Holes Quotes - Page 26

• I had hopes for my rough edges. I wanted to use them as a can opener, to cut myself a hole in the world's surface and exit through it.

  Annie Dillard

  Cutting, Rough Edges, Exit

  Annie Dillard (2016). “An American Childhood”, p.228, Canongate Books

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• 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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• I am a hole in a flute that the Christ's breath moves through. Listen to this music.

  Hafez

  Integrity, Moving, Flutes

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• Feeding a baby is like filling a hole with putty - you get it in and then you sort of shave off all the excess around the hole and get it back in, like you're spackling.

  Anne Lamott

  Baby, Excess, Like You

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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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• My books always make the best-seller lists in Wolf Hole, Arizona, and Hanksville, Utah.

  Edward Abbey

  Book, Utah, Arizona

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.35, 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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• All the concessions we make to Eros are holes in our desire for the absolute.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Desire, Eros, Concessions

  "The Book of Delusions". Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1936.

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• The curtain of the universe is moth-eaten, and through its holes we see nothing now but mask and ghost.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Ghost, Mask, Curtains

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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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• Some people never see the light Till it shines thru bullet holes.

  Bruce Cockburn

  Light, People, Shining

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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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• It's like a kettle. If it's a kettle, you turn the kettle off, you know what I mean? I wish I could put a hole in my head and let the steam come out. The steam was getting so high and the pressure was just getting a little bit much for me.

  Frank Bruno

  Depression, Mean, Wish

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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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• People need trouble - a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it. Artists do; I don't mean you need to live in a rat hole or gutter, but you have to learn fortitude, endurance. Only vegetables are happy.

  William Faulkner

  Strength, Mean, Artist

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• Look at this window: it is nothing but a hole in the wall, but because of it the whole room is full of light. So when the faculties are empty, the heart is full of light.

  Zhuangzi

  Wisdom, Wall, Heart

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• The professional celebrity, male and female, is the crowning result of the star system of a society that makes a fetish of competition. In America, this system is carried to the point where a man who can knock a small white ball into a series of holes in the ground with more efficiency than anyone else thereby gains social access to the President of the United States.

  C. Wright Mills

  Stars, Men, White

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• We've got the most prosperous culture in human history and we've also got the biggest spiritual hole in human history. People are saying, "I can't fill the hole with money. I can't fill it with alcohol, or drugs, or sex, so what do I need to fill it with?"

  Mark Victor Hansen

  Spiritual, Money, Sex

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