Holes Quotes - Page 26

• Once I spent a whole day there, a blade of grass in each hand to anchor me to the warm earth. I watched the sun rise, pass over my head and set. Ladybirds mated on my knuckle; a shrew nibbled a hole in my stocking while I tried not to laugh. Such a day was worth any punishment.

  Emma Donoghue

  Hands, Anchors, Punishment

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• No money, holes in my socks, living off oatmeal.

  Donna Tartt

  Oatmeal, Sock, No Money

  Donna Tartt (2013). “The Goldfinch”, p.16, Hachette UK

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• His jargon conceals, from him, but not from us, the deep, empty hole in his mind. He uses technological language as a substitute for technique.

  Richard Mitchell

  Mind, Technique, Use

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• In Iraq, the U.S. military's whack-a-mole approach to killing Saddam Hussein may have finally paid off. The bombs destroyed the area and left behind a 60-foot crater, or as coalition forces prefer to call it: a freedom hole.

  Jon Stewart

  Military, Iraq, Feet

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• So, probably … when I started painting the pelvis bones I was most interested in the holes in the bones — what I saw through them- particularly the blue from holding them up in the sun
  against the sky as one is apt to do when one seems to have more sky than earth in one’s world … they were most beautiful against the Blue — that Blue that will always be there as it is now
  after all man’s destruction is finished.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Beautiful, Men, Blue

  Katherine Hoffman, Georgia O'Keeffe (1984). “An enduring spirit: the art of Georgia O'Keeffe”, Scarecrow Pr

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• The For-itself, in fact, is nothing but the pure nihilation of the In-itself; it is like a hole of being at the heart of Being.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Heart, Facts, Pure

  Jean-Paul Sartre (2002). “Jean-Paul Sartre: Basic Writings”, p.125, Routledge

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• If you hit a hole in one every hole, you wouldn’t play golf for very long.

  Warren Buffett

  Golf, Play, Long

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• I got this big fear of doing smoking jokes in my act and showing up five years from now goin' [puts mic to his neck and speaks as if he had a mechanical larynx] 'good evening everybody, remember me, smoking's bad. [puts cigarette to neck and mimics smoking it] Eeww. You ever seen somebody do that? I've seen someone do that. Let me tell you something — if you're smoking out of a hole in your neck [mimics it again] I'd think about quitting. And that's just me, ya know.

  Bill Hicks

  Thinking, Years, Smoking

  "Sane Man". Stand-up show, 1989.

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• We have a strict 'no a-hole policy' at SpaceX. And we fire people they are. I mean, we give them a little bit of warning. But if they continue to be an a-hole, then they're fired.

  Elon Musk

  Mean, Fire, People

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• The fact that a human brain of high amperage, otherwise highly efficient, may have a hole in it is surely not a secret.

  H. L. Mencken

  Secret, Brain, May

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• You had better be a round peg in a square hole than a square peg in a square hole. The latter is in for life, while the first is only an indeterminate sentence.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Squares, Firsts, Artistic

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• But ice-crunching and loud gum-chewing, together with drumming on tables, and whistling the same tune 70 times in succession, because they indicate an indifference on the part of the perpetrator to the rest of the world in general, are not only registered on the delicate surfaces of the brain but eat little holes in it until it finally collapses or blows up.

  Robert Benchley

  Blow, Ice, Brain

  Robert Benchley (1970). “Benchley Lost and Found: 39 Prodigal Pieces”, p.24, Courier Corporation

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• A hole in the ice is dangerous only to those who go skating.

  Rex Stout

  Ice, Safety, Skating

  Rex Stout (2013). “Too Many Cooks/Champagne for One”, p.128, Bantam

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• The American woman has not yet slipped into a cocoon, but she has tumbled down a rabbit hole into sudden isolation.

  Susan Faludi

  Women, Rabbits, Cocoons

  Susan Faludi (1991). “Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women”

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• Things changed with the discovery of neutron stars and black holes - objects with gravitational fields so intense that dramatic space and time-warping effects occur.

  Paul Davies

  Stars, Discovery, Space

  "Einstein, the first spin doctor" by Paul Davies, www.theguardian.com. April 9, 2004.

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• I think there's probably a God-shaped hole in everybody's being. Even if God only exists in people's minds, He's still a force.

  James Taylor

  God, Thinking, People

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• Prayer is not a stratagem for occasional use, a refuge to resort to now and then. It is rather like an established residence for the innermost self. All things have a home: the bird has a nest, the fox has a hole, the bee has a hive. A soul without prayer is a soul without a home.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Prayer, Home, Self

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1997). “Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: Essays”, p.258, Macmillan

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• Golf's really fun in Japan because of the women caddies. ... I saw one guy start out playing alone with his caddie. By the 9th hole they were engaged and when they finished on 18 they had a foursome.

  Bob Hope

  Funny, Humorous, Golf

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• I've always thought that a name says a lot about a person. So naturally, being named Howard, I always wanted to crawl into a hole.

  Howard Stern

  Names, Branding, Wanted

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

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• You breathed on me and made my life a richer one to live, when I was deep in poverty you taught me how to give. Dried the tears up from my dreams and pulled me from my hole, quenched my thirst and satisfied the burning in my soul.

  Bob Dylan

  Friendship, Dream, Giving

  Bob Dylan (2014). “The Lyrics: Since 1962”, p.467, Simon and Schuster

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• Flea brain, got a hole in her head. If she wasn't good looking, she'd be better off dead.

  Gene Vincent

  Friendship, Brain, Better Off Dead

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• I think the end is endless. It's either a big black hole or a big white light or both together. But it's totally meaningless, because even if someone would explain it, I wouldn't understand it.

  Yehuda Amichai

  Thinking, Light, White

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• The mug is a tool. My ace in the hole. To have looks is the bonus on top of what motivates me to be an actor. Not to realize they're an asset would be counterproductive to the cause; they serve the common good.

  Billy Zane

  Acting, Would Be, Tools

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• It's no mystery why many of us in the media can't get enough of the fabricators Jayson Blair and Stephen Glass, the latter of whom concocted more than a score of bogus feature stories for the New Republic (and who wrote for other magazines, including this one, once) in the mid-1990s. Anyone--journalist, student, academic--who has ever stared at a blank screen, their brains grinding emptiness, and thought, How can I fill this hole? knows that in those desperate moments before a deadline, almost anyone can do almost anything: make stuff up, plagiarize, scribble senseless half-truths.

  David Edelstein

  Glasses, Media, Brain

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• The putter looks like a bunch of nuts and bolts welded together, but the ball goes in the hole.

  Julius Boros

  Golf, Nuts, Together

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