Holes Quotes - Page 29

• Like most playwrights, I hate talkbacks with a passion that can burn a hole through hell.

  Katori Hall

  Hate, Passion, Hell

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• Michael Harris opens the doors and gently guides you into a magic world. Once inside, you can't help but feel mesmerized, eager to see how deep the rabbit hole goes. And no wonder: a major thinker of our time is talking to you about math and so much more, like you've never heard before.

  Edward Frenkel

  Math, Doors, Talking

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• It was mid-November 2008. There were pirates taking ships with impunity in African waters, terrorists punching holes in Indian security, China sinking towards depression because Americans were afraid to buy cheap goods for Christmas, and the richest nation in the history of the world was talking about how to keep a budget.

  Walter Mosley

  Talking, Water, Pirate

  Walter Mosley (2010). “Known to Evil: A Leonid McGill Mystery”, p.115, Penguin

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• You might find me outside with a can of hair spray, spraying it with the hope that the sun will burn a hole in the Earth. Another part of me hopes people will grow up and evolve and get smarter. That's the paradox of Marilyn Manson.

  Marilyn Manson

  Growing Up, Hair, People

  "A Dangerous Man? Marilyn Manson Says He’s Become His Own Nightmares". Interview with Dan Aquilante, nypost.com. November 17, 2000.

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• The bigger the hole inside you, the more desperate you became to fill it.

  Jodi Picoult

  Desperate, Bigger

  Jodi Picoult (2013). “The Storyteller”, p.230, Simon and Schuster

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• I think we are all coming to realize the web in all its manifestations is a sucking time hole.

  Carol Anshaw

  Thinking, Realizing, Manifestation

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• If you want to bless me you can bless my bottom, for it is sticking out of the hole.

  Richard Adams

  Want, Bless, Bottom

  Richard Adams (2014). “Watership Down”, p.35, Oneworld Publications

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• Pray do not grieve so; but go and take a stone, and place it in the hole, and fancy that the gold is still lying there. It will do you quite the same service; for when the gold was there, you had it not, as you did not make the slightest use of it.

  Aesop

  Lying, Grieving, Gold

  Aesop (2016). “Aesop's Fables”, p.30, Aesop

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• The only test of possession is use. The talent that is buried is not owned. The napkin and the hole in the ground are far more truly the man's property, because they are accomplishing something for him, slothful and shameful though it be. And what is a lost soul? Is it not one that God cannot use, or one that cannot use God? Trustless, prayerless, fruitless, loveless--is it not so far lost? So may a man have a soul that is lost and be dead while he lives.

  Maltbie Davenport Babcock

  Men, Soul, Use

  Maltbie Davenport Babcock (1901). “Thoughts for Every-day Living from the Spoken and Written Words of Maltbie Davenport Babcock”

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• Why does soldiers leave the protection of his trench hole in the ground and go forward in the face of shot and shell? It is because of the leader who is in front of him and his comrades who are around him. Comradeship makes a man feel warm and courageous when all his instincts tend to make him cold and afraid.

  Bernard Law Montgomery

  Military, Men, Leader

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• God is a philosophical black hole-the point where reason breaks down.

  Kedar Joshi

  God, Philosophy, Philosophical

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• If I thought that I was doing it myself, the hole would close up and no power could come through. Then everything I could do would be foolish.

  Black Elk

  Native American, Would Be, Foolish

  Black Elk (2000). “Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux”, Bison Books

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• She began to feel like the plastic doll she had been named after, without even a hole where her mouth was supposed to be.

  Francesca Lia Block

  Numbness, Mouths, Dolls

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• You can drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, on every continental shelf and atop every hill in America for that matter, and you still won't reverse the fact that our oil production is in permanent decline. We're just sopping up what's left, digging ourselves into a deeper hole.

  Roscoe Bartlett

  Oil, America, Matter

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• A firm belief atthracts facts. They come out iv holes in the ground an' cracks in th' wall to support belief, but they run away fr'm doubt.

  Finley Peter Dunne

  Running, Wall, Support

  Finley Peter Dunne (2015). “Mr. Dooley Says”, p.74, The Floating Press

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• Dreams have a poetic integrity and truth. This limbo and dust-hole of thought is presided over by a certain reason, too.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Dream, Integrity, Dust

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2004). “A Dream Too Wild: Emerson Meditations for Every Day of the Year”, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

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• I have seen the day of wrong through the little hole of discretion, and I will right myself like a soldier.

  William Shakespeare

  Soldier, Littles, Discretion

  William Shakespeare, Richard Farmer, Nicholas Rowe, George Steevens, Alexander Pope (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakespeare: Two gentlemen of Verona. Comedy of errors. Love's labour's lost”, p.452

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• A man's soul is pierced as it were with holes, and as his longings flow through each they are transmuted into something specific.

  Eric Hoffer

  Men, Soul, Flow

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• The first thing you ought to do when you find yourself in a hole is quit digging. . . . Instead they are looking for a bigger shovel.

  William J. Clinton

  Finding Yourself, Digging, Firsts

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• The first hole made through a piece of stone is a revelation.

  Henry Moore

  Art, Pieces, Stones

  Henry Moore, David Mitchinson, Julian Andrews, Henry Moore Foundation (1998). “Celebrating Moore: Works from the Collection of the Henry Moore Foundation”, p.163, Univ of California Press

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• Don't take what someone else has made sure of and pretend it's you yourself that have made sure of it till it's yours absolutely by conviction. It's stealing to take it and hypocrisy and you'll fall into a hole.

  Emily Carr

  Fall, Hypocrisy, Stealing

  Emily Carr (2009). “Klee Wyck”, p.10, D & M Publishers

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• Introverts are offered keys to private gardens full of riches. To possess such a key is to tumble like Alice down her rabbit hole. She didn't choose to go to Wonderland - but she made of it an adventure that was fresh and fantastic and very much her own.

  Susan Cain

  Adventure, Garden, Keys

  Susan Cain (2012). “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking”, p.266, Broadway Books

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• A friend of mine, a dedicated golfer, shot a hole in one playing by himself. Disaster.

  William Glasser

  Disaster, Golfers, Shots

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• Square astronaut, round hole. But somehow, I'd managed to push myself through it, and here was the truly amazing part: along the way, I'd become a good fit. It had only taken 21 years.

  Chris Hadfield

  Taken, Squares, Years

  Chris Hadfield (2013). “An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth”, p.157, Pan Macmillan

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• There were so many fewer questions when stars were still just the holes to heaven.

  Jack Johnson

  Stars, Heaven, Stills

  Song: Holes To Heaven, Album: On And On

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