Holes Quotes - Page 5

• A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape.

  Mark Twain

  Leadership, Time, Inspiration

  Mark Twain (2014). “Following The Equator”, p.638, Jazzybee Verlag

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• the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Sometimes the break in your heart is like the hole in the flute. Sometimes it’s the place where the music comes through.

  Andrea Gibson

  Love, Music, Broken Heart

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• True celebration should come from your life, in your life. And true celebration cannot be according to the calendar, that on the first of November you will celebrate. Strange, the whole year you are miserable and on the first of November suddenly you come out of misery, dancing. Either, the misery is false, or the first of November is false; both cannot be true. And once the first of November has gone, you are back in your dark hole, everybody in his misery, everybody in his anxiety.

  Rajneesh

  Dark, Years, Dancing

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• Turn off your computer and go out of doors. Dig a large enough hole to transplant a mature apple tree. Nurture the tree, feed it, coddle it so that its fruit will be ample, bright and firm. Practice open-hand strikes against the rough bark of the trunk until it's time to harvest. Choose the champion of your apple crop, pluck it from the tree, and beat yourself about the face and tits with it until your mettle will suffice.

  Nick Offerman

  Doors, Hands, Practice

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. March 13, 2013.

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• The secret was a hole in the middle of me that every happy thing fell into.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Secret, Middle, Happy Things

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.71, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Do you even know what hammerd means?" I asked. "Something to do with drinking your American beer out of a hole in the side of a can?" Dave reached over and slapped him on the shin. "Close enough.

  Jennifer Rardin

  Drinking, Mean, Beer

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• About 25 years ago, I was in an apartment, and next door, they put on the radio, so I struck the wall with my fist, but they did not put the radio down. I took a tool and banged until I made a hole through the wall. It was like a comedy movie.

  Klaus Kinski

  Wall, Doors, Hands

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• A fishnet is made up of a lot more holes than strings, but you can't therefore argue that the net doesn't exist. Just ask the fish.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Arguing, Made, Strings

  "Ben Stein Dukes it Out with Darwin" by Jeffrey Kluger, content.time.com. April 10, 2008.

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• The earth is rocky and full of roots; it's clay, and it seems doomed and polluted, but you dig little holes for the ugly shriveled bulbs, throw in a handful of poppy seeds, and cover it all over, and you know you'll never see it again - it's death and clay and shrivel, and your hands are nicked from the rocks, your nails black with soil.

  Anne Lamott

  Rocks, Hands, Roots

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• So much of my sense of who I am is tied to mothering. When they left home, I fell into a huge, empty, black hole. Your children are grown and your career has slowed down - all the stuff that took up so much attention is gone, and you're left with expansive time and space.

  Jessica Lange

  Children, Home, Who I Am

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• Stand-up comedy and comedy in general is the ultimate form of free speech, because you get to poke holes in all the pretentious bubbles politicians and pundits and popes and pretenders try to float over our heads.

  Denis Leary

  Trying, Speech, Comedy

  Denis Leary (2008). “Why We Suck: A Feel Good Guide to Staying Fat, Loud, Lazy and Stupid”, p.58, Penguin

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• We're throwing money down a rat hole drain of public education! We lead the world in public education spending. We lead the world in getting the least for it.

  Rush Limbaugh

  World, Rats, Drains

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• It's good to be happy and tell us how cool your life is and how awesome you are on social media. It inspires other people to be happy, too. But a lot of times, people are trying to be happy in the wrong ways - with money or with different things that are not true happiness. It's leading people down a rabbit hole that actually doesn't exist. So people think like, "Yo, once I get this money and these cars and stuff, I'ma be so happy." But that's not true. And I feel like that's why it's very important to educate people on different things while you are actually on social media.

  Jaden Smith

  Thinking, Media, Car

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• We blasted holes in the night until she bled sunshine

  Mos Def

  Sunshine, Night

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• Granted: I AM an inmate of a mental hospital; my keeper is watching me, he never lets me out of his sight; there's a peep-hole in the door, and my keeper's eye is the shade of brown that can never see through a blue-eyed type like me.

  Gunter Grass

  Eye, Sight, Blue

  The Tin Drum bk. 1, ch. 1 (1959)

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• When you find yourself in a hole, quit digging.

  Will Rogers

  Digging A Hole, Finding Yourself, Digging Ditches

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• We are the bright new stars born of a screaming black hole, the nascent suns burst from the darkness, from the grasping void of space that folds and swallows--a darkness that would devour anyone not as strong as we. We are oddities, sideshows, talk show subjects. We capture everyone's imagination.

  Dave Eggers

  Strong, Stars, Oddities

  Dave Eggers (2013). “A Heartbreaking Work Of Staggering Genius: A Memoir Based on a True Story”, p.122, Simon and Schuster

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• Once upon a time there was a woman who was just like all women. And she married a man who was just like all men. And they had some children who were just like all children. And it rained all day. The woman had to skewer the hole in the kitchen sink, when it was blocked up. The man went to the pub every Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. The other nights he mended his broken bicycle, did the pool coupons, and longed for money and power. The woman read love stories and longed for things to be different. The children fought and yelled and played and had scabs on their knees. In the end they all died.

  Elizabeth Smart

  Friday, Children, Sunday

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• Shut the door, they're coming through the window, shut the window, they're coming through the door," are the words to an old song. They fit my lifestyle with newly arriving butcher/censors every month. Only six weeks ago, I discovered that, over the years, some cubby-hole editors at Ballantine Books, fearful of contaminating the young, had, bit by bit, censored some 75 separate sections from the novel. Students, reading the novel which, after all, deals with censorship and book-burning in the future, write to tell me of this exquisite irony.

  Ray Bradbury

  Song, Book, Reading

  Ray Bradbury (2012). “Fahrenheit 451: A Novel”, p.210, Simon and Schuster

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• In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Middle Earth, Great Hobbit

  The Hobbit ch. 1 (1937)

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• If I got places, sir, it was because I made myself fit for 'em. If you want to slip into a round hole, you must first make a ball of yourself; that's where it is.

  George Eliot

  Balls, Ems, Want

  "The Mill on the Floss". Book by George Eliot, 1860.

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• And now each night, I count the stars. And each night I get the same number. And when the stars won't come to be counted, I count the holes they leave.

  Amiri Baraka

  Stars, Night, Numbers

  Amiri Baraka, “Preface to a Twenty Volume SuICIDe Note”

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• Noticing and remembering everything would trap bright scenes to light and fill the blank and darkening past which was already piling up behind me. The growing size of that blank and ever-darkening past frightened me; it loomed beside me like a hole in the air and battened on scraps of my life I failed to claim. If one day I forgot to notice my life, and be damned grateful for it, the blank cave would suck me up entire.

  Annie Dillard

  Grateful, Past, Light

  "An American Childhood". Book by Annie Dillard, www.huffingtonpost.com. 2009.

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• Somewhere beyond the sink-hole, past the magnolia, under the live oaks, a boy and a yearling ran side by side, and were gone forever.

  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

  Boys, Past, Forever

  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (2011). “The Yearling”, p.572, Simon and Schuster

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