Holes famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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How do I soothe his ache when mine was a big gaping hole large enough for both of us to fit in?
-- Abbi Glines -
Your job is to preserve yourself, not to descend into their hole. It's a relief when you arrive at this place, the point of absurdity, because then you are free, you owe them nothing.
-- Abraham Verghese -
The mouse that always trusts to one poor hole Can never be a mouse of any soul.
-- Alexander Pope -
The ideal hole (course) is surely one that affords the greatest pleasure to the greatest number.
-- Alister MacKenzie -
What makes a great golf course is continuity and variety: right-to-left holes, left-to-right holes.
-- Amy Alcott -
If you can see it, you can hit it and if you can hit it, you can hole it.
-- Arnold Palmer -
I feel more strongly than ever about this. I would like the professional game freed of golf carts. Golf is a physical game. If we are playing competitive professional golf, we should walk. When I can't walk 18 holes, I'll pack it in.
-- Arnold Palmer -
Sculpture is the art of the hole and the lump.
-- Auguste Rodin -
We all knew this. We all knew that it would take more time than any of us want to dig ourselves out of this hole created by this economic crisis.
-- Barack Obama -
So I have the classic amateur's technique; I know some very tricky bits and I have large gaping holes.
-- Bill Bruford -
If you want toget the most outof a sketch, youneed to leave bigenough holes forthe imaginationto fit in.
-- Bill Buxton -
All the backs in the history of this game are the same when there isn't any hole to run through.
-- Bill Parcells -
God finds us in the holes we dig for ourselves. We see failures; He sees foundations.
-- Bob Goff -
There isn't a hole out there [Augusta] that can't be birdied if you just think. But there isn't one that can't be double-bogeyed if you stop thinking.
-- Bobby Jones -
Don't look at the hole in the doughnut. Look at the whole doughnut.
-- Branch Rickey -
Absoballylutely top hole, wot. A and B the C of D I'd say. . . Above and Beyond the Call of Duty.
-- Brian Jacques -
I just felt as though I would never be happy again, and as if I had fallen into a big black hole.
-- Brooke Shields -
My remoteness from women's affairs could be seen from my surprise when I heard that needles had holes in them.
-- Buwei Yang Chao -
I think we are all coming to realize the web in all its manifestations is a sucking time hole.
-- Carol Anshaw -
Remember what to do when you're at the bottom of a hole? You've got to stop digging.
-- Carolyn Mackler -
Most sportswriters don't know their ***** from a hole in the ground.
-- Charles Barkley -
Soft money will find its way and seep into the political system and corrode it, unless we plug every hole.
-- Charles Schumer -
Shut your evil mucus-hole you truth terrorist. You LOSE every time a mirror implodes from your barbed and gristle image.
-- Charlie Sheen -
A flute without holes, is not a flute. A donut without a hole, is a Danish.
-- Chevy Chase -
Take less time to read the scorecard and more time to read the hole.
-- Chi Chi Rodriguez -
This is the very center of everything there is. A huge black hole eating up the galaxy. The end of everything.
-- Clifford D. Simak -
This rule I propose, Always have an ace in the hole. Always try to arrive at Having an ace some place private . Always have an ace in the hole.
-- Cole Porter -
I'm a great believer that if you don't get the ball to the hole, it won't go in.
-- Colin Montgomerie -
That's great. They should put the hole in the fairway.
-- Colin Montgomerie -
I was more comfortable somehow in a European Tour setting. I have never really felt comfortable in the States and therefore I have never won a 72-hole event there.
-- Colin Montgomerie -
But then I have always been somewhat of a square peg in a round hole.
-- Cressida Cowell -
I love being a performer. It's like a hole that never closes. It's something in you that never dies.
-- Dagmara Dominczyk -
When you don't follow your nature there is a hole in the universe where you were supposed to be.
-- Dane Rudhyar -
In motorsports we work in the grey areas a lot. You're trying to find where the holes are in the rule book.
-- Danica Patrick -
He'd been let down so often His brow was on the floor But then they found A small hole in the ground And let him down some more
-- David Thewlis -
You do angry. I just saw it. And you left at least one hole in my carpet to prove it.
-- Deborah Harkness -
Talk into my bullet hole. Tell me I'm fine.
-- Denis Johnson -
Ports are the gaping hole in America's homeland security.
-- Dianne Feinstein -
I read Holes in 10th grade, and I havent read a full book since. The movie version with Shia LaBeouf was OK, but the book was way better.
-- Domo Genesis -
You just can't keep pouring money down an endless hole and never recoup any of it. It's got to be a business.
-- Don Bluth -
We do have a saying in America: if you're in a hole, stop digging ..... erm, I'm not sure I should have said that.
-- Donald Rumsfeld -
No money, holes in my socks, living off oatmeal.
-- Donna Tartt -
I am the hole on the flute that Gods breath flows through.
-- Eckhart Tolle -
You cannot dig a hole in a different place by digging the same hole deeper
-- Edward de Bono -
If anyone wants a hole in the ground, nuclear explosives can make big holes
-- Edward Teller -
I've always believed that if you cannot do it, then you should not do it.Only when it comes to the point where you've literally dug yourself into a hole, where it's sink or swim, is that viable to me.
-- El-P -
We all have family dysfunction. It's why we're successful, to fill that hole.
-- Eli Attie -
The heart is a place with worm holes made by feelings you aren't supposed to have but do.
-- Elizabeth Scott -
The curtain of the universe is moth-eaten, and through its holes we see nothing now but mask and ghost.
-- Emile M. Cioran -
I look back one more time. It's like a crater, a hole where something happened.
-- Emma Donoghue -
Isolated, she managed somehow to feel free—albeit with a freedom that made her want to smash a hole in the very center of the universe.
-- Flora Rheta Schreiber -
anymore time in that black hole and ill go insane.
-- Gena Showalter -
It never occurs to Arnold that the ball won't go in the hole, but I'm always surprised when it does.
-- Gene Littler -
I hold a mouses wit not worth a leke, That hath but on hole for to sterten to.
-- Geoffrey Chaucer -
Human pride is a strange thing; it cannot easily be suppressed, and if you stop up hole A will peep forth again in a twinkling from another hole B, and if this is closed it is ready to come out at hole C, and so on.
-- Georg C. Lichtenberg -
It's no use filling your pocket with money if you have got a hole in the corner.
-- George Eliot -
An actor without a playwright is like a hole without a doughnut.
-- George Jean Nathan -
I have a hole where my heart should be, she thought, and nowhere else to go.
-- George R. R. Martin -
I shall create! If not a note, a hole./If not an overture, a desecration.
-- Gwendolyn Brooks -
We found ourselves in a hole that I didn't dig, but I have dug, dug and dug to try to get out of that hole.
-- Harry Reid -
You didn't tell a lie, you just left a big hole in the truth.
-- Helen Thomas -
During the work, you have to be sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've captured everything, because afterwards it will be too late.
-- Henri Cartier-Bresson -
Hole in One: an occurence in which a ball is hit directly from the tee into the hole in a single shot by a golfer playing alone.
-- Henry Beard -
I've always thought that a name says a lot about a person. So naturally, being named Howard, I always wanted to crawl into a hole.
-- Howard Stern -
Your master plan has holes big enough to drive a truck through.
-- Ilona Andrews -
Morfran thrust his axe straight up. He pretty much seemed to have one sign for everything: poke a hole in the sky.
-- Ilona Andrews -
You are going to end up as one of those sad old men who poke around in rubbish bins.†“I’m going to end up in a hole in the ground... And so are you. So are we all.
-- J. M. Coetzee -
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 -
In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.
-- J. R. R. Tolkien -
So all in all there wasn't anything really wrong with my life. Except that, like most everyone else's I knew about, it had a big gaping hole in it, an enormous emptiness, and I didn't know how to fill it or even know what belonged there.
-- Jack Finney -
There were so many fewer questions when stars were still just the holes to heaven...
-- Jack Johnson -
If your company disappeared, would it leave a gaping hole that could not easily be filled by any other enterprise on the planet?
-- James C. Collins -
A girl's not a watermelon you plug a hole in to see if it's sweet.
-- Jeffrey Eugenides -
Pigeon-holes are only comfortable for pigeons.
-- Jessye Norman -
I was on the verge of jumping into one of those holes in life out of which we emerge a bit tattered and bloody, though we remain sure nonetheless that we had to make the jump.
-- Jim Harrison -
What's a depression? The dictionary says a depression is a dent. And what's a dent? Everybody knows a dent is a hole. And what's a hole? You tell me what's a hole! And I'll tell you that a hole is nothin'!
-- Jimmy Durante -
I'm just happy I got a hole-in-one for the first time in my life.
-- Joe Sakic -
It's one thing to tell a front man to drop off and fill in the hole behind, but if they don't know why they are doing it, it is not an easy thing to teach. But Rooney's just got it.
-- John Toshack -
My neediness is not a hole to be filled but something beneath the skin scratching to get out.
-- Jonathan Evison -
Memory was supposed to fill the time, but it made time a hole to be filled.
-- Jonathan Safran Foer -
The secret was a hole in the middle of me that every happy thing fell into.
-- Jonathan Safran Foer -
You know, I've never accidentally drilled a hole in myself while programming.
-- Karl Lehenbauer -
The sum of the parts equals less than the whole. Or the howl. Or the how. Or the hole.
-- Katy Lederer -
The irrational thoughts were the ones with the power to burn holes in your gut.
-- Keith Ablow -
I had holes in my jeans well before it was fashionable.
-- Kenny Rogers -
I get hired by companies to hack into their systems and break into their physical facilities to find security holes. Our success rate is 100%; we've always found a hole.
-- Kevin Mitnick -
I was cold, hungry, and in a hole in the ground. But at least I had my elven porn, damnit!
-- Kim Harrison -
You should always go where there is a 'you-shaped' hole in the world.
-- Lena Dunham -
Little Alice fell d o w n the hOle, bumped her head and bruised her soul
-- Lewis Carroll -
I don't like jeans with holes in 'em. I like 'em faded.
-- Liam Gallagher -
There was a hole inside her, and it twisted.
-- Lilith Saintcrow -
Funny how you dig yourself into a hole by the teaspoon.
-- Lionel Shriver -
Her head throbbed as though gremlins were ripping holes in her brain
-- Lora Leigh -
I guess what led to me writing 'Holes' was having moved to Texas in 1991, and it was sort of my reaction to Texas.
-- Louis Sachar
