Holes Quotes - Page 35

• There isn't a thing to eat down there in the rabbit hole of your bitterness except your own desperate heart.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Heart, Rabbits, Rabbit Holes

  Cheryl Strayed (2013). “Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Someone Who’s Been There”, p.186, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• You didn't tell a lie, you just left a big hole in the truth.

  Helen Thomas

  Truth, Lying, Bigs

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• Not counting Small Steps, I think Holes is my best book, in terms of plot, and setting, and the way the story revealed itself. It hasn’t changed my life, other than that I have more money than I did before I wrote it. I’m still too close to Small Steps to compare it to Holes.

  Louis Sachar

  Book, Thinking, Small Steps

  "A Few Words From Louis Sachar". Penguin Random House Interview, www.penguinrandomhouse.com.

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• I'm no good at describing my books. 'Holes' has been out now for seven years, and I still can't come up with a good answer when asked what that book is about.

  Louis Sachar

  Book, Years, Answers

  "A Few Words From Louis Sachar". "Small Steps" Hardcover Edition, www.randomhouse.com. 2008.

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• Why is it when you start to meditate you stop at a certain point? Because you're tied to the world, you have holes in your being and you haven't learned to lead an efficient life.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, World, Certain

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• Nothing is more likely to start me screaming like a madwoman than New York in February with its piles of blackened snow full of yellow holes drilled by dogs.

  Florence King

  Dog, New York, Yellow

  Florence King (1976). “Southern ladies and gentlemen”

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• There is one distinctive charm about fishing - its fascinations will stand any climate. You may sit crouching on ice over a hole inside the arctic circle, or on a Windsor chair by the side of the River Lea in the so-called temperate zone, or you may squat in a canoe on an equatorial river, with the surrounding atmosphere forty-five percent mosquito, and if you are fishing you will enjoy yourself.

  Mary Kingsley

  Ice, Fishing, Circles

  Mary Kingsley (2013). “West African Studies”, p.75, Routledge

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• Popcorn-can cover / screwed to the wall / over a hole / so the cold / can't mouse in.

  Lorine Niedecker

  Wall, Winter, Popcorn

  Lorine Niedecker (2002). “Lorine Niedecker: Collected Works”, p.218, Univ of California Press

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• Besides re-arming myself with joy, I need to know the holes in my defenses, the places where I'm vulnerable and where the enemy has successfully attacked me before.

  Lynn Austin

  Joy, Enemy, Needs

  Lynn Austin (2013). “Pilgrimage: My Journey to a Deeper Faith in the Land Where Jesus Walked”, p.19, Baker Books

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• The sand swallows burst out of their scupper holes in the bluffs and out over the transparent drown of the water, back again to the white, to the brown, to the black, from moving to stock-still sand waves and water-worked woods and roots that hugged and twisted in the sun.

  Saul Bellow

  Moving, Roots, White

  Saul Bellow (1984). “The Adventures of Augie March”

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• The same people in the Congress who are busy kicking holes in the social safety net are also those who would sell off the nation's forests for a song, give away its national parks, and trash its wilderness preserves; there is a connection between the two impulses.

  Paul Gruchow

  Song, Two, People

  Paul Gruchow (1997). “Boundary Waters: The Grace of the Wild”

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• I really wanted people to pay attention to me and like me. And the class clown thing, you know? There's a weird desperation to the class clown when you really investigate it. Why are they trying to be the clown so much? They're filling some kind of hole.

  Jack Black

  Class, People, Trying

  "Jack Black's dramatic turn". Interview with Stone Phillips, www.nbcnews.com. December 2, 2005.

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• That's what a story must feel like to me. It's not, "I want to write about a gravedigger." But you're walking along and - boop! shovel. "Ok, what does one do with a shovel? Digs a hole. Why? I don't know yet. Dig the hole! Oh, look a body."

  George Saunders

  Writing, Doe, Looks

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• If you're not careful people will judge you based on these appearances and they will pigeon hole you that this is the person that you are. Your shy, your aggressive, your this type or that type and you lose the control of the dynamic, they become the ones that determine who you are. A powerful person never loses control of the dynamic they are in someway in control.

  Robert Greene

  Powerful, People, Judging

  Source: www.josephbushnell.com

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• I'd like the campaigning to be about all the things they're not going to do. Just tell me what you're not going do! Don't tell me what you're going to do. Just say "I'd really like to do solar energy but I'm not going to be able to. I really want to dig holes everywhere in the country but I really won't be able to do it because people seem to think that maybe my water will be screwed up."

  Lewis Black

  Country, Thinking, Water

  Interview with Tom Lewis, www.scpr.org. September 7, 2012.

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• St. Andrews by far is my favorite golf course in the world. It's where the game all started, it's why we have 18 holes instead of 22 and I think the history behind St. Andrews is amazing. There is no other golf course in the world that can say that every great player who has ever played the game has played that golf course.

  Tiger Woods

  Golf, Thinking, Player

  Source: www.ign.com

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• A violent act pierces the atmosphere, leaving a hole through which the cold, damp draft of its memory blows forever.

  Jane Stanton Hitchcock

  Memories, Blow, Violent Acts

  Jane Stanton Hitchcock (2003). “Trick of the Eye”, Miramax Books

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• You plant a garden one flower at a time. ... You write a book one word at a time, clean a closet one shelf at a time, run a marathon one step at a time. If you feel defeated by some large task, get your spade and dig the first hole.

  Jeanne Marie Laskas

  Running, Perseverance, Determination

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• Physical aggression by a man toward his partner is abuse, even if it happens only once. If he raises a fist; punches a hole in the wall; throws things at you; blocks your way; restrains you; grabs, pushes, or pokes you; or threatens to hurt you, that's physical abuse. He is creating fear and using your need for physical freedom and safety as a way to control you.

  Lundy Bancroft

  Hurt, Wall, Block

  Lundy Bancroft (2003). “Why Does He Do That?: Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men”, p.128, Penguin

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• I grew up not seeing my father, and it is a hole in my heart that will never heal.

  Lysette Anthony

  Father, Heart, Grew Up

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• My inners are not organs. They're actually mechanics, so I have a hole in my back, wind me up like the movie 'Hugo,' and then just say, 'Act,' you know?

  Gillian Jacobs

  Wind, Mechanic, Organs

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• I like science fiction and physics, things like that. Planets being sucked into black holes, and the various vortexes that create possibility, and what happens on the other side of the black hole. To me it's the microcosmic study of the macrocosmic universe in man, and that's why I'm attracted to it.

  Wesley Snipes

  Men, Black, Fiction

  "Wesley Snipes is Ready To Pay" by Chris Heath, www.gq.com. March 29, 2010.

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• Superstition is the poetry of life. It is inherent in man's nature; and when we think it is wholly eradicated, it takes refuge in the strangest holes and corners, whence it peeps out all at once, as soon as it can do it with safety.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Men, Thinking, Safety

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• The beautiful laws of time and space, once dislocated by our inaptitude, are holes and dens. If the hive be disturbed by rash and stupid hands, instead of honey, it will yield us bees.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beautiful, Stupid, Hands

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.218, Modern Library

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• To be infatuated with the power of one's own intellect is an accident which seldom happens but to those who are remarkable for the want of intellectual power. Whenever Nature leaves a hole in a person's mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Self, Intellectual, Mind

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1886). “Outre-mer and Drift-wood”

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