Holes Quotes - Page 36

• the first thing I did when I made the decision to kill myself was to stop dieting. Let them dig a wider hole.

  Gail Parent

  Decision, Dieting, Firsts

  Gail Parent (2004). “Sheila Levine Is Dead and Living in New York”, p.99, The Overlook Press

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• There will be no one like us when we are gone, but then there is no one like anyone else, ever. When people die, they cannot be replaced. They leave holes that cannot be filled, for it is the fate - the genetic and neural fate - of every human being to be a unique individual, to find his own path, to live his own life, to die his own death.

  Oliver Sacks

  Life, Death, Fate

  Oliver Sacks (2015). “Gratitude”, p.14, Pan Macmillan

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• I have a superstition that if I talk about plot, it's like letting sand out of a hole in the bottom of a bag.

  Shirley Hazzard

  Plot, Bags, Superstitions

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• A mine is a hole in the ground with a liar on top.

  Mark Twain

  Liars, Mines

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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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• Band-Aids don't fix bullet holes. You say sorry just for show. You live like that, you live with ghosts.

  Taylor Swift

  Sorry, Band, Bullets

  Song: Bad Blood

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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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• 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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• 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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• It was very strange, for I knew we were both in mortal danger. Still, in that instant, I felt well. Whole. I could feel my heart racing in my chest, the blood pulsing hot and fast through my veins again. My lungs filled deep with the sweet scent that came off his skin. It was like there had never been any hole in my chest. I was perfect - not healed, but as if there had been no wound in the first place.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Sweet, Heart, Blood

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• To live in prison is to live without mirrors. To live without mirrors is to live without the self. She is living selflessly, she finds a hole in the stone wall and on the other side of the wall, a voice. The voice comes through darkness and has no face. This voice becomes her mirror.

  Margaret Atwood

  Wall, Mirrors, Self

  Margaret Atwood (1987). “Selected Poems II: Poems Selected & New 1976-1986”, p.17, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Guitar is easy, all it takes is 5 fingers, 6 strings and 1 a**hole

  Keith Richards

  Guitar, Easy, Strings

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• I think it's because we're looking for the meaning. Where is the meaning? We have mindless jobs, we take frantic vacations, deficit finance trips to the mall to buy more things that we think are going to fill these holes in our lives. Is it any wonder that we've lost our sense of direction?

  Matthew McConaughey

  Meaningful, Jobs, Thinking

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