Holes Quotes - Page 6

• Absolutely, 'Rabbit Hole' gave me a nice first introduction into film acting.

  Miles Teller

  Nice, Acting, Rabbits

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Do you realize that if you fall into a black hole, you will see the entire future of the Universe unfold in front of you in a matter of moments and you will emerge into another space-time created by the singularity of the black hole you just fell into?

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Fall, Space, Black

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• When I was a little girl you used to learn to sew all the holes in things, darning socks, but nobody mends things anymore.

  Vivienne Westwood

  Girl, Littles, Used

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• The sexiest people are thinkers. Nobody's interested in somebody who's just vain with a hole in their head, talking about the latest thing - there is no latest thing. It's all rubbish.

  Vivienne Westwood

  Talking, People, Rubbish

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• There used to be a huge hole in my life that I wrote many albums about. I didn't realise it was a wife-and-daughter-shaped hole. They've plugged that gap. Everything I do, I do for them now. When daddy goes to work, it's daddy going to work, not Rob going to work. I feel like there's a purpose to everything.

  Robbie Williams

  Daughter, Daddy, Wife

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• Bad acting comes in many bags, various odors. It can be performed by cardboard refugees from an Ed Wood movie, reciting their dialogue off an eye chart, or by hopped-up pros looking to punch a hole through the fourth wall from pure ballistic force of personality, like Joe Pesci in a bad mood. I can respect bad acting that owns its own style.

  James Wolcott

  Wall, Eye, Personality

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• Since I'm a fan of collections and anthologies, believe that the best writing often shines in shards and galloping stretches, I never find myself lobbying for a writer I enjoy reading regularly to hole up in Heidegger's hut for four or five years to bring forth a mountain.

  James Wolcott

  Believe, Reading, Writing

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• I love to play golf, and that's my arena. And you can characterize it and describe it however you want, but I have a love and a passion for getting that ball in the hole and beating those guys.

  Tiger Woods

  Love, Passion, Golf

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• Succotash my cocker spaniel, you fudging crevasse-hole dipshiitake!

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Spaniels

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.145, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I shall create! If not a note, a hole./If not an overture, a desecration.

  Gwendolyn Brooks

  Notes, Ifs

  Gwendolyn Brooks (2005). “The Essential Gwendolyn Brooks”, p.106, Library of America

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• There is never a sudden revelation, a complete and tidy explanation for why it happened, or why it ends, or why or who you are. You want one and I want one, but there isn't one. It comes in bits and pieces, and you stitch them together wherever they fit, and when you are done you hold yourself up, and still there are holes and you are a rag doll, invented, imperfect. And yet you are all that you have, so you must be enough. There is no other way.

  Marya Hornbacher

  Together, Want, Way

  "Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia". Book by Marya Hornbacher, www.glamour.com. 1998.

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• With the certitude of a true believer, Vellya Paapen had assured the twins that there was no such thing in the world as a black cat. He said that there were only black cat chaped holes in the universe.

  Arundhati Roy

  Cat, Black, World

  Arundhati Roy (2002). “The God of Small Things”, p.82, Penguin Books India

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• A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read.

  Terry Pratchett

  Black, Discworld, Bookshops

  Terry Pratchett (2014). “Night Watch”, p.11, A&C Black

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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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• Why O why did I ever leave my hobbit-hole?" said poor Mr. Baggins, bumping up and down on Bombur's back.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Poor, Said, Up And Down

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.32, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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