Hole Quotes - page 3

For a joint scientific and geographical piece of organization, give me Scott; for a Winter Journey, Wilson; for a dash to the Pole and nothing else, Amundsen: and if I am in the devil of a hole and want to get out of it, give me Shackleton every time. (Apsley Cherry-Garrard)
Give a beggar a dime and he'll bless you. Give him a dollar and he'll curse you for withholding the rest of your fortune. Poverty is a bag with a hole at the bottom. View quote
Anzia Yezierska
When you spend your whole life living in a hole, the only way you can go is up. (Zero/Hector Zeroni) View quote
Louis Sachar
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. View quote
Klaus Kinski
Ridding Iraq of weapons of mass destruction. That was the whole idea, right? That‘s why we went. I am reluctant to let that fact disappear down the memory hole, because if - as the war ends, or at least starts to end - if, at this time, the history of the war is written as us going there to topple the regime of a bad man when that frankly isn‘t why were told that we were going there - Aren‘t we still at risk of making this horrific mistake again? And, aren‘t we letting the people who foisted the WMD idea on us, not many years ago, aren‘t we sort of letting them get away with it? View quote
Rachel Maddow
I hold a mouses wit not worth a leke, That hath but on hole for to sterten to. View quote
Geoffrey Chaucer
People don't want to buy a quarter-inch drill, they want a quarter-inch hole. View quote
Theodore Levitt
If I'm teaching deep things, then I view it as important to make people feel like they're learning deep things, because otherwise, they will still have a hole in their mind for "deep truths" that needs filling, and they will go off and fill their heads with complete nonsense that has been written in a more satisfying style. View quote
Eliezer Yudkowsky
A circle is a round straight line with a hole in the middle. View quote
Mark Twain
The quality of the human that precludes identifying the individual with the class is ‘metaphysical' and has no place in empiricist epistemology. The pigeon hole into which a man is shoved circumscribes his fate. View quote
Max Horkheimer
Golf is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into an even smaller hole, with weapons singularly ill-designed for the purpose. (Winston Churchill)
If there's a hole in a' your coats, I rede you tent it; A chield's aman you takin' notes, And faith he'll prent it. View quote
Robert Burns
The For-itself, in fact, is nothing but the pure nihilation of the In-itself; it is like a hole of being at the heart of Being. View quote
Jean-Paul Sartre
But what's true about comedians is that we've all got a huge hole in our personality. In a room of 3,000 people, we're the one person facing in the opposite direction - yet we have this overwhelming desire to be liked. View quote
Jimmy Carr
All but blind In his chambered hole Gropes for worms The four-clawed Mole. View quote
Walter de la Mare
The sky is blue today, Max, and there is a big long cloud, and it's stretched out, like a rope. At the end of it, the sun is like a yellow hole... View quote
Markus Zusak
The interesting thing about staring down a gun barrel is how small the hole is where the bullet comes out, yet what a big difference it would make in your social schedule. View quote
P. J. O'Rourke
I miss her all the time. I know in my head that she has gone. the only difference is that I am getting used to the pain. It's like discovering a great hole in the ground. To begin with, you forget it's there and keep falling in. After a while, it's still there, but you learn to walk round it. View quote
Rachel Joyce
Like water leaking through a dam," said Piper. "Yeah," smiled Percy. "We've got a dam hole." "What?" Piper asked. "Nothing," he said. "Inside joke. View quote
Rick Riordan
I took that smile and I put it right where the hole in my chest was. It was better than coffee, or chocolate, or a perfect pirouette. I clutched it and held it tight. View quote
Cecil Castellucci
I'm not against thinking; I'm only against thinking that thinking on its own will get you out of a hole. Shovel also needed. (Scott Westerfeld)
I have a big hole in my heart," I said. "But it'll close over." I don't want to sound all Dr. Phil," she said. "But don't let the scab seal the pain in, okay?" That's good advice," I said. "I hope I can manage it. View quote
Charlaine Harris
(Sookie's Thoughts on Debbie Pelt) she had been cruel to Alcide, insulted me grievously, burned a hole in my favorite wrap and-oh-tried to kill me by proxy. Also, she had stupid hair. View quote
Charlaine Harris
I don't know, I just want to be happy. I could be in a hole somewhere. Or I could completely lose it and be some hippy living in the woods with my dad. View quote
Shia LaBeouf
So what really happened to you? (Astrid) Nothing. (Zarek) Well, I hope I never come across Nothing then if it's capable of putting a hole in my back. (Astrid) View quote
Sherrilyn Kenyon