Holes Quotes - Page 32

• With a sudden sharp hot stink of fox, It enters the dark hole of the head. The window is starless still; the clock ticks, The page is printed.

  Ted Hughes

  Dark, Hot, Pages

  "The Thought-Fox" l. 21 (1957)

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• It's all right. You guys in New York City can't get a hole in the ground fixed, and it's five years later, so let's be fair.

  Ray Nagin

  New York, Years, Cities

  "Ray Nagin Takes Swipe at NYC 9/11 Rebuilding Efforts". "Hannity & Colmes", www.foxnews.com. August 26, 2006.

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• That's the words: "So I'm back to the velvet underground" - which is a clothing store in downtown San Francisco, where Janis Joplin got her clothes, and Grace Slick from Jefferson Airplane, it was this little hole in the wall, amazing, beautiful stuff - "back to the floor that I love, to a room with some lace and paper flowers, back to the gypsy that I was."

  Stevie Nicks

  Beautiful, Wall, Flower

  "Stevie Nicks On Her Favorite Songs: A Music Mix Exclusive". Interview with Leah Greenblatt, www.ew.com. March 31, 2009.

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• Family farmers are small farmers who love the land. They're still not getting enough money for their product and are rapidly losing their battle to stay in business. By helping the American family farmer, we will in turn help ourselves out of the economic hole that we find ourselves in today. It doesn't really matter how we got here; the point is, we have to dig our way out.

  Willie Nelson

  Land, Battle, Matter

  "On the Clean Road Again: Biodiesel and the Future of the Family Farm". Book by Willie Nelson, 2007.

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• All the backs in the history of this game are the same when there isn't any hole to run through.

  Bill Parcells

  Running, Games

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• There is a certain solipsism to serious illness which claims all of one's attention as certainly as an astronomical black hole seizes anything unlucky enough to fall within its critical radius.

  Dan Simmons

  Fall, Serious Illness, Black

  Dan Simmons (2014). “The Hyperion Cantos 4-Book Bundle: Hyperion, The Fall of Hyperion, Endymion, The Rise of Endymion”, p.1125, Spectra

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• Up above
  Aliens hover
  Making home movies
  For the folks back home
  Of all these weird creatures
  Who lock up their spirits
  Drill holes in themselves
  And live for their secrets.

  Thom Yorke

  Home, Secret, Locks

  "Song: 'Subterranean Homesick Alie'". 1997.

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• Have you ever had a big idea or dream - something you wanted so bad ... but you were too scared to make it happen, or maybe you didn't really believe it could? Think of how often you've had someone you looked up to or viewed as successful - shoot one of your suggestions full of holes. Ideas and babies have a lot in common - they require a lot of nourishment to survive. A new idea, regardless of its size, may not be able to withstand a beating when you first give it birth.

  Bob Proctor

  Dream, Baby, Believe

  FaceBook post by Bob Proctor from Jan 04, 2012

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• It's made me want to find a hole in the world, in the shape of me, and just fill it up

  Hannah

  World, Shapes, Want

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• And yet my life seemed to be just one big mass of people. I would never ask some people in for tea to fill up time. I just never would do it. Whenever I seemed to have a quiet hole, I would paint. That was what I would choose to do to fill up the time.

  Myfanwy Pavelic

  People, Solitude, Tea

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• Most history is a record of the triumphs, disasters, and follies of top people. The black hole in it is the way of life of mute, inglorious men and women who make no nuisance of themselves in the world.

  Philip Howard, 20th Earl of Arundel

  Men, People, History

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• There are people who can't stand the pain. What happens is they begin to develop some kind of technique to keep out of that hole. Once they do that, they're finished. They never go any further. They're done.

  Milton Resnick

  Pain, People, Technique

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• Discretion, like the hole in a doughnut, does not exist except as an area left open by a surrounding belt of restriction. It is therefore a relative concept. It always makes sense to ask, "Discretion under which standards?" or "Discretion as to which authority?

  Ronald Dworkin

  Doe, Authority, Restriction

  Ronald Dworkin (2013). “Taking Rights Seriously”, p.48, A&C Black

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• If I'm teaching deep things, then I view it as important to make people feel like they're learning deep things, because otherwise, they will still have a hole in their mind for "deep truths" that needs filling, and they will go off and fill their heads with complete nonsense that has been written in a more satisfying style.

  Eliezer Yudkowsky

  Teaching, Views, People

  "Eliezer_Yudkowsky comments on Mind Control and Me - Less Wrong". lesswrong.com. March 21, 2009.

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• The sum of the parts equals less than the whole. Or the howl. Or the how. Or the hole.

  Katy Lederer

  Howl, Whole

  Katy Lederer (2008). “The Heaven-sent Leaf: Poems”, Boa Editions

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• A tower of illusion, all of it, made of illusory bricks and full of holes. If life were made up only of imporant things, it really would be a dangerous house of glass, scarcely to be handled carelessly. But everyday life was exactly like the headlines. And so everybody, knowing the meaninglessness of existence, sets the centre of his compass at his own home.

  Kobo Abe

  Home, Knowing, Glasses

  Kobo Abe (2011). “The Woman in the Dunes”, p.94, Vintage

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• It never occurs to Arnold that the ball won't go in the hole, but I'm always surprised when it does.

  Gene Littler

  Doe, Balls

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• The Customer isn't always right. Sometimes the customer is an a**hole. That's the first rule of retail.

  Kelly Link

  Retail, Firsts, Sometimes

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• In real life, good people die all the time and a**holes can live long and happy lives. It's a crapshoot.

  Bentley Little

  Good Life, Real, Happy Life

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• Lips move; lips touch; lips signal. Lips are on the outside for show, and on the most secret inside of your mouth. Lips frame words that lie. Lips frame a hole that wants to be filled.

  Jane Rogers

  Lying, Moving, Secret

  Jane Rogers (2012). “The Ice is Singing”, p.35, Canongate Books

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• Most private traders on a losing streak keep trying to trade their way out of a hole. A loser thinks a successful trade is just around the corner, and that his luck is about to turn. He keeps putting on more trades and increases his size, all the while digging himself a deeper hole in the ice. The sensible thing to do would be to reduce your trading size and then stop and review your system.

  Alexander Elder

  Successful, Thinking, Ice

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• Flat Earth theory serves well enough for a trip from the cave to the water hole and back, and a third dimension going up into the sky and down underground serves to accommodate gods and devils A lot of people still think like that, believe it or not.

  Peter J. Carroll

  Believe, Thinking, Sky

  "The Apophenion: A Chaos Magick Paradigm". Book by Peter J. Carroll, 2008.

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• For a decade Americans have been steeped in the rhetoric of "zero tolerance" and the faith that virtually all problems from drug addiction to lousy teaching can be solved by pouring on the punishment. Even without a Commander in Chief who pledges to rid the world of evildoers, smoke them out of their holes and the like, we would be vulnerable to the temptation to brush aside frustrating complexities and relieve intolerable fear (at least for the moment) by settling on one or more scapegoats to crush. To imagine that trauma casts out fantasy is a dangerous mistake.

  Ellen Willis

  Crush, Zero, Mistake

  "Dreaming of War". "The Nation", October 15, 2001.

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• Why do people build houses to keep the climate out, then cut holes in the walls to let it in again? I shall never understand.

  Kyril Bonfiglioli

  Wall, Cutting, People

  Kyril Bonfiglioli (2004). “Don't Point that Thing at Me”, p.19, The Overlook Press

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• I'm an actor. My life as an actor depends on who sends me what. I'm just taking the best stuff that I can find that's sent my way, regardless of how big or little the paycheck is. I don't want to work for scale anymore. I'm at a point now where, no matter how good something is, I'm not going to kill myself and end up in the hole.

  Alan Arkin

  Actors, Want, Littles

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