Holes Quotes - Page 10

• A girl's not a watermelon you plug a hole in to see if it's sweet.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Girl, Sweet, Plugs

  Jeffrey Eugenides (2011). “The Marriage Plot: A Novel”, p.148, Macmillan

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• Logic, n. The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding. The basic of logic is the syllogism, consisting of a major and a minor premise and a conclusion - thus: Major Premise: Sixty men can do a piece of work sixty times as quickly as one man. Minor Premise: One man can dig a post-hole in sixty seconds; Therefore- Conclusion: Sixty men can dig a post-hole in one second. This may be called syllogism arithmetical, in which, by combining logic and mathematics, we obtain a double certainty and are twice blessed.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Art, Blessed, Science

  "The Devil's Dictionary:". Book by Ambrose Bierce (p. 204), 2008.

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• When nobody will look at you, you can stare a hole in them. Picking out all the little details you'd never stare long enough to get if they'd even just return your gaze, this, this is your revenge.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Revenge, Long, Details

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• [Gold] gets dug out of the ground in Africa, or someplace. Then we melt it down, dig another hole, bury it again and pay people to stand around guarding it. It has no utility. Anyone watching from Mars would be scratching their head.

  Warren Buffett

  People, Gold, Would Be

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• Sometimes in life, you fall down holes you can't climb out of by yourself. That's what friends and family are for-to help. They can't help, however, unless you let them know you're down there.

  Meg Cabot

  Fall, Family And Friends, Helping

  Meg Cabot (2016). “Bad Heir Day”, p.63, Pan Macmillan

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• A family can be the bane of one's existence. A family can also be most of the meaning of one's existence. I don't know whether my family is bane or meaning, but they have surely gone away and left a large hole in my heart.

  Keri Hulme

  Heart, Gone Away, Dysfunctional Family

  Keri Hulme (2005). “The Bone People: A Novel”, p.242, LSU Press

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• Say the whole point of love is to try to get your fingers through the holes in the lover's mask. To get some kind of hold on the mask, and who cares how you do it.

  David Foster Wallace

  Love Is, Trying, Who Cares

  David Foster Wallace (2014). “Girl With Curious Hair”, p.30, Hachette UK

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• Shadows of cloud lurked in the water, like holes the sun forgot about.

  Markus Zusak

  Clouds, Water, Shadow

  Markus Zusak (2011). “Underdogs”, p.409, Scholastic Inc.

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• I peered deeper and found my soul. A little tattered and with some holes, but there all the same. It had always been there, I realized with shock.

  Maria V. Snyder

  Soul, Littles, Found

  Maria V. Snyder (2012). “Poison Study”, p.253, Harlequin

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• But even Es and cocaine, over the years they blow holes in your brain, rob you of your memories, your past. Which is fair enough, convenient even.

  Irvine Welsh

  Memories, Blow, Past

  Irvine Welsh (2009). “T2 Trainspotting”, p.86, Random House

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• The late British-born philosopher Alan Watts, in one of his wonderful lectures on eastern philosophy, used this analogy: "If I draw a circle, most people, when asked what I have drawn, will say I have drawn a circle or a disc, or a ball. Very few people will say I've drawn a hole in the wall, because most people think of the inside first, rather than thinking of the outside. But actually these two sides go together--you cannot have what is 'in here' unless you have what is out there.' " In other words, where we are is vital to who we are.

  Eric Weiner

  Wall, Philosophy, Thinking

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• My intellectual achievement was retarded when I went to high school. I sort of sank into a black hole because I had to go to the high-achieving, academic public high school.

  Noam Chomsky

  School, Achievement, Black

  David Barsamian, Noam Chomsky (2001). “Propaganda and the Public Mind: Conversations with Noam Chomsky”, p.19, Pluto Press

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• Where they couldn't pick holes in our arguments they would drive horses and carriages through my character.

  Julian Assange

  Horse, Character, Argument

  Julian Assange (2011). “Julian Assange: The Unauthorised Autobiography”, p.18, Canongate Books

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• I told you once before,” I said, the words husky from remembrance. “Everyone holds their sins close to their skin.” Fangs gleamed for an instant before Vlad bit into his wrist, pooling up two deep crimson holes. “Then come,” he said, holding it out. “And taste mine.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Two, Remembrance, Skins

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• From Santi's earthly tomb with demon's hole, 'Cross Rome the mystic elements unfold. The path of light is laid, the sacred test, Let angels guide you on your lofty quest.

  Dan Brown

  Angel, Light, Rome

  Dan Brown (2009). “Angels & Demons - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.187, Simon and Schuster

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• But the absence of him is everywhere I look. It's like a huge hole has been punched through my chest.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Looks, New Moon, Twilight Movie

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• Well, let me tell you something, Caveman. You are here on account of one person. If it wasn't for that person, you wouldn't be here digging holes in the hot sun. You know who that person is?" "My no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather.

  Louis Sachar

  Dirty, Pigs, Digging A Hole

  Louis Sachar (2011). “Holes”, p.57, Yearling

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• Do not wait for the healing to arrive. It will never come. The holes will never leave or be filled with anything at all. But holes are interesting things.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Healing, Interesting, Waiting

  Augusten Burroughs (2012). “This Is How: Proven Aid in Overcoming Shyness, Molestation, Fatness, Spinsterhood, Grief, Disease, Lushery, Decrepitude & More. For Young and Old Alike.”, p.99, Macmillan

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• I, however, like black. It is a color that makes me comfortable and the color with which I have the most experience. In the darkest darkness, all is black. In the deepest hole, all is black. In the terror of my Addicted mind, all is black. In the empty periods of my lost memory, all is black. I like black, goddammit, and I am going to give it its due.

  James Frey

  Memories, Color, Giving

  James Frey (2003). “A Million Little Pieces”, p.179, Rutgers University Press

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• With six weeks' worth of recuperation time, you'll also be able to see any glaring holes in the plot or character development. And listen--if you spot a few of these big holes, you are forbidden to feel depressed about them or to beat up on yourself. Screw-ups happen to the best of us.

  Stephen King

  Character, Screw Ups, Plot

  Stephen King (2002). “On Writing”, p.214, Simon and Schuster

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• Evolution is a theory with more holes than a Dutch dam of swiss cheese.

  Eoin Colfer

  Dams, Dutch, Cheese

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• It felt as if maybe the curse had lifted, the tide had shifted, but then the breeze picked up and a skeet took a very unfortunate turn. Seconds later, Angus was pulling his shot far to the right, shooting a large hole in the second-story galley not ten feet above Marcus's head.

  Ally Carter

  Feet, Stories, Shooting

  Ally Carter (2012). “Heist Society: Uncommon Criminals”, p.131, Hachette UK

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• I have a hole where my heart should be, she thought, and nowhere else to go.

  George R. R. Martin

  Heart, My Heart, Should

  George R. R. Martin (2005). “A Feast for Crows: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Four”, p.318, Bantam

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• Travelling to past lives is like making a hole in the floor and letting the flames of the fire in the apartment below scorch and burn the present

  Paulo Coelho

  Past, Flames, Fire

  Paulo Coelho (2011). “Aleph”, p.7, HarperCollins UK

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• Wherever he saw a hole he always wanted to know the depth of it. To him this was important.

  Jules Verne

  Important, Depth, Saws

  Jules Verne, Jules VERNE (2016). “A Journey To The Centre Of The Earth / Voyage au centre de la terre (Bilingual Edition: English - French / Édition bilingue: anglais - français)”, p.160, Jules Verne

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