You make the decision: Whom did God punish?

  Louis Sachar

  Decision

  Louis Sachar (2011). “Holes”, p.115, Yearling

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• When you are in a hole, stop digging!

  Bill McKibben

  Digging A Hole, Climate Change, Complexity

  Twitter post from Sep 23, 2016

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• I think the recovery hasn't been stronger because the hole that was dug for President Obama by the Bush administration was far worse than anybody could imagine, first of all.

  Howard Dean

  Recovery, Thinking, Usa

  "Newt Gingrich, Howard Dean Talk Race, Economy and Elections". "Fox News Sunday With Chris Wallace", www.foxnews.com. July 25, 2010.

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• Elvis' disappearing body is like a flashing event horizon at the edge of the black hole that is America today.

  Arthur Kroker

  Redneck, America, Black

  Arthur Kroker, Marilouise Kroker, David Cook (1989). “Panic Encyclopedia: The Definitive Guide to the Postmodern Scene”

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• When I came to DreamWorks, I was in bad trouble. They were in bad trouble. They were millions of dollars in the hole and a few days from closing their doors. I was on my last leg.

  Toby Keith

  Doors, Dollars, Legs

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• I always feel that there are no final victories and no final defeats. But it's true that America is in a hole right now. There are a lot of dead fish in the water.

  John Sayles

  America, Water, Victory

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

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• The larger meaning here is that mainstream journalists simply cannot talk about things that the two parties agree on; this is the black hole of American politics.

  Michael Pollan

  Party, Agreement, Two

  "Michael Pollan on Food Chains, Dead Zones, and Licensed Journalism". Interview with Russell Schoch, www.tomdispatch.com.

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