Holes Quotes - Page 21

• For 3 Million you could give everyone in Scotland a shovel, and we could dig a hole so deep we could hand her over to Satan in person.

  Frankie Boyle

  Hands, Scotland, Giving

  TV Series "Mock the Week", (2005- ).

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• It is part of the pholosophic dullness of our time that there are millions of rational monsters walking about on their hind legs, observing the world through pairs of flexible little lenses, periodically supplying themselves with energy by pushing organic substances through holes in their faces, who see nothing fabulous whatever about themselves.

  Martin Gardner

  Monsters, Energy, Lenses

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• When you are in a hole, the top priority is to stop digging.

  William Easterly

  Priorities, Top Priorities, Digging

  William Easterly (2006). “The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good”, p.324, Penguin

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• The Internet is not a place. It’s a great void, a black hole, from which you can call up an incredible amount of disorganized information.

  Eleanor Antin

  Black, Information, Void

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• I don't think Bono decided to be ambitious, he just is. But if this country ever ran out of electricity, just shove a plug up his hole and it would run for a week.

  Gavin Friday

  Running, Country, Thinking

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• We had some pretty good at-bats off Carpenter. We just couldn't find any holes. That's the way it goes sometimes. We were able to get some guys on but weren't able to get them in early. We did some little things right, we got some guys on, we got some walks. We take it one batter at a time and everybody tries to stay within their own limitations. We did that, we just didn't get the big hit to get them in.

  Craig Biggio

  Guy, Trying, Bats

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• It's just the environment that we're in right now. There's a lot of people who still don't want to believe that the program we have in place is a good program, and that it's going to work. They're just trying to find a way to shoot holes in it.

  Tom Glavine

  Believe, People, Trying

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• Every time the media brings up the tea party, it's painted as racist and extremists - but there's never a backlash, no outrage to those comparisons. ... Working-class people are hurting - and it doesn't seem like anybody cares. When both sides are high-fiving it on the ninth hole when everybody else is without a job - it makes a whole lot of us angry. Something has to change. The policies have to change.

  Hank Williams, Jr.

  Hurt, Jobs, Party

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'm just happy I got a hole-in-one for the first time in my life.

  Joe Sakic

  Firsts, First Time, Hole In One

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• That ship is loaded with treasure, but there's a hole in the ship. And my job is to get everyone to row in the same direction.

  Gil Amelio

  Jobs, Treasure, Ships

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• The Thames is a wretched river after the Mersey and the ships are not like Liverpool ships and the docks are barren of beauty ... it is a beastly hole after Liverpool; for Liverpool is the town of my heart and I would rather sail a mudflat there than command a clipper out of London

  John Masefield

  Heart, Rivers, London

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• Programs to demonstrate Darwinian evolution are akin to a pinball machine. The steel ball bounces around differently every time but eventually falls down the little hole behind the flippers.

  Robert J. Marks II

  Fall, Steel, Balls

  "Darwin as the Pinball Wizard: Talking Probability with Robert Marks". Interview with Robert Crowther of the pro-intelligent design Discovery Institute, March 3, 2010.

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• But big people’s illnesses are always made to sound big. The simple shutting and opening of the royal arse-hole was made to sound as if the world was coming to an end.

  Khushwant Singh

  Simple, People, Sound

  Khushwant Singh (1990). “Delhi”, p.129, Penguin Books India

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• I didn’t realize that one tragedy can beget another, and another — bright-eyed disasters flooding out of a death hole like bats out of a cave.

  Karen Russell

  Tragedy, Bats, Caves

  FaceBook post by Karen Russell from Sep 01, 2014

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• Write while the heat is in you. The write who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a hole with. He cannot inflame the minds of his audience. To achieve something you've never achieved before, you must become someone you've never been before.

  Brian Tracy

  Inspirational, Writing, Iron

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• Envy lurks at the bottom of the human heart like a viper in its hole.

  Honore de Balzac

  Jealousy, Heart, Envy

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• There is nothing as dreamy and poetic, nothing as radical, subversive, and psychedelic, as mathematics. It is every bit as mind blowing as cosmology or physics (mathematicians conceived of black holes long before astronomers actually found any), and allows more freedom of expression than poetry, art, or music (which depends heavily on properties of the physical universe). Mathematics is the purest of the arts, as well as the most misunderstood.

  Paul Lockhart

  Art, Expression, Long

  "A Mathematician’s Lament". genius.com. January 1, 2002.

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• A good debater is not necessarily an effective vote-getter: you can find a hole in your opponent's argument through which you could drive a coach and four ringing jingle bells all the way, and thrill at the crystallization of a truth wrung out from a bloody dialogue - which, however, may warm only you and your muse, while the smiling paralogist has in the meantime made votes by the tens of thousands.

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  Jingles, Thrill, Bells

  William F. Buckley, Jr. (1966). “The Unmaking of a Mayor”, Viking Adult

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• Television is just like making a hole in the wall. All kinds of stuff comes in, on the screen, that we would never allow to come in through the door.

  Albert Borgmann

  Wall, Doors, Television

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• I suppose we all have our little hiding-hole if the truth was known, but as small as it is, the whole world is in it, and bit by bit grows on us again till the day You find us out.

  Frank O'Connor

  World, Littles, Hiding

  Frank O'Connor (1981). “Collected stories”, Alfred a Knopf Inc

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• If you're a big Nirvana fan, a big Hole fan, then I understand why you would want to get to know me, but I'm not my parents.

  Frances Bean Cobain

  Parent, Fans, Want

  "High School Musical Starring Frances Bean Cobain". Interview with Laura Brown, www.harpersbazaar.com. February8, 2008.

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• At the British Open, I had my opportunities, but the ball just didn't want to go in the hole on the back nine.

  Fuzzy Zoeller

  Opportunity, Balls, Want

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• It's fun when the ball is going in the hole and things are going right, but it's a miserable game when things aren't going well.

  Fuzzy Zoeller

  Fun, Games, Balls

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• The world of derivatives is full of holes that very few people are really aware of. It's like hydrogen and oxygen sitting on the corner waiting for a little flame.

  Charlie Munger

  Oxygen, Flames, People

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• My scientist friends have come up with things like 'principles of uncertainty' and dark holes. They're willing to live inside imagined hypotheses and theories. But many religious folks insist on answers that are always true. We love closure, resolution and clarity, while thinking that we are people of 'faith'! How strange that the very word 'faith' has come to mean its exact opposite.

  Richard Rohr

  Religious, Mean, Dark

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